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Hey Addison! Welcome here. :) Just as you believe that once saved is not always saved....but then opposite is also true...once condemned (at least in the short run) is not always condemned. God is fair, and sides with mercy. God loves mercy. Live with that in mind. So as long as you can still...

The society you live in....that we live in...is stacked against you becoming anything else beside a satisfied consumer of superficial pleasures offered to you to keep you sated and un-seeking of the deeper truths in this life. And that is just the churches! You may have to travel to a place...

There is a lot of knowledge about the bible in the Western churches. Lots of bible memorization. But the important thing remains to live it out. Living it out brings an experiential knowledge of God...directly...not just bible knowledge. In fact I would say that until one experiences the God...

....a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.” The new is the spiritual life....the life in the kingdom of God. And this is in holiness...in Christ. The old is the law of righteousness that is according to God's eternal ways. This is about obedience to the law of God...

Very good.....and wise thoughts. :)

So you see a vitality and life in the church?...but stemming from false doctrine? Just what are you disagreeing with?

The problem is not with giving or getting wet...the problem is with a lethargic body that lives for it's own pleasure. There is a lack of life and vitality in the Western churches. The world is overcoming the church whereas the church should be overcoming the world.

Yep...up is now down and down is now up! Enjoy the delusion.

I contend with error wherever I find it.:)

They thought that the kingdom was going to come in power...that Jesus would return shortly. But the point is that we each have to have that idea in our own time. They can't make it easier for us. And you are missing the truth that it was the reformation that brought the doctrines of men into...

Very encouraging. Thank you brother! Maran atah!

There are some that preach prosperity based on resurrection power...(Benny Hinn seems to no longer be in that number.) There are even more that confuse resurrection power with a physical well being. The irony is that Paul warns of sickness and even death to they who misuse grace, the lack of...

It may have something to do with it being in Greek...the language that the letters were being written in? :)

Yes. The standard of Christ...as lofty as that may appear...will remain. The bible...that oft twisted record of God's will for mankind...will be vindicated in the lives of His faithful. I'm not claiming to be among the great ones who have defended the truth in the past and present. But in the...

This is a public forum. People teach things on here that are based on things they have been programmed to believe...like the evangelistic hypnotic and dogmatic approach to the bible...or have read in some book by a religious theorist. But this must be held up to a proper scrutiny. Especially...

You are half-way there! :) At least you didn't claim to not lack humility. That's a start. :rolleyes:

I don't bear false witness...but you do towards me. Again you do as you accuse others of. Why can't you see your own lack? Why are you so proud? The privileged generation that cannot be corrected. Unteachable...lacking any fear. Jude speaks of this generation.

As the early apostles died off...and even in their lifetimes...we see divisions entering the church. Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna (among others) sought to keep the unity of the faith. What we lack today are men such as these. Men like Luther brought in those...

The bible books were selected by church fathers...later ones. Bishops at that. How do you allow for that? Do you think the bible is a divine book dropped directly from heaven?

Spoken from the shallow end of the pool... Why have you no humility or fear of the Lord? I'm not saying this for you to make another superficial quip...but to think it out.