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Hi and welcome. :) The kingdom of God is it's own political entity. If you wish to seek the kingdom of God...you should be careful to not get entangled in the world. ....having said that, are you aware of an author called Thomas Sowell?

Well, I see salvation as different than what our human traditions have made it to be. There is a HUGE difference between righteousness and holiness. Very few are called up into holiness to walk as Jesus walked by grace. But many are accepted by God if they just remain humble, do what is right...

Even the question is with an intellectual slant. ;) Why do you ask such questions? The bible is ONLY about such encounters and their aftermath. It is God among us. God is supernatural and eternal. Any kind of real connection with God is spiritual, miraculous and supernatural. Eternal things are...

The Christian life is a race of salvation. And what does salvation entail? There are good and bad salvations. There is eternal honour and eternal shame. Nothing is sure or guaranteed before the end. Run to win.

Lord heal our brother Steve!

People tend to mix up tongues with the baptism in the Spirit. This is not an issue of something being manifested (or faked) outwardly....but an inward connection to God. I find that people like to exaggerate their own connection to God...which makes investigating genuine experiences very...

Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that fears him, and works righteousness, is accepted with him.

Well, we are not going to be judged by our beliefs...but by our works. Some people who say they disbelieve will fare better than they who say they do. If we can still listen to the words of Jesus and the parable of the 2 sons. Matthew 21:28-32 The Parable of the Two Sons 28 “What do you...

That's for sure! The devil has so infiltrated the churches and for so long that the things we take for granted as traditions, so often...have their origin not in God, but in what pleases men.

You are making Gnostic statements here. Someone who abides in the divine Christ CANNOT sin in the flesh. And Gnosticism is rife in the modern church because so few have worked out that God has indeed come in the flesh. Not just a really good human...but the divine Lord from heaven. And the same...

Taking responsibility for their own sins AND the sins of the world. We can't divorce ourselves from humanity when it suits us. So we ought to stay away from self-justification. We are responsible to be a witness of Christ to whatever degree we have been called to. We are called to tell the...

I think some Christians don't like him because he is more advanced than they are....and they don't understand why. Sign of the times. Mr. Peterson tackles all the hard stuff of being a Christian in a real sincerity without all the self-serving hype about how righteous he is for it. He is...

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil as a metaphor shows that we are capable of both...and in fact both are entwined in all human endeavours. We see this continuing with the stories of Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Isaac and Ishmael...etc

Welcome here! :) The woman choosing to leave her husband gives her the power she needs to avoid brutality and unfair treatment from her husband. A woman is nor permitted to choose another husband. She is married to her husband as long as he lives. If a women forsakes her husband and marries...

This is always overstated. It seeks to place people in the seat of God...to make us gods. God (not us) can see the beginning from the end. So then a misreading of this verse points to US thinking we are justified by our beliefs while not doing anything. However even the angel of the Lord didn't...

A certain degree of truth can be received psychologically to some benefit. But the bible is about an absolute perfection. A man can't do that. We need His grace to go beyond our human limitations. It's not that it's bad to only go partway. It's just not complete. And who measures the...

God does this so that it is no longer I but Christ. The power of the cross takes away the self with it's reliance on ego. Ego goes into a storage box so to speak because Christ is fully in control. Our identity is with Christ because of this. It is miraculous....beyond human power to...

Crucified means dead....dead to sins...fully. If being crucified was a once for all event then no Christian would ever sin again because of the death to self that the power of the cross brings. When we speak of a "positional" crucifixion we are dealing with a dogmatic ideology that has no...

Of ourselves we can't worship in Spirit and truth. We need to go through (overcome) the pull of the world and our carnal natures to have that kind of freedom and grace. We are slaves to sin and the law of sin and death until a greater law causes us to overcome that law. It's like the law of...

We as humans...especially men...tend to put things in boxes. We don't really do this consciously....but it's how we get by in the world. All the things we have to deal with necessitate that we need to put things away for their proper time. We are known for what is always loose from the...