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The irony in all the foolishness of this thread and the position of the OP is that if you want to limit God to one book...at least show the respect to that book to learn the languages used in that book. The superficial mutterings of a person who arrogantly makes claims from...

Bible literacy to you is not only stupid...it is meaningless to your purpose.

That's a re-direct. You can't possibly defend a position that allows NO intervention from God that doesn't have a chapter and verse. So you must obfuscate and invert the logic to deflect truth away. John says that ALL the books in the world cannot contain the works and words of Jesus. The silly...

Just like the Greek alphabet comes from the ancient Hebrew...so does the terminology of God and His attributes. So you need to understand the Hebrew idea more than the Greek if you want to really know of what you are speaking of. The new testament doesn't stand without the old. Jesus came to...

It isn't the early church fathers that brought division...it is men like Luther who re-interpreted the bible with a carnal understanding and thus opened up the interpretation of the bible to whatever feels good to the reader. One day the whole reformation will be seen for what it is...a great...

You are speaking of a carnal healing. Of course...because you are not understanding actual resurrection life. If you understood this you would be speaking, not of carnal things, but of spiritual life and power...say...to walk as Jesus walked...without any trace or spot of sin. Not to say that...

Does this not reveal the deadness of the religion you espouse? Do you think the Spirit is limited to what is written in the bible? Can you be told to tarry only in Jerusalem? Can't God articulate speech patterns that are unknown to the bible? If you live in a city not mentioned in the...

...a treasure hidden in a field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field." We tend to mix up or separate the treasure with the field the treasure is found in. But we...

Logically...the bible was put together in the form we see today by bishops from 300 AD. The OP here is criticizing Bishops from before 100 AD. IOW...if there was no good judgment among church fathers in the past...we would not have such a reliable witness to the truth today. it's all about...

Instead of taking the bible as a reliable witness of the truth ABOUT God....in modern times it has been raised up as an idol...as something that replaces God and His Spirit. Speaking anything against the bible is now seen as blasphemy...as if the bible itself was divine.....as if it was a god in...

While the ECF are not to be taken quite on the same level as the bible itself. Yet, there is much to glean from their writings. One would be ignorant and foolish to ignore their council. But then that's where we are today...arrogant to the point of not heeding wise council. What would be more...

Whatever branch even that is in Christ that does not bear fruit is cut off..... All this is made very clear by Jesus Himself. John 15 15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he...

For a propitiation in redeeming us back from the god of this world. We are freed...as a creation...from being under the bondage of the devil to being free to now come under grace. Just as the sin of Adam put us under the dominion of the devil...so the does the payment of a perfect life redeem...

Jesus said that statement while He was still alive. And He is still alive today. The word "shed" is a translation of a Greek word... κχέω, ἐκχύνω ekcheō ekchunō ek-kheh'-o, ek-khoo'-no From G1537 and χέω cheō (to pour); to pour forth; figuratively to bestow: - gush (pour) out, run...

There is also the idea of new wine in old wineskins. The new wine makes the old wineskins burst. Jesus was preaching the new and living way of the kingdom life. So when the new wine is poured into new wineskins (hearts)...both are preserved.

The way I see this is that God is a God of covenant. We broke the covenant in that we had no power to stop sinning under the law. However under grace, with the justification of life, we now can keep the covenant through His life in us.

.................a net! The kingdom of God is like a net. But unlike a regular fishing net it just catches the smallest fish. The big ones just bounce off. Saul of Tarsus sought to enter into the kingdom...to win Christ. So he made himself as small as he could in order to enter in. Even his...

Loving others as ourselves is at the righteousness level. The level of what is humanly possible. The minimum standard. On the holiness level this becomes love others as I have loved you. They who are in Christ love as Jesus loves.

Are we to love only they who love us? Are we not to forgive and love pre-emptively? Jesus said...forgive them...they know not what they do. Stephen was of the same mind.

Well...not exactly as Jesus taught. Jesus taught of a whole different way of life...a kingdom life...using stories to convey the parameters of that life. Being familiar with people and staring them down is not Jesus' style. Jesus was always gentle except when religious people came on the scene...