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  1. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    I am trying to reason with your ideas....not scripture. I can't use scripture because you have been indoctrinated to believe a lie from the bible. (although it is only by a deviated interpretation that you support your position) And if I post Hebrew...where the truth is laid out plainly...you...
  2. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    So we see by the responses of some here how Jesus can become a stumbling block. People stumble over the truth to believe the lie that the devil whispers in the ears of they who don't understand God's ways. God is very drastic...so revolutionary that it fries the brain cells of they that try to...
  3. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    Did Jesus come to shelter us from a wrathful God...as in..."For God so was angry at the world?" God is love. Does God hate His Son and the works of His Son? Or did Jesus come to reconcile us with the Father. A loving Father....not a wrathful one. So either Jesus is protecting us against an...
  4. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    You are simply missing the grandiose nature of the plan of God in opting for a religious formula that you think makes sense...because you believe it makes sense. But there is no sense at all to it. You are being scandalized by the extreme nature of God's ways. So you will become offended by the...
  5. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    The Father allowed His Son to die as an offering to the evil of this world...to show it for what it was...evil. God came to us in the weakness of the flesh...and the evil powers took advantage of that...just as God foresaw. To think that God poured out His wrath on His Son for the sins of the...
  6. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    “You search the Scriptures, for in them YOU THINK you have eternal life; and these [scriptures] are they WHICH TESTIFY OF ME. 40 But you are not willing TO COME TO ME THAT YOU MAY HAVE *LIFE.*!!!” John 5:39 Why is dogma seen as a fundamental but not life from above through the Spirit? Because...
  7. Episkopos

    "precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:" For what?

    God's word is a snare for the religious carnal mind. But these can't discern that....that's what is so amazing about it. His word cuts through what is of God and what isn't...without people realizing that by trying to interpret the bible for themselves...THEY are themselves being interpreted...
  8. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    This is how the truth gets inverted into becoming a religious dogmatic belief system...that disparages God. Fundamentally wrong you should say about your own reasoning. Fundamentally misguided and carnal you should realize. So who persecutes righteousness? God is righteous and He loves...
  9. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    You are believing the lie of what is called penal substitution. God does not destroy righteousness..the devil does. And it was indeed the devil that demanded the blood of Jesus....which was freely given. If you know of a man called Job...where the devil was permitted to hurt him but not to take...
  10. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    The power of the blood is the resurrection life of Jesus. But..."pleading the blood of Jesus"...??? I think that is a church thing...a religious tradition. Can one plead the life of Jesus?
  11. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    I have stated that it is not our business to appropriate the spilled blood of Christ. That is a transaction between Power (God's )and powers (principalities). These things are way above our pay grade, so to speak. Our faith is to be placed in Christ...in His life. His resurrection life. As...
  12. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    I think the difference is between blood...and shed blood. These are not the same of course. I can go to a clinic and get a blood test...a drawing of blood...and yet live through it. No one will accuse the nurse or technician of any sin or crime. However if I go to the same clinic and someone...
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    Stumbling Block verses

    God has this redemptive way of teaching us through His ways. But with men there is no semblance of anything. It is based on vanity. Power politics...self-advancement and aggrandizement. What futility.
  14. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    He can intervene. There have been righteous rulers in the past. But in a democratic system...the devil is always behind it. That's why men love that system best. :)
  15. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    There is confusion on this too. God sets up the authorities.....but it is the devil that sets up WHO is in these temporal authorities. The devil is a usurper of God's ways. The same thing happens in the churches...which are the institutions of men.
  16. Episkopos

    The New "I" Self

    Sounds like self-ishness but just with a new label.
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    Stumbling Block verses

    Glorying in the cross of Christ. Does that mean we glory in the death of Jesus? God forbid! We glory in our own death so that His life is made manifest in the weakness of these mortal bodies.
  18. Episkopos

    do you trust in the force

    I find your lack of context disturbing. ;) welcome here. :)
  19. Episkopos

    Stumbling Block verses

    Has not the Son of Man the power to forgive sins? :)
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    Stumbling Block verses

    And the church at Sardis has been linked to the Protestant church. Think Watchman Nee.