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Think of church denominations as franchises like cable companies. Each time you subscribe they want to put their own cables in. Or...think of the well meaning ministers as running a hospital. Every person they meet they think of as a patient. So they run all the usual tests on you. A maturing...

If someone feels that way...they can put me on ignore too! :)

The bible is written on more than one level...and this INCLUDES the spiritual level...otherwise God is just a physical being like us...to be worshiped as a rock or a tree. So if you eliminate the spiritual realm...you miss the kingdom of God...as the Jews did. God is Spirit and He is looking...

With grace! But some have an agenda...that is not Christian at all. We can self-moderate by using the "ignore" feature. If a person is trolling you...and yes there are those kind of people here....you don't need to play the game.

These little words can mean a world of difference....hence the need to look more closely at the text and compare the same ideas in other texts. Eternal life is not an immortality....it is a KIND of life. It is life on an eternal scale and grasp. It is a resurrection type of life that is away...

True...but one must consider that a religious bent on any doctrine can hurt people with more fragile dispositions. Not to say that any one of us is the guardian of all truth. But for that person's sake and they who he is trying to teach...we can avoid a lot of grief by a simple correction...

In worse cases there is an ignore feature. Some people are more aggressive in their ignorance indoctrination than others. I don't know what happened to humility and kindness....except to say that when you appeal to the flesh and it's desire to survive...and call that salvation...anything goes.

Man is capable of conformity to an outward righteousness. But he is incapable from eliminating sin for an inward righteousness. No one is that self-less on his own. There is no man (without Christ) who is so righteous that he never sins. But there is something redeemable in us...or else God...

There is such a thing as the truth. And God is in it. There are also lies...sown as tares among wheat that cause people to miss the truth and a chance at life. Of course a person can believe whatever they want. But how many are really fit to teach doctrine. Mostly people will just parrot what...

Romans 8:5-8 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Well, we are chasing after one or the other. We are to move with the Spirit....even if we are not IN the Spirit. We pray and meditate on His...

What I see is that the spirit of Cain is still alive and kicking in the church. It was always this way....and until the Lord returns and separates the tares from the wheat it will always be so. Offer people a free salvation...and people of all stripes will line up. Like a net that catches all...

People confuse the truth that God is God of the whole world ...with universalism. My detractors think Jesus only died for the church...and then they claim to be those who are saved by condemning all who don't sit in pews as they do. The Pharisees did that very same thing. But I believe the...

In Christ there is no sin...ever. Many claim that there is sin in Christ...because they are imputing sin to Christ...a make believe Jesus. So they call their absence of Christ...the mixture of themselves and their beliefs ABOUT Jesus and call that being in Him. But this is iniquity. There are...

In any race, we can run better if we run with others to spur us on. We might think...ok I'm done...but then see that others are still in the race. And this is what keeps us going. We spur each other on to doing exploits....going much farther than we thought possible. Also a chariot goes faster...

May you also be among the finalists who hang in with the Lord to the very end, brother. In fact, let's run together! :) I think that's the point of the body...we don't quit until we've all crossed the finish line. Until then we exhort and encourage our brethren to hold on and keep the faith...

John, where were you in all this? Did you last longer...or not? (You don't have to answer) ;)

That's why I see this as a generational race. We are to strive together as a body...in every generation.

If we could know that...:) It is a mystery. A hungry soul. Lord fill us with yourself!

You are a wise brother John. :) Happy you are here. Continue to post as we strive together for the faith that was given to us from the Lord.

Many will deny the power of the life in Jesus...especially in these perilous times...and all this does is bar them from entering into God's rest. I think Charismatic Lady has found a proximity with the Lord that keeps her pure from sin. Amen and thanks be to God that faithful followers are...