Search results

  • Welcome to Christian Forums, a Christian Forum that recognizes that all Christians are a work in progress.

    You will need to register to be able to join in fellowship with Christians all over the world.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

  1. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    More reading skill issues. You seem unable to read what is written. You are adding in your own propaganda to what I'm saying. You can't understand the difference between God's righteousness and God imputing righteousness to another...not his own...but reckoning their own righteousness to...
  2. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    Episkopos said: ↑ It is impossible that God's righteousness be imputed to us. @justbyfaith God is therefore the God of the impossible...for righteousness is indeed imputed to us: Rom 4:6, Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without...
  3. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    That is not right. We never become holy of ourselves. We enter INTO Christ to take on HIS holiness. There we partake of His life...not our own. But we CAN learn righteousness. :)
  4. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    The new nature (ingrained through the new birth in Christ) in us makes us WANT to do what is right...but not the power to do so. Read Romans 7 for details. We need to enter into Christ to have the power that overcomes sin. (How many have a full victory over sin? So this will NOT go down well)...
  5. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    Look carefully at the wording of what you have come to believe. You will need some time to sort this out.
  6. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    Not exactly. Jesus said...without Me you can do nothing. So can an unbeliever pick up a broom or shovel? One must understand what one is talking about. We can do NOTHING from an eternal perspective without Christ. But we can do lots of things without Him. Just not eternal things of value.
  7. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    No...that's not correct. His righteousness is ON us when we enter INTO Christ. Christ in us is a hope...not a done deal.
  8. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    It is rather (grace) the power of God to ALL who believe...first the Jew but also the Gentile. Anything else is a doctrine from men.
  9. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    Yes. Being led by the Spirit is not the same at all as being IN the Spirit. I think most modern faithful Christians are led by the Spirit...following that inner voice in the heart. But the kind of walk where someone carries the authority of God...in HIS righteousness...is very rare in our time...
  10. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    Yes His divine power...miraculous power that is upon us when we abide in Him. It is very possible to try being obedient to Christ in our own strength too. Think about it. Nobody remains in the Spirit from new birth till death. That would mean that person is already mature in Christ...having...
  11. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    Yes. :) His righteousness can be placed upon us as a gift. It is a gift of God in order to do His will. But that righteousness and authority are not ours to do with as we please. We are MORE responsible when we carry His authority. I find that people confuse the righteousness of faith with the...
  12. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    If we look at righteousness as a kind of strength we see that we may have a certain amount of strength...like enough to pick up a rock...but nobody can move a mountain in their own power. Jesus said that the true faith...the faith OF Jesus can do miracles like moving mountains. So then the faith...
  13. Episkopos

    ROMANS 4:6 IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS

    Amen. This is the righteousness of faith. Here is the error. It is impossible that God's righteousness be imputed to us. His righteousness comes only from God and only He owns that righteousness. Only God is as righteous as God. But we take on His righteousness by entering into Christ. His...
  14. Episkopos

    Interpretation of the Bible through the Demonstration of God

    The reality is that people today are able to put faith in the bible...without actually believing what the bible is saying. The bible is accepted as authoritave without having any practical authority in real life. This is the sad situation we find we are in today....if not ourselves directly, yet...
  15. Episkopos

    Interpretation of the Bible through the Demonstration of God

    The church is meant to demonstrate God's love to the world. Speculating about God's love and arguing over who has the better explanation has no place whatsoever in the church of God. That is an assignment of carnal men towards other carnal men. When men squabble over bible verses it brings...
  16. Episkopos

    Interpretation of the Bible through the Demonstration of God

    "Give a man a fish and you feed him for one day: teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime." Old Proverb 1 Cor. 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: With all the methods that people can...
  17. Episkopos

    Why is the "Imputed righteousness" scheme so seductive?

    All we do...compared with God...is as filthy rags yes. Our strength is nothing compared to God. So then nobody has any strength at all right? Nobody can pick up a glass of water to help someone in need? We need for a supernatural power on us to lift that glass of water. And so goes the...
  18. Episkopos

    The Need For God's Righteousness

    We need God's righteousness in the church...not for self-justification as people seek to misuse and redirect the truth to serve self...but for authority and power to come that His will be done on Earth as it is in heaven.
  19. Episkopos

    Bible Study According to Caldwell

    You first. Your condescensions are well known in these parts. Truth be told, you have neither fear of God nor humility nor any love to speak of. So what you say has no meaning or bearing on anything remotely edifying.
  20. Episkopos

    A Common Error:

    A pernicious...and apparently persistent heresy at that!