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I see the Christian life as a transitioning into a new reality. A new power and life. I see salvation as a process of discovering how deep the sin goes....together with how effective the cross of Christ is. Just look at Romans 7 and the testimony of Paul. So then a born again person is only...

I see Agabus as being off on this. He is right about what will happen to Paul. But he draws the wrong conclusion. He interpreted what he received from the Spirit as a warning for Paul not to go.

Paul didn't glory in a theology of the cross...but in the power of the cross: a power that freed him completely from the bondage to the flesh. The cross of Christ and it's power is necessary in order for us to enter into Christ. We can't go into Christ sin and all. Sin is dealt with at the...

Very good thoughts. But one must ask oneself...look at all the opinions flying around...the blindness and lack of understanding of very basic biblical things among basically everyone. And yet all have received Christ in them. Could Christ in us be but a first step? Could His presence in us be...

What is the lie that people accept in order to enter into delusion? The rejection of basic righteousness. The rejection of a comparative rightness of behaviour over all of mankind. God so loved the world...not just an exclusive group that claims Him for themselves. There is a popular slogan...

Luther's idea of justification is to cover up the truth. Like a fresh falling of white snow covering up a dung hill. So this fiction of...when God sees us, He only sees Jesus....who supposedly takes away sight from God.....not sin from us. Where is the power that transforms mankind in that? A...

Amen. The religious system feeds on people for support. Yet the people look to it for truth. Where is Jesus Christ in all of the mix? The Cornerstone keeps getting rejected by the builders.

Luther was right in his denunciation of the PRACTICE of the Catholic church. But he went too far in his attack on it's theology. Outward reformation was good...but not inward subversion of the truth. Luther was NOT an apostle. He wasn't even a spiritual man. Protestants have swallowed the lie...

Luther's theology of the cross is not the same as being under the power of the cross. Luther began the error of mixing up faith with beliefs...a belief system taken from the bible but erroneous nevertheless. That's why it is so popular. It reduces the faith to a system of beliefs. Without the...

Luther came on the scene during a particularly bad time in the history of the Catholic establishment... He stood against the obvious excesses of the church in his time. But then he went further...much too far...in redefining biblical truth into more popular sounding beliefs that would render...

You know a person has an agenda when he overdoes condemnation of one type of error while soft pedaling or ignoring other errors. Listening to him you hear the slick salesman...seducing people away from what is actually the worst errors of all. When someone is popular...there is a reason for it...

Mainstream Christianity has always sought to avoid the cross of Christ. To find a more religious way that doesn't offend the flesh. It famously offers a salvation status to it's carnal devotees in a total abandonment of the narrow way. But in so doing these have also cut themselves off from the...

We can love on different levels. These loves don't need to be against each other. We can love in a reasonable way...treating others as ourselves. Considering others as well as ourselves....in balance. And then there is the crucified self-emptied love where self is annihilated so that Christ can...

Actually we are the ones that come and go as WE please based on our desires and lusts. But they that are Christ's....and remain in Him...do so because their own lusts and desires have been crucified away from us (we become dead to them by the working of His power on us).

Anything done outside of God's presence really. All that is not of faith...or in faith...is sin. Jesus Christ came to reconcile us to the Father so as to restore that intimacy with God...but at a higher level. This is accomplished by becoming a disciple of Christ and entering INTO Him....taking...

Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. Jesus put on OUR flesh to perfect a walk in holiness IN OUR flesh. Otherwise why would He come all the way here? So then they who walk in sin deny the resurrection of Christ...not in word...but in power. These also deny that Jesus was fully human. (Again not...

Self-indulgence demands a flesh gospel whereby we continue to walk as we always have...justified by continuing in the weakness of sinful flesh. Behold all things are become the same old same old??? No...all things have become new....not a new way to sin or a new coverup for old sins...but a new...

That's why you need to be born from above...by the Spirit. That which is born of flesh is flesh...but that which is born of Spirit is Spirit. Then it remains to put on Christ who is our overcoming power in this life. This is done by faith. So then turn to the living God in a surrender of your...

The flesh judges that God's love should just cover up the sins of His favourite humans. But God is not like that. His love bore our rebellious natures on the cross so that by entering into Him...by love and faith in Him...we should be just as He is....empowered by His love to overcome sin. But...