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This is a bad English rendering of the text. The translators obviously didn't understand what Harpazo (Greek word mistranslated as force) meant. We enter into the kingdom of God by being translated into it by God. Harpazo means to be taken away...or translated...where we get the idea of...

Very good topic... Not all who say they believe are obedient...and not all who don't claim to be believer are disobedient. It is like the story Jesus told of the 2 sons. One said he would obey and the other said he wouldn't...or just didn't avow that he would. In the story it was the one who...

I think testimony is far better than theory...do you have any experience of these steps to intimacy? That is what matters.

Thought I would add this as a note from the person who wrote the OP... One last note: Committing to develop our faith practices is not a case of “works righteousness.” Our salvation does not depend on whether or not we engage this seriously. What is impacted is the quality of our lives and the...

There is a conundrum to receiving grace. And that is that the more grace we receive the less we need to go after it. When we receive grace...an abundant grace...as a free gift...we tend to not understand the discipline part of the Christian walk. In my experience I have been progressing...

In the preceding 2 pages of the OP subject, we see the experience of a sister who found her way to God. Her journey begins by her tapping into grace...a grace that is available to all. As she pushes her way towards God (as in... draw near to Me and I will draw near to you), God allows her to...

The Third Stage When our Gracious God continues to enlighten our soul and help us tame our will, our intellect and our memories so they are more aligned with the will of our soul, we may be drawn into the third stage of spiritual development. Here it feels like we are doing very little work and...

St. Teresa of Avila and Watering the Garden Common Stages in the Spiritual Journey: Early Wisdom from St. Teresa of Avila The spiritual journey has some different elements to it than many of us learned about when we were growing up. We may have been taught how to pray for other...

Peter tried it out when he walked on water... :)..otherwise they had little faith.

I think my lack is in my character...I'm missing something in my self-discipline. So I've never been to level 3 as she puts it. I have parachuted into higher levels...but only by the mercy of God. Never by sheer maturity. So these levels give me something to pray about! :)

Jesus is looking for His kind of faith. Not our kind. Our kind doesn't move mountains. His kind of faith walks on water. So often the bible is speaking on more than one level. Unless we understand these levels...righteousness and holiness...we are not going to understand the message.

I'm sure in their day that these were accused of making up their own theology. I looked up the waterwheel explanation concerning grace. Nice analogy. She is very developed in her step by step entrance into deeper grace. She cites 4 different levels of grace. The deepest level...which is the...

There are a lot of human beliefs taught by men. But the faith OF Jesus Christ is rare. The kind of faith it takes to do the impossible things. The kind of faith it takes to please God...to walk as Jesus walked. Human understanding has taken over in our time...so that true faith has been...

There are the dueling verses everywhere if one reads honestly. The truth is held up as a dialectic...whereby there is a polarity to the truth. That is so because as human beings we must deal with both the temporal AND the eternal. The good AND the evil. The blessings AND the cursings. So the...

Interesting! Nice analogy. Of course she is going to use an example from the technology of her time! ;) I like using aviation technology. :) I think we have a common understand...Teresa (of Avila) and I. She also experienced that heart cutting from God. She said she saw an angel with a spear...

Amen! That is my desire as well. And for all who call on Him. :)

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God is bigger than what any one person or group can perceive. And He does work in mysterious ways. His ways are higher than our own. All who fear Him and do what is right are acceptable to Him. Acts 10:34 34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter...

Hey Nancy! Missed you today on the chat....:) What does holiness look like? When Paul came to a city the people remarked at how weak he was...having no natural power to him...so then holiness is to rely on God's strength alone...as in...no longer I who live. 2 Cor. 10:10 For his letters, say...

Luke 9:58 58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. What does this mean? Does it mean that Jesus had nowhere to sleep? That He lacked a pillow? Or is this about a place of rest in holiness on the earth...