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Now here is a good reference that shows being led by the Spirit... Acts 9:10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.” 11 So the Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street called Straight, and...

In your skewed opinion based on armchair religion. The irony in this is that you would have God to be incapable of doing in you anything that you can't already do. In the biblical world...that's just unbelief. So you are waiting to be redeemed at some later unspecified date...and railing...

Ez. 28:15 From the day you were created you were blameless (tamim) in your ways until wickedness was found in you. This is describing the fall of the devil. Likewise a novice in the faith should not be put in a position of authority lest he too come under the condemnation of the devil. So we...

In your own theory that is. But in practice people remain people. You repel the truth rather than accepting it. So then you are trying to be the filter of truth with your own mind. And many do this...which makes for body parts laying around....not coming together. So then the Body is...

The word for perfect in this passage is "tam"...meaning innocent of evil. So how can God destroy the innocent? Well the devil also was Tam when he was created. That is until a certain time where he was tested and failed. So then it is the visitation itself that tests a person. Does God take...

HI SBG In both cases it is a lack of holiness in the time of visitation of God. Righteousness is NOT holiness. People in the OT were expected to be righteous. But also to recognize holiness when God was present. Some of the righteous do so as to purify their garments...and some don't which...

So does that work for you? Have you met the Father...gone to the throne room of God? Walked in His light and presence? Are you saying what you do by experience or because of a formula you read about? Or is this only about what you think will happen after you die? Catholics think like that. That...

Now being led by the Spirit doesn't mean that God will do our thinking for us. He doesn't tell us HOW to think...just points us in the right direction. It may take many years to realize the purpose of God in what was simple obedience to God at that time. I have a little story for this. There...

Fear comes about by proximity to the living God. But that fear is offset by the attraction of love. So then there is both in an encounter with God. But the fear of God also comes to us in the conviction of the Holy Spirit...that leads us to repentance. Am I afraid of God? Both in love with...

Now some would say...Isn't salvation based on repentance and faith but without the fear of the Lord? But I see the fear of the Lord covering both belief and repentance. One cannot fear someone they don't believe in. And if someone truly fears the Lord...repentance is likely to follow. I am...

There are they who say that we are saved by...Jesus plus nothing"...as if God wanted us to relax our way into the kingdom. These are they who are overly afraid of "works". But nobody is saved in a vacuum. We are ALWAYS doing works...whether they be works of the flesh or the Spirit. It is...

In Christ is the only place you can find a righteousness that is not your own. Don't be adding in ideas that aren't there. It is a good thing to BE righteous. But our righteousness is insufficient for what God wants to do with mankind. To make us like Christ. Only in Him can we walk as Jesus...

God is sovereign and He can judge as He wishes. But the text never says that Abraham justified himself because he believed in God as so many are doing today. God has absolutely no part in it if we are doing the claiming for ourselves. And people seem to prefer that. There is a marked...

This conclusion comes from a misunderstanding on your part of what grace is. Paul said IF we put to death the deeds of the flesh...we will live. That's all James was saying. Same as Paul. Even if we trust the good sounding verses up to our eyeballs, if we live according to the flesh we will...

I agree. Jesus was alone....so then the love of God couldn't be made manifest in the way that God desired. Of course there are the miracles. ;) The single grain of seed died and became many. One plant is not a crop. So then it is scope we are talking about in the idea of greater. We can show...

Acts 9:31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase. God continued to increase the church. He raised it to a new level. Was the fear of the Lord...

I see it this way. God is not malicious or vindictive. But He has promised us that we will reap as we have sown. If we play with fire we are bound to get burned. God is righteous and not a respecter of people ...whether being Jewish or not. (and we Christians could learn from this) The...

Greetings to my fellow Board members. We are told by Peter, after having visited Cornelius the centurion and his oikos, that God accepts people from the nations along this criteria. Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35...

I would just like to add in here that Eve, the wife of Adam, was taken from a PART of Adam's body....not his WHOLE body. (I think this agrees with Amadeus and ByGrace). I see it like it like Eve was taken from the closest rib to Adam's heart. So it is proximity to Christ that makes us His...

God bless you Helen! :) Later...