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Amen! Our attitude is positive not because we have already attained but as we seek and learn, ask, and knock. It is to trust God and His ways. I will receive from whatever God judges...and I trust in His character. He will judge righteously. There are they who have entered into the higher...

I will attempt to correct your errors although they be many. In the above verses Abraham is deemed righteous by God. But you are adding in a fiction that this means that Abraham is receiving the righteousness OF God. You are letting those little words obscure any semblance of scale or truth...

The humble thing is to accept who we are...we are not so great..we are not God's gift to mankind. We are not even on the same level as the early believers. We are rich and distracted. Better to be humble and acknowledge our true condition before God. We are poor, naked wretched and...

Condemning is your modus operandi...not mine. Don't project your ways on me. I encourage people to go to God by faith. To seek His face. The irony in all this is that if we all had such a great connection with God already...the admonishment to seek His face wouldn't sound so difficult...or in...

When will we take seriously what Jesus said? Is He not the Master, the Lord? Yet we ignore Him as if He had no real authority in our lives way too often. it is VERY hard for a rich person to enter into the kingdom...and that's why there is little to no witness of the kingdom realm in Western...

This is what is taught to fill the pews...but it is a half-truth. The righteousness of God is not automatic on believers. A believer must believe into that position. IOW God has to approve of the sacrifice. The false imputed doctrine makes righteousness optional...and holiness impossible...

It's hard to convey an idea that is a challenge without seeming to have a higher tone than we are in fact using at times. It all depends on how we perceive it was said. So if a person writes..."what's wrong with you?!" .... it could be taken as an attack if spoken harshly..or a genuine concern...

This is a slogan that has caused a lot of erroneous thinking and a laissez-faire attitude to sin in general. It's the wrong focus. It would be like singing ♪ "Just as I'm not' ♪

I think the difficulty you are having is with the contrast of forgiveness with being justified. To be righteous IS to be justified. In other languages, like French... the word for righteousness is 'la justice". So then indeed to be justified is to be deemed righteous. Forgiveness is different I...

Just be careful with those hats there pardner. ;)

Agreed. But the purpose was to save them from their sins...by exposure to real truth and love. Jesus never was a sinner among them. He showed the contrast between them by exposing Himself to them. If what we have is so wonderful, won't that influence others? Imagine if a person wanted to...

I see you as being partially right. You have braved the slings and arrows of a certain element on this forum...a lynching mentality that shows how little grace is understood by these. You have exposed a judgmental attitude in people that are really saying "I am under the law" and that avoids...

Everyone will be judged by their works. There is no "grace" judgment. What is grace doing for us? What are our doctrines doing to us? That's more the idea. Welcome here! :)

How can war be civil? Why can we only come together when it is to hate others?

Agreed. I hope that the movie "Hacksaw Ridge" helped people to see the alternative to active participation in killing and brutality. In the movie the main character wouldn't even touch a rifle. I would have no trouble with that. I don't see guns as evil. So for the most part I think he went too...

The spiritually blind leading others into more blindness.

Too true brother...

This is the GWT...not the Bema. The nations are judged 1,000 years after the Bema.

hmm...we don't say "slur" anymore...now it's a "misappropriation." :rolleyes:

Church people here are like American church people. Very conservative. But because we live in a harsher climate the tendency is towards a common health care system...like countries in Scandinavia. Very similar. Warmer countries tend to let people fend for themselves.