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Same here...still sometimes I peek to see who is disturbing the general peace. It helps to confirm my ignore list has a continued validity.

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God is love. But God doesn't love us in our sin. He loves us out of our sin. Love that condones sin isn't really love...it is permissiveness. Those who count on God being permissive about sin...have not met Him. People tend to love the hell in others...just look how many women fall in love with...

Exactly. The devil has his advocates...and the brethren have their detractors. :eek:

I'd have to look up my ignore list....lots of negativity there. There's a lot of competition for un-brotherly conduct here.

That's not what it says...but reading comprehension is very lacking these days. Paul was not deceived...just not understood. Among the Corinthians there were both carnal and spiritual believers. Paul definitely makes a distinction between the saints and the faithful brethren...but you'd have...

Being a saint is a high calling...a very high calling. So high that today it is not even perceived. Such is the delusion that people think they are saints while still walking as regular men.

And this is how you get charismatic denominations. I have discovered in life that whatever people ADD to the knowledge and simple walk in the presence of God....becomes that thing at the expense of the truth. People seem to have a way of taking things too far.... wishful thinking...or as you...

I agree with the first 2 statements....but that last qualifier...praying in tongues.... is the result of the very human tendency of adding to the truth so as to exaggerate something so that it becomes a half-truth. Praying in tongues is NOT a gift of the Spirit...but a prayer technique. Many...

A gift can be given just once in a lifetime. The thing is to be available...so yes, different gifts to people at different times. It depends on your disposition. You are far more likely to operate in a gift if.... 1. You have encountered the Lord and received of His life. 2. You are actively...

Consider the attitude of the foolish virgins or the unjust steward...or of the wicked servant. Does God stop the world in order to correct them...or at one point does He not let us do as we want?

I have been moved to 6 of the 9 gifts listed...as the Spirit leads. It goes by availability I think. :)

Greetings in the Lord. :) I have to ask...why not you?

A good question. Faith takes us to God where He is. One can only set our minds on the things above if we have been risen with Christ...meaning we walk in His resurrection life. Otherwise we will just be using our imagination. We are to seek God's face....until we are translated into His...

Perfect statement for this thread. Making a conclusive statement usually takes a truth too far...as in the above quote. The saved? No one is finally saved until the end of the race. We will be saved if we endure faithfully to the end of our races. So this is a false dichotomy...that is based on...

Correction: He doesn't speak to you that way. And you don't need to judge the whole world based on what you don't experience, know, or understand. o_O

LOL We have one already! :)

Good post Marksman! At the proper depth to understand what being a saint is all about. Our life is hid with God so that His life can be revealed in us. No longer I who live but Christ. That's the idea.

This is the problem with everyone coming at the walk of faith from only one perspective. I have learned more than one perspective as facets of God's ways with man. I was baptized in the Spirit in my room...but then met many believers who had never experienced walking in the light. I am not...

You are not understanding the bible...the message...or what salvation entails if you aren't getting what it means to believe to Christ where He is. We are to seek the kingdom of God. Since the kingdom of God is not of this world...how can you seek a kingdom that is in another place? Unless...