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You are drawing the opposite conclusion from the truth of the text. Having the law engraved on our hearts makes the law MORE important to keep than just on tablets of stone. This is why the whole counsel of God is crucial to understanding the individual ideas in the text. Jer. 31:33 “But this...

Freedom can only come about by the law of Christ...the law of the Spirit of life when we enter into Christ to walk in the Spirit. Otherwise we ARE STILL under the law of sin and death. Unfortunately what people speak of so often is a hybrid of the 2.....taking the easy elements of each so that...

Those who who wish to live their own lives.

Yes...the roast will be taken out of the oven, so to speak, to see what has been produced. God provides the purity, and we provide the maturity....and character. Forged in the fire by God. Until Christ be formed in us.

This is the problem with not sorting out what law means in the context. There is the law of Moses, the law of God, and the works of the law. Then there is the law of sin and death in our members, the law of the Spirit of life...and the law of faith. So until these are differentiated there is no...

You are speaking of works of the law...not the reality or the righteousness of the law. So unless somebody is thinking of converting to Judaism your argument doesn't address the issue at hand. What is the relation of the law to grace? You have these working against each other which is the very...

It takes a lot of humility to admit that they are much better than they think they are.

When we come to realize that we are so broken....we can go to God to get His NT fix. A new creation. A new relationship with our Creator.

We will be judged harder than they in the OT. Grace brings a much harder judgment. An encounter with holiness ups the ante. 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden...

But we will be judged harder than they in the OT. Grace brings a much harder judgment. An encounter with holiness ups the ante. 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath...

Grace and faith uphold the law. Without the law no one can be saved...because no one can make an end run around the truth. Salvation must be great IN REALITY...not just in theory. We are to worship the Lord in Spirit and truth...not in a subjective view of ourselves being saved in spite of our...

Not so fast! ;) God foreknows things because He is God. He sees the future as well as the past. All of time is laid out before Him. But since His is the biggest secret-keeper in the universe don't expect any hints on the outcomes of individuals. Now most people think that God would never elect...

Hey, one less deception....well done! :)

The influence of the Spirit is always in the world in a subtle way. At first it begins by our conscience...the leftover hole that God fits into in us.... After we willingly submit to the Spirit in a greater and greater way. It must be remembered that all men have this same consciousness of...

Are you saying that because you selected the "right sounding" doctrines according to your preference, that that is the same as Jesus transforming you?

Please read what I posted. I think you responded too quickly and so you have not comprehended my position yet. :)

There is no need for conversion after death...since God will save whom He wills to. That means that many will be deemed as sheep (Mat. 25) because of how they treated others...specifically the brethren. The law of righteousness states that a person will live if they do what is right. So GOD...

The answer is easy...but people prefer to complicate things. Both Calvin and Arminius are taking one extreme which can only hold up when both ends are held up from the middle. That is the truth. Holiness is impossible without God. It is a gift. So God provides the purity. This looks like...

Actually eternal life is a kind of life. The location of that life is IN Jesus Christ. It is His life. So we can experience that life for varying lengths of time or not at all. This idea of putting everything into the future is what is robbing the church of victory in the present.

But you are making my argument for me. There is a deeper message that people easily miss due to a lack of understanding of spiritual things. It is like when Paul says...that I might know the power of His resurrection. Now a lot of people will think that means a bodily resurrection rather than...