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Yes...the remnant of both becoming one in Christ.

See, this is the thing. God doesn't control. There are not puppet strings. Everyone does what they want to. God transcends even evil into a good outcome. He is God. I think you are confusing God with a tyrant. God is so far above controlling things. His love transcends all actions...even the...

We see that God has upped the ante. The barren woman is always the woman of promise. The roles have progressed into the Spirit. Just as Hagar was displaced by Sarah and the child of promise....so the spiritual children once called Israel have been displaced by the truly free children that are...

Not at all. But you are leaving Jesus as a footnote in your quest to follow Paul...whom you are misunderstanding. It is the modern view that we should listen to Paul and leave Jesus out. But there is a warning from Peter about those who ignore Jesus in order to claim things based on Paul who is...

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. I judge. John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. Jesus...

You are being misled by the wording of the bible that seems to fit with your idea. Many are called but few are chosen. There is a difference between being willing and being worthy. God knows who will run the race and win. These are the overcomers. God has predestined that there will be...

Another unique way that God works. God never does the same thing twice. He is the living God.

This kind of logic is what is infecting the powerless church of today. It's about a religious status that has no reality in the Spirit.

It doesn't go by control...but by transcendence. The devil still runs this world after all. But God is sovereign over it all.

Again with the church discipline. Are you thinking of a specific issue that is not being dealt with in your own experience?

In the end, yes. But don't underestimate what God does to do that. The world is in rebellion against God. People have little or no faith. Yet God transcends our faults to bring about His glory. So even our sins....God can use to bring about His will. His ways are higher than our own.

There is a misunderstanding about God that He is unable to have His will AND allow people to do as they wish. Only God can arrange things whereby mankind has a liberty of action...leading to chaos...but which God uses to perfection. If He couldn't do this, He would not be God. So then God's...

If you think you begin your walk at the finish line as so many misinformed people do these days....likely not.

We are all unique. But there are many spirits out there that people will invariably look to for support and help to bolster their weaknesses. So then people start acting and thinking the same way. Same spirit, same conformity. In truth, people really don't want freedom...but prefer an illusion...

You are confusing a spiritual liberation or binding with a church action which is disciplinary on the physical level. The church decides to exclude a person or receive a person into fellowship. A physical person. This is about fellowship. But binding and loosing are as I described in the OP...

I think often people confuse authority with autonomy. Autonomy actually means "a law unto oneself" (auto and nomos). ...or a lack of coming under authority. Who really wants to unselfishly see the restoration of God's dominion? Do we not prefer freedom over submission to authority? Are we...

The problem lies in our modern understanding of grace. Grace is the power from God to fulfill the law of God. To further confuse matters Paul is not being specific when he says "the law" on which law he is referring to. So there is a lot to confuse us. The works of the law include religious...

I just posted this verse in another thread...kind of gives a lie to the very carnal idea that we enter into the finished work of Christ at the first step of our faith. As for appreciating Philippians....I can't say as I ever met any.

The opposite is true. We need a further step of faith (or many steps for some) to move into the finished work of Christ. You are making this about us instead of about the Lord. His work is finished...ours is just begun. He that has begun a good work...not a finished work as you say...

You are thinking of binding or loosing being about people rather than things of the Spirit. Who binds people? You are seeing this from a physical standpoint...so then a person would have to be bound with actual ropes or chains for your physical idea to work..