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What you can't say is...Jesus was never the Father. God has said..."Today I have begotten You"...which hearkens back to a time where God divided Himself to give Himself a Son. In the OT the Name YHVH is both the Father and the Son (a number of verses state this by the wording)...until the...

Merry and blessed Christmas to all on the boards! <>< :) Our Saviour is born!

You are doing an important part of what it means to be Christian...living by the higher standard of God. It is like the parable of the 2 sons where one said he would obey but didn't...and the other said he wouldn't but did. Welcome to the forum! :)

Babylon....the religious system that men give official sounding names to. That would include personal ministries that are set up as businesses. Men tend to be ambitious. Babylon comes from such motivation. All ministry should come indirectly (or directly?) from God...through a human...

A spiritual person judges nothing of himself. Such a person uses a discernment from the Spirit...having no confidence in his opinions or POV's. What Paul cautions against, then, is a private or personal judgment.

Someone with a beef with Catholicism...:rolleyes:

Adam walked with God before the fall. We are to walk with God in a restoration of that relationship...not just because we are forgiven our sins....but we are walking in the power that keeps us from sin. No one can have a sinful intimacy with God. Either we are walking in defeat in sins....or...

Christ in you is a potential that needs to worked out into our lives with fear and trembling. Unless the outer man breaks...you will just be a spoiled sinner who thinks he is not responsible for the evil he does. We need to seek the Lord and continue on the path of faith with faithfulness...

Should we not be open to correction? Otherwise we have the gospel of unteachability.

The church could also be seen as a puzzle. We are as many living stones that need to fit perfectly with one another to form an edifice to the glory of God. But do we really fit together? Who will discover how that works? I know a certain brother...an older brother with lots of experience..who...

There is a very good movie called "Contact" which is really about faith. It stars Jodie Foster. This is a Holywood movie so don't expect all the themes to be proper. But there is a part where an alien civilization sends a puzzle of sorts. It is the design of a machine that once built provides...

The bible could be seen as an incoherent mess...with statements flying about in no particular order...with even blatant contradictory statements. Many claim to understand the depth of the word...but these overclaim their ability by simply leaving out or ignoring the verses that contradict their...

Wat could very well be happening here is the very common situation where a person thinks he is more advanced than he is. The ego would rather not accept correction...so then a scripture verse is pulled out to defend a lack of teachability. Does the OP see this common problem? Or is this an...

It is a common thing to deny the power of God over sin in they that believe.

There is... ...nothing further outwardly than God. ...nothing nearer inwardly than God.

It's too easy to get lost in the paradoxes of the biblical message. There is a school of thought that says...we are already there...we already have all we need. Peter affirms this in his second epistle. Yet Peter goes on to say that we must add to the faith...and holy nature...a list of things...

On the subject of presence....this from an old bishop... Come my Light, and illuminate my darkness Come my Life, and revive me from death Come my Physician, and heal my wounds Come Flame of divine love, and burn up the thorns of my sins, kindling my heart with the flame of Your love Come my...

It has been said of God that He is... More affectionate than any friend. More just than any ruler. More loving than any father. More a part of us than our own limbs. More necessary to us than our own heart. More to be desired than our necessary food. More real than every tangible thing in...

There are certain times when we expect God's presence to be especially experienced. In the meetings when we pray or break bread...there should be a deeper connection to God AND the people that are with us. As we experience the Lord together...fellowship then becomes possible in this deeper...

It's the old gift and giver thing. A false prophet looks for the gift...but is unaware of the presence. Otherwise how could Jesus say..."I never knew you" to people who operated in the gifts?