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We are to make our calling and election sure...so then we are in the race until it is over.

Unless of course the doctrine we have believed leads us to a false confidence...and a non-seeking of God's presence. The Pharisees said "we see" therefore they were condemned.

This is science fiction. We are never spirits. We have a spirit that returns to the Lord. We are only a soul....always a soul. And GWT is about the book of life. Only they who are not written in it are cast into the fire.

We are talking about eternal life here...not a temporal political boundary. And the Land....the "promised" land....has always been spiritual. :) It takes eyes to see this. Spiritual eyes.

Dispensationalism favours a temporal understanding based on a "literal" interpretation of Israel. Messianics espouse this form (wind) of doctrine because it glorifies the flesh. But God must get the glory. People forget this. People are always looking to glorify the flesh. Dispensationalism...

Again, in all these things it is based on spiritual life. The Gentiles learned of the new life in Christ from the Jews. Salvation is OF the Jews. But salvation is not exclusively theirs. So as the gospel was preached in all nations...more Gentiles entered into the life of Christ. Israel is of...

This is a misrepresentation of what I said. We are not a spirit...nor are we a body. We are a soul that has a body and a spirit. On judgment day our souls (us) will be judged....whether they are worthy of continuing life....and the quality of that life.

A spiritual bias? I suppose one has either a bias towards spiritual things or temporal things. Which one is eternal?

The baptism of the Spirit is us being immersed in the Spirit. This isn't just receiving Jesus inwardly. But there are a lot of misconceptions about this, of course. Being baptized in the Spirit is NOT just speaking in tongues....although this could be something that accompanies Spirit baptism...

I don't judge people. I judge the teaching that leads people astray. Imagine a scheme cooked up by the devil to fool God's people. If we took the dispie view and brought it to the difference between men and women...it would look like... Hey, Jesus was Jewish...but He was a man...so He is a...

So then there are 2 powers fighting each other in the world. Since the sin of Adam there is a connection between our weakness and his rebellion. The weakness of the flesh is given strength through "self-assertion". But how can weakness draw on itself? It needs an outside power to strengthen...

That is a private interpretation that goes against the biblical text. Paul explains Lo-Ammi as the Gentiles. 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which...

Is there such a thing as "saving knowledge?" Jesus did say...you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free. I think what makes the difference in understanding what knowledge, we must look at the difference between Hebrew thinking and Greek thinking. In the Hebrew when a man "knows"...

I should have been clearer... :) I am speaking of the power of sin and death...the spiritual law that gives power to the carnal man. The soul is who we are. The mind, the heart, the will, the emotions....etc. The part of us that decides things. We can go 3 different ways. 1. We can live to...

Amen...but your reference was for Ephraim...and the Gentiles becoming a people that were not a people.

Another excellent post! :) We are talking here of Ephraim...the house of Israel that was sifted through all nations.

Rev. 3:21 'He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Is that how it works? OK :rolleyes:

The sheep/goats judgment is the GWT judgment for all nations. This is not about the house of God...or anything remotely resembling seeking after the kingdom. The opposite is true. It is only as our hearts line up with God's that we are permitted entry into the spiritual life. Our cross; our...

Seek first the kingdom. Jesus doesn't answer a question that is not correct to answer...IOW we need to get the questions right first. The disciples needed to get a taste of kingdom life...and power. Then they would be good witnesses of Jesus.