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Romans 8 is about the law of the Spirit overcoming the law of sin....just as the law of flight overcomes gravity. It explains how grace and it's power saves us from the power of sin.

Sure. I like Irenaeus against the gnostics... :)

Yes...towards people. We are to bless those who curse us. We are to be gentle and harmless on the natural level. But not so on the spiritual level. We don't treat the devil as we do people. So the problem is that many don't discern spiritual things. The blind will lash out at any and all in...

In the later days of the Roman army...almost all the brave warriors were auxiliaries. The Romans had gone soft (like us) so they needed to find mercenaries among the barbarians who had a tremendous arete (manly fighting spirit). The Romans themselves were more occupied with building...

Many people have heard and received a kind of gospel that appeals to the flesh. Self-interest is both invoked and encouraged. People care so much for getting "saved." But we need to lose our lives for Christ. We need to get our eyes off of ourselves and die for a good cause. THEN the Lord will...

Fighting spirit? Isn't that part of the Holy Spirit? No. WE are to provide the fighting spirit. Peter says in 2 Peter 1 that we are to add virtue first to our faith. Who adds this? WE do. But what is virtue? Virtue is fighting spirit. Arete in Greek is the quality of warriors like Achilles...

Spiritual warfare, as the name implies, is not against flesh and blood. It is in the realm we are being called to as salvation in this present time. There are 2 levels of warfare for the would-be saint. There is the personal battle...and the war to win the world for Christ. What is little...

If we look at the gospel call into the kingdom from God's perspective...He is just looking for ANYONE who will lay down their lives in the world so as to enter into His. I think we get hung up far too much on a kind of person...whereas God is not a respecter of persons. We are...

Well said. This is both reasonable and spiritual.

When Hitler cast his evil shadow over Europe, many people enlisted in the armed forces to fight his brand of evil. They thought,,,,this is a cause worth dying for. But we have a devil that is doing far worse and for a longer time...yet there are so few that are willing to lay down their lives...

This is a time of religiosity and superficiality. The duty of Christians is to occupy spiritual places. But most Christians I speak to resist the idea of any kind of supernatural walk in the Spirit. So then that leaves the spiritual realm open to the enemy...and this goes unchallenged. When...

Rejoice through this trial my brother. Trials always come before the kind of blessings that last. :)

Many Christians have discovered a way to make salvation static...by turning it into a "status". But then that also puts God in a box. When you make a wind static...it isn't wind anymore. The same goes for God's salvation. It moves.

Trump is a know-it-all? I think Kanye West is your next president. There's an incoherence in his way of speaking that would endear him to many.

...all those wanky doctrines and attitudes. Gandhi couldn't help but scratch his head at the antics of people who tried to get him "saved".

Exactly! :(

Yes...one third of the saved ones. Like the number of the surviving sons of Noah. All the saved in the world to come are "from" these 3. IOW God is giving us a hint at the distinct destinies of mankind in "hagilgoul haba"...the world to come.

Paul gave the gospel message to the Gentiles. It isn't any different from the Jews...just the clientele! :) The kingdom of God is ACCORDING to grace....which is the power to fulfill the law. Grace doesn't save us from the effects of sin...but from the power of sin. The wages of sin is still...

...indeed...:eek::D...... (✟)

The human race...is called that for a reason! ;)