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While the Matrix is a good story that points to a heavenly reality...one should be careful not to miss the truth of this to make the story more important than the message it contains. Like if you take any bible story and make a cartoon out of it...then many will say...that's just a cartoon...

Very good treatise until the final conclusion. We cannot have "faith in His blood". That is a wrong conclusion. Nowhere else in the bible do we see that faith in blood does anything. We are to have faith in Christ ,,,,we are not believers in blood. So the text could also have been written...in...

Haz, a testimony is an ongoing thing we are building on daily. So maybe up to this point you have not experienced the power of resurrection and the effect this has on your behaviour, If you are truly born from the Spirit then that power is latent in you still. Turn to the Lord while offering...

Yes! :)

Actually we can see Him in Zion where He presently is. We don't see Him when we walk in the Spirit...we feel His presence. But we can be taken to Zion in the Spirit so that we see Him the same way we find ourselves in the throne room of God...we are transported. It is like a vision...but while...

Does the name Richard Burger mean anything to you? ;)

The proof of having seen the Lord is a deep holiness in that person. The face of Moses shone after his encounter with God...seeing the Lord in the Spirit causes light to enter into our hearts. So this is my take on it...If a person has never ceased from sin (for any significant length of time)...

Where are we called to believe in the blood?

Imagine a cinema giving out free tickets for a movie. The people rush to get a ticket and then walk away joyful. A very few of those people actually walk INTO the cinema to see the show. The atonement is like this. Although the atonement was made for all men....most just rush to get the ticket...

Agreed! The idea of obedience and pleasing God are not unrelated....in fact they are exactly related. When we obey the Lord He is pleased...when we disobey the Lord He is displeased. Obedience is what pleases Him. So doing what is right is both obedience and to please Him. I see a...

My "attack" on others is, as I've said many times in different ways...the helping hand that a fish caught on dry land tries to avoid. I'm trying to help people in their walk. I may appear as a drill sergeant to some... but a drill sergeant is trying to help you survive in combat. You...

Exactly! :) You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created. Rev. 4:11 1Co_10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Well said!!!! You will find that this reality is lost on many since it does not line up with the prime directive of self-justification. The OP is about a free ride without any responsibility. It is an eternal welfare system. This is so ironic since these welfare system advocates are usually...

By your own words....

You can't control your own salvation method. You are not the thief on the cross...you are you. You can't choose your own role by pointing to the easiest way you've read about. Have you also decided to die on a cross?

The OP is tilting at windmills...or..strawmen!! Paul was concerned for the Romans and Galatians because SOME the Jewish brethren were trying to get Christians who had begun in the Spirit to become Jews as they were and get circumcised in the flesh. These Jews could not fathom how God could make...

same here!!! :)

Following God is not like a science we can become expert in. I thought we were trying to defeat this type of reasoning in other threads. Yes, the saints led the righteous. This has always been and always will be. Then you would have to disagree with Paul who said that those who sought to...

God works through men...A man who does righteousness is deemed righteous. A man who does wickedness is deemed wicked. No science degree is required here.

But faith and faithfulness are not a technique. The actions change according to circumstances. It certainly does not mean we are saved by our beliefs. A parrot who is trained to always say 'Jesus' at every query is not more saved than any other parrot. Faith knows God already. We are saved NOW...