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The Jews did not meet in different churches from the Gentiles. I think you may be influenced by the Messianic movement of today, and denominationalism in general. There was no such division in the time of the apostles. The book of James is for all Christians as there is no division between Jew...

Amen! We cannot make a pat system of forgiveness that excludes a broken humility and reverence for God. The modern gospel shuts God out...taking what they need from Him. But God has a holy standard to uphold. If sin were seen as normal then there would be no need for rebuke! The standard of God...

The church met at her/his house in any regard. This is before the paganized version of Christianity (which is much more popular with the masses) made it's debut.

Shouldn't something be actually experienced before "taking it out on the road"? Most evangelism should be done without words...by showing tan example of a new life in Christ lived out in the community of the saints.

The word Elohim is masculine plural ...same as water which is actually waters (mayim) and mercies (rachamim).

The Greek word Episkope means visitation..as in "they did not know the hour of their visitation." All authority from God is based on such visitation. The Hebrew is Pekoudah. Is it so strange that God would oversee His people?

Paul was writing to the people of his time for very specific reasons. We have a window, through the epistles, as to what was going on at the time...but without truly understanding the context in which the authors spoke. Rather than cultural...I would say contextual. Having said that....there is...

Christianity was never meant as a religion of personal salvation. How could we learn to lay down our lives for the brethren? How could we be knit together in love and perfect unity? So when we are born from above we are to seek to enter into the fellowship of the Spirit with others who are from...

2Co 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

You twist what we say the way you twist the bible to your purposes. We are saying that the bible teaches that Christ overcomes sin. If we abide in Him then we become overcomers. The way in is by faith. It is all there plain and simple in your bible.

God can declare any man righteousn as He ses fit. The problem is when men read the bible...compare themselves favourably to those whom they read about...then declare themselves righteous! That is the essence of self-righteousness! The Pharisees did exactly the same thing. The reasoning...

Living in the community according to the Spirit will take care of most of those in a very short time. Body life replaces the individualistic pursuits that stain the church.

Mammon controls money...it is the power that says...everything costs something. We put a temporal value on things. So money is not actually Mammon itself, but the spirit behind it. If we will but worship mammon (temporal increase) then we will have all we desire in this world. That is the...

It is by faith Richard. God loves faith and responds when we cry out to Him by faith. He loves us and will translate us into His kingdom when we make room for Him.

God has no need of money. Money is a man made commodity that leads to the worship of Mammon.

Thanks for the encouragement. Very few indeed will walk in the Spirit of God in order to do the will of the Father.

On the one hand you say you agree with the bible that those who do bad things (sin) are not righteous and therefore will not inherit life. But on the other hand you say salvation has nothing to do with what we do...which does not agree with the bible. This is a false balance. 1 Corinthians 6:9...

May the Lord forgive your disrespect. I am assuming you are very young. A symptom of the youth today is to rail agaist any form of authority. This follows the biblical prophecy and shows us we are in the last times. Haz do you respect and obey your parents? Do you respect anyone besides...

I am pointing out what the bible is saying as true...and yes I have experienced this...and hung in there for various lengths of time. I understand Paul when he said...I have not yet atained...and he said this as someone "dead to sin". How do we get filled with the Spirit? By seeking the Lord...

The bible warns us of judgment when we disobey the Lord. The gospel is seen by carnal men as an excuse to keep alive what the word says must die. The errors go so deep that they are stacked on one another until the message loses any sense of reality whatsoever. We are not to add our own faith...