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Having the new law of the Spirit and of life gives us the freedom of choice to follow God's moral law, whereas before we had no choice but to be enslaved in the works of the flesh, and could not follow God's moral law. Before conversion to Christ we hated God's moral law because it was a...

I have been in discussion with another friend who says that he is under no law at all, and doesn't seem to understand that the law of love is basically the Ten Commandments. I saw the boundaries set by God's moral law as a security for us, and not a bondage at all. When we were unconverted...

We live less than a kilometre from the beach, which is a long, wide sandy beach. But we haven't gone over there yet while the lockdown is in place. My daughter, before the lockdown would take her pug dog for a run along the beach.

All I am saying is that those central Catholic doctrines were added well after the First Century and are part of the central faith of the Catholic Church. My wife, who is a Catholic, told me that she was taught those things by the nuns at her Catholic high school, and she can tell me exactly...

You are avoiding a direct answer to my question - define what specific behaviours are the demonstration of love to God and to others. Okay, you have said that love doesn't do the things I listed, so what exactly does love do that demonstrates that it is love? I do follow the law of love, and I...

The great problem with getting the gospel across to homosexuals is that Christian zealots have ruined it in so many ways that the normal homosexual feels that Christians hate and judge them. They see Christians as homophobic and rightly so, because that is the way so many Christians come across...

Okay I have tried to get you to see where I am coming from, and I don't believe that you are holding to antinomianism (do what you like because you are going to be saved anyway). I have tried to show you that the law of Love is exactly the same as the Ten Commandments. So if you are not bound...

I don't think so, because the traditions of the Church override the Bible and so any quotes would fall on deaf ears.

The problem is that the denial that Jesus had brothers and sisters, the Immaculate Conception of Mary; the perpetual virginity of Mary (that her hymen was miraculously restored); and Annunciation of Mary are not found in the Bible, but traditions that were added through "new revelation" after...

I agree. While I was reading your post I thought that Jesus was not putting forward "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" as a formulaic ritual for baptism. But to differentiate Christian baptism from the baptism of John which was one of repentance. John's baptism was for unconverted Jews to...

It is a very good time and opportunity to share the gospel because we can use the "you don't know when you are going to die" approach. Then you can tell them that everyone has to attend the appointment of death and after that is the judgment. Then you can chip away at their conscience to show...

I think that by the end of the second century, the church was slipping into formalism, and so formulae for baptism was becoming more important than before. In the First Century during the time of the Apostles, no set formula was used, because it wasn't a ritual. They probably went to the...

The basic reason, which they would avoid disclosing, is that they want to avoid any moral responsibility to God. They want to do anything they want, and it is convenient for them to say that God does not exist. Actually their atheism is a religion, because their belief system incorporates a...

That's spooky! We are both by the coast as well! And we have a pier!

I really think that we are looking at the same thing from two different directions. If you love playing or watching football, would you love it the same if there were no rules? Or would you be frustrated because of the total chaos that would result in playing the game with no rules at all? Or...

Well, I was responding to your post. But maybe the flak is yet to come! :D

I totally agree. God speaks to us prophetically all the time, especially when we are reading the Scriptures or hearing a good expository Bible teacher. It is important how we choose to share the prophetic word with others, and we need wisdom from God in order to do that.

What a relief! I thought I was going to cop some flak from you for my comments! :-)

I will answer that question. I don't go around raping children, watching child porn, fornicating with prostitutes, and such like, because I have the freedom in Christ not to do those things, but to follow God's moral law from my heart. My heart is not in the works of the flesh, but in the...