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Study to show yourself approved. There are a lot of Hebrew idioms that Jesus used, that unless you were Hebrew you wouldn't understand. Like good eye and bad eye, meaning generous and stingy.

It doesn't say that to us with a western mindset, but John isn't western.

Good night.

In order to understand an author, you have to read according to how he is writing. John is using the eastern (you are reading as western) Semitic writing style of contrasts as opposed to parallelisms, another Semitic writing style. John is contrasting the light verses from the dark verses. The...

You are reading 1 John 1:8 as a stand alone verse. The context is 1 John 1:9 to no longer be a sinner. Otherwise, it contradicts 1 John 3:9. Study!

The Ten Commandments were holy, but they are better when written on your heart, because it doesn't end with just ten, and they become part of your nature. No one has to teach them to you.

If you do not read the whole teaching of Paul - Romans 1 through Romans 8, and take Romans 4 out of that context as a stand alone chapter, you will believe that the Old Testament imputed righteousness (before Christ) is all the righteousness we receive. But Christ came to make us sinless...

It is NOT independent of God. God is a part of me now. That is what it means to abide in Him, and He in me. Didn't I already respond with 1 John 3:24? I thought I did. Maybe it was someone else. No, I just looked back at the rest of the post you deleted; evidently you just didn't understand the...

2 Timothy 4: 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. It is easy grace...

You asked me what I would say to some Christian who sinned. I did. Trespasses are forgiven if you always forgive others. I would also say, go to bed with a clear conscience.

When we are born again, the divine nature hates sin, so sin is no longer the problem. It is fruit that is the issue. Here is what I wrote to Christophany: Yes, we have to mature the fruit of the Spirit. To become perfect and mature, we need to follow the steps Peter sited in 2 Peter 1:5-7. The...

ROFL There are millions! Whole denominations are under this false doctrine.

A long time. It is quite easy. All you have to do is never do anything against your super-sensitized by the Holy Spirit conscience. It would be very uncomfortable for me to go against my conscience. Jesus said, "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Trying to keep all the commandments...

Yes, our nature is born again, and called the new man. The flesh was the old man. Galatians 5:19-21

Of course it becomes your own. 24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does...

If someone is still being drawn by the Father to Christ, but has not yet fully surrendered, they are not yet born again. They still have the old man, and need to repent so they may receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Many in the Church are in that same situation today. As I've said, that was me...

No. It IS the power of Christ, because it is Christ in us. "Unmerited favor" - if that's what you believe grace is - is only in the sense that grace is given when we admit we are sinners and unworthy, so in that sense it is unmerited favor, but grace, itself, is not unmerited favor. It is...

After all our posts, what in the world makes you think I believe grace is separate from Christ, when it has everything to do with Christ? Grace is Christ in us! His power! His sinlessness! His supernatural gifts! All this time, you believe I'm crazy???

YES!

That is all you need to be completely clean and then given the POWER to never get dirty again. That is the power of becoming born again. 2 Peter 1:9 "he was cleansed from his old sins. Grace is not unmerited favor, but the POWER OF GOD. He puts His power within us. That is why in Romans 8:9 we...