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Exactly. The Old Covenant is based on righteousness...and the New Covenant is based on holiness and a higher kind of righteousness...one that comes directly from God. False. You are confusing adjectives and nouns. I can guard my house...but I'm not a guard for a living. We are to watch the...

I don't blame you or assign any bad intent. I realize you made a hasty judgment. But I'm asking to consider that you do the same thing with the bible that has a much deeper message and one that is hard to grasp unless one has actually encountered the living God as Paul had. He writes about...

You are displaying a lack of reading skills towards my posts the same way you misunderstand the bible. Go back to where you say I say there is no gift of grace. I said there is no gift of grace WITHOUT the expectation that we will overcome as Jesus did. You need to learn to read comprehensively...

The righteousness that Paul is talking about is a HIGHER righteousness according to a higher walk in Christ's perfection. No sin. Those who don't sin are greater than they who do sin. There is no one righteous, no not one, that doesn't sin. The righteous do sin. But the higher righteousness...

I bolded the part you want to ignore. Do you know what the law of Moses is? Have you ever read the first part of the bible called the Old Testament? Holiness in the law of Moses is a temple holiness. Judaizers wanted new believers to abide by the holiness laws of Judaism. Paul, who was indeed...

You twist the meaning of the word. We are to watch what the meek do and emulate them. We are to LEARN righteousness by watching what the righteous DO. Your cleverness is not of God. You are just flesh looking for justification. The irony here is palpable. With meekness means humbly....which...

Exactly. You add in words and take away words as you need to in order to satisfy a pet doctrine you have in preference. But you are missing God entirely from your scheme.

LOL To me it sounds like brain needle. But you are right about people reading in their own ideas into the bible without any humility or fear at all. Most see the bible as a self-help book...choosing favourite verses...deciding what is useful and what is not. What is not understood is the way...

More irony. The righteous have no need of a physician because they are healthy in God's eyes. It is ONLY the Pharisees that condemn the righteous. That's why you can't see your own condemnation. Jesus says...HAVE MERCY...and stop condemning the guiltless (tamim) By condemning the righteous you...

You are looking in a mirror if you are seeing a carnal mind. The only thing that is progressive is maturity in righteousness. Holiness is purity from heaven. There is no process of a gift of God. Holiness is digital. Sanctification is digital. Righteousness is analog. Any verse that is...

We need context here. God is allowing people to have access to His kingdom realm. All have access. But many are called and few chosen. One must bear the fruits of repentance from dead works. That's why the Jews lost their "exclusivity" as the people of God. They became proud and smug (just like...

People will use their bibles to contradict any call to work out one's own salvation with fear and trembling (which is in the bible). People prefer to claim a salvation based on assurances and smug self confidence. The bible translations of today reflect the modern watering down of the truth to...

People will use their bibles to contradict any call to work out one's own salvation with fear and trembling (which is in the bible). People prefer to claim a salvation based on assurances and smug self confidence. The bible translations of today reflect the modern watering down of the truth to...

The meek shall inherit the earth. All of the proverb.etc etc... who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord??? To whom does the Lord look? I use the written word to explain the experiences of God who inspired it. That's why we have a bible and a humble standard of righteousness in humility and...

I think a lot of people need to start over from the beginning, having gone down the wrong track for so long, they have forgotten what holiness ...even a tiny sample of it....really is. Having begun in the Spirit but now trying to be made perfect progressively by the carnal mind.

The righteous only inherit life in the next age. Only those called into holiness and sinless perfection are saved now....from sin and its power. Why won't people look beyond very surface statements?

David, you are seeing this backward. The whole bible is about justification based on righteousness. Just read a few chapters in Proverbs (10 and 11). The innovation comes with the gospel and Jesus providing us with "a new and living way" that is based on BOTH righteousness AND holiness. So then...

We wouldn't want the devil to take away their credentials... What the bible teaches is that to have an eternal fruit (in whatever amount) requires a miraculous walk in eternal life. We have to BUY the eternal materials by giving our life fully to God. That sacrifice has to be accepted by...

Exactly. I ask people to consider what I write with all seriousness because their eternal destiny is in play. Jesus spoke this to Nicodemus as God's people...not the world at large. Jesus didn't come to destroy all goodness and mercy in order to invent a religion based on partisan religious...

That's right. We go from a human faith to a divine faith...the faith OF Christ. But although the purpose of God is mercy, people take the elevation to mean that they are accepted with God is their present state...uncrucified and unweaned from the flesh. That's why grace is deceitful, and why the...