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I have no wish to dispute what Tom Plumb said. I disagreed with him over various things. However I agree about the consecration of our whole selves. We do not need to know our hearts - just submit ourselves to whatever will befall us thereafter, having come to the end of ourselves and our...

No I am not epi. There are various levels of being unsaved but they are all in that category. Called? I am no Calvinist. That was before David was confronted by Nathan Paul under house arrest? Impossible for man to restore such a man but not impossible for God. Peter was restored? I...

epi reminded me of it. You have misunderstood my meaning of desperation. It is only those who hate even their unintentional sins as much as God does, who are delivered from them like St Paul. The rest just settle down into 'gradual sanctification'. The scriptures that I would quote are the...

The person who helped me was Adam Mussa: [email protected] and I paid £27 for the 5 day course.

@marks This site may be of some interest and help: https://enterhisrest.net/ I knew Tom before he died and had many long discussions with him. His theology is the western one and there were some areas we had disagreements, but in the main there is much that can be useful on his site.

Therapy can help with imprinted scenes of trauma, I followed one yesterday and the result is that the scene that my mind had held since last Christmas (a family affair) and could not stop it intruding, has diminished, within the 30 mins of the exercise to remove it to the extent that it is just...

@marks on the three options: scripture says throughout that man is saved or lost, a sinner or a saint. You are giving three options, the third being that he is saved yet sins.

It is throughout scripture that men are in two classes spiritually. If it was so with one man then the idea that no-one was baptized and walked in the Spirit in OT times, cannot be correct. There is obviously a difference between them. Are all men like asses because God used one? Right...

marks, regarding those who find The Way (pathway to holiness) and attain Theosis, it was recognized in the early church that they and only they, were qualified to interpret scriptures, being in the same spiritual state as the writers. They would be enabled to see past the seals that are there...

@Brakelite "I believe Christ was crucified at the foundation of the world." I agree, and would add, that the actual crucifixion in AD 33 or whenever, was the ratification of it, and that the spiritual reality of it is applicable throughout all of history, even in the Garden of Eden, where our...

I kept the best till last. No-one enters His rest or finds The Way (credit to @Episkopos) unless they are pretty desperate because you are asked to make a huge sacrifice. The first step is acknowledging that it is what you need - desperately need, and the second is to start listening to God...

"The point Jesus was making is that Nicodemus should have known the truth that the Holy Spirit is the source of new life because it is revealed in the Old Testament. For instance, Moses told the Israelites prior to entering the Promised Land that “The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts...

Yes but if we have a certain mindset, due to incorporating a theology, we will not notice we are doing it. I speak with some experience here, having gone from one theology, Reformed, to Arminian then to the ECF and of course all of us differ on points, but the overall tenet, like for example...

A good point. I have noticed more than once, that when someone had been particularly awful to me, that not long afterwards they had been sick or something. On one occasion, a minister with whom I had disagreed with seemed to have parked his high end worshipped car, so that it took me ages and...

Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night (Psalm 1:1–2, NKJV) Beware of the cult of psychiatry. Try trauma...

Oh yes definitely. I'm still working this out and how l was able to walk in the Spirit when my brain including all of the nervous system was still so damaged. We are so complicated and wonderfully made. Also how the biological system is involved. I was surprised to hear how the mitochondria...

There is so much error in this that I am unable to make a start in countering it. I look to the early teachings as they correspond with scripture and the pattern of the spiritual journey the disciples made therefore confirming it. Your theology does not and I challenge you to do this.. You...

The apostolic church can, despite all of the errors that quickly came in after Constantine. This is because they were so near to the source of the teaching of sanctification or The Way, and spoke the same language. You don't seem to be able to separate the outward from the inward. Oh and creeds...

@Lizbeth Here is an explanation of cPTSD, showing that it is not primarily a psychological problem, but one of alteration of brain structure...

Your half hour google on Orthodoxy, @Episkopos did not show you much. In fact it is the only part of the church where the fields are white to harvest, as they at least give lip service to what you call the 'higher walk'. In fact your teaching follows the western watered down version of Theosis...