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    Orthodoxy vs "The Way".

    Do people really want to be told what to believe? Isn't an encounter with the living God of much more value and use in understanding the bigger picture and purpose of life? I defend oneness with God AND oneness between disciples. Creeds and dogmas only serve as an excuse to not love another...
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    Orthodoxy vs "The Way".

    The early church were followers of "The Way". What way? The way that is in Christ in the power of an eternal kind of life. It was inevitable that a dogmatic decoy also be established according to the will of men that usurps the way of God in Christ by catering to the desires of men. My aim...
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    Orthodoxy vs "The Way".

    In this episode we want to investigate both the similarities and divergences between the Orthodox church and "the Way" as described in the New Testament. To accomplish this we will provide commentary based on video clips from both Paul Truebenbach and Josiah Trenham.
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    The Way/Theosis/entire sanctification.

    The fear of the Lord is good...but just fear alone is not. We are meant to set sail on unknown waters trusting the Lord...not just remain tied up in harbours until we have a guarantee that we won't be swept on the rocks of lee shores. By faith we venture forth....yes, sometimes running...
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    Absent from the Body, what did Paul mean?

    This idea is straightforward if one understands being crucified to self to walk according to the Spirit in resurrection life. Absent from the body means that one is walking in another place...in a place of victory over the flesh. Present in the body means that one is walking according to the...
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    New Podcast (#47)

    Seeing the subject matter is not appropriate for the forum, due to the rules, I invite people onto my channel to listen and comment. The new podcast is #47 https://www.youtube.com/@spiritualchristianity9967
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    Hi from Moscow!

    Welcome here Polina. :) Hopefully, you will discover much to ponder and meditate on, and be encouraged by. You will need a lot of discernment, however, to avoid the many deviations from what brings life and peace in the Lord. Things can get quite heavy at times.
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    It is now generally accepted because of the work of bible scholars...who embarrassed church organizations into having some kind of honesty...if that is even possible among dogmatic types. Those verses, the "comma" have now been exposed as fraudulent and been removed. There is a deeper work of...
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    You have quoted a verse that was added in the 16th century.....the Johanine comma. That verse is no longer seen as authentic...by anyone. Another Catholic addition to the text...just like Matt. 28:19. I covered this in the video. And we can know much more than people think they can. For those...
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    Segal doesn't express his own opinion in the book. But he does state that the second YHWH is Jesus according to Justin Martyr...in the early second century. So yes...I see two distinct YHWH in the bible...I count at least 16 times where YHWH mentions another person also called YHWH.
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    And he (The Lord) said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship afar off. Ex. 24:1 Here is another verse that is used...or was used...by rabbis to show that there is another power in heaven referred to as Lord (YHVH)...
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    It depends. The book is very technical about the subject. It's scholarly...more than it is contemporary Christian accessible. I find it "useful" as I am interested in the groundwork of establishing the subject of the "two powers" teaching. Even the Hebrew in it is written in a code that has to...
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    Are you ready for Judgment Day?

    You are not understanding what the gift is. It is NOT immunity from prosecution for sin. Being born of the Spirit doesn't change the law of God. The gift is a sample of grace that gives a person an idea of what to seek after and give themselves over to....the way of God in Christ. Even if a...
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High: Ps. 92:1 Thank Jesus and sing praises to the Father.
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    Are you ready for Judgment Day?

    The wages of sin is still death. Grace is the power OVER sin...not God turning a blind eye to sin. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 6:3 Eternal life overcomes temporal life because of God's power (grace)
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    The only danger that this teaching poses is to traditional Judaism...oh, and maybe also to dogmatic Catholic ideological revisionism and control. It should be something for actual Christians to embrace...that the Jews already had an understanding of a God in Two Persons...before the coming of...
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    You are just being religious and quick to judge. The heresy is the denial of Jesus as God. I am upholding the truth of apostolic Christianity. AND...what is plainly stated in the bible. Jesus was always IN God and God was always in Him...because He is God along with His Father. One Spirit in TWO...
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    2 Powers in Heaven

    In this episode we investigate what was a legitimate, if controversial, teaching (mishnah) held by some rabbis before the coming of Christ. Also covered is how the "the 2 Powers of Heaven" controversy was relegated to the level of heresy in the 2nd century by various Jewish councils based on the...
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    Making Disciples

    There is a tremendous lack of disciples in the modern churches...and discipleship. True discipleship...the kind whereby people give their lives freely over to God in Christ...to be sheep in the midst of wolves. To live from the inner man when the whole world is vying for an outer man...
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    Making Disciples

    Then by all means use that idea of going over a second time to complete the process as an exhortation to go to God for the full measure of grace. The "second blessing" as it were. Let Jesus be both the author and finisher of faith as far as you are concerned.