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A righteous man still sins. God recognized the HUMAN righteousness of Abraham. Just like God recognizes the human righteousness of the good Samaritan. There are 2 levels of righteousness. Loving your neighbour as yourself. And loving God with all. 2 tablets of commandments. A double edged...

If the bible could speak to you what would it say? Would it puff you up and say you are God's righteousness, that you are seated in heavenly places? NO. The bible would tell you that you are poor, naked, wretched, and blind....and in need of seeking first the kingdom of God BEFORE making...

That's my point. Faith translates us into the same walk that is testified to in the bible. No need for imagination. If we let God judge what we are to be...then He will either not visit us...and we remain as we are. Or, He will translate us into the kingdom walk in eternal life that we...

The true gospel says...while we were yet sinners Jesus died for us (because of us). Rom. 5:8 The false gospel says ...while we were yet sinners God imputed His own righteousness to us (No verse found that remotely suggests this) How many follow a dead religion whereby Jesus has to stay on the...

Who decides what faith is required to be covered by God's righteousness? Is that up to us? Are we to assume that God accepts whatever we do? But you misquote me...as you must to make a case against sound doctrine. But you know you are twisting my words...as well as the bible...to uphold your...

The gospel is not about preserving the flesh. It's about believing that God has something better for us as we forsake it.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Johann is obviously here for an ego fix. When someone posts even 1/ 10th or less of what he posts as commentary...he calls that trying to impress, So back 10x to him. The truth is people judge others as THEY are. I can't be judged that way...

1. You're just a show-off 2. You are avoiding me by taking everything I say and studying it. 3. You say I'm Gnostic and then affirm everything I say by saying this could be taught. Any other contradictions and inversions that I'm missing? :)

Does that mean when you cite Hebrew or Greek you are doing it to impress people?? See, I already knew that. But to explain things from the OT without the Hebrew qualifiers will lead people to confusion...those words I cited are translated willy-nilly whatever way the translators felt...

...or a religious imagination of the cross. Amen.

No, quite the opposite. What you are suggesting is that it is wrong to experience what we read about in the bible. All I'm saying is that the bible points the way...but the Spirit gives life...just like it says in the bible. :) This is back-filling what a saint already has...an eternal life in...

Remain steadfast in humanistic reformist ideology! :ummm:

My position harmonizes what Jesus says with what Jesus says. Luther would disagree. The devil wants you to think that seeking God falls into the category of vain human effort. What you are confusing effort with is the antidote to spiritual laziness...the sluggard of Ecclesiastes. Jesus says to...

Indoctrination is a phenomenon associated with having a brain and a free will. When The New Covenant is distorted into the religious ideological dimension, it would certainly appear that God was kidding all along about the wages of sin being death. As in...the wages of sin is death...just...

The Jesus of our imagination VS Encountering the risen Lord. What I see so much of here is people imagining themselves into the biblical narrative. As in....well, if I'm going to be a believer then I will have to first assume that Jesus forgives me... Of course this is a far cry from seeking...

There is no such technique. Things don't happen in reality the way they seem to in our imagination. Does a blind man who approaches Jesus have to realize he is forgiven before receiving his sight? Is there a logical order to have your eyes healed? What if you get the order wrong in your logical...

By its very essence holiness is an eternal thing. If it is temporary for us it is because our faith hope and love is still at an infant stage. We can only grow into Christ-likeness by walking in His perfection...His keeping power. There is a folly in the idea that we can grow into...

Calvin (religious terrorist that he was) was an idealist who hated people for not being perfect. He signed actual believers over to be burned. At least he didn't write a book that inspired Hitler to do a "Kristelnacht" on the Jews. How amazing is it that no Protestant can see through the...

To each his own. But your doctrinal understanding comes from the "enlightenment" period of history...the renaissance...where humanistic ideals were promoted as a basis for modern civilization. That same spirit infiltrated into the churches through men like Luther...who cleverly adapted the...

You are avoiding me by following me around in my threads. The same backward logic you are using to decipher the bible. Turn everything upside down and you might get closer to the truth.