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The trick, as it were, is to differentiate between faith and beliefs. I walk by faith in the God that I know and that is testified to in the Bible. The words of God back up the experience of God and vice versa. When one considers that without visitation and empowerment from the Spirit there...

The ideology or the visitation and empowering from God?

LOL. Not the same as God finding a person wanting!!! :) I'm out based on not catering to the flesh by looking for any bent in the bible I can twist to my own advantage. I guess I must have a death wish or inferiority complex...when it come to God's holy ways. I may never unlearn that fear of...

IOW...a disciple. Do as you see fit.

Nonsense argument...just a jumble of statements that have no cohesion...as usual. Normally I would let you rant on without any response. But to others who want to see how the bible SHOULD be translated. There are key passages that help us understand the bible. The bible helps us translate words...

Nonsense coming from your own mind. You have no biblical evidence apart from whatever has been mistranslated from the Greek to make it more popular. And it seems to have worked. Where do you get your ideas from? "You can't be "sanctified" until all your sins are forgiven?" What commentaries do...

No translation in particular. I compare text with texts...for the OT I use the Hebrew Masoretic...the Septuagint....and the DSS. I of course also read English (KJV and NAS) and the French bible (Louis Segond and version la Colombe). I am not well versed in Greek. However I have learned the...

You are doing what you say I'm doing. What do you say to this "rabid" verse? Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Does his sound rabid or wrong to you??? Or just when I cite it?

We can't think God needs us to help Him to make us achieve holiness. Unless you are speaking of the law of Moses whereby we do things outwardly to fulfill the temporal temple law of holiness...just being different from the world...like not eating pork, or being circumcised, wearing certain...

No. To deny that the cross is about freedom from sin is to not believe the gospel. People who walk in their own power and sin all the time want forgiveness. These want to exploit the work of Jesus on the cross...have Him serve them. But that's backward. God doesn't love a cheerful TAKER...He...

Exactly. This is based on actual wording found in the bible. Actually not at all. There is no evidence to suggest that either deror or aphesis mean forgiveness...especially when we consider that these words both mean the same thing...namely "freedom" or "liberty" . It takes a huge agenda to...

Just a little more accuracy in definitions of words....is all. Aphesis doesn't mean forgiveness...it means freedom or liberty. Read Is. 61:1...then compare directly to Luke 4:18. You will see how the word "aphesis" is meant to be used. Go over all those verses and substitute "freedom" from sin...

That's what I believed before encountering the risen Lord...as a Sunday school Catholic ...at the simplistic level you are still on. Read the bible..and see how God forgave people BEFORE the cross. God is merciful. So you misrepresent God's character. And I'll do it again. The cross is about...

Correction of Corrected statement ;) Without faith it is impossible to please God...not a bible. Why do you not want God's visitation? Is the bible enough? The letter kills but the Spirit gives life. Not in the oldness of the letter but the newness of the Spirit. What do you do with verses...

No offense taken. I am working with the scriptures...from both testaments. And I am ALSO working by experience...knowing the narrow way, how hard it is to get into the kingdom walk...the full surrender...the whole-hearted crying out to God. That may happen once in a lifetime where we NEED God to...

This is easy and straightforward if you allow Paul to speak about his experience with winning Christ. All you have to do is explain what Paul means when he says in Romans 7 ..."sin revived and I died" And this AFTER he was free from the law...after he was crucified with Christ in an initial...

On what level of growth are we speaking of? There's nothing wrong with growing in the "lower" walk by human faith. Carrying one's own cross is hard...but we can muddle through. As long as we don't make foolish claims about what we are doing...rather being very humble in our carnal state. To be...

Oh, boy. More name it claim it. How many more here?

This is a spiritualization of reality. Very very few born again believers are going to go to God after their sample of grace and get the full measure. Many are called, few are chosen. People can't choose themselves, God does the choosing. How do we know we have been chosen? When we walk in the...

Consider this...we are to be translated into the kingdom...where our life is hid...where? With Christ IN God. Where I am, Jesus says, so you will there with Me. Seated in heavenly places... God resides in Zion with those who are humble. Holiness is a place. For thus says the high and lofty...