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I do not follow Calvin/Augustine and the theology you describe. You grossly misunderstand me.

Thank you brother but we are talking about different understandings of what historic Christianity is, and also the Christianity of the great revivals in the west. Of course there are variations which you exhibit. The testing point is do we walk as Christ walked?

Hello Sister, yes, if we look at Paul in Romans 7, after he has seen himself as a 'wretched man' in his inability to obey God through unintentional sin, and cries out for mercy. God will usually bring us though a great trail to get to this place, where a great depth of repentance is needed, far...

the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Indeed, it is the new man who is declared righteous, not some one who follows after false religions which epi insists on and keeps changing the subject from, after being stuck in a tight corner, and continuing to act in...

Epi why do l feel you are skirting around things and not being straight and open? I expect that of you not avoidance. You have missed the confirmation of others who have been enlightened on holiness doctrine to confirm about unsaved righteous people. I am extremely well read regarding...

I asked you about where you got your teaching about righteous non Christians and made it clear that l was not asking about holiness doctrine and no, theology if it is the real thing, is based on revelation not presuppositions. But l don't need to know where that came from. The same place as...

I don't know anyone who believes in second blessing holiness would argue with that. The old man, the sin nature, the flesh is crucified with Christ and must be dead - zilch - no more. Romans 6, 7 & 8 explains the highway to holiness for the believer. Still nothing to do with self which...

I have given this idea of righteousness and holiness are not the same thing some thought. It is because I recognize that one can fall from the position of holiness or entire sanctification, or as I like to use the patristic version - theosis, back to the Illumination stage whereby one knows the...

I am not arguing with this. It is the idea of the death of self that I am speaking against. The carnal nature is the outer old man not the self. The inner man is the new man we are to put on. Don't you have a scripture on death to self? I am not trying to put you down. I am only saying that...

Useful passage from J Penn-Lewis: " The word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart ... "(Hebrews 4:12, R.V.). This remarkable...

Some say our old man which is more in line with rest of scripture.

Yes I did watch the vid and thought it was your best yet - apart from where I differ. Yes there are two cuts and two crossings. I think you are making the second one to be the same as the first.

Anyway epi, the question can be solved by clear texts that say self is to die. rather than flesh or the old man.

We see this separation in the garden of Eden where entrance is blocked by the Cherubims holding the flaming sword 'which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life' judging everyone who would gain access to the tree. Heb 4:12 'For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any...

Another point is that, we were crucified with Christ 2.000 years ago. Our old man, that is to say, the life of Adam, is already there, but in order to actuate that fact, we must 'reckon' it. That is to say we must give our consent to it and that usually comes when we have been dealt with in the...

Epi I am sure you know and perhaps some others here, that I am in full agreement with the ideas of crucified with Christ or in other words, second blessing holiness (or the higher walk as epi calls it). However once we get down to the details, I do not agree with the popular idea that it means...

His wife did not want to leave.

The problem is that the devil is very happy to manipulate the circumstances of those whom he is deceiving, to make them think what he wants them to think. He caught me out in this way before, with a RTA etc. One good checkpoint is, did the early church teach what you believe? I mean the pillars...

As was the death of Christ, who was resurrected after three days in the tomb, Jonah was a type of Christ, so it is more likely that he died and was brought back to life after that time.

There is a report out today in the UK, on the mothers who were traumatized during childbirth which of course means the babies also. At the birth of my last one, 38 years ago, the midwife severely neglected me, when she could have done a simple procedure to avoid the condition that caused the...