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"Abundance of grace" is not the initial grace portion, sample or measure...but the fulness of God. Paul is ALWAYS testifying of the miraculous walk...the higher calling. We have God's righteousness as a covering as we reign through having a ZOE life...an eternal life that overcomes the world...

Being in Christ is not the same as abiding in Christ. I will try to explain using an American example ;) To join the navy Seals (special forces group) one has first to join the navy. One cannot try out for the Seals without first joining the navy. So then the Seals are like the saints who get...

For a unitarian you are speaking out of two sides of the same mouth. The confusion you are exposing is very great. How can you have two sets of righteousness...each going contrary to the other...in the same soul? How much sin is in holiness? A sinful holiness idea is a product of the mixture we...

The righteousness of God never dwells in a person...it is a covering. An anointing ON a person. Only God is as righteous as God is. Do you sin with God's righteousness? God's righteousness is like a tabernacle we enter into...like a tent. His banner OVER me is love. His covering anointing is...

The ways of God don't work that way. We can have righteousness imputed to us as we repent...like the Publican. But that is NOT the righteousness of Christ...which NEVER can be imputed to anyone. The righteousness is His, the holiness is His, the love is His.. I have said this so many times but...

A remnant indeed possesses the land. But there is no guarantee that we personally will see it. The fear of the Lord keeps a person in good standing with the Lord...who HATES pride and religious hubris... and thus gives us a chance to remain on the good side of God. God's will will be done. If...

Amen. The first step in a race is not the finish line. Yet religious certainty pretends to give a guaranteed outcome for a race that is not run. I liken this to the race between the tortoise and the hare. The hare was so certain of winning, that he lost. Amen again...a proper stance for a...

People hate faith because risk is involved...a lot of "if's" as conditions to the promises of God. What people prefer is the certainty of religious beliefs. Offer people a choice and most will go for the religious certainty. But a wiser person will figure out that believing a delusion doesn't...

Man-made wisdom doesn't grasp spiritual truth. There is no eternal value in scholarly philosophy. The kingdom of God is not of this world. You would learn things of infinitely more value if you put your trust in the right place. You have not understood Paul or his testimony of the high calling...

You have decided that the biblical text doesn't mean what it says....an idiom??? You change the meaning of words in order to preserve a text that you have no understanding of the depth thereof. But you can dismiss the warnings all you want. People will try various techniques to do so. Many just...

No problem with fearing God either I surmise...at least in theory.

What gift are you speaking of...a gift for reading the bible? A gift for accepting a human scheme that makes beliefs to be the same as faith? There is way too much assuming and presuming going on. The unspeakable gift is to walk in the power that resurrected Jesus from the dead...resurrection...

Why do believers find it so difficult that God requires repentance in order to be justified by Him? There is no revival without a deep repentance that admits to arrogance, pride and religious hubris. This is by the Spirit bringing conviction on those whom God shows mercy. The ego apart from that...

What you are really saying is that there is a difference between a Jew or an ancient Israelite ...and modern Western believers...that somehow we are superior or that God favours us more. But God NEVER changes. He always tests the human the same way...on whatever level we are at. The new and...

I think we all know our positions and how they differ. There will always be a spectrum when it comes to understanding the bible., There are different depths to understanding....or not understanding. As for me...I'm amazed that anyone can't see what is so obvious. For example. "And if some of...

Does this really need a response...your uncharitable ways are showing...the Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde aspect of your persona at it again. Jesus said that very few would be able to enter into the kingdom of God through the narrow door...and that many will try and fail. To most modern believers that...

Here is the full context that leaves no doubt about what this is talking about... While it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he...

I find it pointless to post chapter and verse because it doesn't seem to carry any weight among the indoctrinated ones. Case in point...I responded to Apak's suggestion that there is no parallel to the Israelites in the wilderness with the gospel. I posted the verse that says that very thing...

You are free to walk in whatever way you see fit. Not found in scripture you say?.... Unless you read the bible, that is.... "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." Heb. 4:2...

And this sounds reasonable...until you realize that we are not trying to make sense of the Christian walk ourselves...it is according to God's purpose...not ours. God lays out His purpose which we might not like. But we also don't like getting sick or growing old. God has His own design...which...