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It took me a long time to realize my level of iniquity. It was a real eye opener. Before that I thought I was special to God. I have always been willing to die where I stand...but my inability to see how I could offend God even while doing things I thought were just and right... Well there is...

Adding virtue is arete...Greek...for manliness. Courage. Achilles was seen by the Greeks as a paragon of arete. He, and Leonidas...the hero of Thermopylae. It represents a selfless courage that is ashamed to back down. To let the city or army down. Some "experts" cite arete as a defensive...

The idea that I browbeat people is rich. That's how a delinquent youth might perceive a correction or rebuke. Again this is more about the part of the person that is doing the defending...fully outside the scope of what I'm actually doing. Am I tormenting people? That depends what part of a...

The fundamentals of the gospel? The strong delusion is taking what is written and twisting it into something that supports the ego mindset...as if God was in the service of mankind. You are not seeing that humility is key to God's grace. You have said many times that your foundation is that...

For many here the truth is one-dimensional. For them, being a Christian IS the narrow path...and being a non-Christian means the broad path. For these being a Christian guarantees not only eternal life but also glory. And NOT having the proper doctrine means you are going to burn in hell. Of...

Spiritual things are at a depth that the carnal mind cannot accept. But to be against the truth is worse than just chocking it up to something beyond you. Will you also criticize astrophysicists because what they say sounds like gobbledygook? No. You accept that others have studied and have...

Kind words. It's so funny how there is a professional class of pastors (shepherds) that are hirelings and taken seriously...as if they were appointed by God rather than men. That's seen as acceptable. But I am nothing....no title or position. So then if I ACTUALLY shepherd by God's...

Is it wrong to try presenting the best version of ourselves? Only if we are standing in the way of being a living sacrifice. No longer I but Christ means more than just a self-abnegation..it means we are done away with in order to make room for Another to live in our place. This is the true...

You don't hate lying and deception enough to forsake what you have received as error...the limiting of God's power. Do you really think I'm lying by exaggerating the power of the gospel? The truth is laid out clearly enough although it does take the power of the Spirit to bring us into the full...

Ziggy posted about the bible showing us a standard that we are to live up to...and that it is for every person to see where they are. This is sort of true...for the righteous and the babes in Christ. But in the end we cannot be trusted to read in the standard of Christ for ourselves. God is...

I never saw this "side" of you before. I am rather full of peace and joy. I accept that "disease" as from the Lord. :) Why this tone? I think I struck a chord with you that you don't like. I see your outer man ego reacting against the truth whereby its the inner man in you I'm trying to reach...

Why was Jesus crucified? Easy answer...because of our sins. Our sinful ways put Him there. There is more than one depth to the gospel. There is the universal application...Jesus dying for all people (He will have mercy on whom He wills). Those who have not said they would obey Christ...but end...

You didn't like my answer so you are in a snit...reacting. It is well known around the world that America is a land where people seek personal happiness. People are looking for a better life. A land of opportunities. But that is far from God's ways. When a religious industrial complex arises to...

I think it is wrong to look at the bible as something to gain for yourself. Jesus counsels us to let go of our lives...not try saving them. The bible has to be bent to make it about "getting saved'...a purely American pursuit...like the American dream sort of thing.

Parroting things back at me does not change the fact that you are so deep in religious ideology, you don't know which way is up. The delusion you are under is that...having admitted you were a slave of the devil...you can't know where you are presently. It would be like somebody thinking they...

But what a fool believes he sees No wise man has the power to reason away What seems to be Is always better than nothing And nothing at all keeps sending him... ♪♪

A false comparison. Is there a Catholic here condemning all Protestants? You can't help yourself...judging others, reducing them in order to elevate yourself. Very bad practice. I haven't seen such obvious self-aggrandizement from Catholics.

That's right. All your self-justification is not according to God...but your own religious self (ego). No flesh can justify themselves for any reason...whether by works or beliefs. A tree is known of its fruit. And God will sort out the wheat from the tares.

You are possessed of another spirit if you can write off more than a billion believers in Christ based on an effort towards self-justification. Babylon is far greater than any one church denomination. It is Babylon the GREAT. The errors know no bounds. You should admit that you are in error...

Going from pillar to post. So you prefer the repetitive name-in -vain type of virtue-signalling to a scheme where Jesus is never mentioned. But what if, rather than striking a religious posture...you could actually enter into eternal reality...through Christ? Think about it.