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Indoctrination aside...how do you know you have eternal life? What does it look like? What does being seated in heavenly places look like? Are these just religious illusions...afterlife predictions... religious assumptions to name and claim for oneself? How does God keep the religious hypocrites...

The video I commented on describes the temporal reality as an illusion. It also affirms this world as a simulation. I think it depends on the importance we place on it as our ultimate reality. Is our sense of peace real peace? Or is it an illusion? Is our sense of salvation a temporal idea? Or...

You sound like an atheist here. The atheist sees that he already has life...why does he need to go to Jesus for life? Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life. So many modern believers are really just unbelievers since they see the material world as the only platform that is available to us. For...

When all you think about is hammers, everything looks like a nail. All you are doing here is making a straw-man that make everyone but you wrong based on your assumptions and presumptions. You're thinking yourself into a box and calling that salvation. Just because you blame God for your beliefs...

The touchstone of authenticity is the life that is found only in Christ. We are to walk in His resurrection life in order to grow into an eternal love and wisdom. There is no human organization that can encourage, recognize, embody or promote this kind of life. it's up to individuals to champion...

"How much Evangelical religion is completely make believe? You will sometimes see men professing great affection for the pure "Gospel," while they are, practically speaking, inflicting on it the greatest injury. They will talk loudly of soundness in the faith, and have a keen nose for heresy...

17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and...

The irony. You always do this...accuse me of what you are doing. I have indeed gone to God and walked in the heavenly realm...the eternal reality. And you see this kind of encounter as wrong. If you seek Him with all your heart...will God not also let you into His presence? Then you wouldn't...

Having to disconnect one's brain in order to accept religious formulas makes it difficult if not impossible to love God with all one's mind (as well as ones heart). God's ways stand up to intelligent inquiry. Human religions do not.

Your disobedience speaks of the source of your convictions....yourself. A witness of Christ knows the power that gives obedience. Someone who relies on religious formulas does not know that power...hence your twisting things and making up down and down up.

Disobedience is a false gospel. That is called self-justification.

Well, modern Christianity can look like paganism...with a powerless religion of an afterlife....that has no power other than to promise life (not now of course) for having certain beliefs...like the Nordic Valhalla. The ancients had no power over sin. But the gospel gives us power that no one...

It's only a simulation in comparison to eternal reality. This is a training ground where sins are forgivable as we learn to walk uprightly and move into God by faith. Being born again is being born into eternal reality...the kingdom of God. Before that we have no idea that we live in a...

I think you have misunderstood the idea of there being a simulation of reality in the temporal world. The only reality that goes on is the eternal reality. Which reality? Which god?

Israel is both a nation and a congregation of Gentiles, at least it says so in Genesis. 10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be...

Is this thread an illusion? Can people actually see it? ;)

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Blessed is the man on whom the Lord does not impute iniquity. Iniquity is transgressing against the Lord and His ways. The warning against iniquity is for believers

Iniquity is about mixing what is holy with what is profane. In Hebrew this is "Avon". We are not forgiven iniquity unless we repent of it. Iniquity is willful sin...pride...religious pride. Jesus said that the Pharisees claimed to "see" therefore their sin (iniquity) remained. We see the...

We see the law concerning marriage reflected in the statement by Paul (Rom. 7) that a woman can't be married to another man while her husband yet lives. 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from...