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    The Gospel Plus Nothing

    I am literate, logical, reasonable and well informed. The whole world means that all men have access into the calling in Christ. God also so loved the world. That doesn't mean that many won't be cast into the lake of fire. This means that salvation has moved beyond the barrier of a physical...
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    The Gospel Plus Nothing

    Are you saying the whole world is now reconciled...without faith?
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    The Gospel Plus Nothing

    Quite the opposite. You misunderstand his points. No one can justify themselves by either what they do or what they believe. We are only justified IN Christ...but that is not something we spiritualize...rather it is according to grace...the power of a resurrection life. Not at all. What has...
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    The Gospel Plus Nothing

    Holiness religion as you call it is recognizing what God has made available to us in Jesus Christ. This is entered into by grace through faith...by the gift of the Spirit empowering the weakness of the flesh through divine power (grace). Your scheme denies the power of God...which is anathema...
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    The Gospel Plus Nothing

    This is dead wrong. The law of God remains in effect....not one jot or tittle is lost until the end. Read what Jesus says. Again false. You badly need instruction in righteousness. Taking one verse out of context leads to error and then heretical teachings. You are not your corruptible body...
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    The Gospel Plus Nothing

    We are not talking about the law of Moses but the law of God. To love others as Jesus loves. The whole law is made up by the two principle love commandments AND the one new law to love as Jesus loved. You are making the grace error of spiritualizing truth away...according to the modern false...
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    The Gospel Plus Nothing

    Good observation! :) Bad theology however. Paul confessed he was the chief of sinners. You can think that means that he continued to lead a sinful lifestyle....thus excusing one's own sins. OR, we can see Romans 7 as a testimony about his discovery of the power of grace to walk as Jesus...
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    The Gospel Plus Nothing

    So far so good. :) This is false. Grace empowers us to overcome as He overcame. He didn't overcome INSTEAD of us. That is a false gospel that Paul anathematizes. Not so. The law is fulfilled in us who believe....not in Christ...but in WE who walk in Christ. Rom. 8:4 That the righteousness of...
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    New Album is out.

    Glad you like it. I grew up on Weather Report and then Zawinul. Love the world beat jazz sound! :)
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    You trust in what Jesus did on the cross for ALL men...and you claim it for yourself by a human religious belief that has no connection to God whatsoever. No wonder Jesus says ...I don't know you ....to all the religious hucksters out there. Better to be honest and humble than do what you do...
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    The lies flow from you so easily. :oops: You mean the Jesus of the hypocrites. The real Jesus is reached through the experience of the cross. To be crucified with Him to be raised into life IN Him. Your superficial gospel is easy-peasy. Just take Him as YOUR Lamb that YOU sacrifice..then point...
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    We have to ask ourselves who is being served? When we walk in intimacy with God, it this for temporal benefit. Most ministries are smoke and mirrors...from a dogmatic religious posturing. That's why there are SO MANY fake believers. But we are to follow Christ not men. So then the miracles...
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    Knowing how to spell "faith" and having a concordance helps dogmatic religious types. But that doesn't mean there is even an ounce of comprehension. Faith moves mountains. Faith moves God. An experience of that will cause your religious ideology to go to the cross with all your religious...
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    You are conflating religious dogmatic ideology with faith. You flatter yourself that you know what faith is.
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    These are foolish words. The righteous are doers of the word not hearers only. Jesus says to DO what He says....build on the rock. Your twisting of the words of God makes this a lie. You prefer..the righteous don't DO the word...they just hear it...that's enough....any effort to obey is wrong...
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    Paul's preaching of the cross has to do with being crucified with Christ...being dead in Him (for real) and walking in resurrection life...walking in the same power over sin that Jesus walked in. Your idea of the cross is that Jesus died for you so you don't have to give up your life. You can...
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    Sure...ok Matt. 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24...
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    Jacob God loved, Esau God Hated

    Jacob represents the inner man of faith. Esau represents the outer man...big brother...the part of us we rely on in this world. Esau represents the part of us that is meant to be crucified, the temporal carnal part of us. God's covenant is with Jacob, not Esau. For more on the inner man/outer...
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    It is modern believers who are offended by the cross. They want their own lives AND eternal life. You have only a superficial name it claim it religion that has no power.
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    What is New Testament Holiness?

    A dogmatic religion gives us something we MUST believe about God....get His name right...line up certain religious beliefs...as if God was so capricious that unless we had our beliefs right or say His name correctly, we incur His wrath. This is on the level of superstition....not faith. As if...