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The slippery slope is the religious notion that what one has surmised or assumed ABOUT Jesus is the same as being an actual follower of Christ. We are to be DOERS of His words not just hearers and commentators. Bishop Barron is right in describing how one needs to put Christ at the center of...

Attaining holiness is by grace through faith. It is a gift of God given to those who forsake their own lives. It is a gift of intimacy with the living God. There is no process of attaining holiness. There is no progressive sanctification. We are either holy by being in God's presence...or we...

Very muddled here. The law of Moses is no longer an indication of righteousness. Judaism is outmoded. Temple holiness no longer exists. But those who transgress the law also transgress Christ. There is no Christian escape from the law of God. Gal. 2:17,18 But if, while we seek to be...

The OP is basically Lawlessness 101. Pay a close attention ...there's going to be a test. ;)

Enemies of the cross are those who resist the sacrifice of themselves to be dealt with by the power of the cross. Dogmatic religion based on the preservation of the self-life is in direct conflict with the kingdom of God. God is selfless. Being conformed to Christ means self-sacrifice. Those who...

This is spiritualizing the problem of sin away. It is mere propaganda. Man is a living soul...not a spirit. God is Spirit. He gives us a spirit to connect with us. And we live in a temporal body. We have a body...but we are not a body. We are not a spirit. We are a soul who has a body and a...

Actually the spirit of a man returns to the Lord...and the body returns to the dust of the earth...but we are not a spirit or body but a living soul. It is the soul that will be judged..it is who WE are. We are a soul that inhabits a temporal body. So we can bury our talent of initial grace and...

This is indeed a great comparison. Piety is based on righteousness whereas purity is about holiness...being pure as God is pure...or perfect as God is perfect. Piety is what we bring to holiness...leaving room for things that are above and beyond us....making room for God. Humbling ourselves...

I think it's important to see the distinction between maturity and purity. We work out maturity over time...but purity is a gift of God by grace through faith. Entering into the kingdom realm means we are being empowered to walk as Jesus walked...without sin. The blood of Jesus cleanses from ALL...

I think organized dogmatic religion takes away from the kind of spiritual intimacy that God seeks with us. It was Bono who said something like... once the Holy Spirit leaves the room, religion takes over. Holiness is about being swept up into God's presence...so that we are two places at...

Jesus said, they that are not against us are for us. Gandhi did more Christian things...with great courage...than most modern believers even think is possible. Yet while he followed Christ in his own way...living as if Jesus was real and worthy of obedience, he never claimed to be part of the...

The irony in your statements is that only the self-righteous seek to take away the righteousness of the righteous. God justifies. But a dogmatic religion MUST condemn all who are not similarly conditioned. If you take away the judgmentalism of dogmatic religion the whole rotten structure comes...

I'm agreeing with the verse about the high calling which is to put on Christ...who is already holy. Putting on Christ means putting on HIS holiness and HIS perfection. It is..."no longer I". No learning there...just watching and experiencing...on that level. I think most people have received an...

You will always be able to find something contradictory when there is no understanding of the difference between righteousness and holiness. Why do so many only see the negative things in their context of a comparison to holiness when no one seems to walk there? We will be judged according to...

That is how Luther lays it out. ...yes. But Paul? No. Once a person gets Luther's ideas into one's head...it becomes too easy to fail-safe to that level of doctrine. If we want to progress further into the higher walk...we need to let go whatever encourages us to remain eating samples of grace...

This is error. The HOLY don't sin. The righteous sin...as the bible teaches. There is none righteous that never sin. A righteous man acknowledges his sins...and therefore God can forgive him. God justifies the repentant heart....declaring it just. Go back to the bible and do an honest...

I think we can get into a kind of circular reasoning about this...one that doesn't take into account the whole counsel of God. When Jesus said...I came NOT to call the righteous to repentance....most modern believers thinks he meant "self-righteous". But this is the opposite of what it means...

Amen. God calls sinner to repentance, and draws the righteous into the higher walk. Jesus didn't come to call the righteous to repentance....those that are well don't need a doctor.

That seems more like human identity. Spiritual identity has to be in comparison to the life that is in Christ. Have you experienced eternal consciousness through the new birth of Christ?