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It likewise isn't me correcting you but God by the wisdom of His Spirit. You twist the meaning of words to justify your bigotry. Of course God winked in the past. But you condemn those people in the past. You are more condemning than God is. Simple fact. You are holding the truth in...

Out of the same lump... You are only seeing the half of it. There is life AND death AND blessing AND cursing. (Get out the calculator.) (Deut. 30:15) טו רְאֵה נָתַתִּי לְפָנֶיךָ הַיּוֹם, אֶת-הַחַיִּים וְאֶת-הַטּוֹב, וְאֶת-הַמָּוֶת, וְאֶת-הָרָע. Notice the definite article before each category...

I think a proper balance is the most difficult thing to accommodate. As humans we tend to go from one extreme to the other. Either we condemn basically everyone to hell...or else we see all being saved. But God's ways are more nuanced than that. He has a place for the saints...but also the...

This is a tactic of the enemy to curtail any actual seeking of God. If someone says "seek God" ...that is seen as works salvation. Why? Because of a lack of faith in God. The God in "us" is seen as trustworthy. But the God that is beyond us is not known and deemed as untrustworthy. So the...

While we can't know everything....we can know all things pertaining to salvation, and God's ways regarding us. No one knows the future besides what is prophesied in the bible. But we can know the sign of the times and situate ourselves properly in the world..with the help of the Holy Spirit...

This is a typical response from a bigot. Bigots see nothing good in any attempt at good even misguided. But God sees the heart. You simply have no wisdom in your view. You are religiously toxic. What God "winked at" you condemn as demonic. So petty and easy for the self-righteous to do.

People have been fearing God (or gods) since the time of creation. The ancients Greeks would sacrifice animals...or even people... in order to appease the gods. They would consult the oracle at Delphi...the way people seek God for direction. Those who did that were seen as God-fearing. Even...

You know nothing of righteousness beyond what your religious indoctrination forces you to believe. Do an HONEST study of righteousness...and don't allow one or two verses that defend holiness against the lower form of righteousness make you throw out the baby with the bath water. And you...

That's because she has more heart than you do. Your outer man wants to condemn the wisdom found in her inner man...the same way you stifle yourself from true faith in Christ. You would destroy her to preserve your own religious life.

Once people have fallen for the modern religious salvation scheme....a great fear keeps them in line...a fear that if they give up their attachment to Christ in the outer man...then they will be forsaking their salvation. And this is where "there is a way that seems right unto a man/woman...but...

We better do so. This is petty and accusatory. It is unreasonable and typical of religiously "converted" people who think the worst of any that disagree with them. Basically the Adamic nature at work...masquerading as something greater. Can you be honest about yourself? Without risking your...

Physically, the Law of Moses is obsolete. But not so spiritually. Without the law taking on a greater significance, why would Jesus have to offer Himself? A life for a life is a crucial way to understand how we are transformed into new life. In Hebrew the Deuteronomy version actually says "A...

If a cup is already filled...there is no room to pour anything into it. We empty ourselves to leave room to be filled with His Spirit. So then TO US, the cost is to lose everything. TO GOD it is a gift He is giving to us. We are merely making room for His gift. But because we are SO...

Go and buy.... We cannot buy the oil for our lamps with money. We pay with our lives. The law is "a life for a life"...is it not? We give our lives in exchange for His life. Jesus gave His life for us all. We partake of His life as we go to Him in a full surrender...an offering to Him of all...

1. Christianity is not a religion. Carnal religious men have made it so. 2. The faith of Christ is so far beyond human values, rules and efforts...that all religion (including dogmatic Christianity) are as nothing to it. We are called higher than that in Christ. We are NOT called to compare one...

Being filled with the Spirit...cost us a full surrender of ourselves as a "living sacrifice". Unless the sacrifice is "all" we have and are...nothing happens. But when the full measure of OUR surrender is offered to God...He responds with HIS full measure of grace (a full measure of oil for our...

Absolutely. We are to increase in humility at the same time as we grow in knowledge and understanding. Otherwise we are outgrowing our grip on wisdom. We are to "shoresh lematah ve-asah pheri le-ma-elah"! (Take root downward and bear fruit upwards)

The kingdom of God is the eternal realm of the Spirit that permeates this world...invisibly. It is on a higher plane that we have been given access to in Christ. It is a place of peace and rest....and a tree of life..and we get there IN Christ. He is like a vehicle that takes us beyond the...

They didn't realize deeply enough that the lamp was supposed to give light. They thought HAVING the lamp was all that was required to be "saved." It is true that to have a lamp means we are not gong to be judged with the world. But it is still a terrible thing to be judged unworthy by God.

The wise virgins went back to God to BUY the oil that cost everything...the full measure of grace. each time the oil leaks out of our lamps...we are responsible to go back and get it filled. Each time is like receiving a new talent to make eternal fruit with.