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  1. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    You have fallen into your own hole. Your ignorance and arrogance are on full display. The fact that your religious pride remains intact (and being MORE puffed up) means that you will be dealt with in a later more permanent way. "Coptic Christians also use the word Allah for God. Some scholars...
  2. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    Why would you advise someone to have something you have none of? The crows will always try to dump on anyone who is spiritual...or has that potential. The devil HATES the truth.
  3. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    You are saying some very nasty things here. I hate it when fellow Christians are relegated to being unbelievers or worse. All Arabic speaking Christians say Allah...the Arabic word for "God." When you hear the word" Allah" you react against it based on Muslim extremism. When I hear the word...
  4. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    Amen. Understanding a lot of what I say will make you an enemy among the crows. :rolleyes: God's gift is powerful and glorious. But don't let that experience go to your head...as so many do here. Use that goodness...that sample of His infiniteness...to seek the Lord until He is found. And you...
  5. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    The Jews don't believe in Jesus at all. Does that mean that their God...ELOHIM...is not God? Fundamentalists don't listen to Jesus at all...but claim His salvation. Who is denying the word? (apart from what is based on self-interest?)
  6. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    The Blood of the Lamb is the life that is found in Christ...resurrection life. The standard of the true gospel goes far beyond what is being preached nowadays. The resurrection power of Christ is seen as "demonic" by some here. The sacrifice was meant for the whole world...not just religious...
  7. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    He simply doesn't have the same self-interest as you. Why do you want more people to dump on me? Can't you see how carnal you are??? In the OT...yes. But in the NT this is more specific to being spiritual IN Christ. (I write this for others here) In Christ is found "true holiness". And not...
  8. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    A spiritual disciple is one who has been born again from above (with a sample of grace) and has gone to the Lord for the full measure of grace at the throne of grace. Basically it's one who has been baptized in the Spirit and fire...and who walks in the fear of the Lord. It is one who has been...
  9. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    This is an inevitable conclusion of the bigot. So then anyone of another tradition..,orthodox, catholic, or in my case a spiritual disciple... must be NOT a Christian because we are not like you. You have no love or understanding. Typical of the religious mindset. So I understand what you have...
  10. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    Saves them... but no others. I am accused by pontificators as being inclusivist. But the truth is in the Pharisaical exclusivism that many have been indoctrinated into here. I get mocked for speaking of such power. For you, that power is theoretical...religious in nature. For those who...
  11. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    As religious bigots do, they will judge anything foreign to them as being wrong...less, inferior, and even evil. Long before you were born there were Christians. (Imagine that!) Some of those Christians were Arabs. Actually some Palestinians (that so many Westerners hate) are Christians too...
  12. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    This is ignorance. Long before the existence of Muslims the Coptic believers in Egypt and other Arabic Christians elsewhere, worshiped Allah....the Arabic word for God. Pharisees will always look for a way to judge others who are more worthy than themselves in order to bolster their egos. Among...
  13. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    This is true. Many here have been brainwashed into thinking that following Luther is the same as following Christ. They play a religious game. Every sentence has "saved" or "born again" or "point to the cross" or "point to Jesus" ....but it's all a smokescreen. It has no meaning beyond...
  14. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    You are an ADC sycophant. His posts are so simplistic...and annoying...meant only to draw attention to himself and his own his own virtue-signalling. You are bringing only a shameless yes-man ...or "like-man" congratulatory stamp to his many rantings and ravings. I don't see any English skills...
  15. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    But is it really what should be building up a religious ego? There is a great temptation to think we are doing God a service by uplifting ourselves and our status. The Pharisees thought they were needed to uphold the traditions of Moses. But their self-importance got the better of them...
  16. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    The Bible doesn't give us the option of self-affirmation. There is a judgment coming that has nothing to do with what our self-esteem is telling us. Without the power of the Spirit...how will we realize that being "poor, naked, wretched and blind" is really about us?
  17. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    There is no resurrection life unless one dies...so I seek to die, not be saved. The kingdom of God is not like this world.
  18. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    Not everybody cares so much to be saved as you do. You are putting your neurosis onto me. I never said anything about a desire to be saved. That comes from the shallow crowd here. God is selfless and He's looking for followers who are selfless. Those who seek to save their lives will lose them...
  19. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    I don't identify with a shallow representation of the gospel meant for selfish people to make them feel saved. For you Christ is only a concept...based on satisfying your religious cravings. That is untrue. I very much fear God. I realize that being rich and modern puts me in a very...
  20. Episkopos

    How are we to reckon ourselves as being dead to sin?

    It is common bread. What you are not understanding is the commemoration based on WHO is partaking of it. Not the elements themselves. Read again where it says discerning the Body. Does that mean not discerning that the bread is the body...or that those present are the Body? If the former than...