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  1. Episkopos

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

    Are you speaking of someone you watch? Are you projecting your pastimes onto me? Why are you so hypocritical...accusing me of what you do? You see. I could get all faux-offended like you and your feathered friends....but wait...that's your religious ploy.
  2. Episkopos

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

    "'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not mourn." We tried reasoning with you and you scoffed. We tried being light-hearted with you and you were offended. We tried being serious with you and you mocked, we tried speaking truth and you blasphemed...
  3. Episkopos

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

    More faux outrage. Are you afraid that your outer man will be found out? Look how easily you get outraged and offended. Now look at the parable of the sower and see what that corresponds to in depth of soil. Learn of your true condition. One honest man in a room of pretenders sure causes a lot...
  4. Episkopos

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

    Have you ever laughed at a joke...ever? Is your face made of stone? Do you ever smile? Or does your religious veneer make you scowl...as I imagine you are doing right now? Do you think only children tell jokes. I joke with my grand-children all the time. To me the lack of grown-ups here is the...
  5. Episkopos

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

    Humour is needful to counteract silliness. A joke is a well crafted set of words. When someone takes themselves too seriously....it's better to diffuse that with a joke...than to get all religious, and get faux offended. I don't take people seriously here for the most part. I think the fact...
  6. Episkopos

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

    Religious twaddle. :) No one here has any sense of humour. You take yourselves WAY too seriously. And you, bible lady...could it be?.....Satan!!! ??? Always ready to religiously condemn...that shows who you are. Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary use humour. :rolleyes:
  7. Episkopos

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

    What? This is a statement of fact....whoever is dead is free from sin. This is not meant to name and claim. This isn't mind over matter. You are reading things into the verse that isn't there. Receive what is written? Or be directed to whom it is written about? I disagree. That is not the...
  8. Episkopos

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

    Not exactly. Being born again changes us...but does not provide the power that eliminates the sin nature. To do that we need to enter into Christ....being crucified to our old nature...so that the nature implanted within can take over. Unless a seed falls to the ground and dies... The default...
  9. Episkopos

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

    I am a very agreeable person. I can discern where a person is speaking from. I did that. I checked out over many years and in many ways....everything I presently support. When it doesn't line up with the present religious system...I double check....and triple check...until I get a solid...
  10. Episkopos

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

    In reality, most people never change. There is always the potential to do so. But as you should realize...any change in nature is a long-shot. Most people will defend what they already have (vigourously) against whatever they could get in exchange...right?
  11. Episkopos

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

    Honesty doesn't mean you have to agree with anybody. It means you face your own situation before God through prayer and waiting on the Lord for Him to confirm something is true or not. Most here have no real connection to God...so they rely on carnal defense mechanisms that reside in the part...
  12. Episkopos

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

    There you are! That's your outer man looking for advantage. But I spoke from inner man to inner man. You can have the courage to stand up to your outer man. I know from experience (I know others just like you) how hard that would be for you to do it. I have not yet seen someone in your...
  13. Episkopos

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

    Yes...to the church of Sardis...which represents the Protestant church. A name that lives but that is dead. I see a lot of dead religion here. Individuals are in different places...but overall...the outer man rules over weak and ineffective inner men. The truth sounds harsh..until you...
  14. Episkopos

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

    See there is a part of you that understands. But you don't live there.
  15. Episkopos

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

    It's about chaos and clarity. A moment of clarity...which is not recognized as such...is soon swallowed back up into the chaos. Like darkness and light. One has to be able to discern the difference...or else be drawn back into the darkness.
  16. Episkopos

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

    I don't think Jane would appreciate you running behind her skirt to point your little finger at me. You need to have your milk and take a nap now.
  17. Episkopos

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

    What I see in this individual is an inner man basically on life-support. His outer man is like a drunken hillbilly of sorts that lashes out at any and all perceived threats to that inner "lamb". There is no focus at all in his outer man...it just thrashes about willy-nilly like a drunken...
  18. Episkopos

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

    You are a very complicated person Mark...you come at people with both an inner man AND an outer man. It's hard to know who you are talking to...until you realize you are talking to both. I don't mean to disparage your inner man...I don't. But I can't help seeing your outer man and his works...
  19. Episkopos

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

    I hear you sister. We are to look at the heart...as God does. Only religious bigots write people off for a lack of accuracy in one's beliefs. We will not be judged by our beliefs but against them. If we believe we are just as righteous as God...as some do here... then we will have to measure up...
  20. Episkopos

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

    I wasn't talking to you. But maybe you feel I was? Maybe what I said to one crow fits with another? I have to get my hands dirty when dealing with the filthy. It's not for everyone, that's for sure. Because you are all operating in your outer man...this mud slinging comes natural to you. But I...