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  1. Episkopos

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

    Both are located IN Christ. One cannot grow up INTO Christ unless one abides IN Christ. This is the major league, the upper level of walk, that Paul describes in his epistles. Of course there is a parallel walk on the lower level of carnal strength. One must not confuse the two...unless one...
  2. Episkopos

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

    Maybe not you personally... Exactly! On this we agree. Yes. NO. Not the penalty of sin...the power of sin. The gospel is not in word but in power. You are missing the power. You deny the power. Admit it. You don't believe that through grace a regular man can walk as Jesus walked...without...
  3. Episkopos

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

    That "amigo" guy has no understanding beyond a superficial religious ideology that makes him repeat the same endless rant over and over again. Let's try to find any sense in his rantings... He says something about ..."the dire need to believe on Christ"...as if that statement itself meant...
  4. Episkopos

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

    I ask all the amateur "theologians" here. What is the difference between your smug assurance of salvation in your sins....and having a conscience that has been seared as with a hot iron? Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  5. Episkopos

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

    Well, just read the thread...without your blinders and you will se that my testimony by some...and by the approval of many...is seen as demonic or New Age. That shows how false so many are here. You are wrong about the gospel. God did not go soft on sin. You are fully indoctrinated into the...
  6. Episkopos

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

    I knew you would respond with more lies, obscurantism, and deviations...as you also do in your periodic reading of the bible. If I don't defend myself...you say I agree with your foolish religiosity. If I do defend myself you say it's all about me. As the bible speaks of answering a fool or not...
  7. Episkopos

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

    The way the carnal religious mind turns... :rolleyes: I am a follower of Christ...the real Christ..not some man-made religious version of Him. I'm wasting my time explaining this to you...but Try to consider that the early church had only the OT for a bible. The NT was in the form of...
  8. Episkopos

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

    I think so too. But there is a great danger in opening up the bible to be interpreted by carnal religious interests. I think the Catholics were saying...let us clergy be the hypocrites for you. But with the reformation came...as well as a few who benefited greatly...what became a Pharisee...
  9. Episkopos

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

    Sort of. But the human mind can't fathom the ways of God. So you can't make it so cut and dried. Heb. 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Very few here have any depth of...
  10. Episkopos

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

    No I teach the doctrine of Christ....which differs greatly from "reformed theology." People who have been spoiled by an anemic doctrine that covers up the flesh are unable to hear a sound apostolic doctrine. Are you a Calvinist?
  11. Episkopos

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

    The root is in people interpreting the bible for themselves...Luther (and other "reformists") opened up a Pandora's box of endless divisions and deviations from the truth.
  12. Episkopos

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

    Dispensationalism is a way to have non-spiritual people read the bible and say...that's for someone else. :) The same goes for Cessationists. Their reasoning is...I don't have any spiritual gifts or spiritual life...so then no one else can have it either. These are basically our modern...
  13. Episkopos

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

    You are rich. Someone who is both a cessationist and a dispensationalist...has no use for the words of Jesus since you see them as "obsolete" and meant only for Jews. Just how hypocritical can you be? There is no limit with this one. I have a very high regard for the words of God...but even...
  14. Episkopos

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

    You want convoluted and twisted...just lookup John MacArthur and listen to his "bible mindset" That's how far things have degraded to.
  15. Episkopos

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

    "This people shows a lot of cheek and uses a lot of lip, but are afraid to take it on the chin" Fu Manchu
  16. Episkopos

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

    "It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites" Thomas Sowell
  17. Episkopos

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

    Your talent is being wasted here. Why not go preach to your classmates? Or go on the street and say the things you say here? Be bold. Don't be a hypocrite. Don't be afraid. Go to where a real faith is tried and proven. The sinners need to hear the simple low-resolution message of the gospel. Who...
  18. Episkopos

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

    “And when you pray (or virtue-signal) , you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray (and spew dogmatic slogans) standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. Enjoy the benefits of your...
  19. Episkopos

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

    Children in evil doing, yes. Children in having faith beyond our own experience, yes. We are not to be children in understanding. Perhaps you missed that sermon?? 1 Cor. 14:20 “Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.” What...
  20. Episkopos

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

    A child IS seeing it. You are reading it the way you want to. I see you as a child of sorts. No one has PM'ed me as to your psychological condition...so I have to assume you have some kind of functioning faculties. What I see in you is a stunted growth. You behave like a new believer who...