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Actually the legalistic mindset is to say over and over in your head..."It's the cross" ....and then hide everything behind that. My approach is based on life. If it is life-giving...then it has value. If it about death without life....then it is based on vain religion. I don't think you...

Your reading skills would have to improve considerably to get what I'm saying. Salvation NOW is by entering into Christ to walk in His life. Those who do so will receive a reward in the age to come. They will rule with Christ. They are saints. Then there is a salvation based on mercy AND works...

Human works are not evil...but they can't be mixed with divine works. That mixture produces iniquity. Human works are insufficient to be pleasing to God. However, we can still be accepted by God in our own strength with the proper attitude...humility, honesty. God doesn't expect us to do more...

A man's righteousness is downward....how humble, honest, broken, and selfless he is. God's righteousness is upward...exalted into heaven. When a person tries to appear righteous, he is trying to exalt himself....doing what only God can do. So then he loses personal righteousness in trying to...

The Pharisees made a pretense of appearing righteous before men. That doesn't mean that there are no righteous people. It's when we get religious that we put on a show. A lot of people do that same thing with Christianity...claiming to be righteous because of beliefs. A religious bent destroys...

You say "unto" us a better way of understanding than Jesus? By misquoting Paul? Delusions aside, Jesus doesn't say..."unless you CLAIM to have a greater righteousness than the Pharisees". Righteous is as righteous does. Jesus said that we are to have reality and truth in what we say and do...

I give a thoughtful and deeply biblical answer that takes in to account both testaments and you respond with eating a cross? In your quest to destroy adult responsibility, you seem to have left out party hats and sparklers... :rolleyes:

You are not understanding what eternal life is. Jesus says we HAVE eternal life by entering INTO Him. A new body is future...but eternal life is NOW...always NOW. You are confusing an eternal life (we enter into by abiding in Christ) with a length of time. But eternal life has no...

Every believer has the opportunity to hold out for what Jesus is building. We can be joined with others (where 2 or 3 are gathered) in a way that reaches out to God...waiting for Him and His direction, inspiration and power. What we see on the day of Pentecost...a revival...is what each of us...

Actually, when we abide in Jesus we HAVE eternal life already. To abide in Jesus means we are walking in HIS resurrection life and power.

If the flesh profits nothing then eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man is NOT physical...but spiritual. What is eating His flesh? -----Obeying the commandments of Jesus...DOING what Jesus said to do. Turning the other cheek, loving our enemies...etc. Living by His WORDS...

Always praying for you sister....and more so now! :) God bless you. <><

Right now, everything is muddled up. What is presently popular is not good, and what seems to be unpopular is actually good. So then the first will be last and last first. Do we know who are actually walking in the truth? Not really. Not everything is at is seems. But a time is soon coming...

I am putting back in what people are leaving out. Not pessimistic...but realistic. Not idealistic...but balanced. How hard is it to retain humility and the fear of the Lord? What about wisdom? Do you feel threatened by the warnings that are clearly laid out in the bible? And this is not...

Based on their hostility to the truth. As I do. This is not about theology...but about a religious flesh covering seeking to divert the meaning of the gospel onto itself. Been trying... OK. I try to....but people keep putting their foot in it. :) I can either allow the lies to...

I'm trying to do that...but the resistance is very great.

Any mention of the balance of goodness and severity of God brings out the old spirit of the Pharisee to murder the truth speaker. No surprise there.

Religious pride alert. The fallen condition of mankind is that he is a slave to sin. So in your religious conceit Jesus could never say to Christian ministers who did many wonderful works in Jesus name..."Go away, I never knew you?" Those are the very words of Christ that you are denying in...

It can be...and it can be much more than that. People can return to their vomit...they can become enemies of the cross...they can rebel like Korah...they can proclaim they are rich when in fact they are poor wretched naked and blind.

One has to understand the scale of the truth. Before Paul had a real connection to God, he justified himself through the scriptures. When the truth was revealed to Him...he was able to put the scriptures into their proper context. His writings became his testimony of the truth IN power AND NOT...