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My amusement is on display. When things go into the absurd...I tend to laugh about it. Humour is a legitimate response to the absurd. If you could see the absurdity I'm sure you would not be taking yourself or my responses to some crazy statements here so seriously.

100 divided by 10....hey, that still leaves 10. So then, repeat it only 10 times. :)

As in...humility has NO part in the Christian life. You are rich and have need of nothing...! Now say that to yourself a hundred times...and voila...still nothing! ;)

I resist religious spirits that lie against the truth... and that puts people in a snit, since so many believe the first thought (voice) that comes into their heads Have you no memory? All the claims of people here...like claiming to be as righteous as God Himself. Man, that sure beats those...

Here is the hypocrisy and dishonesty of the present religious culture... A person picks up a bible and reads..."We are seated in heavenly places in Christ." The person gasps..."I am"???? The religious lying spirit responds..."yes you are!" The person is made happy because he can have an even...

It takes courage to be real when so many exaggerate their claims about where they are at. Religious conditioning and carnal competitiveness makes people afraid to reveal their actual experience. Instead people will justify themselves by saying they already have everything written in the...

In a nutshell...cross avoidance. We must come to the end of ourselves each time to progress to a new level of grace with the Lord. Calling something there that isn't there is NOT faith...it is fantasy...or as the bible puts it...fables. People will be uplifted in their flesh...thinking that's...

Babies don't have much power beyond crying out in their needs. And this is a good thing. We are to cry out to God for the power to live life in spiritual victory. But most people take a new birth as sufficient in itself to be saved....so they bury their talent and remain in a state of perpetual...

I think your view could be summed up in phrases such as "the power of positive thinking"....or else "presuming is the same as being" Does that kind of dogma help in our daily walk? Maybe in some cases where there is a natural tendency to be pessimistic. But as a doctrine it is...

I appreciate your equanimity in your response. In the end it's not the finer details of our doctrines that count but how much love and patience we are able to communicate to one another. I am simply trying to bring clarity where there is so much confusion in regards to the ways of God. It isn't...

So here you say one thing....no one improves into holiness. Exactly what I said. Then you say I am the one who is confused by agreeing with me as if I'm the one that's wrong. And then you say quite the opposite here... Why? Because you are trying to make a dogmatic statement out of something...

You are confusing a Christ-likeness in character with holiness. No one improves themselves into holiness. Holiness is God's alone. He is holy. But maturity belongs to all who by faithful obedience to His training surrender themselves to God.

Awww....spiritual understanding requires more than just chapter and verse. Indoctrination, on the other hand, requires that there be religious sounding formulas. When one tries to show the very same thing using different wordings...then it sounds like a vain philosophy. Why? Because their...

Agreed. The confusion comes in with justifying sin and forcing Jesus to continue to forgive us by our religious will.

The higher faith comes after regeneration...the faith OF Christ. But this only becomes activated as we are crucified in the outer man and enter INTO Christ with the inner man. This leads to holiness. This is also true...with human faith. This leads to righteousness. There are two levels to...

God gave Himself over to be judged by men...who saw Him as evil. God cannot see His Son as evil or sinful. But He can offer Himself for the sins of evil men.

For sure God allowed His Son to be a sin offering. Jesus gave Himself over willingly to be slaughtered like a lamb. But God did not make Jesus sin for us. We did that. God is above and beyond our motivations. So there is a difference between being a sin offering and being seen as being sinful...

I went back to explain further. The Greek doesn't have a "He" and a "Him".....just one word is written not two. So the Greek says "He was made sin for us" Check out a concordance or a transliteration of the text. The text doesn't say WHO made Him to be sin. So then those who have bad doctrine...

Since you are the one justifying yourself...you are reading the bible wrongly by making Christ's sacrifice...to be YOUR one time sacrifice for sin. In that scheme you justify yourself IN your sins present and future. This is exactly the opposite of a sound doctrine and practice. Is Christ a...

This is jumping way ahead in the process of salvation. We retain our responsibility for our own sins after conversion. Gnosticism...which you are espousing...claims that the body means nothing, and sins no longer count. It's the received KNOWLEDGE of salvation that counts. In that scheme you...