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Why evangelize? Why not allow people to die? Why preach the gospel? I preach the gospel of the kingdom. The same gospel we read about in the bible. The one with the power to translate people into the keeping power of God in the kingdom realm...where there is NO sin. Do I do this the same way...

Sure. But let's be honest about it. let's take things to their final conclusion. We saw in the 20th century how both Communism and Fascism were so destructive. We have that as part of world history. But we still have people who are doomed to repeat the same errors...because they aren't paying...

I say...follow Christ or AT LEAST follow righteousness. But since most people don't know either recourse...they think it's about me. But that's because they assume I'm doing the same thing they are. Because this is all about them.

This isn't personal for me. I just see the inconsistencies among those who are being led but are not being honest. let the demoguogic grandstanders say the most outrageous things. OK. It's a free country! :) Does temporal politics "trump" Christ? For MANY American evangelicals...yes. Such is the...

Modern preachers are doing exactly what Rabbis are doing in Judaism. Instead of teaching people that they need to keep the WHOLE law, or be guilty of all...no, they teach that ANY obedience brings benefits so that ANY observance is better than none. So then the same goes for the church. We are...

What I find is that most Protestants are not as honest as Luther was in his outlandish claims. They cringe at the implications of what he is saying even as they support his ideas. We see the same thing with Trump and the Evangelical posturings that are both ashamed of trump and his greatest...

This is an interesting way of seeing what Paul wrote. I think there is something to it. Of course if Paul had in mind ONLY leaders then he would have said that...because he respected the leaders in a given place. However, I think your idea fits into the narrative...although it doesn't explain...

Things will never change unless there is some honest appraisal of where we find ourselves in church history. On another thread I posted a poll that got little to no attention. Nobody opted for light being a cover for darkness. Why not? That's what at least half of people believe on this forum...

In the case of Ez. 21...the ones who would otherwise be righteous put themselves in a place they don't belong. How is that possible? By disrespecting the holiness of God without fear or consideration of who God is.

Modern religion teaches us that we have no need to repent, be humble, seek the Lord...etc Since we have all we need by just believing we are accepted as we are. In fact, the tables have been turned. We are told that we are the ones who are doing the accepting...its up to us to accept Christ or...

The filthy are those who present themselves as if they are holy....but are not.

Actually there is no outer darkness until the next age...and Jude does so that it is forever.

This is not right....the entire premise of your post revolves around correcting me. And that is what I'm trying to help others with. Calling righteousness unrighteousness and unrighteous righteousness is severely reprimanded in the bible...as I have shown. We live in a rich Western culture where...

But if we can trace the wrong conclusions to a wrong doctrine...then all we need is sound doctrine to bring light into the darkness. :)

Personal righteousness is like the light of stars....far away and giving almost no light at all. Yet they are there. In the daytime the light of the stars is still there...but the light of the sun is so bright that the stars can no longer be seen. In the same way God's righteousness overcomes...

Wow! Your understanding is deepening! God's ways are such that you can always get to where He is from where you are!

The carnal mind can be short-circuited by indoctrination. Once the mind is so shorted out NO KNOWLEDGE can enter in. What is the efficiency of the devil being able to short circuit a carnal mind? Just rattle off a verse (that is not understood in context) like... Is. 64:6 But we are all as...

David was a man who understood righteousness. Before the cross of Christ was available to cut away sinful flesh...there was being weaned from the flesh. Ps. 131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. The Hebrew...

Here is something that few will understand. God builds His righteousness on OUR righteousness. An uncovered righteousness is filthy. But not one that is covered by God's righteousness. How is our righteousness required to enter into Christ? Why do we need to repent to enter into Christ? Doesn't...

2 Tim, 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: Instruction in righteousness? Those who believe they can grow into holiness need to look closely here. We grow in righteousness not holiness...