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Who or what are you? Great question...great thread. Who are we in regard to God? Who are we in Christ? We are not at all "ourselves" in God. We find our true self...a much humbler self...within Christ. When the outer man is crucified we are left with the part of us that is created in...

If people were honest...that would indeed work. But few will submit to the parts of the Bible that don't line up with the parts of the truth they have come to see as "biblical." It comes down to interpretation so often. People who are carnal cannot fathom the implications of a spiritual idea as...

Propaganda is the dissemination of half-truths that cover up whatever truth is deemed as being disadvantageous. We see so much of this in the religious version of Christendom. Entire denominations are based on a slant that fits a certain carnal disposition. And many are here to spread their...

We have to remember who we are dealing with in the world. War is about one form of toxicity against another. The war in Ukraine is about a toxic autocracy facing off against the encroachment of a toxic democracy. Choose your poison! (or not) In contrast, the spiritual war pits truth against...

This whole war is based on miscalculation upon miscalculation. It is based on a very aggressive militaristic view that is pushing the world into more conflict. If Ukraine had been encouraged to declare neutrality rather than become a pawn for Western aspirations. We are creating enemies in our...

No such thing. The one baptism is a baptism into Christ...by the Spirit. We could see the water baptism as a precursor OR as a witness to what has already taken place. The baptism in water is an outward sign. Making a public rite to be equivalent to a spiritual awakening is through a faulty...

Born again is to be born from above...into eternal reality. It is a spiritual birth into the Kingdom realm. Most people experience this as a quickening in their spirit...something happening from a place they didn't know existed before. Experiences vary. All who are born from above experience...

Those "mansions" are abiding places in Zion for right now...not for a future afterlife. The Greek for "mansions" is the same as abiding. Jesus said "abide in Me"....was that for a future time? We are to bear fruit now...not later. Only those who occupy the "mansions" at this present time bear...

Good thread. Only those who remain in Christ do not sin. Our problem is one of depth. We are born again into God's purity...no sin. If we are truly born in Zion (New Jerusalem) then our calling is that of a saint. In Zion there is no sin. But we are converted at different depths....most only...

Congrats John! We are only at 35. :) Hope all is well.

What is so little understood is that the power of the cross is what crucifies our outer man with its sinful nature in order to free us from the power of sin...to walk as Jesus walked. Paul gloried in the cross...the power that crucified the world to him and he to the world. Jesus went...

Yes. And that's why there doesn't need to be a separate person called the Holy Spirit. Are God's fingers different persons? Does His presence require another more powerful Spirit than He Himself in order to be everywhere?

These are good thought Fuddy. :) I think that to be righteous before God we have to see the scale of our own inadequacy....and yet... remain open to the endless possibilities that are in Christ. We can't stop others from experiencing more than us. God gives grace to the humble...and the meek...

"Did our hearts not burn within us?" A person's spirit is the minority part of the heart. 1/3 actually. Just like the tabernacle in the wilderness...the holiest place was in 1/3 of the space within the tabernacle (the other 2/3rds are the holy place). When the parochet curtain was torn between...

It could be...although there's this... Jude 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13...

Salvation is on 2 levels. The first level is according to righteousness and the second according to holiness. The righteous are saved from the condemnation of this world. Likewise believers in Christ are also saved from the condemnation of this world. Whoever believes will be saved. However...

The second death is the annihilation of the wicked...those souls deemed not worthy of eternal life. But there is another aspect to this. Death also means separation. The unrighteous among God's people will be separated from God's presence forever in outer darkness. Then there are the...

The easy walk is hard to get into...and the hard walk is easy to get into (actually this is the default condition). We are dealing with 2 dimensions of reality. There is the eternal reality of the Kingdom of Heaven AND the temporal simulation of reality that we are in to test us and equip us to...

The Spirit of God is the extension of God Himself. God is Spirit. Nobody believes the Holy Spirit to be a created being. A part of God is not a separate person. A man's spirit is not another person within them. Paul compares a man's spirit to God's Spirit. If Paul wanted to show the Holy...