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Jesus said....i have come in My Father's name. Have you ever heard of a commercial enterprise that has something like...Smith and Son? If you ask for Mr. Smith, they ask you, the father or the son? Although they have the same name they are separate persons. They get equal billing but the...

Good works? To preserve the world and witness to the love of God.

The Holy Spirit is God's Spirit transcending all things. There is only One Holy Spirit...and it is shared between the Father and the Son. We are called into that fellowship. God's Spirit is what brings His presence and power into the world. God is Spirit. (and not Holy Spirit is God...which is a...

You are not, for some reason, seeing the logic of a divine ranking. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. So much time is spent thinking about Jesus that the purpose of His coming is lost. Jesus came to reconcile us with God (His Father). Being reconciled to the Most High God in...

Great OP. But I beg to differ with the conclusion....which is being forced into a Trinitarian outlook. One has to approach these things with an open mind. I find that the only real option we have from the whole counsel of God is one that reflects "Subordinationism". It was good enough for...

Happy father's AND grand-fathers day to all members who are such! And happy Father in heaven day! :) He is the Father of all. <><

Are most believers OWNED by Christ? No, God has allowed for our weakness and gives us a choice. Jesus told us how difficult it is to enter into the narrow way and walk in it. Once we count the cost we can petition God for entrance INTO Him. Have we tasted the goodness of the Lord? Good. Now we...

I posted this elsewhere but I thought it needed it's own thread (as you can tell by this! :) ) "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." Matt. 11:6 People are not offended by the cross if it's seen for Jesus only and not for ourselves. In any group of believers there are at...

This has to do with the offense of the cross. As in... "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." Matt. 11:6 People are not offended by the cross if it's seen for Jesus only and not for ourselves. In any group of believers there are at least half that are offended by the idea...

LOL. Someone once said that Fundamentalism is to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. Weaponizing the Bible? Judging and pontificating? Interpreting good things for ourselves and bad things for others? No life in that. You need to learn the difference between a logos (word) and a...

Jesus Christ is the living Word. The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. :) Calling a Bible "the living Bible" is just a way to differentiate one publication from another. For copyright purposes. No Bible has yet to produce a pulse. The Bible is on paper. Paper has no life in it...and...

Why do we need to be broken in order to serve the living God? The inner man is contained within a corrupted covering called the outer man that acts like a husk that covers (and protects) a seed. Unless the outer man husk is broken, the inner man (the part of us that has been regenerated by the...

Maybe the living Christ? I don't think a Bible Christ or a religious Christ is the way to go. :)

I've just recently learned of an evangelist named Erlo Stegan...a South African who went to the Zulus to bring them to Christ. I find his story very poignant, and reveals what is missing so often in our own ministries. At one point Erlo Stegan didn't know why God was not working among the Zulus...

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option 1: It's actually the pews that are saved. People are just saved by sitting in them. option 2: Whoever can say "Jehovah" instead of just the generic term "God." option 3: by our beliefs, opinions, and lip service, and argumentative disposition based on these. option 4: those who enter...

1. Articles of beliefs (not faith) are unimportant compared to how we act. 2. The verse you quoted was corrupted by the Roman church early on. Eusebius quotes an very early copy of Matthew that reads..."baptizing them in My name." 3. The reason why the ecclesiastics wanted to change God into a...

God creates in 2 steps. The Genesis account reveals to us that first God created the heavens and the Earth...there was chaos (tohou bohou) THEN He said let there be light. It is only in verse 14 of 1 Genesis that God created lights in the temporal universe. In our own walks we can understand...

Amen..and well said Mark. Yes. That is the upper scale of what is possible as we walk in Christ to be where He is. We offer ourselves to God and He accepts the sacrifice or not...like Abel. The fire comes down when the surrender goes up...IF God permits. There is also a walk in faithfulness...

Being born again is but a sample of the fulness of grace available IN Christ. You must be born again to SEE and enter into Zion...the kingdom of Heaven.