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Jesus said...abide in Me AND I in you. Only then can we bear an eternal fruit. Many have been taught that our house within us is the same thing as being where God is in heaven. Such as these have not known the heavenly walk...but have been taught to be satisfied with the sample. Just the free...

An interesting conundrum I concur with! :) But which one brings the greater shame?

What you are espousing is a denial of seeking God's face for God's presence. The whole point of the New Birth is to taste of the Lord and go to Him. Claiming the first step in a race is sufficient is to be disqualified as a DNF. Jesus is BOTH the author AND finisher of our faith. We go to the...

I have a Jewish friend who tries to live by the Torah...to believe and live accordingly. Once I pointed out the verse in Deuteronomy 30 that says "I will circumcise your hearts." He was dumbfounded that the wording was such...since he knew of the other places where God says "circumcise your...

What can we say of people who believe that no one can have more than what they have? Or that they cannot possibly get more of Christ than they already have? Was that not the claim of the Laodiceans?

Why did the disciples of Jesus tarry in Jerusalem? They needed power from heaven to walk in resurrection life. They needed to break free from the bondage of the flesh. As such the baptism in the Spirit is the "second" blessing...or the full measure of grace. This baptism (unless there is the...

As the MOST HIGH the Father is greater than the Son. How do we know this? If it wasn't already self-evident, Jesus tells us that the Father is greater than He is. Who believes the words of Jesus? A small minority...and among these those who will then deny that Jesus is fully God. Now many...

Do you see the narrow road being the aisle between the pews leading to the altar in an RC steeplehouse? ...or is it something more spiritual that is beyond what is accessible to the carnal senses?

This is more unbalanced commentary. Those who remain in Christ walk as He walked. The last time I checked Jesus walked without sin and was above condemnation. So then happy is he that will be found to be walking in resurrection life. But that pedigree does not cover all believers. Actually very...

There is a verse that says...let he who boasts boast in this...that he understands and knows Me! (Jer. 9:24) God has a sense of humour. Nobody that knows God is going to boast about it. :) So many verses are tantalizing to the part of us that entertains a religious certainty. So we are being...

You are speaking here of hope not faith. What is unscriptural is mixing up the two. Faith is in the moment...knowing that as we walk in His victory we are experiencing His salvation. But judgment day is a whole other matter. Having a living hope and a carnal certainty are two very different...

How many realize that arguing how saved one is is the same as arguing how humble one is? Do we not lose what we are trying so hard to identify with in that effort? Do we realize that by trying to save our life we lose it? It is by losing our lives that we find them. Jesus has made religious...

You're welcome :) Why do you worry over what will happen to you on judgment day. The only thing you can do is to fear the Lord and remain humble. No one knows their own ways. Only God can see us as we are. So then to judge yourself saved is as a bad as to judge yourself condemned. Do you...

The problem is that you are imposing your own way of thinking on eternal ideas. Falling from grace means we are just walking as any other human...in our own weaknesses. Salvation from that understanding means a salvation from sin into an eternal walk in resurrection life. That's what it means to...

Just because somebody doesn't jump into one extreme doesn't mean they have adopted the other. An unbalanced person sees anyone who is not in their extreme as being in another extreme. So then balance cannot be discerned from an extreme. False accusations ensue.

Who's Forrest? As in Forrest Gump? Righteousness comes either by works or by faith. But then faith without works is dead. However, God will justify by faith because He knows in advance what we will do. Otherwise a dying person would never have the time to prove his/her faith. So then believing...

How can them? or better yet...how can they? ;) There are 2 levels to being in Christ. There is a temporal Body present on earth among living believers and there is the eternal Body of Christ for those who abide in Him. What does a temporal Body mean? This world is a simulation of reality. As...

Is this just one more anti-mullet thread? ;):oops::eek::rolleyes::p

What makes Christendom (not real Christianity which is spiritual in nature) anti-critical thinking is that it is based on a dogmatic ideology based on human certainty....rather than on faith. To realize that biblical faith has nothing to do with beliefs is the first step in critical thinking...

I have maintained that the righteous will fill the nations of them who are saved. AND the saints will rule over them from the holy city. The issue is not only what makes a saint...but also what makes one righteous before God. To be righteous means one is humble and fears the Lord. NO doctrinal...