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LOL are you also ignoring marks?

Correct! But it wasn't that Gandhi loved self. That is unfair and false. No. He was ignorant of the way of Christ because of a lack of witnesses to the power of grace. The same holds true today. Men have turned the way that is in Christ into a powerless religion of presumptions and assumptions...

Amen. Those who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God. And then there is the higher standard of actually walking IN the Spirit. Very heady stuff indeed. But the standard of salvation is to call upon the Lord. No performance necessary. It is the born again believers who will be judged...

He didn't submit to what he saw in the Christians he met. He saw through their hypocrisy. He saw that their claim to be walking in a higher righteousness than other men was bogus. What Gandhi refused to do was be dishonest. most people do not have that kind of honesty. They will say what they...

I'll just say this before no longer looking at your posts. Your lack of comprehension lies in that you are not reading the bible as it is written. You exchange "cannot see" for "will not see" as if the kingdom of God was still only in the future. You exchange a "cannot enter" for a "will not...

What part of "you will be judged by your works" are you not able to comprehend? Do you realize how much you are imprinting your own failed logic onto eternal truth?

My thought is that you value your own judgment above the words of God. You don't find the truth when you exclude some of it. The truth will elude you until you have ALL the verses of the Bible lined up properly. If you have ever shot a rifle you will know that you need to line up both sights in...

Exactly! Living a kingdom life is by miraculous grace and faculties. And the very first proof of being in the kingdom realm is that sin has no power over us. In Christ there is no sin.

What about a Jew or a Muslim that turns from their selfishness and wickedness to become a loving servant of others while remaining in the religion of his or her parents (thereby honouring their parents as the commandment states). Is that what born again means to you?

But if we are taking the word seriously then why do so many deny the simplest and most basic verses when they are building up their own sepulchers of dogmatic beliefs?

And this is absolutely true for those who are in Christ. Jesus here is speaking of having spiritual faculties. No one can receive spiritual faculties (like seeing into the kingdom realm) unless that one born again by the Spirit. Likewise unless one is born naturally one cannot see the...

There is no such thing as "the believer". Do you realize that not everyone is of the faith who claims to be? So rather than make sweeping statements whereby the devil himself could take refuge in it (for a time), we need to look at the standard of Christ and measure ourselves against that. As...

There is also a salvation by works. What Paul is explaining in his letters is that there is a salvation apart from the law which is by faith. One doesn't negate the other. The problem that Paul had was in mixing these to mean the same thing. But modern believers do precisely that. They mix the...

I don't think it's wise to say something here that isn't backed up in the bible. I think we have this modern view of salvation as something permanent whereas in reality we actually move in and out of a righteous standing with God. Salvation can mean many things. It can be a temporary condition...

If you have to ignore one aspect of the truth to defend another aspect, it means you have not yet understood the truth on its own terms. We don't promote the truth by negating it. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. But He was RAISED for the justification of life for all who enter into...

Jesus declared Zacchaeus righteous based on the Old Covenant standard of righteousness. He paid restitution to the ones he had cheated, which constitutes a righteous approach under the law. Compare Luke 19 with exodus 22. "If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and...

Yes. He did. All men are sinners and are unable to please God in the power of their flesh. Hold your horses there pardner. ;) Jesus didn't take the punishment for our sins on Himself...although He did take our sins on Himself. It was our sins that put Him on the cross. Likewise our own...

I see what you mean! Or..do I?:oops:

I think we need to tiptoe through the T.U.L.I.P.

What of the Jews? Do they love their sin? There is a point to be made in what you have said, but there are many righteous people that hate their sins, and in some cases more so than believers in Christ do. Take the example of Gandhi. He fasted much and prayed often to bring his body under...