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We know that the "Johannine comma" (1 John 5:7,8) was a later addition...added in in 1522. No manuscript found before then has that section in it. We know that the Latin translator (Erasmus) of that time refused to add in the trinity comma until a Greek text could be found to support it. So then...

The problem with "enlarging on the truth" as you say is that the outer man is very adaptable (adaptation being a very human trait for survival) and can learn to appear to be improving in matters of the spiritual nature. But a cover-up of the flesh is not the same as actually being dead and...

Until a person is crucified dead in the outer man there will be an inward battle that will never be resolved. It is the power of the cross that sets us free. No one can walk in the very presence of God while the outer man is still in the picture. before we can be married with Christ we must die...

It is the difference between being under the law and being under grace. The outer man is tied to the law by the law of sin and death. The inner man is able to be free of the outer man in order to enter into Christ through the law of the Spirit of life that is in Christ. His cross is the power...

Thou dost protest overmuch. ;) A person in public ministry is apt to be corrected...unless you think that ministers speaking from a podium should never be questioned. I wonder if you feel the same way about Mr. M condemning so many charismatic preachers to hell? I'm for freedom of thought...a...

So then who is to do the spiritual shepherding? Priests? Pastors? No. It takes a person who walks in the Spirit to guide others into that same walk. Reproducing a dead religious form only makes the church dead. And people are fine with that as long as they are promised a good ending. They trust...

The Mormons send out young men (boys really) and give them the title of "elder" so that they can proselytize neighbourhoods for their church. It is no wonder that they use youths since their message is one of being indoctrinated. No understanding, wisdom or spiritual maturity is required...

The church that God is building is being built on two levels; the first being based on the common faith (Titus 1:4) and the other based on the faith required for the “high calling” which is in Christ (Phil.3:14). Some might suggest that this smacks of the “clergy-laity” split that has afflicted...

You are minimizing God's maximum standard here. Jesus said that the way was narrow and few would find it. And we are living at a time where people are farther from the truth than ever...even as everyone claims to walk at the standard that Paul said he was striving to attain to...to win Christ...

Actually not so much... You have to read the biblical text for what is written not what you have learned by various doctrinal deviations. Notice this statement from Peter. Acts 10:35 "But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." Acceptable is not...

Calvin only explains one side of the coin...those who God elects to be a saint. This does NOT explain what the normal Christian experience is. God has WAYS...plural. There is the way that is in Christ and there is the way of righteousness. There are the righteous and there are the saints. There...

This post is a symptom of the lack of spiritual experience in the modern church. It may seem that the New Covenant grace has not yet been made available...but that is because of the superficiality of the seeking of God among those who are told they already possess all the grace they need. So...

The "he" is assigned by translators not the writers of the Bible who were not writing in Englsih. If the writers were writing in English originally I'm sure they would have dropped the gender indicators. This is hard for people to understand that only speak English. Look at Proverbs where it...

There is a big difference between purity...the perfection of Christ given to us by grace that cleanses us by the blood (life) of Jesus...and the maturity we are to develop that allows us to remain in the spiritual walk of perfection of Christ. There is a difference between a car and the ability...

No. You are barking up the wrong tree here. I suggest you look for the right questions before seeking answers with flawed thinking. Paul sought to have the exact same maturity as Jesus...because he walked in the very same life and power that Jesus did when he walked in the Spirit. The maturity...

The problem of knowing only English as a language is to not realize that many languages have masculine and feminine genders for every word. Hebrew and Greek are not like English at all. They are more like French with the gender indicators. For instance in French a table is feminine. So then the...

Greetings C4M! :) I think it is easy to miss how spiritual Paul became after his conversion. I believe that he admonished the believers who were as he was...seeking to win Christ. Now that doesn't make much sense to a lot of people. How do you win Christ? The ordinances, or traditions in the...

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12) That name is Jesus...not Father Son and Spirit. Not positions but a name...the name of the unique Mediator between the Father and His people. The doctors of...

Happy new year to all my fellow Board members. We are that much closer to the end of this temporal simulation of reality. Soon eternal reality will swallow everything to the praise and honour of God.

The life and power that people will experience in eternity...today!