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Judas was as "saved" as any of we modern believers. He may in fact have been the only disciple to consider himself as saved...hence the lack of fear. So Judas should be a warning to us. Not everyone, even in the intimate circle if disciples, is there for a good outcome. There are both vessels of...

Western society has adopted...but less and less these days...a Christianity in a religious form. IOW something that brings a certain cohesion to society. A religion for the society at large. It's a way to work in a higher power into the national interest. And this re-enforces the call to obey...

This is more proof that you don't understand what righteousness is. The above verses are about human righteousness. Abraham had a human righteousness. Cornelius had a human righteousness Zacharias and Elizabeth had a human righteousness. Noah had a human righteousness. Lot had a human...

Amen. Christ is our righteousness only as we enter into Him. His righteousness is never IN us. We are separate beings. We are not God. 1 Cor. 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: Phil. 3:9 and be found...

You are a religious person. For you the truth is in a dogmatic statement that is without life. It is a moral stance. And one has a moral stance OUTSIDE the life of God. By taking a position based on the natural man...who is moral and makes his own choices based on his own judgment. So is it a...

A burden for the truth maybe...hopefully. A burden to enter into the life that Jesus came to bring us...a resurrection life that is entered into by faith and diligently seeking the Lord. There are places of abiding right now in the heavenlies...that are vacant because people think the earth is...

Like a doctor is obsessed about saving a life. One day there will be great anger that the people who knew didn't make a bigger fuss about the truth to they who have believed a lie. If you love people you don't want them to perish.

As in...we're looking for a God to save us whom we don't really love? And He will be ok with that? We can be smug and NOT have to put Him first? That somehow for us other things take more of a priority? Let's see how that works out.

The sheer superficiality of todays' gospel...with it's emotional appeal. I tried watching a documentary the other day about the "American gospel"...I had to stop after a few minutes. It was terrible and disingenuous. It stated that most people think they are good even as they break the...

So then you must have a hard time reading the bible in general...or the words of Jesus in particular....with His statements like...ask, seek and knock, ...or else..."few there be that find it' concerning the narrow door and way. Are we supposed to look for God's face? Isn't God free to accept or...

I hope not. No one likes getting a virus. :oops: You are stumbling over Christ with a errant and humanistic view of the working of God. Righteousness is NOT transferable. Never has been and never will be. And you will not understand that because of the great delusion. You have been seduced by a...

Amen. Paul is explaining that the New Covenant will be built upon faith...using Abraham as an forerunner...in an upping of the ante into a spiritual life.So the New Covenant will also be by faith. The decoy gospel seeks to justify non-spiritual people while yet in their fallen natures...as if...

Of course this is fully backwards. No one can have the righteousness of Christ imputed to him. Righteousness isn't transferable. That is the biggest fallacy possible. The bible describes a person entering into Christ in order to partake of the righteousness of God which is by faith. It's like...

Good to hear. Stay stable. :)

By the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit that quickens into life...not just words. So the bible and the Spirit work hand in hand. The letter kills on it's own...but the Spirit gives life.

Rom. 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: You need to hear the gospel...the real gospel. Jesus came TO the flesh to save us away FROM the flesh. I don't...

Mature as a human that is. Jesus had to learn His place inside His own creation...by channeling temptations, emotions and human weakness in general. The body of Jesus was the same as our own. He conquered the world while in the body. And He did that so that when we abide in Him we can take up...

A Christian is not to engage the world on the moral plane. The world will follow the world. We are to be holy and NOT follow the world...even on the good aspects. We are to be reserved for God to follow Him. So the OP may expose the bad judgment of believers who entertain a moral preference as...

Who is doing the imputing? Now righteousness and humility are very related. God resists the proud. He resists the self-righteous. Can a person impute humility to himself? Can a person declare that he is righteous? And this presupposes you even understand what imputing means...apart from a...

Episkopos said: ↑ Are we instantly perfect? Of course not. On what do you base this? That same aorist tense that describes our argument for instant justification is applied to the grace of sanctification in Scripture. As I have stated, too many people confuse purity and maturity. My...