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  1. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    It's what they NEED to hear. They need to twist the truth in order to cover up their sins. So they point the finger at others...even as you try to help these understand the way of Christ which is a victory over sin. So you are hated for loving people. The flesh is very bitter and hateful. No...
  2. Episkopos

    Sovereign Grace

    God goes easy on the humble...He accepts people easily. But He is hard to please. So there is a paradox there. The problem is that people want God to accept them with their egos intact. God is easy on they who fear Him and are broken and humble. But that's not how most rich Westerns wish to be...
  3. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    The decoy gospel denies perfection IN Christ. To set up the decoy the victim will state that you think YOU'RE perfect and deflect away the perfection from Christ in order to deny it...by strawmaning that perfection away from Christ. There is also a heresy that states that we are already perfect...
  4. Episkopos

    Moral Conviction.

    Now our morality comes from our fallen human natures. We have a code we have built into us to follow outside of the life of God. The code will vary somewhat from person to person (so that people can't get along even in their rebellion against God) Our morality makes us hide from God just as Adam...
  5. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    The idea of a "positional" holiness IS the hallmark of a decoy gospel. Where does it come from? Where does such an idea come from? Well, the human imagination must try to understand spiritual things. So a philosophical solution is sought for. But where in the bible do we see a positional...
  6. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    I have you on ignore..but you bring your false accusations onto my thread. I expect true seekers to see how you have portrayed the true gospel as an anathema in order to abhor the truth of the gospel which is of the miraculous spiritual kingdom that is in Zion which is according to grace and...
  7. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    Delusional? No, miraculous. :) So you are still refusing faith in the living God. It sounds too hard for you. But that is who God is. Unapproachable...but yet through the faith of Christ...now approachable. A paradox. But you would make God common and faith to be an easy gesture. So you are...
  8. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    Oh the irony. The brick wall is your human interpretation that refuses to see beyond your own experience. I said that the bible never speaks of a Gnostic type of positional holiness. You are what you do. You do what you are. That's it. No Gnostic positional salvation. The bible is not written by...
  9. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    The bible does not say that works don't justify a person. Of course they do. We will only be judged by our works. People get confused because of the way Paul explains things. Paul says that there is a justification without works. YES there is...IOW not JUST works justify you. Justification by...
  10. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    Again there is a mixture of truth and error...with errors being built on more error. I'll just address one error here. That of a permanent partial sanctification. You are using a human reasoning based on a morality you were born with in Adam...and ignoring the bible when it sounds "impossible"...
  11. Episkopos

    Sovereign Grace

    I am in no way obliged to try to teach you from the beginning all these basic bible teachings in the scope of this thread. It's too much. Are you trying to tie me up due to what you can't find in the bible for yourself? Check out rather all the threads I have done for the last 9 years or so. I...
  12. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    You have it exactly backwards. A salvation scheme that is an invention of man has no power over sin. Did Jesus sin? Why not? Was He powered by Adam? NO He is Christ. So then the grace of God is not to be powered by Adam but by Christ. So why do you boast of having Christ when you are still...
  13. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    Reb. 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not...
  14. Episkopos

    Sovereign Grace

    Both Calvin and Luther are not just guilty of heresy but also of murder. These were just as Paul was..before his conversion. They were zealous religious men like Paul BEFORE His encounter with Christ. Many false prophets have arisen to deceive many and for some strange reason...these are...
  15. Episkopos

    The "Whosoevers."

    Agree with your last point. We are not to look for a life on the edge. But there are people that God places there. It's up to us to support such brothers in prayer without judgment.
  16. Episkopos

    The "Whosoevers."

    Now the word "whosoever" can be speaking on more than one level. The verse used by Sonny et all is actually not the best one to describe his stand...although it can still work. John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should...
  17. Episkopos

    The Decoy Gospel

    Here is a twisted logic that ONLY very indoctrinated people can agree to. ---A sinner can enter into Christ and sin from there in whom is NO sin and who has never known sin nor ever will.---- Good luck with making that appeal to any honest person. Of course this post will be ignored or twisted...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    To break the gospel down to it's basic element one has to consider this. Did Jesus come to forgive our continual sinning...ie...save us IN our sins? Or is the gospel that Jesus came to save us FROM our sins...in remission (freedom.... Aphesis) from sin? Only the lawless want a freedom to sin...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    The power of the gospel is disbelieved by modern self-styled believers who select certain verses that become emotional favourites and that are used for self-justification. The gospel is according to power not God losing His eyesight and His sense of smell. God is patient and He is...
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    The Decoy Gospel

    Just imagine how your posts appear. You are the one who brought the porta-potty to this thread.