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  1. Episkopos

    @Behold, would you expound the following:

    I can play devil's advocate. ;) Behold states...There is no sin in Christ so then by claiming to be in Christ I can also claim to have no sin. In Him is no sin. (simple lawyer strategy) And on weekends I can dress up as superman and claim to leap over tall buildings in a single bound. (The...
  2. Episkopos

    A Great sinner

    Being free from sin-consciousness is spiritual leprosy. A terrible wasting disease. A spiritual leprosy is an eternal outcast destiny. We need to be conscious of our sins to preserve our lives in reality. We need an actual victory over sin itself...not a victory over sin-consciousness.
  3. Episkopos

    The Twins

    Really. You tend to vastly underestimate God with your lack of understanding a bigger context....while trying to limit God to a much smaller context. Many children of the kingdom...born again people...will be cast into outer darkness. But maybe your own hatred for the Jews makes you think God...
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    A Great sinner

    It's easy to understand Behold's position. Just take a carnal man and recite spiritual verses to him. Then make him to believe there is a fantasy world whereby one can claim all the good sounding verses while ignoring all the other verses that go against a carnal preference. Et voila...the...
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    A Great sinner

    Behold believes resisting sin by a human effort is WORSE than sinning. He thinks that because he considers grace as a license to sin....licentiousness...any effort against sin is a bigger sin. In his warped logic he is afraid to go against his own false understanding of grace. So then a...
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    The Twins

    With all your human interpretations and limiting of God, you must consider that Jesus never realized that His words would someday be read by people other than the Jews. It's too bad Jesus knew so little...and you are so much wiser in your generation so you could veto His words as unknowing of...
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    The Twins

    I already said that the verse you are quoting makes a convoluted translation that is missing the idea that we need to listen to God....not believe ON Him....that is not in the text. We are to HEAR His word and believe Him who sent Jesus...the Father. (Not believe ABOUT Him) So you can try...
  8. Episkopos

    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    You are a slow learner...actually too stiff necked to learn anything. Born again is but a deposit. A sample. TASTE and see the Lord is good. But to abide IN Christ in Zion one must forsake everything in this world. You can't serve God and this world. Or yourself...as you are doing. So there...
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    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    We are the ones who leave God...we forsake God as you do because we look for something for ourselves....selfishly. God is completely selfless and the only way to remain in Him (abide) is to ALSO be completely selfless. So we cannot remain long in His presence until we become as Jesus Himself...
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    The Twins

    Not at all. You are esteeming yourself too highly...as all who live in their own egos will do. So you are just a cultivated religious ego. An indoctrinated person who has believed a decoy gospel that caters to fallen men with enlarged egos. Of course the righteousness of God is found IN...
  11. Episkopos

    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    Gnosticism is a way for people to be saved by their beliefs while ignoring how they are behaving in their bodies. So it is looking for a right belief...a right or "saving" belief. Once a person has believed they have believed right...then they can justify themselves no matter what their...
  12. Episkopos

    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    You preach Gnosticism. A belief is just an opinion. So you think you are saved by having an opinion that is based on justifying yourself while still being self-centered. So it is just a bible ego boost. You want to dull your conscience so you don't FEEL like you are sinning as you sin worse...
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    A Great sinner

    Completely false. You don't kill the flesh by pampering it. God does not appease the ego. That's what the devil does. And in your case it is working. And in the REAL parable the servant who didn't forgive the debt of another had his own forgiveness taken away. God's forgiveness IS conditional...
  14. Episkopos

    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    Abiding in God is NOT of the flesh. You are of the flesh while claiming to be of the Spirit. So you are deceived IN yourself. Your ego brought you here. And your ego propels you to justify yourself...CONSTANTLY. Anybody who has ANY actual experience with God will see through you. But you are...
  15. Episkopos

    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    You have it backwards. You are trusting in God by GOING TO GOD to be crucified. Otherwise you are leaning on your own understanding in thinking that a gift justifies you from condemnation. All of your posts are twisted...you are relying on yourself and your own errors in understanding. You are...
  16. Episkopos

    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    We work out our salvation by being purged from the iniquity that is in every man....and this AFTER being born again. They who are purged from their soulish power will be vessels of honour. And they who claim mighty things for themselves because of an equipping gift....without being crucified in...
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    The Twins

    Still no saved status there. Still no guarantee of entering into the kingdom. It doesn't say all born again people will see or enter the kingdom. Being born again is but a pre-requisite that makes it POSSIBLE to do so. We are born again into a race of faith at a higher level than the world. How...
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    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    If you read a superman comic book...would you claim afterwards to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and fly faster than a speeding bullet...because you read about it?
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    The Twins

    No guarantee of anything there. Jesus is being factual. Like saying...unless you climb a tree you can't see over the wall. But people will read in things by leaning on their own understanding. Can you find a verse that speaks of that?
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    Becoming a perfect Disciple of Christ

    Anybody can claim that...it's easy...just read the bible and claim all the good stuff for yourself while ignoring all the admonitions, teachings and warnings. Also dump any humility and fear of God in favour of a smug self-assurance. :) You forgot from your list 17. Self-justified 18...