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  1. Episkopos

    Fear God or Presume acceptance

    People have debated justification for millenia. It comes down to this...God justifies whom he sees fit to. So a person may worry over that...but it is God who justifies. No one knows who has been finally received or cut off. So we are all in the same race. Then there is the EXPERIENCE of...
  2. Episkopos

    Fear God or Presume acceptance

    Leave more room for God.
  3. Episkopos

    Fear God or Presume acceptance

    Where I am you shall also be.
  4. Episkopos

    Fear God or Presume acceptance

    It is to walk in that other realm where everything is in the light. There is an eternal and timeless joy there. This is the kingdom walk in the presence of God in holiness. From there is no sin at all...it is complete purity and beauty. In the Spirit we experience the peace of Zion. So the power...
  5. Episkopos

    Fear God or Presume acceptance

    If you could see that one is not against the other. But they work together. The revivals are necessary. The walking out part between the revivals are also necessary. Like breathing in and out. They bring new life and new character. Without the revivals people aim too low...too humanistic and...
  6. Episkopos

    Fear God or Presume acceptance

    It is true that the high calling in Christ is no longer preached in the modern churches. But that's because the people don't want to hear about it. I understand that if you speak too much truth to a hurting people...who have been promised an easy salvation through a very wide gate that suits...
  7. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    Of course God helps us...but He also helps everyone in the world if they would pay attention. But the power of God as per the bible is on a whole other level. Like what pray tell is a testimony of His resurrection power? The problem with this is ...who is measuring the scale? What are we...
  8. Episkopos

    To ministers and Christian teachers of the Word

    This concerns what we are to add to our faith as per 2 Pet. 1. This concerns Christian character in maturity....not sanctification. Overcoming habits and disorders is a part of the maturing process...namely...self-control. It's a hard one to master. But our maturity is about how we do in our...
  9. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    This would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. You are taking a bad reading of a verse to mean what you want it to mean. The Greek in that verse in Hebrews means...into forever....into eternity...them that are sanctified (made holy). So this verse is not about what you are twisting the meaning...
  10. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    Obviously it can be. And you are definitely confused on the matter...as a case in point. There is no such thing as a "positional" sanctification. That is an invention of religious men who seek to take away the attributes of God for themselves with the flick of a pen. God is holy and they who...
  11. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    But what is that experience that negates the bible? Explain where you get the feeling that sins are no longer an issue. Where do you get the wages of sin being other than death...a separation from God?
  12. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    For you in your conceit the wages of sin...is salvation. How can you not be fully deceived? The truth doesn't magically change because it is trying to be fitted into a self-serving culture.
  13. Episkopos

    Fear God or Presume acceptance

    I do hear the denominational slant in your posts with such things as a saved status. The church in our time has replaced Christ-likeness for a saved status....since it cannot even compete with other religious in the meekness category. So then the slogan goes...good people go to hell (like those...
  14. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    You have a skewed view of salvation. Final salvation is after we die and will be judged. Then all the weeping and anger won't change the verdict. All the naming and claiming will fail. A salvation in this life is a continuance of life. But the kind of salvation you are referring to is...
  15. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    The Jews have an understanding of righteousness and holiness that is far beyond what most Christians can perceive. Of course it shouldn't be that way. But then the church needed to shift it's emphasis away from Christ-likeness as a goal since many other religions are superior to Christendom...
  16. Episkopos

    Leaving Room For God.

    Now there is a kind of believer that has a righteous soul...an outlook that champions love above all else...but has a great difficulty with the holiness requirements of God. Things like having to hate your family or forsake what you love in order to follow Christ. These will question the need...
  17. Episkopos

    To ministers and Christian teachers of the Word

    LOL You want me to be a sinner and I want you to have a shot at being a saint. :) Which way is up and which way is down?
  18. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    Yes the Lord is near to they who call out to Him in our wilderness.
  19. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    While trying to do our best is good....it isn't the gospel. Paul speaks of being dead to sin...and that it is no longer he that lives but Christ. So unless Jesus is sinning through him then there is no sin possible when we are IN Christ. So then the striving is not to try not sinning....but to...
  20. Episkopos

    entire sanctification is an obtainable goal.

    Everybody does works. Judgment will be of what kind they are. This whole idea that God wants to us to believe without doing anything is as ridiculous as can be. We are not to stand still. Salvation is a kind of walk.