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Before Israel became spiritually whole (shalem) He was called Jacob. And Jacob continues to represent Jews who are not yet spiritually whole.

Amen! God can justify us by faith because He sees the works in advance. But people here want to justify themselves based on their beliefs....which is an idea that is very foreign to truth.

Or rather it is you filtering God through your mind to arrive at that. God is NOT narrow minded. And the club is a human club that claims to know all about God. Quite the opposite. You seem to have an exactly backwards way of seeing things....so at least there is a consistency. What your...

What I find so dishonest and misleading about purveyors of modern "doctrines" is a lack of the truth that God is very selective in whom He accepts into the beloved. Many will fail the test. Especially considering the lack of wisdom, humility and fear of the Lord that is so widespread these days...

The parable of the 10 virgins shows...for they who can discern it...that there is more than one step into the abundant life. There is the gift of the lamp....and then the gift of the oil that gives light to the world....when these are put together. Now half the virgins (of Israel) neglected...

Ps. 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation(S), and call upon the name of the LORD. כּוֹס-יְשׁוּעוֹת אֶשָּׂא וּבְשֵׁם יְהוָה אֶקְרָא The Hebrew text has the word for "salvation" as plural...or "yeshouot" ...and for good reason. There are 2 salvations necessary to enter into the kingdom...

We won't be judged by what we have been given...but what we have done with it. So we will be judged AGAINST what we have been given. This whole idea of many modern bible readers with their fear of a salvation that actually works is the sign of the times. We will only be judged by our works. No...

The element that is missing here is that pistis also means "faithfulness" as well as faith. Pisteuo means...to be faithful...the actual verb meaning of pistis and this works along with the continuing act of believing towards salvation. So then faith and faithfulness work together. As does the...

I don't think we can boil down to a easy repetitive formula so to speak. We cry out to God...in repentance....or, if we don't even know how to repent, we just ask the Lord for His help. His response is to give us His holy Spirit. But it is God who decides how deeply that will affect us. To...

I understand grace as the power of God that takes us into the will of God....the power to BE as Christ in the world. By OUR faith we walk as good as we can according to our own level of maturity. But by the faith OF Christ we walk as He walked. That is how we overcome sin. To do that we are...

Amen! It is quite unusual these days to find people who actually understand the way in Christ as opposed to the popular "other" gospel of self-justification. Where do we draw the line for how much is enough on our part to please God? Well WE don't draw the line...God does. It is the very...

To abide in Christ IS to experience eternal life. His life.

Eternal life is a kind of life that is found in Jesus Christ. That life is His life...and to get it we must let go of our own. That life is in holiness and in the presence of God. There there is love joy and peace at a depth that surpasses anything we can experience naturally. So we are to...

i don't see any right side. No one can have a monopoly on the truth. But we can abide in truth...although this is fragile because God doesn't give grace to the proud....but to the humble. Since no one knows what will become of each of us...it is best to be humble and fear the Lord. That's...

Like the difference between the truth and the honest truth? ;)

The Holy Spirit sets up God's churches. And these have no name....they are simply brethren coming together by the Spirit. Man can't just try to emulate the book of Acts in his own strength expecting God to support that effort. So then the very people who claim to NOT be saved by...

But these believers are supporting the wrong thing. They are captured by false promises. They are captive in Babylon....and no threat to the prince of this world,

Of course. All human institutions are a deviation from the will of God...into something sustainable by the religious capacities of mortal men. We have an unending history of trying to seize the initiative away from God and put it in the hands of men with grandiose ideas of what they are capable...

2 Tim. 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. Now I'm no fan of the RCC...but the above...

No doubt. But this also opened the door to private interpretations...and very popular false interpretations based on what people WANT to hear. Just look at the state of the modern church and how powerless it is to move any kind of principality....so much so that most evangelicals have joined...