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You're doing the mind loop thing again and again and again. Do you realize that? Look back over your posts...they could all be just copy pastes. Let go of your one idea for a moment and consider other things. Otherwise it is an idée fixe. You are not understanding how the Spirit works in...

Ad hominem and hypocrisy as I shall present. I'll respond with your own comment... (see you are in a loop...a mind loop.) You are speaking to yourself...like in an echo chamber. So here is what you say to me...but apply this to yourself... So do you ever get tired of attacking me and the...

Grace and mercy are very different. We are getting a lot of confusion by conflating things that aren't the same. Like faith and hope. Like holiness and righteousness. The reason they are different words is because they are unique to themselves. God has always been merciful...but until Jesus...

All of the above. I would add that I don't think youth groups are healthy in that the young shouldn't be leading the young. There will be exceptions to the rule however. We live in a fragmented society that worships youth and disparages older people. But how are the young going to learn anything...

I posted this on another thread...but I think it works here too... Grace is a gift that enables us to do things...not to be forgiven things. Quite the opposite. We will be judged harder under grace. Mercy is not the same as grace. God has always been merciful...but grace comes from the...

Only if you hate God's way and bible study. The 2 houses is God's masterpiece of justice and mutual understanding. It comprises both main commandments.

But that's a fallacy since you can only KNOW what you are doing now....not in the future. You can hope. It's funny how that word hope is never used by modern people yet it is one of the big three..faith HOPE and love. Not....faith know and love.

You really have to try turning off the propaganda machine that's in stuck mode in your head bro!

There's the issue. A lot of people read the bible but very few actually go to Jesus in order to receive of His kind of life.

We tend to fail the grace of God because we don't go far enough. We give up before we succeed with God. But Jacob wrestled all night to get the victory. And Jesus tells us to be like woman who knocks all night until the goodman rises to see her. Ask, seek and knock! We fail the grace of God...

The rest is waiting for us when we go through the narrow door. Getting there is very hard. Just when we are having the hardest time of it...peace is there. So then God comforts us. And that is why I see self-comfort as so deceptive.

Grace is a gift that enables us to do things...not to be forgiven things. Quite the opposite. We will be judged harder under grace. Mercy is not the same as grace. God has always been merciful...but grace comes from the resurrection power of Christ. I explain grace like this. We are told to...

The bible is there to warn people. Nothing personal. God doesn't respect persons. So if you disobey God...you are cursed. God is not going to change the law so you can escape the ramifications. it is on us to fear and depart. So God warns us over and over again. The answer is to fear and depart...

Humans don't usually care about truth...they care about their children. But God always judges with justice. So right off the bat by comparing people to God you are going to get things backwards. God is not like us...at all. Did God hate His children for no cause? Did He not reject national...

Hebrews 4:1-11 4 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. I think that the bible writers of that day would be shocked at the state of the modern church. Do we even know what entering into rest means? Ceasing...

Amen. Speak the truth...but do so in love. It seems that the church is split over doing one or the other....but without that balance. So then you have the "love" churches that champion gay rights; and then there are the cold hearted "truth" churches that bash the other kind. So we end up...

A lot of people are declaring themselves saved. It's a modern fad. But it's all very subjective. The goal of faith in Christ is to be a light to the world. But because people are selfish (can a person be selfishly saved? ) what matters to them is security...at least the feeling of...

The Subversion of Christianity by Jacques Ellul...and so many others. Watchman Nee...

The purity of Christ is a gift...all at once. We have all the grace He has for us when we abide in Him. But maturity is progressive IF we are learning from our experience. And we grow in righteousness if we can remain humble. So then everything is at either the level of what we are doing (our...

I'm talking about the modern rabbinic mindset concerning the laws post temple. The rabbis don't condemn Jews for not practicing every law...since they can't...no temple. So they have opted for a "more is better" but not necessary approach. It is identical to the evangelical model of..."do what...