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Are you seeking a balance between the carnal mind and the mind of Christ? When you boil down the truth from the actual person of Jesus Christ you get facts about the truth...not truth itself. And facts don't set you free or give you life.

If only your reasoning wasn't exactly backwards. When people decide they are of God for themselves they leave God and reality out of the equation. God recruits people into His kingdom...not us. Nobody walks into a job and says...ok I'm working here now. We need to be hired...equipped and given...

The irony is that they who don't claim they have talking bibles that speak to them...can be justified. It's the religious ones who claim their bibles are justifying them....the ones who are deluded into thinking the bible speaks to them...these are not justified. We have a generation of...

All the churches of today are based on religious ideologies...not spiritual life. The itching ears have already had their say. But if you are satisfied in a dead church...be my guest.

Truth is about life...the eternal kind of life. Dogmatics is about theories posited by religious beliefs...formulated into an ideology. If you don't have love what is the point? Communists and fascists also die for their causes.

It seems that way...if you are looking that way. God has allowed for people to get it wrong. If something can be misinterpreted...it will be!

That's it. The opposite of chaos is not control ("get smart" notwithstanding). Chaos needs order not control. The church is to provide order. Control is going way too far. Quenching the Spirit.

But the bible is not talking to you personally. That is what dogmatic reasoning does. You are not Abraham...and you are not Paul...and not even an early believer that Paul was addressing. So only a self-interest would claim something like that without a real walk in holiness. And even...

God is honest and truthful. He can't impute righteousness on a person unless He sees that righteousness. This is the religious foolishness that has caused the name of the Lord to be blasphemed in the world. You don't impute barking to a chicken or meowing to a pig. But that is just the kind of...

More of a hospital I'd say...and one that keeps you in your bed (pew) as a perpetual patient. It's the duty of a healthy believer to leave the system and rely on God. My wife and I went through most of the denominations looking for any exceptions. I searched for 10 years...and I still see in...

I think that dogmatic certainties come as a replacement for an actual encounter or walk with God. Many people say they are born again....especially in the US. But how much of that is just hype and cultural church practice? And then there is the issue of baptism in the Spirit? That's even more...

This is SO off....but expected. God doesn't want a religious dogmatic adherence. He wants worshippers in Spirit and truth. Maybe you didn't get the memo? The carnal mind is not with God. We need to break out from the pull of this world and the ready-made certainties that taint the soul. God is...

Maybe you didn't read where I said that Jesus is there in our circles....but He is wanting us to enter into the land of promise. Your attitude suggests that you don't even consider that as a possibility.

You have a refreshing and uncommon understanding of the truth. Welcome here! :)

This is an example of what I'm saying. You should realize that all certainties come from the human mind. The ways of God are mysterious..and we never truly know ourselves as God does. So we can't trust our self-interested ideas. It is foolishness to do so. Instead we should get oil for our lamps...

Nobody follows Jesus in a circle. His ways are always new. The newness of life. So instead of revisiting the same things over and over with Christ we are constantly exploring new ground. IOW the way of Christ is not just "all things are become new" and but all things continue to be new. This is...

When you follow both the Holy Spirit and the word of God you are set free from any ideological prison or circular reasoning that most modern believers get caught up in. People prefer dogmatic beliefs to a living faith. They prefer what is familiar to all things becoming new...and continuing to...

Why are we plagued with so many dogmatic certainties and religious opinions? The ego driven agenda would put these as more important than love and unity. They are things to squabble over rather than coming to any kind of agreement. Is this not carnal? So I have identified, more or less a few...

...just with spiritual Christians it seems. o_O

The half-baked kind! :)