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How are you not confusing faith...the spark of the divine....with a human take on things we call "beliefs"? Even religious beliefs...that are akin to superstitions. No amount of beliefs can do anything but slant our preferences in the religious dogmatic supermarket of possibilities. And we are...

This thread is about beliefs ABOUT things which is superficial in nature...even if those beliefs are correct, they do nothing in the way of pleasing God neither do they give us the power to do those things which please God. They are in the realm of the human intellect. So are we just trying to...

Jesus bore our sins meaning He took everything we had in the way of evil upon Himself. And when we tired of hurting Him we are healed by His stripes (that we gave Him) of our disobedience because Jesus was innocent AND He was our Creator. We say enough! So our sins are both revealed and...

We are a living soul...and we HAVE a body and spirit. We are the man in the middle, so to speak. Now where would we be without our bodily senses? What if we couldn't hear, or see, or sense or feel....or smell? What would we experience? So mankind has become carnal by relying only on the carnal...

We are not spirit...we are a soul. God's Spirit affects the soul like chalk in dye. Over time we may become dyed in the wool. But a rock doesn't allow for infiltration of that kind. It depends on the heart.

If only a baby could realize that "this is all I'll ever be"...wait...that is what a baby thinks. ;)

Amazing...a recipe for a permanent babe in Christ state. And such a twisted logic. That's what happens when people try advancing in Christ with the human mind and it's futile reasoning. The maturing process begins when we are purified through His life being experienced until Christ be formed in us.

Many people have been conditioned to believe that before Luther "the first 1,500 years of the church age" ...all was heresy. This appears more true to them than that Luther, because of the printing press, was permitted to spread a populist misinterpretation of Paul. The great delusion as it...

Think of church denominations as franchises like cable companies. Each time you subscribe they want to put their own cables in. Or...think of the well meaning ministers as running a hospital. Every person they meet they think of as a patient. So they run all the usual tests on you. A maturing...

If someone feels that way...they can put me on ignore too! :)

The bible is written on more than one level...and this INCLUDES the spiritual level...otherwise God is just a physical being like us...to be worshiped as a rock or a tree. So if you eliminate the spiritual realm...you miss the kingdom of God...as the Jews did. God is Spirit and He is looking...

With grace! But some have an agenda...that is not Christian at all. We can self-moderate by using the "ignore" feature. If a person is trolling you...and yes there are those kind of people here....you don't need to play the game.

These little words can mean a world of difference....hence the need to look more closely at the text and compare the same ideas in other texts. Eternal life is not an immortality....it is a KIND of life. It is life on an eternal scale and grasp. It is a resurrection type of life that is away...

True...but one must consider that a religious bent on any doctrine can hurt people with more fragile dispositions. Not to say that any one of us is the guardian of all truth. But for that person's sake and they who he is trying to teach...we can avoid a lot of grief by a simple correction...

In worse cases there is an ignore feature. Some people are more aggressive in their ignorance indoctrination than others. I don't know what happened to humility and kindness....except to say that when you appeal to the flesh and it's desire to survive...and call that salvation...anything goes.

Man is capable of conformity to an outward righteousness. But he is incapable from eliminating sin for an inward righteousness. No one is that self-less on his own. There is no man (without Christ) who is so righteous that he never sins. But there is something redeemable in us...or else God...

There is such a thing as the truth. And God is in it. There are also lies...sown as tares among wheat that cause people to miss the truth and a chance at life. Of course a person can believe whatever they want. But how many are really fit to teach doctrine. Mostly people will just parrot what...

Romans 8:5-8 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Well, we are chasing after one or the other. We are to move with the Spirit....even if we are not IN the Spirit. We pray and meditate on His...

What I see is that the spirit of Cain is still alive and kicking in the church. It was always this way....and until the Lord returns and separates the tares from the wheat it will always be so. Offer people a free salvation...and people of all stripes will line up. Like a net that catches all...

People confuse the truth that God is God of the whole world ...with universalism. My detractors think Jesus only died for the church...and then they claim to be those who are saved by condemning all who don't sit in pews as they do. The Pharisees did that very same thing. But I believe the...