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    Crucified With Christ

    Soul Man, I have come to see your humility and goodness of heart, but nevertheless, there is a lot of error here. :) People claim the experience of Paul..without the experience of Paul. You can't just make a philosophy based on what another man experiences. Paul was testifying of HIS journey of...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    The whole premise of Luther's protests is based on a very human logic. It surmises that we already have everything from God that we will ever have...we just need to redefine things...which is what he did. So then a Christian becomes just a forgiven sinner. As if Jesus' power over sin was but a...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    But then there is mass reformation...which sounds like a good thing. But we have been going down rabbit trails for centuries...getting mixed up in the great delusions of our time. I believe it's time for truth and clarity. Allowing the "reformation" to be seen for what is really is...a blip in...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    A theology is mainly a religious philosophy. Too often this approach obscures the reality of what God has done and is doing in favour of a theoretical affirmation that really has no meaning. Was Jesus theologically crucified at Golgotha? Were the soldiers that crucified Him theologians? Luther...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    The bible calls this...the faith OF Christ. Not just a surmising or a speculative belief. But a living faith based on an actual encounter. It is an important distinction. I see this stage as a struggle walk...where there are 2 forces trying to pull us away from each other....the flesh and the...
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    No Righteousness = No Heaven

    Amen. And this is not properly understood. Indoctrination has shifted away the understanding of what righteousness is...to a faulty understanding of what holiness is. So then many believers display NEITHER in their lives. How? Well non-believers far too often are ALL vilified as unrighteous...
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    Religious but lost:

    Word...
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    What does anyone consider truths essential for followers of Jesus?

    A speculative belief before God reveals Himself to us? It is only the Holy Spirit who can reveal Jesus to us...non-speculatively that is...so then it is a salvation by-product to know that Jesus is who He is. John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father...
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    What does anyone consider truths essential for followers of Jesus?

    God is love, be loving to others God is righteous, stay honest and humble God is holy, fear God and depart from iniquity
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    I see the Christian life as a transitioning into a new reality. A new power and life. I see salvation as a process of discovering how deep the sin goes....together with how effective the cross of Christ is. Just look at Romans 7 and the testimony of Paul. So then a born again person is only...
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    Luke's Perspective on Paul's Disobedience of the Holy Spirit

    I see Agabus as being off on this. He is right about what will happen to Paul. But he draws the wrong conclusion. He interpreted what he received from the Spirit as a warning for Paul not to go.
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    Paul didn't glory in a theology of the cross...but in the power of the cross: a power that freed him completely from the bondage to the flesh. The cross of Christ and it's power is necessary in order for us to enter into Christ. We can't go into Christ sin and all. Sin is dealt with at the...
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    Spirit Taught Knowledge

    Very good thoughts. But one must ask oneself...look at all the opinions flying around...the blindness and lack of understanding of very basic biblical things among basically everyone. And yet all have received Christ in them. Could Christ in us be but a first step? Could His presence in us be...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    What is the lie that people accept in order to enter into delusion? The rejection of basic righteousness. The rejection of a comparative rightness of behaviour over all of mankind. God so loved the world...not just an exclusive group that claims Him for themselves. There is a popular slogan...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    Luther's idea of justification is to cover up the truth. Like a fresh falling of white snow covering up a dung hill. So this fiction of...when God sees us, He only sees Jesus....who supposedly takes away sight from God.....not sin from us. Where is the power that transforms mankind in that? A...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    Amen. The religious system feeds on people for support. Yet the people look to it for truth. Where is Jesus Christ in all of the mix? The Cornerstone keeps getting rejected by the builders.
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    Luther was right in his denunciation of the PRACTICE of the Catholic church. But he went too far in his attack on it's theology. Outward reformation was good...but not inward subversion of the truth. Luther was NOT an apostle. He wasn't even a spiritual man. Protestants have swallowed the lie...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    Luther's theology of the cross is not the same as being under the power of the cross. Luther began the error of mixing up faith with beliefs...a belief system taken from the bible but erroneous nevertheless. That's why it is so popular. It reduces the faith to a system of beliefs. Without the...
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    Luther's Theology of the Cross

    Luther came on the scene during a particularly bad time in the history of the Catholic establishment... He stood against the obvious excesses of the church in his time. But then he went further...much too far...in redefining biblical truth into more popular sounding beliefs that would render...
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    Calvinism

    You know a person has an agenda when he overdoes condemnation of one type of error while soft pedaling or ignoring other errors. Listening to him you hear the slick salesman...seducing people away from what is actually the worst errors of all. When someone is popular...there is a reason for it...