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    What is Works Theology?

    You are very confused in your ideas. Eph.2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3...
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    The Need to Hang With Holiness Folk

    Wise company brings wisdom. Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed. Of course by holiness we don't mean a movement that is from men....but real holiness before God.
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    What makes you right?

    I never said anything about hell. And we are not to use our own private interpretations of the bible. That is when we try understanding something that our minds can't fathom....with our minds.
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    Why does Paul make statements that sound a lot like salvation is at least partially by works?

    This is where so many get confused...between what salvation looks like right now...and what happens on judgment day for an everlasting salvation. They are not the same thing. What we get right now is the gift of a empowerment to do things that if they are done merit a reward. What many people...
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    Is Jesus the only Way?

    He will finish His work...in us. He overcame, and He invites us to also overcome just as He did. And that means He didn't overcome instead of us....but in order to empower us to do a He did.
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    A Normal Day as a Christian

    Actually there is nothing "normal" about the life of a Christian. ;) We are being constantly challenged to leave our "normal" way of doing things behind. So I guess the normal Christian day is to remove us from what we have always seen as normal. We are being led into a miraculous relationship...
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    The Prophetic Timeline in Scriptures:

    What I'm saying is that you misunderstand what Paul was saying. He didn't have a different gospel, he preached the kingdom of God just as Peter did...and Jesus did. But according to the power that Jesus' finished work (including His resurrection) affords. What the death and resurrection of...
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    The Prophetic Timeline in Scriptures:

    What you are saying is that we can safely ignore the words of Jesus Christ...and turn to a fantasy concocted by a misunderstanding of Paul...just as Peter warned that many would do.
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    The Prophetic Timeline in Scriptures:

    So then you are saying that people only do good or help other people based on "faith in the finished work on the cross?" So if somebody is in need I can only help them by telling them to have "faith in His finished work on the cross?" Do you think actually helping them is "a false gospel...
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    Why does Paul make statements that sound a lot like salvation is at least partially by works?

    We are being saved by grace through faith. There is no done deal at any point in the process. Unless God declares this. Paul is describing how we lay hold of the eternal life....the Jesus kind of life...right now. But it is through many trials and much patience that enter the kingdom in the...
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    Imitating Jesus

    We can follow Jesus from different distances. There were crowds of people that followed Him around. How many times does it say...and multitudes (thousands) followed Him? Of course the disciples who ended up walking IN Him were few. To be IN Him is the closest we can be to Jesus. But there are...
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    (Gen. 9:24-27) Prophecy: Shem, Ham, and Japheth

    This is awful...and shameful to this forum. I knew this was going to be a racist rant because of who is writing the OP. Was it going to be uplifting and truthful? Of course not. The very opposite. Of course this is all fabrication. God doesn't judge by a person's skin. God looks at the heart...
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    Please explain this.

    And you are very blessed to see it like that SBG. :) People try to take Jesus for themselves in an unrighteous way. It's dishonest to claim Him even while disobeying His every word. But these are people who are looking to preserve their own lives...they look at Jesus as a lifeboat on a sinking...
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    What makes you right?

    I think there is a responsibility, as a human being in the face of the words from God...to realize just how easy it is to be wrong! Certainty can be achieved in the grossest of errors. Look how certain the Pharisees were. Look how certain the Taliban are. The problem of certainty is especially...
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    (Gen. 9:24-27) Prophecy: Shem, Ham, and Japheth

    Revelation 22:11 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
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    If all of the Church is the Bride of Christ who are the guests?

    Can you see a distinction between what Peter calls...scarcely saved...and abundantly saved?
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    If all of the Church is the Bride of Christ who are the guests?

    The Parable of the Wedding Feast 22 And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, 3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to...
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    Led by the Spirit

    Rather than Jesus hiding His people from the truth...he seeks to bring us into the light. Rather than protecting us from a holy God, Jesus seeks to reconcile us with Him. Rather than have us be exempt from judgment, Jesus wants to prepare us to meet the God who will judge us all righteously...
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    Led by the Spirit

    I saw this video once on facebook that sought...very mistakenly...to present how Jesus presents His advocacy of His followers before God. In the video it has certain non-believers being sent to hell no matter what they did...which is false to begin with. Then it has another sinner come up to be...
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    The Fear of the Lord

    See you're doing it again...completely disconnected from anything I said...to go into your mind loop... So I leave you to mumble to yourself.