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Having a doctrinal position isn't the same as being transformed by entering into His resurrection life. Putting on the new man is NOT a slow process of a gradually improving walk. What we can improve in is a maturity in righteousness. This is not a bad thing at all...in fact this is crucial to...

While there is nothing essentially wrong with trying to improve oneself...as the OP is really suggesting...by acting with more righteousness, kindness, and love for others...it is very wrong to equate that kind of self-improvement with the "putting on of the New Man" as Paul testifies of in the...

Ezekiel 13:22 22 “Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life. Isaiah 5:23 23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the...

It's important to understand that no one gets more kudos from God for correctly identifying the exact way God does things...or how He is "put together" in Himself. This is more of a curiosity thing ABOUT God. If we could send a spacecraft or mount a telescope to investigate these things...

Are you saying you are rich in Christ and have need of nothing? You have gained spiritual wealth? History repeats itself over and over but the wise see themselves in it and change course. We are complete IN Christ. But to be complete we can't just believe about Christ...but actually enter INTO...

Always a possibility...in fact we all play with fire at times until we realize just how fragile we are.

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Humanity brings in the chaos into salvation theory...the random uncertainty of it. Grace also works like this. A born again person is like the wind....fully unknowable to us as to origin AND destination. But God knows. So grace removes any possibility of certainty or assurance on that level...

Christ in us is the HOPE of glory....not the certainty thereof. Jesus warned us what to do if we would be wise. Take the low seat...claim nothing for yourself. Let others praise you...not yourself. Let God exalt you...not yourself. Claim only to be an unprofitable servant (not all this sonship...

Not at all! :) The reformation opened a "Pandora"s box" of private interpretations as well as the freedom to understand the scriptures with the help of the Holy Spirit. With humanity there is always the bad coming along with the good. But the wise sort through the bad stuff and retain what is...

I just told you my position. What part of being humble did you miss? Go back and read what I wrote.

You aren't seeing yourself at all in the mix. I'm responding to you as you twist what I say...and look for the worst possible rendition of it...even adding things in that I never said. So you are very sensitive and quick with taking offense. That's why I normally just ignore the drama...and you...

Since God reserves His judgment until the end there is no way of knowing what God's judgment will be. THAT is very unsettling for the human mind. We like certainty and security above all other things...including freedom and grace. I have stated repeatedly that humility is key...to take the low...

Here again you missed the point. Do you somehow see that? What people will see is that you don't understand what I'm saying...and misrepresent what I say. I'm trying to explain things on the most basic level...but that level is still not easy enough for you to understand. So there is a...

You have an uncanny ability to miss the point entirely.o_O:eek: Laodicea..."judgment of the people," ...is the same as what the people judge to be true...the people's opinions. Or...what the people judge to be true for themselves... Basically self-delusion. Now look at the text...

I'm sorry that your philosophy has caused you to lack the basic reading skills that warn everyone who comes to the Lord about the nature of judgment that we all must pass through. So many will end up in not a compromised situation due to a lack of the fear of the Lord at this present time.

We humans have a tendency to exaggerate what we are and go too far with a suggestion. It's very human to do so. We indeed have access to God's grace. But this "ours as we believe" could also be "ours as we make believe." We are not to be as wise as children...but as innocent of evil as...

Do you think being spit out of Jesus's mouth (like a vomiting out of being in Him) is just a lack of rewards? What I see is the danger in being fully cut off...as a vessel of dishonour...saved yes, but begging in the streets. Cast into outer darkness to wander like stars forever. There will be...

I think that the word Christian has really lost any meaning in our time. At least any meaning that it used to have. We have examples of being a racist Christian or lawless Christian...to the point where Christian just means a religious person with an opinion...really. Can you say "Laodicea?"...

...to a most neglected warning concerning an evil servant (Mat. 24:48-51) Mat. 24: 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on...