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Amen. No one is saved by holding a certain doctrinal position. It is more like what is our doctrine doing to us?

The reformation brought about the novel idea that one is saved by holding to one form of doctrine over another. A doctrinal salvation. Of course this is all man-made...a construct of a competitive mind that says...."I'm right and you're wrong." Can any kind of unity come from that? Apart from...

More unbelief on this thread...which must be corrected. 1. Jesus is not a religious idol that people must bow down to for salvation. So you are on a different plane...not the truth. Acknowledging deity for an invisible Jesus has no merit...but acknowledging Christ ON a person and submitting to...

Actually the righteousness of God comes with the power of judgment and much more personal responsibility. For myself to be justified I only need to be righteous of myself. But to minister to others ...and teach others...I need a higher qualification and power. So then with the righteousness of...

Thank you for your kind words dear sister. I feel often that people don't like to be encouraged in the race of faith. But you have a seekers' heart that is precious in God's sight. :) His blessing and peace on you.

Can a book replace the person of the Holy Spirit? Of course not....it points to Him.

Of course. Getting into the Spirit is very hard indeed. And staying there brings new challenges. I have experience of going in and out. So I have walked in His power...and my own. The difference is like night and day. And yet in my own strength I am still led by the Spirit and feel His presence...

That's fine! We all need a saviour. Now that saviour can just be a constant forgiver...in which case that's not a Saviour. A Saviour is one who rescues you from the trouble...Jesus saves us from our sins...not in our sins. It seems like a subtle difference I suppose. Mat. 1:21 She will bear...

Amen! Our attitude is positive not because we have already attained but as we seek and learn, ask, and knock. It is to trust God and His ways. I will receive from whatever God judges...and I trust in His character. He will judge righteously. There are they who have entered into the higher...

I will attempt to correct your errors although they be many. In the above verses Abraham is deemed righteous by God. But you are adding in a fiction that this means that Abraham is receiving the righteousness OF God. You are letting those little words obscure any semblance of scale or truth...

The humble thing is to accept who we are...we are not so great..we are not God's gift to mankind. We are not even on the same level as the early believers. We are rich and distracted. Better to be humble and acknowledge our true condition before God. We are poor, naked wretched and...

Condemning is your modus operandi...not mine. Don't project your ways on me. I encourage people to go to God by faith. To seek His face. The irony in all this is that if we all had such a great connection with God already...the admonishment to seek His face wouldn't sound so difficult...or in...

When will we take seriously what Jesus said? Is He not the Master, the Lord? Yet we ignore Him as if He had no real authority in our lives way too often. it is VERY hard for a rich person to enter into the kingdom...and that's why there is little to no witness of the kingdom realm in Western...

This is what is taught to fill the pews...but it is a half-truth. The righteousness of God is not automatic on believers. A believer must believe into that position. IOW God has to approve of the sacrifice. The false imputed doctrine makes righteousness optional...and holiness impossible...

It's hard to convey an idea that is a challenge without seeming to have a higher tone than we are in fact using at times. It all depends on how we perceive it was said. So if a person writes..."what's wrong with you?!" .... it could be taken as an attack if spoken harshly..or a genuine concern...

This is a slogan that has caused a lot of erroneous thinking and a laissez-faire attitude to sin in general. It's the wrong focus. It would be like singing ♪ "Just as I'm not' ♪

I think the difficulty you are having is with the contrast of forgiveness with being justified. To be righteous IS to be justified. In other languages, like French... the word for righteousness is 'la justice". So then indeed to be justified is to be deemed righteous. Forgiveness is different I...

Just be careful with those hats there pardner. ;)

Agreed. But the purpose was to save them from their sins...by exposure to real truth and love. Jesus never was a sinner among them. He showed the contrast between them by exposing Himself to them. If what we have is so wonderful, won't that influence others? Imagine if a person wanted to...

I see you as being partially right. You have braved the slings and arrows of a certain element on this forum...a lynching mentality that shows how little grace is understood by these. You have exposed a judgmental attitude in people that are really saying "I am under the law" and that avoids...