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People will bring faith in Christ or grace to bear on this statement...completely disengaging what the text says from any meaning that would help them understand God's ways. The simple truth is that we will not be judged against what we have not been given...but against what we have been given...

I would ask that responders to this thread show a little self-awareness...if they want to be taken seriously. I am stating what I always state...that to whom much is given MORE is required. And that Jesus said.. that prostitutes and blatant sinners will get into the kingdom before the...

Those who have a righteous disposition can react badly to a direct intervention of God. It is like the direct light of the sun of the daytime (holiness) blinding the lesser light of the moon and stars (righteousness). This is shown clearly in the reaction to the father's forgiveness of the...

To forgive them of THAT sin. So that they would not suffer the fate of Judas...who knew Jesus and yet acted without considering who Jesus was. The extent of the sin...attacking God directly would have been unthinkable to many of the guilty ones...since they thought they were putting a mere...

There is another side to self-awareness. It is the self-awareness of a saint. One who walks in the power of God realizes that it is not him...it is Christ walking in Him. No one can walk without sin...unless that one walks IN Christ. So then a person who realizes that he is walking in the...

Are you being serious or just your normal difficult self here. Everyone will be judged...so then your post is pointless. If there was no judgment then your point would stand up. God loves us (all the world) OUT of our sins. But if we (all the world) persist in our sins...we shall die. God is...

You are making this up. A person can only do what a human can do and God can do what only God can do. There is but one Greek word for repentance...and that is metanoia. A person doesn't decide to have the mind of Christ. It is a fiction to think that. The mind of Christ is found by entering...

Excellent words of encouragement. :) Hope is to maturity what faith is to purity. The peace of God comes upon us in two ways...gradually...and suddenly!

Same here...still sometimes I peek to see who is disturbing the general peace. It helps to confirm my ignore list has a continued validity.

Welcome here! Hope you stick around! :) <><

God is love. But God doesn't love us in our sin. He loves us out of our sin. Love that condones sin isn't really love...it is permissiveness. Those who count on God being permissive about sin...have not met Him. People tend to love the hell in others...just look how many women fall in love with...

Exactly. The devil has his advocates...and the brethren have their detractors. :eek:

I'd have to look up my ignore list....lots of negativity there. There's a lot of competition for un-brotherly conduct here.

That's not what it says...but reading comprehension is very lacking these days. Paul was not deceived...just not understood. Among the Corinthians there were both carnal and spiritual believers. Paul definitely makes a distinction between the saints and the faithful brethren...but you'd have...

Being a saint is a high calling...a very high calling. So high that today it is not even perceived. Such is the delusion that people think they are saints while still walking as regular men.

And this is how you get charismatic denominations. I have discovered in life that whatever people ADD to the knowledge and simple walk in the presence of God....becomes that thing at the expense of the truth. People seem to have a way of taking things too far.... wishful thinking...or as you...

I agree with the first 2 statements....but that last qualifier...praying in tongues.... is the result of the very human tendency of adding to the truth so as to exaggerate something so that it becomes a half-truth. Praying in tongues is NOT a gift of the Spirit...but a prayer technique. Many...

A gift can be given just once in a lifetime. The thing is to be available...so yes, different gifts to people at different times. It depends on your disposition. You are far more likely to operate in a gift if.... 1. You have encountered the Lord and received of His life. 2. You are actively...

Consider the attitude of the foolish virgins or the unjust steward...or of the wicked servant. Does God stop the world in order to correct them...or at one point does He not let us do as we want?

I have been moved to 6 of the 9 gifts listed...as the Spirit leads. It goes by availability I think. :)