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Nonsense... What winds of doctrine lead to in loss of all logic and perspective. o_O

But faith DOES the impossible. Throwing mountains and trees into the sea. Raising the dead, healing the sick, casting out demons AND...walking in the presence of God. :)

Jesus made the law fully impossible for men to do in their own strength because He was going to give His followers the power to do it by grace in the power of the Lord. When it comes to OUR part in righteousness... it is to admit that we can't do it in our weakness. So then OUR righteousness...

The fear of the Lord remains the beginning of wisdom. That is if one understands what is at stake. Half of the virgins are rejected in the parable of the 10 virgins. Being born again puts us in a race that half of us will succeed in to some measure. What of the many crying out Lord Lord....who...

The challenge of the one called to be a saint is to grow downward as well as upward. IOW we must also increase in humility as we grow in the knowledge of the Lord and of His ways. I remember asking a young man to draw me a tree on a whiteboard (he was learning) ...when he finished I remarked...

Good to see you back in fine form dishes or no dishes! :)

God's law: God is love. As such His commands reflect His nature. If we love then we fulfill the law of God. Against love there is no law. The law of Moses: Usually means the laws pertaining to temple holiness. Things like sacrificing the right things at the right time. Being ceremonially...

Salvation is conditional. If it was only a free gift then why wouldn't God grant the same gift for every person ever born...seeing that God doesn't respect persons. So then if salvation is conditional there is our part to do...to be faithful till the end. If a man is married to the same woman...

Luther opened a pandora's box of trouble when he made private and erroneous conclusions based on his idea of salvation by feeling saved based on convincing oneself of salvation through the reading of half-truths into the bible. So the delusion is the clever infiltration of half-truths as the...

It's all in the details...the little words. The gospel is BY grace not the subject itself of the gospel. So there is no gospel OF grace. The gospel is always of the kingdom of God...a place. It's like when you go to work BY car. Is your work the car itself? No. It is the means by which you go...

To walk at least in righteousness. The Christian walk is righteousness built upon righteousness. His on ours. When we walk in holiness by faith...we are walking in the righteousness of God. If we are not walking in the Spirit then we should yet retain humility, uprightness and the fear of the Lord.

There is yet hope for such a person...hence the effort to reason with and communicate with the deeper person of the heart. :)

Good point. The protection of something that the flesh is holding on to...masquerading as faith from the inner man. But it is the outer man wanting to be "saved". Jesus said that we must give up our lives to find life in Him. Paul said that he counts all things as dung that he might win...

The truth is that some non-Christians are closer to the truth that they seem to disagree with (or disregard)....and some Christians are further from the truth they seem to agree with. Welcome to humanity! :)

I see delusions arising as taking some things for granted that are in error...as in a foundation that you may think is secure but will shake apart when tested severely enough. Until then all seems well. Sometimes people just don't have the concept or paradigm in their makeup to be able to...

God loves His people. Those He saves are by His mercy towards them that please Him. But there is a criteria for salvation and that is righteousness. The OT saints were declared righteous by God. God justified them because of something they did...that in God's eyes justified them. Now no man...

The higher one goes in the Lord, the more you have to leave behind. That works for natural human relational things as well as natural human things regarding ourselves. If we still indulge our own ideas, opinions, thoughts...etc, then we are not yet in the presence of God. Quite the opposite.

I spend a lot of time in the word and in meditation. So the forum breaks things up during the day in order to stimulate my seeking, share some of the more understandable things I have received, and to challenge me in my having patience with others. I look for spiritual moments with people. I'm...

Too real. Maybe Lazarus' name was altered from Jehoshaphat or something to protect his identity. As in..."this is based on a true story." The kicker in all this is that people will not be easily warned of their impending judgment...even if someone is raised from the dead. The wise don't need...

Praying for you brother....:)