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Concerning real faith, Jesus said that mountains would be moved....amazing things that are real and happen in reality and truth. Paul confirms this reality check... 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the...

Much better. But the delusion that believing that you can justify yourself by your own belief....well is so delusional...yet seen as normal by so many, such is the scale of the lie.

Peter may have been taller than Paul. Paul means "small". Then again the opposite might have been true. Sometimes people are given names that are opposite to their physiognomy...just like little John was anything but little. Or...like someone calling a bald person "curly." An interesting thread...

You are on ignore...way too much drama with no content.

So then you say that God justifies you....how? How does God justify you? Your illogic is so great that people will agree with you...because their illogic is almost as great. How does God justify you? Where is it written that Richard H. is justified by God. if you say because of your beliefs...

Oh my...the opposite is true. In Hebrew episkopay is pekoudah. This is not an office...but a calling and a function. For example...Jeremiah was a prophet. Now was that a title or a position he was elected to that came with an office. Or was it a vocation and a functioning from God? I leave...

I think the bible gives men enough rope to hang themselves with. If we want to mis-understand...the bible obliges us...

Episkopay means inspection, visitation and oversight. It is NOT an office. That is a fiction...a false interpretation using eisegesis...trying to fit the bible into an aberrant church practice. If any man desire episkopay (inspection, visitation, and oversight) he desires a good thing. But...

Now the religious men of old set down a standard of the law that was easy enough to follow...to not break commands overtly or outwardly. So a man could hate his brother but still be "lawful" by just not killing him outright. A man could lust after a woman...but if he could not get her....then he...

I'm speaking of the delusions that are taught in modern churches. Man-made things can't come from God...that's why they are called man-made! Do you follow? What passes for grace these days is not God's grace. For more clarity re-read my previous post.

You are making a case using the bible to support your church. A backwards and illogical stance. Writing in big letters and different colours appears amusing to you? I find you are not making any case here at all except to be partisan. Anybody can do that...for anything. Anybody can justify...

I'm sure the cost would be yuge! How much for an autograph?

OK...so then you agree with the book of James. H. Richard believes in justification of oneself through beliefs. That is precisely what James is against. Did Abraham justify himself by his beliefs? No. God did. So then no one can claim to be justified by anything they have believed. So then...

Actually it is the lack of seeing God's grace as the gift of relationship with Jesus so as to walk just as He walked. Any other definition is not grace from God. It could be a man-made or man-sanctioned grace. But God's grace is His strength empowering our weakness.

That's not what I'm saying. From God's POV an opinion is not a good thing. Human reasoning was rebuked by Jesus when practiced by His followers. So then from a human standpoint an opinion is fair and justified. But are we to advance in Christ by taking on human opinions? The irony is that we...

You don't know me....you argue like a person boxing the air. Authority is according to function...not as the world. There are no titles in the real church of Christ. Man-made organizations resemble other man-made organizations. Maybe you didn't read my post where I included pastor in the list of...

Isn't the popularity of a teaching the final arbiter of truth? :eek:

People don't like being challenged on the veracity of their beliefs. That's the way it is with beliefs. If a person believes the earth is flat...then ANY idea that the world may be round challenges that belief. If we take that same tendency to the bible we see that doctrines of least...

And you are misinterpreting it...which is why it is so. In your partisan blindness you aren't seeing the aberrations of your own sect. Why all the fancy robes and pointy hats? That sort of thing is what Jesus was talking about as things to avoid. The fact that you defend aberrations makes you...

Abraham was justified by believing God. But it was God that justified him...not himself. You aren't seeing the huge difference between the two. A human belief can easily become an "overvalued idea." It leads to delusional thinking as in the OP. An overvalued idea is a false or exaggerated and...