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This is false. The succession is the Holy Spirit. Bishops are not kings. There is no legalism in the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit decides who will do what...not by the selection of men. So then what is being promoted in succession is the church of men...not of God. God decides who will bear...

The Didache describes the various ways that baptism is done. Immersion in running water is preferred...but static water will do. Finally water poured 3 times on the head is also sufficient. This shows the flexibility of the method. There is no legalism in the how we are to baptize.

We humans care very much for the exterior temporal life. God is more concerned with the inner life. The test of our faith will make the outside things difficult at times. But the secret is to rejoice in the Lord through the trials. When we do that we need less trials.

These difficulties are meant to drive the brothers together. The world hates the people of God. Then there is the issue of surrender. The more we struggle to survive as we have always known life to be...the more painful the process of death to this world. Once we are dead to this...

And that's the message? Don't worry be happy?

OK This is going way too far in delusional territory. God reveals His secrets to people who can keep secrets. The devil can appear as an angel of light. Character is very important...not self-promotion. Is the church edified by spiritual strip-teases and "look how holy I am?" No....that is...

People tend to do easy things. They pick and choose what they believe based on that. Apostolicity is to submit that to obediance to God through the testimony of the bible.

Has anyone considered that the new heavens and new earth are elsewhere in the universe? In a different place. This galaxy will be destroyed....all trace of it. But the universe is big....why limit life to this one place?

God's ways are NOT our ways. We can agree with that statement and still miss the truth of it. We have actually fully ignored God's warnings and instructions to build the church the way we see fit. Our standards of success are NOT God's. What we esteem as good, God sees as abomination. Our ways...

Edification is to the inner man. The problem with the modern church is that it is focused, not on the inner man...but on the natural man. The inner man remains weak, naked and blind. The teachings of the modern church are meant to be understood by the natural man...at the expense of the inner...

Why has Christianity been so degenerated and subverted in our time? Progress. Humans have this need to progress, be successful, improve efficiency....in short men seek more and more. Men seek power. There is nothing more successful than a popular myth...a myth that makes no demands on...

We live in perilous times. The bible has never had more readers....yet with the explosion of bible sales...there has not been a corresponding explosion of faith in God. In fact, the trend is quite the other way. With more bibles has come less faith. What has taken root and increased instead is a...

We have arrived at the time where church people no longer receive sound doctrine. What I am teaching is exactly biblical...it is Christianity...just not what passes for Christianity these days....which has strayed away from it's apostolic foundations to cater to the carnal religious man. The...

We are expected to move into maturity bearing fruit. We don't measure ourselves....we grow and grow. Look at 2 Peter and what we are to add (by maturity) to what God has given us. We are still the ones bearing fruit or not. Otherwise, there would be no need of judgment from God. But we know...

See what I mean? You are doing the circle again. It was expected.

Practically speaking...how do you recognize and act upon Christ being the "head" in an assembly? No leadership? Allowing the Spirit to lead? How?

Very good comment Amadeus. OK Now we are talking about the tabernacle which is in heaven. I do think it corresponds to our own hearts in that we are called to abide in Christ AS WELL AS Christ abiding in us. This bears some thinking.... What causes a jar to float in the water? That it is...

I rebuke you as a false accuser Mat. 10:8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give. As a servant of the nefarious one...you would not want your house to be divided...

What is the difference between a human heart and that of an animal?

is there anyone to actually respond to the OP? :)