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All Jews were wrapped in a cloth like that...a linen shroud that wrapped the body...as well as cloth that covered the head which is called a suderium. The carbon dating was done on a part of the shroud that had been repaired so the dating is off. The matching suderium was brought back from...

You are giving Jesus all the credit for your inability to stop sinning? Wouldn't it be wiser to go before God giving Jesus credit for the grace to walk as He walked? You are speaking from the flesh about what the flesh can do. You shouldn't mix that up with what grace through faith can do...

The advantage of being on the cross within ourselves with Christ enthroned in us...is that we are present in heaven. Just as Christ lives through us...so we can live through Him...and be where He is. That is how we abide in each other. We sit together in heavenly places (Eph. 2:6) when Christ...

But the greatest love is that we lay down our lives for Christ. No man has greater love than that. A Christian saint is one that is on the cross inwardly so that the life of Jesus is made manifest in his body. We are to always be carrying the death of Christ...as a living sacrifice...so that...

Are you asking me? This state is not ideal...but normative for the one who is fully surrendered to God. It's like when Moses was confronted by a dead end...the Red Sea. People will do everything to avoid such a dead end. But to the saint a dead end is a new possibility for God to take us...

What Paul is describing in Gal.2:20 costs us everything to have. Paul counted all things as loss that he might win Christ. To Paul the world was crucified to him. I don't think that many can comprehend the depth of what he is saying. We are not getting the sense of scale here.

Paul is speaking of a profound surrender of himself to God...a surrender that was answered by God in the form that he describes. It is a huge mistake to think that everything Paul was and has is ours automatically by being a Christian. We write off his words and testimony by thinking it is all...

There are extremes of course...the legalist...but also the lawless. The first places the performance on us alone. The latter denies all responsibility for one's actions. But the truth is that the Holy Spirit makes us very responsible for every thought and deed. Does Jesus keep the law FOR us...

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The RC have their sensual stimuli....and the evangelicals their emotional stimuli. Biblical faith is always seen in the miraculous, however. A human belief leaves things as they are. But a biblical faith brings along the miraculous. If it doesn't, then we are still stuck in what men can do...

Actually the bible does both. The problem with an un-crucified man is that his ego grows along with his knowledge....because the outer man has not been dealt with. Only when the outer man is out of the way....can the inner man lay hold of the truth and grow. Before we can add...we must...

Very good! If I try to explain that God wants nothing to do with the outward man...but wants a connection with the weak inward man, very few will listen. People will reject that weakness...not because they are not really weak...but because they only know how to identify with a prideful outward...

I am promoting spiritual clarity into the carnal confusion. You are not taking Jesus seriously when He says the the true condition of the end times church (Laodicea) is an unclothed inner man. The very lack of understanding of this true condition is exemplified by your reaction. The truth is...

Here is a sinister irony. Religion seeks to bridge the gap between God and people. Religion gives people a name and promises based on adherence to it. One of these names is "Christian." But religion IS that gap. When we fall into religion...we fall into the breach. So then rather than...

I have been to many churches where people are encouraged to put on a religious persona...a posturing...a religious cocoon...through an indoctrination that causes people to "feel" Christian among others who are likewise swept up in the emotional experience. All this is a religious veneer...

The kind of knowledge that is lacking is not bible knowledge....the kind that puffs people up. But it is the knowledge of oneself...as well as the ways of God that are lacking. In many ways we don't realize how we offend God by grieving His Spirit...or quenching His Spirit. We don't see how we...

...and yet without that extraordinary experience there would be no scripture. Paradox. And the scriptures testify of a God that visits people with extraordinary experience and gives them grace which is extraordinary power by the Spirit. All in all....extraordinary!

On the righteousness level this is very true. Human character is respected by all. Courage, honesty, gentleness, patience...etc. It is authority that people rebel against. So they rebel against holiness and light....which exposes their darkness. No one who loves darkness likes being exposed by...

The life is in the blood. What justifies us is that we partake of His blood. We know we have done that as we walk in His life. The life is in the blood. So then our justification is a life for a life. As we walk in His life, power and love....we are justified before God in His holiness of...

On textualism from "Keys to the Deeper Life" by A. W. Tozer... "The error of textualism is not doctrinal. It is far more subtle than that and much more difficult to discover, but its effects are just as deadly. Not its theological beliefs are at fault, buts its assumptions. It assumes, for...