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Is there such a thing as "saving knowledge?" Jesus did say...you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free. I think what makes the difference in understanding what knowledge, we must look at the difference between Hebrew thinking and Greek thinking. In the Hebrew when a man "knows"...

I should have been clearer... :) I am speaking of the power of sin and death...the spiritual law that gives power to the carnal man. The soul is who we are. The mind, the heart, the will, the emotions....etc. The part of us that decides things. We can go 3 different ways. 1. We can live to...

Amen...but your reference was for Ephraim...and the Gentiles becoming a people that were not a people.

Another excellent post! :) We are talking here of Ephraim...the house of Israel that was sifted through all nations.

Rev. 3:21 'He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Is that how it works? OK :rolleyes:

The sheep/goats judgment is the GWT judgment for all nations. This is not about the house of God...or anything remotely resembling seeking after the kingdom. The opposite is true. It is only as our hearts line up with God's that we are permitted entry into the spiritual life. Our cross; our...

Seek first the kingdom. Jesus doesn't answer a question that is not correct to answer...IOW we need to get the questions right first. The disciples needed to get a taste of kingdom life...and power. Then they would be good witnesses of Jesus.

Body-----soul.......spirit. The soul is in the middle....blind. Trapped as it were. We input things through the body...or through the spirit. Through the natural faculties or the spiritual faculties. The soul can use the faculties of the body...or turn to the spirit.

Purely your interpretation. If you had more experience with the opinions of men concerning how the bible can be interpreted...you would actually post other verses from the bible to prove your point. A human being is the totality of these things. But a soul is the mind, the heart, and the will...

Great post! Now we are moving forward.... We see that the book of remembrance is about God's "jewels". These correspond to the tribes of Israel. The age old debate then is...do these correspond to the ancient tribes of Israel...before Christ came to the world. Or...is it spiritual Israel...

1 Corinthians 6:18 18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. How can we sin against our own body if it is the body that is sinning and we are not responsible for it?

Gnosticism takes two extremes. Since the body is evil (in their minds)...some will let the body do as it wants...thinking it has no effect on the soul. As in...see! I can sin all day long but I'm not responsible for it...it's just my body doing it. Or...the devil made my body do this. I'm not...

I did say...we...which means we must still do it. Many are deceived into thinking I am preaching a salvation of works...rather than a salvation that works. :)

A war takes 2 sides no?

The truth is like a wheel within a wheel. It works on 2 levels. The outer righteousness and the inner holiness. So then the statement "all that is not of faith is sin" works on those 2 levels. 1. If we know something is wrong and do it anyway...we go against our own faith. This is a sin...

YAY! I thought to bring it around to the OP. :rolleyes:

You haven't listed all the weapons arrayed against us. 1) False spirits 2) lies and half-truths 3) private bible interpretations 4) the power of the principalities in the world. 5) the weakness of the flesh 6) ignorance

Sin is the power behind the carnal man exerting himself. How much opinion mongering is going on in these threads? How much judgmentalism? The flesh..in the bible..(NT) is a term that signifies the power that a man will use to make his way in the world. When that power is mixed with the...

We overcome the flesh (power) by the Spirit (power). Romans 8 in a nutshell. :) Just like we overcome gravity (law) by the power of flight (law).