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Actually the bible says the opposite of what you are saying. Grace is the power OVER sin....not just a scheme that makes sinning OK. The power of God is at work IN mortal bodies...just as in Jesus...no difference. Those who deny this power are actually espousing a carnal salvation...which is...

This of course is a man made doctrine not found in the bible. The bible describes 2 resurrections along with 2 judgments. One is the Bema judgment whereby the house of God is judged. There are both winners and losers here. Then after the Millenium there is a general resurrection and judgment...

Faith moves spiritual mountains. It gets God up off His throne. It changes the world as we knew it.

What of the dual nature of the word of God and our calling in Christ? We are to walk in two realms at the same time. Walking in the Spirit is a dual walk...in two realms...simultaneously. Those who walk in both realms will appreciate the words of the Lord...and the sword that has the power to...

Heb. 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Why is the word of God like a double-edged sword? The word of...

Greetings fellow forum members. Here is a study and a meditation about the nature of God's word....together with a deeper look at what signifies the dual nature of our calling in Christ. The sword, for our purposes will be seen as a spiritual weapon. Not as a weapon that kills, as in...

The difference between Romans 7 and Romans 8 is the difference between Christ in you....and then us abiding in Christ. When we abide in Him AND He is us we experience the full power of Christ through a spiritual walk in Him. What so many are taught is that there is no need to seek after an...

Agreed. The scapegoat...is sent into the wilderness...not sacrificed. It represents outer darkness in the next age. We see a picture of the day of atonement when Jesus and Barabbas were tried before the people. One was sacrificed and the other set free. The day of atonement is about the Bema...

Romans 8 is about the law of the Spirit overcoming the law of sin....just as the law of flight overcomes gravity. It explains how grace and it's power saves us from the power of sin.

Sure. I like Irenaeus against the gnostics... :)

Yes...towards people. We are to bless those who curse us. We are to be gentle and harmless on the natural level. But not so on the spiritual level. We don't treat the devil as we do people. So the problem is that many don't discern spiritual things. The blind will lash out at any and all in...

In the later days of the Roman army...almost all the brave warriors were auxiliaries. The Romans had gone soft (like us) so they needed to find mercenaries among the barbarians who had a tremendous arete (manly fighting spirit). The Romans themselves were more occupied with building...

Many people have heard and received a kind of gospel that appeals to the flesh. Self-interest is both invoked and encouraged. People care so much for getting "saved." But we need to lose our lives for Christ. We need to get our eyes off of ourselves and die for a good cause. THEN the Lord will...

Fighting spirit? Isn't that part of the Holy Spirit? No. WE are to provide the fighting spirit. Peter says in 2 Peter 1 that we are to add virtue first to our faith. Who adds this? WE do. But what is virtue? Virtue is fighting spirit. Arete in Greek is the quality of warriors like Achilles...

Spiritual warfare, as the name implies, is not against flesh and blood. It is in the realm we are being called to as salvation in this present time. There are 2 levels of warfare for the would-be saint. There is the personal battle...and the war to win the world for Christ. What is little...

If we look at the gospel call into the kingdom from God's perspective...He is just looking for ANYONE who will lay down their lives in the world so as to enter into His. I think we get hung up far too much on a kind of person...whereas God is not a respecter of persons. We are...

Well said. This is both reasonable and spiritual.

When Hitler cast his evil shadow over Europe, many people enlisted in the armed forces to fight his brand of evil. They thought,,,,this is a cause worth dying for. But we have a devil that is doing far worse and for a longer time...yet there are so few that are willing to lay down their lives...

This is a time of religiosity and superficiality. The duty of Christians is to occupy spiritual places. But most Christians I speak to resist the idea of any kind of supernatural walk in the Spirit. So then that leaves the spiritual realm open to the enemy...and this goes unchallenged. When...

Rejoice through this trial my brother. Trials always come before the kind of blessings that last. :)