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My righteousness is Christ. My perfection is Christ. My holiness is Christ. Now I could be saying that because I learned this from a religious indoctrination. OR.....it could actually be true. That is the issue. It is unfortunate that once a person has been led to believe something...whether...

A person's opinion is their belief. A testimony is an experience. For example....I have never been to war...so I don't have a testimony about it.

It's about the book of Ephesians. I too read a lot of Watchman Nee many moons ago. I would suggest...."The Normal Christian Life" A book called "The Spiritual Man" is a little dry....but very good and standard fare among deep seekers.

I looked up the words you referenced....clouds and darkness. Clouds works out. .... ANAN But the darkness....ARAPHEL is not so much darkness as obscurity or mist. God hides Himself. God embraces obscurity. We really need to seek Him hard for Him to reveal Himself.

It helps... the C It helps to enter into the miraculous realm to understand the mind of God....and therefore what is being described in the bible.

Exactly! Trust the lord.....that is our work.

Unless God says so. No one is as righteous as God...that is what the verse that everyone seems to misquote means. Go is an expert on righteousness. He practically invented it. :) So we leave judgment to God. He has a knack for it.

I hear what you are saying. Perhaps in your situation there isn't the same need for fear as for others. But the truth remains that we advance into Him and remain in a high state through both the fear of the Lord AND the comfort of the Spirit. Look at this verse. See the balance? Acts 9:31...

In many ways...we will meet the God who we believe in. To the merciful, He will be merciful. But to the hard...He will show Himself as hard. Ps. 18:24 Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in His sight. 25 With the merciful...

I'm not saying that there is nothing beyond the fear of the Lord. But it should be there. People throw it out, normally in a bid to be confident in their salvation. The difficulty is that very often the truth is presented as a dialectic whereby there seems to be opposite sounding poles ....like...

A human belief is basically an opinion. So many people I talk to...even on this forum, never go beyond their own opinions and beliefs. I ask them how they know they're "saved" and all I get is a verse reading or no answer at all. Where is the testimony of an experience of the risen Lord?

There is a case to be had that the closer you get to the north pole....the fewer cases of rape there seems to be. Coincidence? I think not!

And yet these claim to be justified by believing in a God who justifies the ungodly. But after they are converted, God stops justifying the ungodly???

But not all are wicked. Mr. washer is a poster boy for this nonsense....and false teaching. Otherwise he wouldn't be popular in this time of the great falling away from the truth. Look out for what the itching ears have raised up as a teacher. Be wise. Some people are wicked. Some are...

The Calvinist agenda is that people don't have any chance. God, in this case, does not hear prayers. He pre-determines who is saved....and they have no choice in the matter. And He pre-determines who will burn in hell....with no say in the matter. So the whole point of living this life is lost...

Any one sided theology should be refuted of course. A wilful blindness to all the verses that overturn the stated extremist view...shows that this is something of an indoctrination...where the use of free will has been set aside for religious purposes. But all such purposes do not serve the...

But what about a God with no favourites....a God of mercy? A God who is righteous and shows His loving kindness to all? The Calvinist scheme/agenda makes no such allowance. Can you say....a false witness of God?

Now the bible uses comparisons to teach us kingdom values. But we must first eliminate the false comparisons that many have been taught. The idea of heaven and hell (The tile of a heavy metal album) is false. The true comparison is heaven and earth' There is light and darkness. Truth and lies...

One of the most basic building blocks to sound doctrine is the fear of the Lord. It is something that one sees immediately in a person's behaviour. It is also the beginning of wisdom. But who wants wisdom these days? So if this be true than arrogance is out. Smugness is out. Self-interest is...

I have posted this topic here...for reasons that will soon become apparent. Let me begin by saying that sound doctrine is that which PERMITS us and INFORMS us to be Christ-like in our thoughts and actions. Opinions matter for nothing...unless to take away our potential for entering into Christ...