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I got it! What was it we use to tell our children - "Now shake hands and tell your brother you're sorry?" Or maybe we could borrow some rules from the old Family Feud TV program. Or...maybe a warning label! I guess I will just try to be nicer in the future - common on everybody - group hug!

This is certainly a tough subject...and I would tend to agree. I hate to see the conversation go derogatory. But we are to rebuke a brother who speaks or acts contrary to God, and that is where it gets difficult. And then there is the idea that this may just be the place, even if we would rather...

No, that is not accurate. The sacrifice was made on the cross (past tense), and we each become One with Him "each in his own order" (according to Paul), which is all we do in our own time, otherwise it has already happened at the cross. But this speaks only of the flesh...which we, like Him, lay...

Yes, we are joined in One flesh with Jesus, i.e., "to live is Christ." But that does not mean the flesh is glorified. On the contrary, it is sacrificed.

Not exactly. But rather, when one passes from death to life, as it is written, that one, that old man is declared dead, and "it is no longer he who lives, but Christ who lives in him", in whom there is no death, but only life. But there is also the matter of the second death, when that old man...

These things are only true among those of whom Christ has not come into. All of this wordsmithing does not return the spirit of God in a man to death. No, there is no reconciling all truth and all that is written, unless one considers that the words were preached to and pertain to both the...

These things must all be reconciled with the fact of being a new creation having passed from death to life, or there is no understanding. You cannot have it both ways. Let your yes be yes, and your no be no. It is either Christ who lives, or the old man. If Christ, then "It is finished." If the...

You have spoken the truth. Do not be told of any man that you do not understand it perfectly according to the spirit of God - because you do. Amen!

You have nothing to clarify. You have very accurately defined (as did Paul) the transition "from death to life." But men will tell you and any who will listen, that "all things have [not] been made new", that we "are [not] a new creation" as long as we are in the world, that we are still "of the...

My pleasure, and please, you don't owe me an apology, we're on the same side. Jesus Himself said, and I quote, "The flesh profits nothing." John 6:63 This He said after explaining that it is "the spirit that gives life." Which explanation included the great metaphor of Him coming as flesh and...

The scriptural use of parable language, which was to confound the ungodly, has evaded you. You may as well say that Jesus was literally a baby sheep. But, all things are manifest in parable to show the things that are on high, and you have not learned how to tell one from the other. Thus, when...

You don't know what you are talking about - that was not me saying, it was me quoting Jesus. If you don't want to hear it from me, hear it from Him. Either way, you have much to learn.

Jesus committed only His spirit to the Father and not His flesh, and this we are to follow. Does that make Jesus a Gnostic then? No, certainly not. Nor does it make me or anyone who seeks the kingdom of God in spirit and in truth a Gnostic. That is a false accusation. I say again, "The flesh...

Your reply quotes are messed up and mix up your replies with my comments, so you may need to go back and fix things. But you are going on and on and I see that I will have to take things one point at a time, as you are all over the map with errors. I will start here: You are missing the point...

Hahaha...that is a bit of an oxymoron. "Belief" by definition is unconfirmed, while "knowledge" by definition may be true or false. Either way, it is confirmed, but only in and of itself. What then, of false knowledge? If we believe it, it is not "knowledge" at all, but only belief, and we...

You cannot say that all metaphors are spirit, if you mean scripture, unless you mean to say that all scripture is not from God...because "My words are spirit." What I have said to you has everything to do with the discussion. But it is a hard saying and you do not receive it, just as many did...

You misunderstand. Jesus spoke in parable. "My words are spirit." In this case Peter was the object of the parable but not the subject. The object of all parables is never the subject. In this case, the subject was how Christ would build His church...which by Peter's own words, is not of flesh...

Mark 2:27 "And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." Which saying, when He said it, seemed just as absurd. And now you have it backward also. In the same way, the word is for the spirit, not the spirit for the word. Likewise, the church for the spirit...

And for this very reason we also rebuke you. Just as Peter did not understand that what seems good to men, is not necessarily good to God or His plan, you and many of your conviction have looked to what seems good to men and followed the object of what Jesus said, rather than the principle...

Jesus saw it all clear, and by no coincidence the one passage leads right into the other. Peter saw it clear also. But men have seen it both ways, some following the Spirit, and some following the man. Some will never see it until that day when they too hear it from Jesus. Meanwhile, those who...