Search results

Here is a scripture - Why is it you are unable to hear my words.

Don't want to upset anyone, but if you follow things through, this has to be the conclusion. All things are done in order to bring people to "participation in the divine nature". The divine nature is LOVE. God is LOVE. Anything that preceeds this "result" is only a "tool" to enable this result...

I can understand your dilemma, but think you should examine the tone of your dealings with people on this forum. The way you talk to each other is very crude, although you like to use the intellectual terminology. There is no point in trying to reason with you as you appear lost in a world of...

I am beginning to think that technology has a lot to answer for in the way it has become a huge distraction for millions of people.

Impressive!

"Sin is the transgression of the Law" occurs only in the AV. Please consult other versions.

O foolish Galatians!

Yesa'Yahu?? Sorry guys but are you sure you're on the right planet? How and why do you need to come up with and expound such complexity? It just amazes me the carry on in these forums. I am sure that "the simplicity that is in Christ" is not being represented by this kind of nonsense. And the...

Sounds complicated. I would like to throw in something about the Millenium but I don't want to blow my trumpet

All religions based on law are primitive religions. And all the adherants of such religions are still in "the dark ages". This is why you get such nonsense being said by those who should know better.

I am still open to gifts of the Spirit but I have found in all the pentecostal/charismatic churches visited over very many years, that the only "gifts" evidenced are what has come out of someone's mouth. Jesus "backed up" his words of power with acts of power. I would be interested to know where...

It seems there may be many forms of "faith" around. Faith without works is dead. Jesus said, "I have shown you many good works from the Father..." "...believe for the works themselves.." So what Luther or someone said about the book of James being an "epistle of straw" shows how people...

Christ was accused not just of "wrong day" keeping, but of "breaking" a sabbath. I know personally of the misery that is caused people by these legalistic theologies, eg as per the world wide church of god Herbert Armstrong etc. Legalism has to be the major enemy of the Truth. Who needs a devil...

Would like to add that regarding the two resurrections referred to in scripture, the first one can be seen as being when a person is "born again". They have risen with Christ. If any one be in Christ they are a new creation. The second one is the literal one when Christ returns. And is...

If you indeed know that you are operating from your salvation experience, then you must know that the only way you can lose it is to fail to continue to so operate. I.E to cease working for the Lord. To cease following the Spirit. To stop acknowleging him. To turn away from your brothers and...

"I delight to do thy will o Lord". Paul talked of those "eager to do good". Jesus said his yoke was easy and his burden light. So it is not a hard thing to follow his leading if as his sheep we are hearing his voice. If we find we are not daily seeking to serve his desires instead of our own, ie...

The bible makes it clear that the law was temporary. It is called "The ministry of death". Jesus came to deal with all our issues concerning "the law', which has a wider meaning than just the law of Moses. In those wider terms, it involves the way we all live in our thinking in the way of the...

In all my years of bible pondering, the only mention I see of Mary is that she was Jesus' mother. Unless we want to connect her with the discussion about the general position of women in terms of discipleship or etc. then there is no position or doctrine to make mention of in relation to Mary. I...

We are free from the law and certainly free from any obligations to worry about what food goes into our mouths. Nevertheless, there are guidelines about upsetting the conscience of those for whom this is an issue.

"Sin is the transgression of the law" is only so in the A.V. Other versions say "sin is lawlessness" (being without guideline, being without moral compass). Christ abolished the law by fulfilling (keeping) it, as only he could. He certainly could not have said "I have come to abolish the law"...