Search results

That's the only way you will ever abide in holiness. Anything else is just imaginary. Self-control is a fruit of the spirit for a purpose.

The church is filled with people who hold this compromising, worldly attitude. They are more zealous to follow the church's tacit gentleman's agreement that says "Don't mention my sin, and I won't mention yours (wink, wink)" than they are to follow GOD's command to be holy. They are unfit for...

There's no question that believers have to abide in holiness by not letting themselves become defiled by the world and sin . Anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves and ignoring an abundance of scripture that witnesses to this fact.

I agree completely that a critical environment is abusive and destructive. The problem is there are those who conflate confronting sin in the church with being critical. But to give you credit, there are those who think confronting sin in the church means being critical. They are in as much...

From the law of Moses: Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of...

There can be no godliness when sin is allowed to continue. A little leaven leavens the whole. The church is to judge those within who are in open unrepentent rebellion to the truth. But now I have written to you not to associate with any so-called brother, if he is a sexually immoral person or...

It's obvious a detail of the story was remembered differently at some point.

They weren't just chastised, they were destroyed and not allowed to inherit the promises. It was a shadow of the reality; an instructional example for us and a type pointing to the anti-type of not inheriting the promise of eternal life because of unbelief. Now I want to remind you, although...

GOD destroyed in the wilderness the ones who didn't believe; they lived lives of misery for 40 years and did not inherit the promise. The unbelieving Jews in Paul's day were broken off and didn't inherit the promises. Did Paul tell believers that they were immune from the same fate if they fell...

You keep brining up this fallacy - 100% perfection is required. You seriously don't understand grace if that is your understanding of the faith.

The irrevocable gift (the promises) was to Israel, not to each individual in Israel. This is proven by the fact that the promises remained for the believing remnant, but were denied to the unbelieving part that was cut off. The same applies to the church.

Why not try vaping? Not as unhealthy.

Virtue/excellence (arete) is the first/foremost thing that we are to supply in faith in our walk of sanctification and growing into perfection. ... applying all diligence, supply in your faith excellence, and in excellence, knowledge, and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, patient...

It's an irrational doctrine built upon the belief in total inability, which makes it impossible to do anything pleasing to GOD . So the only option left is to believe that GOD does everything and doing anything is considered self-works, carnal, sin, etc.

The problem with your reasoning is that my doctrine can reconcile Romans 11:29 and Romans 11:19-21 together. Yours can't, so the latter passage gets ignored.

That "bigger" concept is the secular world view that doesn't know GOD.

I can't remember reading the spirit of condemnation in Ralph's posts. However, I do see people who have been hurt by the condemnations of legalistic teachers, constantly projecting their hurts and fears onto others who merely witness to the necessity of obeying GOD.

Some people just can't hear it. You will say then, The [natural] branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. Well! For unbelief they were broken off. And you stand by faith. Do not be highminded, but fear, for if GOD did not spare the natural branches, lest somehow he will not spare...

I'm not interested in Plato's views on free will, but the gnostics certainly were.

I guess I don't follow the Greek definition of free will then. Whatever you want to call it, I'm talking about the ability to choose.