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[Stephen63]

So tell us, What do you think Paul used as the guide to determine if he was a sinner or not?

Paul said I do not do the things I want to do (good deeds) I do the things I do not want to do (sin)

If paul still sins, He must admit, he is still a SINNER..

But hey, If you want to DENY you have sin in your life.. go right ahead..

But wait, I know You do not deny there is sin in your life (you never claimed to be sinless)

newsflash,, If you sin, YOUR A SINNER!!

You do not like the term? THATS TO BAD!!

According to scripture we all sin(fall into it because of the flesh).

But we don't practice rebellious, continuous sin. This was what Paul was admitting.

We practice righteousness instead (willful, faithful, obedience, because we love & appreciate the Lord)

You don't know me..... I've NEVER denied I have sin in my life, because I live in sinful flesh.(Go on, check the posts)

If I sin, I feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit, which BTW, HG's don't even believe in.

Because the HS convicts me, I then know it's time to repent. BTW, HG's don't believe in that either.

Jesus told us to WATCH & pray. Like Ezekiel, christians are to be watchmen on the wall, to sound the alarm for each other.

That's why we're to bear one another's burdens, fulfilling the Law of Christ. We 'watch out' for each other in the Family of God. It's God's plan that we cannot make it by ourselves..... We: first need Him, & then the brethren. We are to pray one for another, watch for one another, & carry each burden as our own. We are the family of God, members of His body, members in particular, not a pack of dogs.

 

[FreeNChrist]

According to scripture we all sin(fall into it because of the flesh).

But we don't practice rebellious, continuous sin. This was what Paul was admitting.

We practice righteousness instead (willful, faithful, obedience, because we love & appreciate the Lord)

You don't know me..... I've NEVER denied I have sin in my life, because I live in sinful flesh.(Go on, check the posts)

If I sin, I feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit, which BTW, HG's don't even believe in.

Because the HS convicts me, I then know it's time to repent. BTW, HG's don't believe in that either.

Jesus told us to WATCH & pray. Like Ezekiel, christians are to be watchmen on the wall, to sound the alarm for each other.

That's why we're to bear one another's burdens, fulfilling the Law of Christ. We 'watch out' for each other in the Family of God. It's God's plan that we cannot make it by ourselves..... We: first need Him, & then the brethren. We are to pray one for another, watch for one another, & carry each burden as our own. We are the family of God, members of His body, members in particular, not a pack of dogs.

Too bad, you started off so well but then regressed right back to your fictional talking points.

 

[oldethennew]

How I choose commentaries:
1. Dead guys, because those commentaries tend to stand the test of time. (And guys, if for no other reason then gals didn't make commentaries 50-400 years ago. And that era for how old the commentaries are simply, because any older and I'm not sure it's English anymore, not to mention how complicated it is to read books written before the printing press. lol)

2. Scholars, as in up the wazoo with both schooling and then decades devoted to studying the Bible and writing what was learned. The only person I know on this site who truly is a scholar, (not to be confused with there aren't more, but I don't know everyone, and I'm counting who is still around) is Angela. She truly studies 4-6 hours a day (when her life and body let her.) And she's had the schooling to back up the studying. Anything short of that isn't really a scholar so much as a hobbyist at best.

3. Denominational background. I realize that some nondenoms are out there with a solid foundation, but so many start because someone couldn't get along with or disagreed with anyone else, so they're out to reinvent the wheel. Without the background on the foils and foibles of wheel-making (history and knowledge of doctrine), it's just too easy to make something and call it a wheel without it ever being a wheel. And then to preach that. I want to know the background of the Dead Guy I'm studying, because, let's face it, I AM a hobbyist, not a scholar. We weren't all made to be scholars. Everyone would be dying around a bunch of rocks and a pile of wood while studying, if everyone were a scholars. (Someone had to make the fire, find the food, cook it, and pass it out, in that analogy. lol)

4. Do scholars trust this commentator? Just like I'd rather have someone who knows how to drive a car and knows how to teach me to drive a car, I want someone who others trust that that guy can teach me. Someone who can drive a car for 2-5 years on a steady basis without getting into accidents has to tell me that driving instructor taught them. THAT's who I want as a teacher. Because, again, I'm no scholar, so I'm going to need people who are to tell me who I should trust in scholarly pursuits.

Add to that, I'm not reading crap. (I mean, maybe I am, but it's fiction, so not telling me how I should do something well. lol) I spent 10% of my Christian life thinking I didn't have the Holy Spirit and wasn't saved because some bozo (who also happened to be a friend and my mentor when I was first saved, so I love the guy and hate his teaching skills), taught me if I didn't speak in tongues, I was nothing. I spent 75% of my Christian life thinking Jacob was the good guy and Esau was the bad guy, because some bozos taught me that. (And these are all teachers I'm talking about.) I've spent 100% of my Christian life with no clue what is spirit compared to soul, or is it something different? Is Man a dichotomy or a trichotomy? Does it even matter, specifically because I've had teachers teach me so many things, I have no idea how to find a good teaching about it anymore. I've spent 30-40% of my Christian life thinking I deserved salvation from my own choice to believe. It's 20-40 years later, and I'm still trying to wash out all that crap teaching, so I cannot afford to keep being taught more crap.

Sooooo, it is important to know who to trust for commentators. It's not based on feeling. It's based on learning who to trust and why. Because God really give some scholars the office of teacher through writing! Has he given them the office of teacher through YouTube or streaming? No idea, because none of those dudes or dudettess have yet to stand the test of time.
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sometime we just have to walk-out in Faith, and Trust someone that we have that
special feeling about and approach them one-on-one, all else aside, whether
privately or openly in order to investigate a question or whether we are trying to
figure out a whatfor and need heartfelt, loving, assurance

 

[Grace777x70]

Another funny thing about commentaries is that some of therm believe in speaking in tongues and others don't....and the crazy thing is - they are all supposedly scholars who know "the Greek".

Without the witness of the Holy Spirit revealing the things of Christ to us all - we are at the mercy of things being possibly just man-made religion and if enough "scholars" repeat the same thing - then that fact alone does not make it true.

Studying the bible does not make one right in the interpretation of things. Just look at the scribes, Sadducees and Pharisees of Jesus day.

There is a vast difference from knowing the scriptures and knowing Christ of which the scriptures speak of.

John 5:39-40 (NASB)
[SUP]39 [/SUP] "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

[SUP]40 [/SUP] and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

In saying that - I do believe in giving diligence to the scriptures but we need complete dependence on the Holy spirit to reveal Christ in them as Mary was dependent on the Holy Spirit to conceive Christ in her womb.

 

[Depleted]

Another funny thing about commentaries is that some of therm believe in speaking in tongues and others don't....and the crazy thing is - they are all supposedly scholars who know "the Greek".

Without the witness of the Holy Spirit revealing the things of Christ to us all - we are at the mercy of things being possibly just man-made religion and if enough "scholars" repeat the same thing - then that fact alone does not make it true.

Studying the bible does not make one right in the interpretation of things. Just look at the scribes, Sadducees and Pharisees of Jesus day.

There is a vast difference from knowing the scriptures and knowing Christ of which the scriptures speak of.

John 5:39-40 (NASB)
[SUP]39 [/SUP] "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

[SUP]40 [/SUP] and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

In saying that - I do believe in giving diligence to the scriptures but we need complete dependence on the Holy spirit to reveal Christ in them as Mary was dependent on the Holy Spirit to conceive Christ in her womb.

I've studying tongues by reading scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals. Not once have I read of anyone who doesn't believe in tongues. I don't think I've even met someone who doesn't believe in tongues. The argument starts with what is meant by tongues, not tongues themselves.

And then again, I'm in it to learn about God -- not the side issues too often. So I read commentaries that comment on the obvious -- the Bible. I haven't been in the NT in years! (I hadn't been on OT for years before that, since I really just study the whole of the Bible and then start over again. lol)

We are talking commentaries, not topical studies, right?

 

[Stephen63]

One of the things I've found about commentaries is that cults just don't like them. Quote from a commentary to a Jehovah's witness, & they're ready to leave your house. The same thing happens with cults on CC..... they will do everything in their ability to totally down the use of commentaries, except in special cases like those written by charismatic televangelists, who will say just about anything for a dollar. The bottom line is, fake cultists will search far & wide to find a fake commentary. Otherwise, it's a no-show.