[Mad Dawg]

THAT an edifice piled high with fossilized traditions of men
would be a MORE Godly sanctioner of God, Godly Righteousness and spiritual life
THAN HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF????

Well, how 'bout because that's not how we look at it at all>

Of course we would dispute the TOM allegation. And then we would dispute that we ever claimed to be holier than the Holy Spirit.

And always we would say that we are earthen vessels, and that's on a good day, and anything good that comes from us, through us, or whatever the preposition du jour is us does so because of God's grace and faithfulness to His promise, and most certainly not because of any merit of our own.

[Quix]

And always we would say that we are earthen vessels, and that's on a good day, and anything good that comes from us, through us, or whatever the preposition du jour is us does so because of God's grace and faithfulness to His promise, and most certainly not because of any merit of our own.

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On that we'd likely be in very close unity.

Thanks thanks.

Yes, I understood the rest would be the likely perspective! LOL. Perhaps it can be seen why we might have ours, however.

[Quix]

BTW, I don't think any honorable, earnest Christian sets out to set himself or his group up to be valued, lofted more highly than Holy Spirit.

Satan just uses all our humanness to achieve it in tiny increments. And the longer the effort, sadly, typically, the worse the result as satan is very good at that strategy.