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To: MHGinTN

Well the reason I said “can”, is that it is possible to s quench the Spirit through sin (1 Thess 5:19) and therefore lose its influence.


606 posted on 11/09/2010 1:51:33 PM PST by Normandy
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To: Normandy

The passage you posted also seems to indicate that having the Holy Spirit is conditional upon the works of the individual floowing the ‘commandments’. Jesus said there is one thing which God requires to do the work, and Jesus also gave two commandments which fullfill all the law and the prophets. Smith &co have added a whole lot to those two commandments. And the commandments are the nautral outworking of God’s Life in the human spirit, causing the nature of God to come forth int he behavior of the faither. That is the effective, applied Gospel of Grace in Christ Jesus, that God lives in the believer, not because the believer live righteously enough that God will then come in. Faithing is an action word, but the intiial act of being Born Again is what makes the faithing happen, not the human will to do all that you can do to be worthy.


609 posted on 11/09/2010 1:58:52 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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