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Patheos ^ | 20 march | He meant mehta

[Hootowl]

I guess we’ll see at the end, won’t we?

[MHGinTN]

Which end: end of the church age, or end of the Tribulation. or end of the millenial reign of Christ?

[MHGinTN]

I’m not much of a spelar dontchaknow.

[SouthernClaire]

Well, dawgawn, MHG. I shore wouldnta knowed it if’n you hadn’tah sayed somethin.

[boatbums]

You are absolutely right! Only the Holy Spirit can open hardened hearts and minds to the truth of how amazing God's grace truly is. The corrupt human heart - which is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked - wants to boast of its own goodness and righteousness. God demands that we humbly accept what HE has done for us and not what we can/must do for Him. Those people Jesus spoke of who at their judgement pleaded, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’, weren't the "heathen" or the "ungodly", they were the boastful religious ones who trusted in their own merit to save them. They prided themselves on obeying all the Law/commandments, yet Jesus tells them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’. What did they miss? Like all man made religions, they stumbled at grace. They stumbled at the stumbling stone which is Jesus Christ.

Whether someone believes they must work to earn salvation or work to keep salvation (which is really the same thing), they are trusting in themselves and not Christ. Their eyes are closed to this truth and they're quick to condemn others who disagree with them. We're seeing it right here on this thread. We can speak the truth in love (planting) and pray for eyes and hearts to be opened (watering) and then leave it to the Holy Spirit who causes the growth.

[SouthernClaire]

” ... they stumbled at grace.” Some of the saddest words ever, BB.

[MHGinTN]

Indeed, a sadness which has eternal scope.

[Hootowl]

You’re just plumb disputatious, aren’t you? You’d probably argue with a tree stump! Not me. I’m done with it.

[MHGinTN]

As the movie character said in Tombstone, ‘Well bye.”

[Hootowl]

Curly Bill.

[Elsie]

Scripturally He’s already taken—israel is God’s wife.

Post it.

[MHGinTN]

Yes! Curly Bill ... couldn’t remember the villains name.

[MHGinTN]

I’m surprised that soemone who posts so much scripture doesn’t know the passages where God compares Israel to an unfaithful wife, His unfaithful wife! Hootowl shouldn’t have to show you that. Do a Bible woird search on ‘Gomer’.

[Cronos]

The Church, i.e. the Jesus following Jews that we call Christians ARE the new Israel, the continuation of the Old Israel - with gentiles grafted on.

The community of God has expanded from one family to a tribe to a nation to the entire world.

[Cronos]

Elsie - that is a very good question But the bible tells us to resist false teachings.

How do we reconcile this all variance in our minds?

We can see in

2 Tim 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

And 2 Thess 2:15 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

THIS, Elsie, is how we reconcile all the variance - we hold fast to what was taught by the apostles, handed down from bishop to bishop in Apostolic succession remember that John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

[Cronos]

There is an aspect of the Born Again Believer which CANNOT sin because the seed of God-life remains in ABIDES IN that aspect. That aspect of the Born Again is their spirit, not their flesh nature, their spirit.

But then - when the bjorn again believer (BAB) DOES sin - do you then say it was their flesh nature or their soul that sinned or do you say that that person sinned?

[Cronos]

iscool..."it will have been destroyed"

Ephesians 3:21 unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

[Philsworld]

The Church, i.e. the Jesus following Jews that we call Christians ARE the new Israel, the continuation of the Old Israel - with gentiles grafted on.

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Well stated. I agree.

[MHGinTN]

And you are stupid enough to believe you can mock and ridicule expecting your bullying tactics to result in anyone answering your kingdom now preterist bilge questions! LOL

[Cronos]

MHG, MHG - you are sinning.

Or is it just your body that is sinning and your Spirits (of rum) are not sinning?