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To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; wmfights; HarleyD; irishtenor; Alamo-Girl; Quix; Marysecretary; ...
If your sins are all forgiven and you are "saved," there is nothing to stop you from doing the most abominable things. Nothing.

LOL. Only the indwelling Holy Spirit. Does that count?

"But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." -- 1 Corinthians 2:10-16

And how do men know they have the gift of the Holy Spirit within them? By reading the Bible and having their eyes opened and their minds renewed by God to the glorious truth therein...

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." -- John 6:63

3,730 posted on 03/09/2008 2:03:12 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Forest Keeper; wmfights; HarleyD; irishtenor; Marysecretary
If your sins are all forgiven and you are "saved," there is nothing to stop you from doing the most abominable things. Nothing.

LOL. Only the indwelling Holy Spirit. Does that count?

Sure, provided the Holy Spirit is truly indwelling someone. Just because someone "feels" the Holy Spirit within him or her doesn't mean it's the Holy Spirit. LOL!

And how do men know they have the gift of the Holy Spirit within them? By reading the Bible and having their eyes opened and their minds renewed by God to the glorious truth therein...

But everyone reads some sort of a bible and claims to have the eyes and the ears and the gifts. It's what they DO with them that says a lot more. It always comes down to works, not random verse generation.

3,781 posted on 03/09/2008 8:39:24 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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