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Your pre-belief skews your understanding of the Gospel and this passage.
I can’t help you with the pre-belief, since you know I believe it is false.
Best to you.
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It is yo0ur belief that is skewering the Gospel!
Your clinging to the “inherited lies wherein there is no profit” is steeply skewering your hope of understanding the Gospel.
As John wrote in his first epistle, Sin is the transgression of The Law.
“Christianity” as taught in today’s ‘churches’ is the broad path that leads to destruction.
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Read your first sentence, and understand that the Holy Spirit was saying it to you.
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