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We basically agree, I know. This is what made me wonder, a few basic sentences from some was like a fire they had to run from. I grew up very emotionally repressed, to survive. I am a very open sharing person, who just likes things to be as is obvious and fairly clear. Jesus spoke like this...

I wonder if the problem is a label. I have seen in many discussions people using the same words to actually mean different things and emphasis. When I share some people who hold to the words OSAS also support it is impossible to resolve sin, or we are changed from glory unto glory, I am just...

Amen. My friend not all people who say they are one thing actually own it. I believe in security in Jesus, but not in free gift sinners made saints while remaining sinners. Jesus said something profound about the teachers of the law. They could not understand Him because they did not love God...

The problem here is simple. Jesus warned about the problem of faith and then abuse or laziness. The pharisees called themselves the descendants of Israel, special, chosen. The problem was they rejected Jesus and so were not of the Lord. If any doctrine, no matter how based in scripture...

Imagine this. The elect are locked into Jesus. They can never be lost. They are faithful and follow, their hearts pulling them round empowered by the Holy Spirit. It is not a belief or type of position they have, it is who they are. OSAS is just stating what is so has no actual value and is...

Jesus saying "I never knew you" He is rejecting them because He never knew them. Their approach was to claim communion with the Lord through miracles, casting out demons, prophecy. This was said after a sermon on how to follow, attitudes emotionally and of the heart which determine who Jesus...

In part I agree with you in terms of tendency, but as with all parents, there are limits. David and Bathsheba was over a period of months, a one night stand, a pregnancy, a cover up, then an assassination, and finally a confrontation. David when confronted, repented, and hoped in humbling...

I know this feeling. Emotion and acceptance are difficult things. "I have tried so hard to be good and am still rejected, I give up" This is a classic I am terrible but I will be something I am not to try and get what I think I want. How long does it take for someone to learn they need to...

This sounds like a betrayal of trust and a very personal experience. And these issues are true for all believers, not just pastors. God bless you

When you are married thinking you could get divorced does not mean you are no longer married. Often knowing things are a choice, is an important step to healing and reconciliation. Many times when I am fed up and upset, I need distance to heal, calm down and get a proper perspective. It is then...

Thanks for your openness. What I love about confession is recognising victorious behaviour and how it is founded. Sin is always about dreams of something totally out of proportion, when actually it is small, meaningless and destructive. I find I am attracted to certain people, but only in a...

Troll? What is that? I am not sure what you mean. Am I privileged to have interaction with you? I am just sharing my heart and having fellowship. I was unaware we were doing something else. We have only one teacher, Jesus Christ. God bless you

When John rights about praying for a sinning brother, he is saying there is value in praying for forgiveness of sin in another believer. If sin is no longer an issue in a theology, ie already forgiven and forgotten, and the apostles taught and believed this, it is hard to see John writing these...

I understand your desire to fit verses to your theological view. I work a lot simpler. I wish to know love and a deeper walk with Jesus. Sin always hurts others and myself. So I wish to grow beyond this, and know my weaknesses and know Gods blessing. John is sharing praying for brothers who...

"So, where sin would exist, Grace has dominion over it." A nice idea, except not biblical. Where sin exists we are to repent and walk righteously. John goes so far as to suggest we can pray for forgiveness of our fellow brothers and sisters. 16 If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that...

Joseph Prince "For him the law is a bad thing, an enslaving thing, because it is synonymous with legalism. The law is a path to salvation through good works that can never succeed. He comments that the law is all about YOU and ‘the law is all about looking at yourself’ " I spent years talking...

If you won't bother then you have nothing really to say other than agreeing with my points. So thankyou for agreeing. The difference between the law and Jesus is an important one, which you are not addressing. But maybe this is the point, this difference is hard to understand and summarise...

Here is the difference between advice to a nation and advice to the individual. Good food is a good idea, and the Lord laid out principles that Israel had to follow as their identity of Gods people. At this point the whole could not be broken into its parts of good advice and that which is...

Do you want christians to eat Kosha? The apostles in acts do not agree with you. Their discussion about gentiles upon whom the Holy Spirit fell where blessed by God but not clean in the ceremonial or food ways. The dream Peter had about what God had made clean is not clean, was taken to mean all...

Do you know of Joseph Prince from Singapore? On one forum around 50% of the members liked what he preached and said. I am not here to judge who knows the Lord and who does not, so I am just testifying this group is alive in the christian church. I do not know people on this forum so would not...