You do not get it.
If you tell me I believe or preach something that i don’t and time after time you continue to do so even though you are told by person after person we do not believe that. Thus, you have lost the ability or the priviledge of having anyone listen to you, you are untrustworthy when you can not even humble yourself to listen to others.
Don’t demand people to listen to you when you refuse to listen to them.
You said this EG.
"Your problem is you deny the power of God to change those people" These are your words directed at me. I listened to them and responded, and you ignored completely my response.
I responded because I do listen to you EG. I have stacks of your posts printed, especially your older ones, and me and several others in my church have studied separately so we can each fully understand what you preach without bias, as is my custom. It is for this reason that I reply to your posts in the first place. It is your custom, not mine to refuse to listen to others. I think you might be confusing "agreeing to your preaching" with "listening to your preaching". Just because I don't agree with your religion, doesn't mean I don't listen to it, or understand it. And you are the one who says I believe what I don't believe as your own words expose above.
But I don't care about all this he said she said high school foolishness, I care about what the scriptures actually say.
I agree that God has the POWER to save everybody, to change EVERYBODY.
But He doesn't "change or save"
everybody, even though it is His desire that they live forever. Do you deny this?
Matt. 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered thy children together, (Why didn't He, doesn't He have the power?) even as a hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings,
and ye would not!
Now so far in your posts I have studied you preach that "Faith" is given by God, I don't have it unless He gives it to me. If this is not correct, please let me know and correct it for me.
And all "good Works" that we do are not a result of anything we do, but the Christ manipulating our flesh to produce them.
And also that every "Christian" WILL PRODUCE "good works" as the Spirit of Christ will "change them", not by any desire a human has, but by the supernatural force of the Spiritual God.
God has this power, and will use this Power on ALL of HIS People.
That is part of what my understanding of your religious belief is. If this is not true, then show me how I am mistaken.
So given this religion, why didn't the Christ exhibit His Power and "change" His own Levite Priests? He wanted to, He had the power to. Why did He "change you and your friends" to do "Good Works" but not His own Levite Priests?
Matt. 7:
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity. (Lawlessness)
These people believed in Him, you can't deny that. They spread His Word to others, they helped people who had infirmities brought on by the devil.
Why didn't the Christ give them the FAITH you preach He gave to you and your friends? Why did HE "Change you" with His Power, that we both agree He had, but not them? How come did the Christ give you Salvation that could never be lost no matter what, but refused to give them even Faith?
But we can see that both the Mainstream Preachers of Christ Time, and those "MANY" who call the Christ, Lord, Lord "believed" that they were "changed" by His Power. They both "Believed" they were children of Abraham.
But their "BELIEF" alone did not same them.
You also "BELIEVE" you are already saved and immortal, no matter what. If fact, all your friends on this forum "believe" this along with millions and millions of Folks who follow your region. All these "MANY" who call HIM Lord, Lord, also "believe" just as the Mainstream Preachers of His Time, believed they were on the right path.
Now here is what causes the division between you and I.
The Christ rejected the Mainstream Preachers of His Time even though we both agree HE had the Power to save them, because, in His Own WORDS:
Matt. 15:
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth,
and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But
in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. (Not God)
And of those "Christians" that He rejected in Matt. 7, even though He had the Power to Save them, He didn't because in His Own Words:
"And then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity. (Lawlessness)
So you and the entire Mainstream Christians franchises of the world "work iniquity" EG. You brag about how you are already given immortality even though you "work iniquity". How God's Laws are only for the Jews. You even did a whole study, which I printed, which was labeled. "God's Laws are not for the Christian".
Now how is it the Mainstream Preachers of Christ's time were deceived into rejecting God's instructions, and those "MANY" Christians in Matt. 7 were deceived into rejecting God's instructions and all these were rejected by the Christ.
But you, also convinced into rejecting God's instructions, are "changed" by the power of God, and given immortality the minute you do this or that, no matter what?
What if the Bible is right, and it is you who are deceived? Wouldn't you want to know that?