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I don't respond to many criticisms and I appreciate you saying "I'm not picking on you". I wrote this thread for information and that there is a higher way then just reading words. So most if not all took it as an attack to their status quo. That was never my intention and never would be. In my opening post, I stated that people didn't backslide, they just haven't inherited His Kingdom yet; again that is not a criticism, just illustrating there is a higher place. Please allow me to post 2 quotes from scripture and believe me, there are many others to substantiate those 2. As well a quote from Emmett Fox, a noted theologian from the early 20th century.
2Cor.5:17..Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Gal.2:20...
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
When once you have accepted the Jesus Christ Message, nothing is ever the same again. All values change radically. The things that one spent time and energy in striving for are felt to be no longer worth the having, while other things that one passed by on the way with scarcely a glance, are discovered to be the only things that really matter."Emmet Fox, The Sermon on The Mount
It is clear that once we have become a new creation, there is no going back. So called back sliding means that those who totally misunderstood the post have never been to the place where they can go back from. So they aren't backsliding, they are simply working their way to being there. The fact that you stated that everyone thought I was wrong, doesn't bother me at all. In fact it is encouragment to me to help me know how Jesus felt with the pharisees. The only time in scripture where He got testy was with them criticizing Him. So I feel that rather than try to understand what I wrote, third millenium pharsees go on the attack. To finish; I am not Jesus but at the same time I am not other than Jesus and so are you and so is everyone else who is on a Christian journey. We are all on that journey and each journey is unique.
I don't respond to many criticisms and I appreciate you saying "I'm not picking on you". I wrote this thread for information and that there is a higher way then just reading words. So most if not all took it as an attack to their status quo. That was never my intention and never would be. In my opening post, I stated that people didn't backslide, they just haven't inherited His Kingdom yet; again that is not a criticism, just illustrating there is a higher place. Please allow me to post 2 quotes from scripture and believe me, there are many others to substantiate those 2. As well a quote from Emmett Fox, a noted theologian from the early 20th century.
2Cor.5:17..Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Gal.2:20...
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
When once you have accepted the Jesus Christ Message, nothing is ever the same again. All values change radically. The things that one spent time and energy in striving for are felt to be no longer worth the having, while other things that one passed by on the way with scarcely a glance, are discovered to be the only things that really matter."Emmet Fox, The Sermon on The Mount
It is clear that once we have become a new creation, there is no going back. So called back sliding means that those who totally misunderstood the post have never been to the place where they can go back from. So they aren't backsliding, they are simply working their way to being there. The fact that you stated that everyone thought I was wrong, doesn't bother me at all. In fact it is encouragment to me to help me know how Jesus felt with the pharisees. The only time in scripture where He got testy was with them criticizing Him. So I feel that rather than try to understand what I wrote, third millenium pharsees go on the attack. To finish; I am not Jesus but at the same time I am not other than Jesus and so are you and so is everyone else who is on a Christian journey. We are all on that journey and each journey is unique.