Recent content by Hepzibah

Forget her - she sounds like she was a drama queen.

Okay well first of all, the body is not the same as the flesh. The body consists of the actions which Paul says are to be brought into conformation with the will of God. Flesh is what is supposed to be crucified with Christ and is dead and to be kept dead in the living. It is everything that is...

Not sure I fully understand the question. Could you rephrase it thanks.

That is not Christianity. It is gnosticism. If we are in Christ we are redeemed but most are not in Christ, they are yet carnal.

Thank you STH for your question. If we are in Christ then we have a pure heart and scripture tells us that out of the heart proceedeth evil thoughts (Mk 7:21) whereas the thoughts of the righteous are right (Prov 12:5). Christ tells us But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh upon a woman to...

You mean you have not seen it in scripture, mainly because you have not experienced it.

With all due respect Grace and Truth, secular sayings should not guide or console us.

Yes there is victory over sinful thoughts - it involves asking God for a pure heart. Thoughts come from the heart, and it must be pure but it is not unless God sanctifies it entirely, in an instant. When we have the pure heart, thoughrs become captive to Christ. This teaching has been lost to...

Gemmy well done for coming here and sharing this. The darkest part of the night cones before dawn. Remember instead, times last, when you have been counting on to your faith and began to doubt God, how He rescued you by showing you your thinking was in error and lifted the blackness. Cling on to...

@dokimos I do not go along with the current belief that personality disorders are from upbringing. I believe that inheritance is the biggest factor in a full blown disorders but traits can be picked up by example. The strongest trait is the lack of conscience and the best way to learn how to...

lightbearer, your theology is in error, if you say that an unconverted man or Jew if applied to Paul, delights in the law of God after the inward man or the spirit of man. No man delights in the law of God in the inward man unless he is converted. For the Jew, he will accept the law of God as...

I cannot show you. It must be revealed by the Lord. The time when you came to Christ and were filled with the longing to be perfect for Him, but were told that we cannot stop sinning in this life was the start of the error. If you had been born in the time of the Holiness Movement there would...

Yes agree I am chief of sinners like Paul, saved by grace. That is who I am but Christ lives in me.

Yes I am too and am not sinning deliberately. I believe that Christ can save me from sin as He has in the past. However, I do not have assurance atm that i am without sin, but I must give that priority as I have been distracted this year, having lost my daughter.

That is your interpretation of it. It is unmerited at the beginning for forgiveness for past sins. After that it is according to the faith we have that He will keep us from sin. Obviously if we do not have faith that He will keep us from sin (falling) then we will fall, repeatedly.