Hi Joanie,
I don't know what the argument is about and I don't need to know. I read between the lines and understand well what you mean by not compromising your conviction: accepting accusation as strengthening our resolve to stand on what we believe. I admire how you stand the front line of battle regardless of what is thrown at you. Accepting God doesn't need our help and neither could we stop this. It happened to me also 2 days ago and thinking about it am in heaviness, have the impression this is happening because we are in the time of trouble of the end, and the enemy's plan is to cause divisions in relationships. I had a similar response to what I posted in not by works 2 days ago and I had to walk away not understanding why the anger. Wait is the direction I have in my spirit, it has to work for good as we are not offended, your conviction to remain standing in the battle without looking at the trouble inspires me. Here is some strong conviction, "From now on let no one trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." The Reality that we cant lean on our understanding and identified in his death to trust Him.
Hi Stillness., Thank you for the note of friendship while we post in the forums. Many things get lost on here. And in life from day to day. We might mean to say something one way and it makes perfect sense. But later it gets read or re said and someone takes what we wrote or said down another road we never intended. It happens all the time.
It's human nature and the fact that so many words are written and read and used and said. There are actual posts dating back many years. Not to mention all the words said over the years in each of our lives.
One day a few years back I found some of my old journals from when my children were toddlers. All those many many words and how much of them were written in dire times some full of happiness and sadness. Many of the trials came because of the lack of truth and understanding.
Multiply that by trillions of years of time and people. I thought God knows all about it and was aware of it at the time it was written or spoken just as if it were today because time is not a factor for Him.
Then I think how blessed we are that Jesus died specifically for all our sins. Including that of stupidity and wrong thinking and wrong believing and wrong judgments against those we no longer see. (and who no longer see us)
It could break our hearts if He didn't forgive and forget our sins as far as the east is from the west. I got to say it would break mine should I not remember to think these truths of Jesus and His grace every day. He paid for our sins and for the free access to God we have now because of Jesus. That is real and changes everything. He totally cancelled out our penalty 100% cancelled. YAHOO
We don't have to live with broken hearts anymore. He can and will restore us more and more each day as we see the truth. I'm more set free today than I was last year since I believed. Was just reading Heb.8:12 and 10:12-25 Please read it Stillness and be blessed too. 
[SUP]12 [/SUP]For I will be merciful
and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more.
[h=1][SUP]12 [/SUP]Whereas this One [Christ], after He had offered a single sacrifice for our sins [that shall avail] for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,[/h] [SUP]
13 [/SUP]Then to wait until His enemies should be made a stool beneath His feet.
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14 [/SUP]For by a single offering He has forever completely cleansed
and perfected those who are consecrated
and made holy.
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15 [/SUP]And also the Holy Spirit adds His testimony to us [in confirmation of this]. For having said,
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16 [/SUP]This is the agreement (testament, covenant) that I will set up
and conclude with them after those days, says the Lord: I will imprint My laws upon their hearts, and I will inscribe them on their minds (on their inmost thoughts and understanding),
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17 [/SUP]He then goes on to say, And their sins and their lawbreaking I will remember no more.
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18 [/SUP]Now where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these [sins and lawbreaking], there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin.
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19 [/SUP]Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom
and confidence to enter into the [Holy of] Holies [by the power and virtue] in the blood of Jesus,
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20 [/SUP]By this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated
and dedicated
and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil of the Holy of Holies), that is, through His flesh,
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21 [/SUP]And since we have [such] a great
and wonderful
and noble Priest [Who rules] over the house of God,
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22 [/SUP]Let us all come forward
and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance
and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by [SUP][
a][/SUP]that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled
and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.
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23 [/SUP]So let us seize
and hold fast
and retain without wavering the [SUP][
b][/SUP]hope we cherish
and confess
and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure)
and faithful to His word.
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24 [/SUP]And let us consider
and give [SUP][
c][/SUP]attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite) to love
and helpful deeds
and noble activities,
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25 [/SUP]Not forsaking
or neglecting to assemble together [as believers], as is the habit of some people, but admonishing (warning, urging, and encouraging) one another, and all the more faithfully as you see the day approaching
