Peace be to you
I disagree,We are to rest from are sinful nature and the works of it,gal;
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.If we crucifie the actions of the flesh,(No longer do them) We enter God s rest
I was a sinner,commiting all the flesh sins above and God started a work in me giving me ears to hear and eyes to see and thus healing me threw Jesus christ whom now is the cause of my belief and faith.
True religion is this;To visit the fatherless and the wido's in there afliction and stay unspotted.
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.Yet we segregate ourselves based on our religious beliefs. For both the Christian and the Muslim believes!
The scriture is clear LOVE GOD with all your heart mind and soul and strength First,Then love your nieghbor as yourself.
How does a christian and muslim differ?I dont know what muslims believe.
Love a friend in God
What this actually does Wisdomseeker is to further show what I'm talking about. The image is of the flesh! We have Christians who have their image (system) of how to reach God. We have Islam with there image (system) of how to reach God and so on and so forth with other religious faiths. We are always to abstain from sin. But most, when you mention the verses in your quote, only focus on the fleshly aspect of those things mentioned.
2 Peter 2
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in ****able heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2And many shall follow their pernicious ways;
by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their ****ation slumbereth not.
4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds
9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
This is what's going on today in different religious faiths. The covet and make merchandise of us! Let's be honest. Most Christians believe that only true Christians will be saved. It is the same with Islam and Judiasm. And through vain philosophy, these pull one from another with a presented image of godliness, but denying the power of God. In any religion, God knows how to deliver the Godly from temptation.
Galatians 1:10-14
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: 14And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Paul profited in the Jews religion above his equals by being more zealous of the tradition of his fathers. He doing the work of the flesh. The image of the religion he was in he was zealous for!
1 Timothy 1:5-13
5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
6From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
7Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
8But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
11According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
12And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me,
for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
Again, in the Jews religion, Paul was zealous and profited greatly. But in that religion having an image or form of godliness, it denied the power of God. In upholding the fleshly image of that religion, he became a blasphemer and persecutor. He ignorantly did it in unbelief and was set as an example for us to follow in whatever religion we are married to as well.
The fruit of the spirit has no image! It is in the spirit that the Muslim, Jew, and Christian are one! How can a righteous Muslim who loves God with all of his being and loves his neighbor as himself be deceived if the law is not made for him? The same goes for a Jew or a Christian as well. It is when we give life to that form or image (system) and call it God, we deny the power of that Spirit and are indeed under the law and judgement.
God bless you
Wisdomseeker