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Anthony, this makes twice that you have suggested I am guilty of conflating two categories of scriptures when I am being consistent with what we are told about the church. It is quite possible if not probable that we define the church differently. You see it as an organization and I see it as an...

You do understand, iI hope, that the church of Jesus Christ is a body in the image of Jesus Christ who is in the image of God, a trinity. He is not in the image of God because of location but by nature. The church is one body in the imagery of a physical body (1 Cor 12) where there are many...

ky, thanks for your input. I always enjoy your comments. Samuel said quite a few things that are recorded in the scriptures. I said this: Would you take a moment and cut and paste where Samuel spoke about the church of Jesus Christ. How could the church be a mystery of Christ if all the OT...

This is the first point I responded to: Here is Col 1:18 again; 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. Here is a verse that helps it make sense: RO 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he...

No! The church of Jesus Christ is not revealed by the prophets of the OT, not because it's creation was not the eternal purpose of God but because it was hidden during those days by God. If it was hidden by God, that just simply means it was there in the OT unrevealed. Okay, if it was there how...

Read Col 1:18 again. It says he is the beginning BECAUSE he is the firstborn from the dead. Jesus Christ is the God MAN. He is a tripartite man from his physical birth, body, soul, and Spirit. The purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ and dying for the whole world is to regenerate the family of...

The emphasis on the cornerstone is the nature and the placement. It is buried. It is the beginning of the building. It holds the foundation which holds the building upon which it is built. It is a NEW testament with the emphasis on new. It is for new creatures to dwell in. It is under...

Words are actions. How would men know you were a scrorner without words? How did Peter know in Acts 8 that Simon was guily of bad thoughts? Here is what Jesus said about a tree. a metaphor for a man. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are...

There are not two sins, one when you think it and one when you do it. You imagine it in your mind and in that stage you can cast it down. It is in the drawing away from the right thinking stage and the conception stage but the finish stage is the doing it that brings forth death. It will be the...

I quoted verses that tells us that judgement is based on the deeds done in the body, the works of the flesh. If one casts down the imagination before it becomes a deed then a man is not guilty of carrying the deed to it's end, which is sin. James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye...

Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Because that is the lust that is conceived and one cannot help that but whether it is finished is in our hands, according to James, and now Paul. The deed...

Here is where every sinner who is not redeemed by the blood of the Lamb will stand and notice the wording in the text. I will highlight the words I think you should consider particularly. Re 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the...

Defining when a thought becomes a sin according to the scriptures. It is defined very clearly in James 1. 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 13 Let no man say when he is...

See, I am not sure what you believe about the church. You and I may not be defining it the same way. I am left guessing. You may be thinking in terms of local congregations of believers with each manifesting all these gifts at all times. I am thinking in terms of the one body and that is the...

I am making my conclusions on the basis that apostles and prophets and pastor teachers had particular ministry credentials. The evangelist had none. Philip was definitely not the apostle Philip, otherwise it would render as insane the reasoning for appointing him as a helper with the widows when...