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Then you are approaching the Eastern Orthodox understanding, which we have been discipling this way for 2000 years now and counting... Arsenios

You will find that most here believe you can do nothing for or against your Salvation by God... Menno likes to attack those who think our actions matter at all for or against our Salvation... Most here, in their zeal for God, simply believe it is all up to God... They denounce our actions to...

Michael - The literal translation of "to him who overcomes"... Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne. Is "to him overcoming..." - eg "To the one who is overcoming (sins and the...

Yes, they want to see our law-abiding citizenry disarmed... ANATHEMA!! Arsenios

Ya gotta walk the talk, Lamb... Lest you forsake your inheritance... And receive your soul in vain... Arsenios

So you must want to follow Christ... Then you must deny yourself... Then you must take up your cross... Then you must follow Christ... Nothing about working your way into heaven here... But it is a LOT of work! Yet of God the Gift! Lest any should boast in his many works... Arsenios

The agenda is to disarm law-abiding citizens and ignore the armed criminal gangs... Plus to underfund our armed forces... And overfund all social services... Weakening the country in the world and at home... Put a leach on every blood vessel at home... And neuter our armed forces abroad...

Jesus had sisters too... He was the youngest child in the family... This is called camouflage... And it worked... Indeed it is working to this day for many Protestants... So if Christ is your Brother, does that make Mariam your Mother? Arsenios

When Paul was addressing, as one of them, those knowing the Law, and he was lamenting, as one knowing the Law, how he was unable to overcome sin, remember? Remember how he complained how he would do what he hated, and he would not do that which he loved? Remember his final lament? His piteous...

Thank-you - You almost got that all out in one breath! So how then do you understand Jesus' words in John 20:17? λεγει αυτη ιησους Jesus tells her: μη μου απτου "Be not touching me... ουπω γαρ αναβεβηκα For not yet have I ascended προς τον πατερα to the Father." Is this the sin...

I made up my mind! :) Until the Law sin, which is in the world is not accounted sin. Rom 5:13... Menno rejected these words of Paul without hesitation... So your point, that men sin, men who do not know the Law, in their manner of life, is true... Yet they see themselves as without sin...

Failure to commit sin is perfection? Are babies sinners at conception? You are a sinner when you sin... The Gospel of Christ is the Gospel of Repentance from sin... Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand! Arsenios

Missing the mark has a presupposition that one is trying to hit the mark... Babies, especially pre-natal ones, are not trying to hit the mark... Sinning is not something the unborn do, my brother... Or should we say that law-breakers should be flogged and start flogging new-borns? You really...

Christ commissioned His Apostles to Baptize ALL the Nations... Arsenios

That Apostolic Baptism IS the Grace God gives us through the hands of His Body, the Church... You think it is men water baptizing, and for you, it very well may be... Apostolic Baptism does not suffer your limitations... Apostolic Baptism is Christ Baptizing you... Arsenios

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death (entered into the world) by sin; so also death passed upon all men, upon which (death) all have sinned: Your argument is with Paul - We are all born laden with death... It is upon this death with which we are laden...

We are all born into Adam's death, whether we sin or not - Even Christ died... Welcome to the Fall... Arsenios

Great argument for infant Baptism! Arsenios

Then you are a Crime and Punishment Christian... But listen to Jesus: Mat 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And: Mar 10:15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God...

...Were God... I couldn't agree more... But until they golf, they are not golfers... And until they sin, they are not sinners... Quid, Erat, Splat! Are you arguing that they are sinners at conception? And if yes, then where in the Bible does it say THAT??? Arsenios