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Dismantling Toxic Soteriology:
Part 1: The absolute LIE of "Yo-yo Salvation".
What lies does "yo-yo salvation" teach?
every time one experiences a negative emotion, even as an automatic reaction, one has made a choice to feel that way.
every time one experiences a negative emotion, one has...
Came across this lovely piece while Googling the Greek word nepsis to get a handle on its meaning ...
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Nepsis
February 17, 2008
Nepsis is a greek word which means to be watchfull, alert, vigilant and to basically keep a look out. Jesus tells us in the...
The real question here being why don't those who believe themselves to have "free" will simply choose to do so then? Why not, if one has "free will", does one not simply choose to NOT be a donkey's hind end? (General question not personal one.) Put that free will money where that free will...
Scripture does not really uphold the notion of "free will" in the modern sense, nor the notion that we ourselves can change our behavior.Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart...
No. Does a faculty we could call "volition" exist? Perhaps. It bes a name given to a selection process which occurs in the mind, an invisible process whose contents, components, and processes we cannot clearly inventory and label because many of them we cannot even detect.
The problem, the...
What people say and what they mean = two different things. Here bes what daimonizomai encounters not just on CF but in many "Christian" communities, especially among those immature in the faith who delusionally believe themselves mature because they have stayed the same for years:Obeying God...
Neither bes there any indication that it does not. Where does it say they cannot?
What scripture DOES say bes this: that when He appears we will be like Him, nothing less, for we shall see Him as He bes (1 John 3:2). That the mystery of God will be complete which bes Christ fully formed in us...
... it looks quite a bit like this ...
http://christianforums.com/showthread.php?t=7231487
Friends you stand in witness to a bona fide miracle in our midst. Put OFF your shoes from your feet, for the ground whereupon we stand here bes holy. Let not one single word of disparagement or...
Well sad to say that for now it has had to put another member on ignore.
It would hope, actually, that he would do the same regarding Moriah if he finds its presence so displeasing that he cannot halt his tongue (keyboard) from speaking in a demeaning and hostile fashion. Moriah, however, will...
Moriah does. It crawls to Him from wherever it regains conscious awareness of its need for Him, sometimes quite literally writhing and looking up through the flames on the floor of Hell into His face. Sometimes quite literally fresh from outright visceral encounters and sexual interactions with...
It had a really cool insight about this while it bes talking and prayings with danstar on IM (:wave: hi Dan) today. It bes thinksy of the verse from the scripture last night to FLEE fornication (because Dan mentioned that -- he said FLEE when They starts taking it sexually while we bes...
This bes an open declaration:
Please forgive Moriah, everyone whats got a need to for any reason.
It wants nothing standing between itself and any other. It despises this, all strife and misery, all turnings sudden upon one another biting, devouring and turning backs and making war and mad...
... it does not care whether its images frighten your toddler or not, nor does it care about anyone who would dare make a demand upon it to hide itself and its legitimate expression of itself merely because at some fracking random moment their kid might walk up to the computer and see it. Maybe...
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
These verses quite plainly indicate that God can never be...
First off ... what you bes going through, every child what's ever believed in Santa Claus goes through. At first they believe Santa bes a literal single person who flies all over the world on Christmas eve bringing gifts to good children. They bes content to visit him at the shops, sit on his...
Be not deceived in this regard. Contrary to popular theological errors all predicated upon the illusion and vanity of human "volition", we do not create faith in ourselves. We do not "choose" to repent, and we do not even "choose" to obey God nor on our own to do "good works."
Faith itself...
Moriah has found typically it bes asked many the same questions over and over, so it bes compiling here in its blog a "dossier" of such along with its answers. That way if ever it bes asked again it can point to the post that answers these things and not have a riot ensue or have to repeat...
its consciousness bes so severely fragmented these days it literally has difficulty to follow from one moment to the next. twice this past Sunday its fiance mentioned certain things which it had been engaged in or involved with but it remembered nothing of them (and now cannot even remember...
"The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going."
~John 3:8 NIV
Maybe when people abandon you for no good reason (meaning (a) you did not do something to warrant that reaction and (b) they have not communicated to you...
this post touches it deep, by someone anonymous in the "ask a chaplain" forum.
it understands why posts there bes anonymous but just this once it wishes they would not be, because it would like to reach out to this person and comfort them. just to let them know it understands these feelings all...