JesusIsMySaviourALways said:

Has anyone ever been pulled towards paganism and back to God and Jesus? What's your experiences? I can't be the only one

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Adding to my last comment....though I did get involved in TM, I still loved Jesus Christ of Nazareth however, one can not serve two masters so I abandoned the practice and gave all to Him.
Be blessed.

Presbyterian Continuist said:

Perhaps in the presence of other believers and being encouraged and inspired by them, your emotions rise as you enjoy the experience. When the meeting is over and you go back to your own home and returned to the everyday issues that we all face, emotions can go back down and you don't feel as joyful or inspired as before. If your heightened emotions in a gathering are your indication of the intensity of God's presence, then you are putting more store on emotional feelings than the promise of God's Word that Jesus lives in your heart by faith no matter whether your emotions are high or low. God's actual presence, by faith, is constant, while your perception of his presence can vary.

I am sure that Gideon received a spirit of dysentery when he was told, "God is with you, mighty man of valour". He didn't feel like God was with him, but he obeyed God's instructions nevertheless and won a mighty victory.

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No, is not like that, it has happened again and again, and i can discern His presence. It can accompany us all the time, His presence is not a feeling. It can be felt, but is God. Even a small gathering, with a bad building no AC bad seats, 'uneducated' people etc, if you can find God in there is a treasure worth a lot.

At the Christian school I teach at. A good friend and co teacher quit after this last school year. Now she is trying to teach at another Christian school. I have an idea, but I want to see what people think.

First of all, I decided to start filming talks I have with some of my Christian friends, just asking them about their thoughts on certain topics. It’s something I just want to start posting on my YouTube page. So I decided to film my talk I had with her one time regarding the homosexual agenda. I have it on my YouTube. I want to show it here below. I just have the impression she should show this to her future interviewer at the next Christian school she plans to be in. I’m thinking this might show a lot of her Christian character and also her skills. But I want to see what everyone thinks first. Watch our video below and see if it’s a good idea to show any Christian employer. Do you think this reveals any skills or talents?

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It's basically a primitive Greek planetarium/calendar based on geocentrism, but still a clever device.

I've heard the best guess is the device was built by Archimedes.

Most people aren't aware the ancient Greeks had automata and machines, such as coin-operated vending machines for holy water, temple doors that opened automatically, and even mechanical birds. However, since they depended so much on slave labor, there was no economic basis for developing machines beyond scientific curiosities, toys, or religious special effects.

One of the reasons that the machine became a metaphor for humanity following the Enlightenment may have been the fact Europeans always had an advantage in making machinery. In fact, automata were about the only trade good that the Chinese would buy from the Europeans.

Your desire is my desire.
You have set my heart on fire.
Your love leads me, follow You,
Faithful be, my witness true.

Give all of I have to You,
Loyalty to You is due.
Walk with You throughout the day
As I bow my heart and pray.

Need Your grace to give me power
To walk with You in this hour.
Troubles wait me round the corner
From those who defy Your borders.

Witness truly, truth to tell
To those who head straight to hell.
Teach them to repent, obey,
Follow Jesus every day.

Bless those who will persecute.
Love them truly. Do not shoot!
Pray for them, to them be kind,
So that God’s grace they will find.

Do not shrink back, persevere.
Let the truth of Christ be heard.
Speak the truth, it’s needed much.
Don’t get caught in “such and such”.

Many teaching lies to people
So that they will be their sheeple.
Teaching them to not repent,
From their sins to not relent.

Spiritual warfare now aflame,
People now remaining same,
Need revival, change of hearts,
Who from Jesus not depart.

An Original Work / July 17, 2022

When we are loving others with this love which prefers what God prefers, then we are going to treat others in like manner as God treats us. And he is patient with us, but his patience does not mean tolerance of deliberate and habitual sin. His patience does not mean that he says nothing or that he doesn’t discipline us, or that he doesn’t teach the church to exercise biblical discipline of its members who are refusing to repent of deliberate and habitual sin. Patience just means slow to anger, not quick-tempered. But it also means that we don’t give up on people, and we keep praying for them.

And kindness never involves lying to people, not even telling what some people refer to as “white lies.” But it doesn’t mean that we just blast out everything we think and feel in meanness and thoughtlessness and cruelty towards others. For speaking the truth must also be coupled with love. But sometimes, depending on the circumstances, we may have to use stronger terms, like Jesus did with the Pharisees, because of the stubbornness and rebellion of those who are deliberately and habitually sinning against God and other humans while professing Christ as Savior. And that is kindness.

When we love others with the love of Christ, we are not to be envious of others who have what we do not have. Some people out of jealousy and envy turn to being spiteful, resentful, bitter, unforgiving, and even might murder another person out of jealously, like Cain killed his brother Abel. And we are not to be boastful and prideful, thinking we are better than everyone else. For we all are born into this world with sin natures, in the image of Adam, and it is only to the glory of God that any of us live righteously.

And we are not to insist on our own way, unless it is truly God’s way, and it is the way of truth and righteousness and moral purity and honesty and uprightness, etc. We need to be those who stand on truth and who refute the lies of the enemy, even if we are accused of wanting to have it our way. But we need to be willing to compromise, where necessary, on non-essentials, i.e. on things that don’t really matter for eternity. We should be those who submit to one another in areas that are not against God.

And, although I may have already covered this somewhat in the paragraphs above, we are never to be those who rejoice in wrongdoing. And this includes we should not be those who give our loyalty, devotion, and commitment and support to those who are doing evil to others, either, whether in real life, or in the viewing of movies and videos which glorify doing evil to others and immorality and adultery and lying and stealing, etc. For we are not to rejoice in evil, but in good, as God defines good.

And we are to rejoice in the truth, not shun it, not ignore it because it makes us uncomfortable. The truth shouldn’t be spoken of as evil while evil is being spoken of as good, but that is where things are now in the world and in the worldly church, too. They don’t like the gospel Jesus taught and that the NT apostles taught, and so they alter and dilute it and teach some truth along with lies which are mainly the twisting of truth but with non-truths added into the mix. For they prefer the lies to the truth, because the lies allow them to keep living in deliberate sin and still claim heaven as their home.

Now when this says that love bears all things and believes all things and hopes all things and endures all things, this is not teaching tolerance of sinful practices and believing everything people say to us. For we are not to tolerate sinful practices, but we are to confront them, and call for repentance. And we are to test everything people say to us against the Scriptures to make certain that they are telling the truth. And we need to believe the truth and not the lies. And we are not to put our hope in things or in people not of God, but we are to believe God and put our hope in HIM.

You Loved Me

An Original Work / December 3, 2019
A song based off the poem by the same name @ Original Works
Music and lyrics by Sue Love @ Original Works & Tosin Iyawo Ogaga
Vocals by Tosin Iyawo Ogaga & Sue Love

When I was lonely and afflicted,
You were there to pick me up.
You took me in Your arms,
And You held me tenderly.

Your love embraced me.
Your grace sustained me.

When my heart cried out to You
In my fear and my despair,
You never turned away,
But You let me know You loved me.

Your grace forgave me.
You did not shame me.

Then, when I answered the call,
“Here, Lord, send me.”
You sent me to where I must be.
Your mercy held me, did not fail me.
All this, You had planned, to use me.

And, when all trials and scorn
Came to test me.
You gave me all that I would need.
You strengthened me so I’d not fail You.
Your kindness blessed me, it touched me.

And, when I needed the church
To lift up me,
To hearten me so I’d not fail,
You blessed me with folks who would love me.
Their presence with me, Your praise hailed!

And, when I walked through the valley
Of the shadow of the death,
And tears flowed from my eyes,
Still Your kindness was there for me.

Your touch, it healed me.
For I believed You.

When now I think about the ways,
Of the many, many ways
That You in Your great love
Show me that You’ll always care for me,

My heart, it thanks You,
And gladness fills me, fills me.

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AlexB23 said:

Yes. Sounds like End Times stuff...

Check out my pretty chill rant about this stuff here:

Lust Month is finally over

Hello folks. Today is a great day, cos Lust Month is finally over, or it will be in around 4 hours. https://www.christianforums.com/threads/putting-pride-to-death-matthew-6-2-2-corinthians-11-30-proverbs-11-2.8300243/

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RileyG said:

Some people still use "preferred pronouns" even if they are their biological sex.

I don't know why.

they want to be "inclusive"

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I didn’t know that until this thread.

February 19, 2012

We were battling sickness in our house for over a week. It appeared we kept recycling the same germs to one another. And, then I walked into our bedroom one day and turned on a light when my husband was sleeping. I didn’t think about it. The light was like a sharp stab to his eyes, though. And, then I felt really bad about it to the point of tears.

The head cold I had was really getting me down, too. So, all this was going on when I sat down to hear from the Lord, to see if he had words to go with the tune I believe he had given me to write.

So, when he began with the words, “You are loving and forgiving, Jesus, Savior,” I felt such comfort and reassurance from him at that time. Then, he led me to read Psalms 86, and to translate the psalm into New Testament terminology. So, this song is based off that Psalm, with Jesus Christ as the one to whom we are offering our prayer of praise, adoration, thanksgiving and supplication.

You are Loving and Forgiving

An Original Work / February 19, 2012
Based off Psalm 86

You are loving and forgiving,
Jesus, Savior, King of kings.
You provided our redemption.
By Your blood You set us free.
You are gracious; full of mercy.
No deeds can compare with Yours.
Great are You; there is none like You.
Glory be to Your name.

Teach me Your way, and I’ll walk in it.
O Lord, I will walk in Your truth.
May I not have a heart divided,
That Your name I give honor to.
I will praise You, O Lord, my Savior,
For great is Your love toward me.
You have delivered me from my sins.
Your grace has pardoned me.

You, O Lord, are full of compassion,
Slow to anger, bounteous in love;
Faithful to fulfill all You promise;
Glory be to Your name above.
Hear, O Lord, and answer Your servant.
You are my God. I trust in You.
Turn to me and grant Your strength to me.
You are my comforter.

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RileyG said:

Unfortunately, my room is very cluttered and my icons are everywhere. If I ever have energy, I need to organize.

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That is alright. We all can become disorganized. Anyways, I hope you have a blessed night, bro. It is getting late here.

Easy fixed...

‘From the River to the Sea, without HAMAS will be free’​

Now, if we want to understand this passage of Scripture in its correct context, it is very helpful if we can look at the Greek word for love, which is agape, and see what this love is all about. For this is not human love which is based in our emotions or that is based in the one we are loving, but this is love which comes from God and which prefers what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, godly, upright, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commandments under the New Covenant.

For this love engages doing for others what God prefers that we do whether or not our emotions feel the love. For we can even love those who hate us and who mistreat us and who do evil against us. We can do for them and to them what is loving and kind and godly even if our emotions are hurting from how they treated us. For this love centers in moral preference and it comes from God and so it will love like God loves us. For even when we were the Lord’s enemies, Jesus Christ died for us on that cross.

Now there are people who are misinterpreting this passage of Scripture because they are interpreting “love” with human understanding and not with biblical understanding. So they might end up condemning those who are living righteously and who are loving biblically because they are thinking humanly and not biblically. For they want the kind of love that just makes other people feel good about themselves, even if it requires lying to them and withholding the truth from them in order to make them feel good.

But in reality, a lot of that kind of “love” is selfish, and so it only says to others what makes them feel good because they want others to like them and to not turn against them. So they are not really loving like God loves, thinking about what is truly best for us, for what we need, but it is a very fleshly “love” that is often more about pleasing self than acting in true biblical love towards others. And so some of these people will condemn those who are loving biblically if that requires speaking the truth in love.

So, we need to understand this love from a biblical and godly perspective and realize that this isn’t all just about making other people feel good. Now are we to be encouragers? Absolutely! Are we to be those who make it a point to thank others and to acknowledge them and their accomplishments and who do acts of kindness towards others? Absolutely! But we are not to neglect agape love which considers other people’s true needs and which reaches out to meet those needs, even if it engages confronting sin.

So this agape love is not all about making everyone feel good about themselves all the time. There has to be a balance. For when God loves us, sometimes he encourages us in ways that bring us joy and happiness and that feel good to our emotions. And other times he encourages us more in a way of exhortation or urging where he may even have to correct us and warn us and convict us of wrongdoing in order to get us to turn about, to turn away from what is evil, and to follow the ways of righteousness.

So, my point here is that if someone is truly exercising spiritual gifts of the Spirit of God in biblical ways, then this is going to involve the kind of love which feels good to our emotions but also the kind of love that may not feel good, at the moment, but what is needed, and what is necessary, and what is truly loving and kind. For it is thinking about what the other person truly needs and not just about how it is going to make them feel at the moment. And this involves laying our lives down for others for their ultimate good.

But there is a balance to be required here. We can be overly harsh, and that is not good, and we can be overly soft, and that is not good. Jesus is a wonderful example for us in how he dealt with other people and in the words that he spoke to them and in the things that he did for them. He had the right balance, but then he is God. But he was still man, too, when he walked this earth. So just because someone is called of God to speak the truth of the Scriptures, in love, that is not to be taken as being unloving or unkind.

For, again, agape love prefers what God prefers which is all that is honest, faithful, upright, and morally pure, etc. And so agape love is not going to compromise the truth of the gospel and the teachings of the Scriptures in order to make people feel good. For we can encourage other humans in ways that do not compromise truth and righteousness and godliness and still be loving and kind. Again, balance! But balance is not compromise when it comes to biblical truth and righteousness and obedience to our Lord.

Yet it is true that if we have spiritual gifts, but we do not exercise them in agape love, then we have gained nothing. And this doesn’t require that everyone else see that what we are doing is “love,” but that we are truly doing for others what is in preference to what God prefers, which is all that is righteous, godly, morally pure, and honest, etc. and which does not compromise truth and righteousness just to make people feel good so that they will like us and not think evil of us. Again, Jesus is our example.

[Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

To Be Like Him

An Original Work / March 16, 2014
Based off Scripture

Crucified you are with Jesus.
To be like Him, oh, you’ll be,
Because He died at Calv’ry,
So from sin you’d be free.
Oh, what joy He brings into your life,
Giving life with Him endlessly.

Oh, what plans He has for your life.
Share the gospel faithfully.
Show the people He loves them.
Now His witness you’ll be.
Tell the world of sin about Jesus,
How He died for them on a tree.

Purifying hearts, He saves them,
Who believe on Christ, God’s Son.
Turning now from their idols,
New lives they have begun.
Jesus saves from sin; we’re forgiven.
Over sin, the vict’ry He won!

When He comes again to take us
To be with Him evermore,
There will be no more crying.
Gladness will be in store.
Heavens joys will now overtake us:
We’ll be with our Lord evermore.

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Disgusting!

I believe it would be safe to say that God does not judge us solely on our actions, but perhaps even more so on our intentions, on where our hearts are. If we hurt someone but our intention was loving, that's different in God's eyes than if we do it with the actual intention to hurt.

It makes sense that our intention to partake of Christ is necessary to actually receive the grace from ingesting the bread and wine. That's probably why the Catholic Church requires that one go to Confession before Communion. Confession is an expression of one's intention to receive Christ in the Eucharist. In other words, that you are taking it seriously, not just going along with the crowd.

This was a very interesting video.
Thank you for posting it.
The Baptist connection is surprising.

Good grief...Harris is a liberal? Why wasn't I told!

I thought that all her talk about gun control, climate change, women's rights, education and health was just a cover for her far right views. I'm so glad this despicable charade has been uncovered.

People are fond of reading more out of Scripture than was written in to it, in an understandable desire to fill in blank places. We are not told whether they were mature or not, so it is an unsubstantiated assumption to say that they were one or the other. It seems to be very difficult for some people to simply say, "We don't know."

That is GREAT NEWS!!!!!

Vambram said:

As always, my friend, it is a blessing to me to be able to share Christian music with all of my friends.

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Amen. It is a blessing to live in the internet age, as we can share our faith and Christian music of all eras through digital platforms, even though I like the 20th century, the 21st century has benefits.

BCP1928 said:

There is nothing unChristian about flying a US flag as a patriotic gesture--this is America after all. But it's just a flag, not a fetish.

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Agreed. That is true as well. For myself, I just had to do some housecleaning and keep my focus on God and drop stuff of this world, though for other things, it can be hard to drop worldly stuff. Patriotism has become harder for me after 2016 or so due to events that happened around then.

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I thought they were trying to help me figure out why my brain isn't functioning properly)

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In psalm 139 16 we read: " all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.". God has our life planned out for us from the beginning and we need to pray and ask Him to help us become the person He created us to be. They already told you about being born again and putting on the mind of Christ. Our job is to worship God and bring Him Praise, Honor and Glory. So we need to line ourselves up with Him and His plan and purpose for us and our life. In some cases we may not fully understand until we go to Heaven and then we will understand why we go through what we go through in our life here. You can rest and know God has all of this worked out for you and He will bring it to pass. We just need to trust in Him and He will never ever disappoint us. So continue to rejoice in the Lord and be glad. As they say the joy of the LORD is our strength.

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Jesus, Jesus how I trust Him (Psalm 9:10)
How I have proven Him over and over (Psalm 18:30)
I will not bow my knee to any other God but You (Exodus 20:3 & 23:24; Daniel 3:17-18)

The One I live and I die for (Romans 14:8)
Immanuel, God with us (Matthew 1:23; Isaiah 7:14)
Prince of Peace, Jesus (Isaiah 9:6)

I will not be afraid to speak Your Name (Hebrews 13:6)
I don’t care if they drag me off in chains (2 Timothy 2:9)
No power from Hell can shake my faith (Luke 10:19)
I’m not afraid to speak Your Name (Acts 4:29)
This body will starve these bones will break (2 Corinthians 4:8-18)
But as long as I’ve got the lungs to breathe (Psalm 104:33)
I will not be afraid to speak Your Name

Jesus, Jesus precious Jesus (1 Peter 1:18-19)
Oh for the Grace to trust Him so much more (Colossians 2:6-7)
You gave it all and I will live to give it all back to You (2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:17)
The One I live and I die for (Romans 14:8)

Immanuel, God with us
King of kings, Jesus (1 Timothy 6:15; Revelation 19:16)

I will not be afraid to speak your Name
The Name of Jesus, Jesus

I will never be ashamed (2 Timothy 1:8)
I will be bold for Christ (Ephesians 6:19)
And bring honor to His Name whether I live or die (1 Corinthians 10:31)

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Dear pain, oh, it's been a long time
Remember when you were holding me tight
I would stay awake with you all night
Dear shame, I was safe in your arms
You were there when it all fell apart
I would get so lost in your beautiful lies
I let you go but you're still chasing


Go ahead, you're never going to take me
You can bend, but you're never going to break me
I was yours, I'm not yours anymore
O-oh you don't own me


Dear hate, I know you're not far
You would wait at the door of my heart
I was amazed at the passion in your cries
Dear anger, you made me so high
You were faithful to show up on time
Such a flame that was burning in your eyes
I let you go, but you're still chasing


Go ahead, you're never going to take me
You can bend, but you're never going to break me
I was yours, I'm not yours anymore
O-oh you don't own me
Go ahead, put a target on my forehead
You can fire, but you've got no bullet
I was yours, I'm not yours anymore
O-oh you don't own me


You tempted me to look back
But everything that we had together was a lie

Go ahead, you're never going to take me
You can bend, but you're never going to break me
I was yours, I'm not yours anymore
O-oh you don't own me

Go ahead, put a target on my forehead
You can fire, but you've got no bullet
I was yours, I'm not yours anymore
O-oh you don't own me

Go ahead, put a target on my forehead
You can fire, but you've got no bullet
I was yours, I'm not yours anymore
O-oh you don't own me

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I never was the picture of a model son
A crooked criminal they caught holding the gun
It got so hard to see the truth from all the lies
Slowly becoming more and more what I despise
I never should've left my foot inside the door
Never content and always craving something more
I feel the darkness closing in on every side
It's time for something deep inside of me to die


The executioner puts the cross upon my back
How beautiful, the breath that is my last
Start praying over me last rites
I'm giving up the ghost inside
I'm hanging on the nails I drive
This cross is where I come to die
And I've waited so long
This is the hill I'll die on
Start praying over me last rites
This cross is where I come to die

You're not allowed to see the cards against my chest
I never trust nobody with my wretchedness
So I sit and try to fight this fight alone
I fake allegiance, can't decide which side I'm on
So I scream, beat my head against the wall
Forget the walk, can't even crawl
I abuse the wounds that grace healed
You say you love me, but it's hard to love myself

The executioner puts the cross upon my back
How beautiful, the breath that is my last
Start praying over me last rites
I'm giving up the ghost inside
I'm hanging on the nails I drive
This cross is where I come to die
And I've waited so long
This is the hill I'll die on

Start praying over me last rites
This cross is where I come to die!
Let the hammer swing down
I've made my peace
Said my goodbyes
There's no eulogies
When this convict dies

My beautiful executioner
My beautiful executioner
I've made my peace
Said my goodbyes
There's no eulogies
When this convict dies
I've made my peace
Said my goodbyes
There's no eulogies

Start praying over me last rites
I'm giving up the ghost inside
I'm hanging on the nails I drive
This cross is where I come to die
And I've waited so long
This is the hill I'll die on
Start praying over me last rites
This cross is where I come to die
Let the hammer swing down
I've made my peace
Said my goodbyes
There's no eulogies
This cross is where I come to die

I pray that God would strengthen and protect Bob and Mark in the midst of the persecution that they face. In Jesus' name, amen.

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This song has the classic Christian metal vibe to it that will ROCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!!!!
But, I promise that the lyrics are powerful by describing what Jesus Christ suffered when he dies on the Cross for our Sin.

Spiritual Jew said:

This is very disingenuous of you to put it that way. I do NOT refuse to obey God's law which is summed up in the 2 greatest commandments. I try to love God with all my heart, soul and mind and love others as myself in everything I do, so don't lie about me. You just broke one of God's commandments here, so you need to repent of your lie.

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If there is any part of the Mosaic Law that you refuse to obey, then you are a lawbreaker, so that is not lying. Everything commanded in the Mosaic Law is either in regard to how to love God or how to love our neighbor and a sum is inclusive of all of its parts, so by claiming to try to obey the greatest two commandments, you are also claiming to try to obey the Mosaic Law. If we love God and our neighbor, then we won't commit adultery, theft, murder, idolatry, rape, kidnapping, favoritism, and so forth for the rest of the Mosaic Law. What God was commanding to the Israelites two by giving the greatest two commandments does not mean something different from what Jesus was instructing us to do by quoting those commandments. The greatest two commandments are a lot easier said than done, so thankfully God gave us all of the other commandments to flesh out what it looks like to correctly obeying them. Someone who was correctly obeying the greatest two commandments would be indistinguishable from someone who was correctly obeying the Mosaic Law because they would both be following the same example that Jesus set for us to follow.

Spiritual Jew said:

What I'm saying is that we are not under the law of Moses and I am NOT saying that we can just ignore all 613 commandments in the law of Moses as if it doesn't matter if we put other gods before God or if we lie, murder or steal and so on.

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The position that we are not under the Mosaic Law is the position that we can ignore all 613 of its commandments.

Spiritual Jew said:

I again must tell you that Gentiles have NEVER been under the law of Moses but instead are under grace.

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In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Law of Moses, but you want God to be gracious to you instead of teaching you to obey it. The position that Gentiles have never been under the Mosaic Law is the position that Gentiles have never been obligated to refrain from doing what it reveals to be sin, that Gentiles have never needed salvation from sin, that Gentiles have never needed the Gospel message, that Gentiles have never needed grace, and that Gentiles have never needed Jesus to have given himself to redeem us from all lawlessness.

Spiritual Jew said:

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

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In Psalms 119:142, the Mosaic Law is truth, so grace and truth came through Jesus because he spent his ministry teaching his followers how to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example. There is no "but" in the Greek, rather John 1:16 says grace upon grace, so it is speaking about about example of grace being added upon another.

Spiritual Jew said:

And I believe you said before you don't follow all 613 commandments in the law of Moses. If you want to put yourself under the curse of the law, what gives you the right to pick and choose which of the 613 commandments you want to obey?

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The Bible repeatedly says that the Mosaic Law is a blessing, so do you think that those verses are wrong? While there are illegitimate reasons for not following God's commandments, there are also legitimate ones based on what is instructed, and James 2:10 is only speaking against illegitimate reasons. For example, not even Jesus obeyed the commandments in regard to giving birth or to having a period because he was not a woman, and James 2:10 is not suggesting that that means Jesus was a lawbreaker. Likewise, Deuteronomy 17:18 gives a law that is only for the King of Israel.