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    What is the curse of the law?

    Whoa ... what's with resurrecting a 2 years old thread :P
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    Rejecting Sola Fide

    Regarding eternal salvation in relation to the kingdom reward, I find that we must avoid extreme theological views. One extreme view insists that we are saved eternally and that we can lose neither our salvation nor the kingdom reward. The other extreme view claims that salvation is conditional...
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    Is there marriage in heaven; explain Jesus response.

    The Sadducees were another sect among Judaism. They did not believe in the resurrection, nor in angels, nor in spirits. While the Pharisees were supposed to be orthodox, the Sadducees were ancient modernists. In order to help the Sadducees know the depth of truth implied in the words of the...
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    Anybody Sinless ? as Jesus is ?

    Rhetorical? :D
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    Need help: What does John 1:18 mean

    Why has no one seen God? It is because God is invisible. Jesus said that He was the only Begotten of the Father; He expressed the invisible Father. When you see the only Begotten, you see the Father. Context :P
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    What is the curse of the law?

    The entire human race, however, is against His law and is breaking it. Therefore, the sinning race of mankind is under a curse, the curse of the law. This is the reason there are so many calamities, tragedies, and sicknesses, all of which are an indication that mankind is under the curse. But...
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    i'm reading Isaiah 57....

    Literally, this does not refer to being right versus being wrong. Uprightness means that it can stand as something constant. Some versions say that this is a steadfast, constant, or firm spirit. An upright spirit is a spirit that is immovable, unshakable, standing constantly as something firm...
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    there was a reading of Deuteronomy today....

    :D Well ... Isaiah 58:1-9a describes the hypocrisy of the house of Jacob. They fasted, but they did many things in pursuit of their own interests. The main point was they did not rest in God nor take Him as their nourishment and life supply. This was their hypocrisy. The law with its ordinances...
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    Did God make a multiverse?

    But the idea might be ideal for explaining predestination and free will :P
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    there was a reading of Deuteronomy today....

    Well, that will be a surface understanding of it. But we can go deeper. Try not to focus on the deed or action but the revelation of who God is. When Christians today speak of the law, we mostly have a bad impression. [And our Adventist brothers are not making it any easier. ^_^] Many when we...
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    there was a reading of Deuteronomy today....

    Since the Old Testament are types and figures of Christ, we can start from there: Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers not only show that God's testimony is equal to His word and ordinances, but that the two tablets of stone, upon which the laws were inscribed, were called the tablets of testimony...
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    Why would God presence himself in a bush?

    Well, I think you can guess that the thornbush symbolizes spiritually, a called one (believer) or in this case, Moses. This indicates that everyone who is called of God must realize that he is just a thorn-bush with a fire burning within him and that this fire is God Himself. Although God...
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    Why was the Ten Commandments given?

    To fully understand the law, I found that these three aspects of the law are helpful: the principle of the law, the commandments of the law, and the rituals of the law. If we do not differentiate between these three things, we will never have a proper understanding of the law. As we know, the...
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    On The Visible and Invisible Church

    I guess there is two aspects to the church. There is only one church in the universe; thus, the church is universal, comprising all the believers in Christ throughout time and in every place (Eph. 1:22). The universal church comprises all of God’s redeemed saints in the New Testament age. It...
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    What is Grace?

    Among the eight writers who participated in the unveiling of the divine revelation in the New Testament concerning the grace of God, three are particular, that is, John, Paul, and Peter. In John’s writings: In his unveiling of God the Father being life in the Son as the Spirit to the...
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    The prophet who speaks ...

    Ah, the other aspect of the truth. The best section of the Word to see this two aspects will be in Ephesians 4. On the one hand, God gave some as the "joint of rich supply" in "And He gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers." (Eph. 4:11)...
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    The prophet who speaks ...

    :D The "normal" condition and reality of the OT prophets is that all Christians in the New Testament should prophets (1 Cor. 14:31) ... able to speak for God, speak forth God and dispense God into people that they can be saved, be builded up :D
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    From the Orthodox Study Bible: The Law

    THREE LIVES AND FOUR LAWS I guess we Christians are quite complicated :). Besides the three lives, there are four laws related to us. Each of the three lives within us who are saved has a law. Besides these, there is the law of God outside of us. 1. The life in man’s soul is the created...
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    Saved??? From what???

    Ooo .. never realized that you replied my post. Actually it was from Romans 5:21 and 6:12, which show that, sin reigns in death. Sin, like every other king, needs an authority in order to reign. The authority of sin is death. Sin has authority to reign as a king in death. Romans 5:21 and 6:12...
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    Saved??? From what???

    1. “Save His people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). The first result of the Lord’s salvation is deliverance from sin. The Lord’s salvation saves us from our sins. Whoever receives the Lord’s salvation is delivered from the punishment and authority of sin. 2. “Redeemed us out of the curse of...