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Have you been living in a cave?What is Robocop? I do go to auctions though and do buy for a dollar.
Evidently! I have to many things to do beside watch the sewer pipe.Have you been living in a cave?
Reve 6:15 And the kings of the land and the greatest and the thousand-chiefs/chief-of-thousands and the rich ones and the strong ones and every bond-servant and free man hide selves into the dens/caves/sphlaia <4693> and into the rocks of the mountains.
RoboCop (1987) - IMDb
I don't think anyone here is advocating that we willfully sin, but yet by dismissing God's instructions, any of them, it is much easier to commit sins of ignorance. But is it merely sins of ignorance (not knowing) if we choose not to look at such instructions and apply it to our lives?
Naw I doubt it. Read my last sentence again.Well, Jesus said that 'by their fruits you will know them'. I could turn your statement around and say that anyone can think they're a Christian in reality without truly being one. In any case, Catholics believe salvation is a process, worked out over time (we're saved, being saved, and will be saved). We have the confidence of salvation without the 100% certainty that only God is privy to. For our part we must continuously choose-we must persevere in doing right, in growing in faith, hope, and love for God, which expresses itself in how we live and treat others. IMO that's a balanced understanding of it all.
I graduated long ago and don't have a schoolmaster any more.I don't think anyone here is advocating that we willfully sin, but yet by dismissing God's instructions, any of them, it is much easier to commit sins of ignorance. But is it merely sins of ignorance (not knowing) if we choose not to look at such instructions and apply it to our lives?
The desire to obey comes through the flesh?? I'm not even answering this one.
The lack of desire to obey God comes from self, not the Holy Spirit. To want to disobey God is unholy. And I'm sure we've all been there, but that doesnt' mean we shouldn't obey Him. The Holy Spirit prompts us to obey, never to disobey.
I think when someone views the law as ugly and damaging rather than given by God, it's going to look like a drudgery. But King David said 'oh how I love Your Law" and even Paul said the law is holy.
Mat 5:48 tells us to be perfect. This created a problem for me until I understood it meant complete and not flawless. What do you think it means
Normally I don't say such things before Finals.I graduated long ago and don't have a schoolmaster any more.
Well, Jesus said that 'by their fruits you will know them'. I could turn your statement around and say that anyone can think they're a Christian in reality without truly being one. In any case, Catholics believe salvation is a process, worked out over time (we're saved, being saved, and will be saved). We have the confidence of salvation without the 100% certainty that only God is privy to. For our part we must continuously choose-we must persevere in doing right, in growing in faith, hope, and love for God, which expresses itself in how we live and treat others. IMO that's a balanced understanding of it all.
I remember a scene in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" where Tim Robbins had to crawl thru a sewage tunnel underneath the prison he was at to escape......eeewww!Evidently! I have to many things to do beside watch the sewer pipe.
Do a word study on the word used there.Considering that God is completely perfect, and that it says to be perfect as God is perfect, could it be anything less than absolute perfection?
Normally I don't say such things before Finals.
Seriously, I'd like to keep more in touch with my schoolmasters than trying to go it alone. They're often wiser than I am.
I definitely agree with fhansen! Like I said before, we can't be passive about the Christian life. Faith must have works or else that faith is dead. God shows us throughout His Word what it means to follow Him, what it looks like. God both shows us WHAT to do and also HOW to do it.
Mat 16:24 said:Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
I am game for thatDo a word study on the word used there.
Can we ever attain perfection in this lifetime? Are there any perfect human beings? Has there ever been any perfect human beings? (Besides one Man of course, and two that were, Biblically speaking). What are your thoughts?
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