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It is God that works in us both to will and do His good pleasure. Not us but Christ. He doeth the work. And if Christ be in us, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.


Being baptized into Jesus Christ we were baptized into his death. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For we are dead nevertheless ...

Originally Posted by 5555

Originally Posted by Subduction Zone

What "written testimony"? It seems that you do not understand who wrote the Gospels. They were not written by eyewitnesses. The stories were not "written testimonies".

Here we have the problem.
Christians believe (without evidence) that the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John respectively and all completed before the end of the first century.
Non-Christians believe (without evidence) that none of the Gospels

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Originally Posted by Dottie

Originally Posted by Dartman

The truly mind boggling aspect of this discussion is, ALL this resistance is due to a refusal to accept YHVH God as a literal being, with a unique name. The Scriptures, both OT and NT, are written from this perspective, and every single Biblical explanation of God is from this perspective.

Reality reaffirms this perspective.

The ONLY source of ANY theories to the contrary is fiction, or ..... you know who.

Originally Posted by shroom

As you said several posts back MM501, this conversation

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Can the heart be known? For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. For there is not a good tree that produces bad fruit, nor a bad tree that produces good fruit. For each tree is known from its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. The good man brings forth good out of the good treasure of his heart. ...

In this blog my objective is to focus upon how the church is primarily taught within the New Testament (NT) as a visible authoritative body of baptized believers (true and false, wheat and tares) who assemble together on a weekly basis, which many believers today are either unaware of or reject.

The New Testament (Covenant) church is a visible authoritative (by God) body of baptized people who profess faith in Christ, who assemble together weekly in covenant relationship to function ...