I am (grace) not come to destroy(law), but to fulfil(grace)... which things are an allegory. Comments?
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that is fine except for the tiny fact it contradicts everything written before it. Before Jesus you will find no place in the bible that says that the Law is ever to be fulfilled.
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jecrawford2010,\n\nMost people believe that grace is unmerited favor, and it is, but it is so much more. Strong’s Greek Dictionary defines grace (charis) as the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life. It wasn’t that many years ago that the gifts of the Spirit were referred to as Christian graces (charismata.) God’s grace is His influence in our heart that we see in our life.\n\nFor it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9\n\nGod’s grace makes it possible for us to see the truth of the gospel and respond in faith to become a new creature. All legitimate service for God begins with grace and is followed by faith and then obedience. Humility is simply faith and obedience. Jesus was the ultimate example of responding to God’s divine influence on His heart with faith and obedience. Jesus only did what He saw the Father doing and only said what the Father taught Him to say. The best scriptural definition of God’s grace is:\n\n… for it is God Who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. Philippians 2:13\n\nIt is God who provides the desire to choose His will and the power to do His will. He gets all the credit. Pretty simple isn’t it? When I was young, I was confused by Psalm 37.\n\nDelight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4\n\nI wanted the desires of my heart, but I didn’t understand how laughing and jumping and hollering was going to motivate God to give me the desires of my heart. So I looked up the word “delight” in my concordance. I learned that “delight” means to be soft and pliable. My duty was to be clay in the Potter’s hands, and then He would give me the desires of my heart. As He formed me, my desires were subject to change, but my desires would still be given to me. This is a wonderful picture of God’s grace and my only duty is to be soft and pliable and receive it.\n\nHe is truly the Potter, and we are only the clay. We cannot win as a Christian by our own effort. We need grace – the divine influence in our heart, and its reflection in our life. He does everything, and He gets all the credit.\n\nFor if, by the trespass of the one man (Adam), death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17-18\n\nThe Bible says that we will reign in life if we receive God’s abundant grace and the gift of righteousness. Humility and submission and obedience are interchangeable terms, and they are the prerequisite for receiving God’s grace.\n\nGod opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. James 4:6b\n\nI hope this helps.\n\nGod bless.
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The "sacrifice" issue is not just about animals,\n(which God never perceived as clean and unclean);\nFor God saw only good x 6, very good the 7th time.\n\nNor did God ever desire any sacrifice, for sin,\nis "of the law", which His Grace will not have,\nand the not part is not then, not now, not ever.\nPs 40:6; 51:16; Hos 6:6; Mt 9:13; Mt 12:7; Heb 10\n\nMt 9:13 Go ye and learn what meaneth:\n"I will have mercy, and not sacrifice".\nhttp://www.godshew.org/ShewBread5.htm#willx2\nWhich (law/grace)things(sons) are an "allegory".\nhttp://www.godshew.org/Allegory.htm\n\nIt OBVIOUSLY meaneth God will have grace, and not law;\nFor biblical & historical "evidence" makes it "EVIDENT"\nthat no man is justified by the law in the sight of God.\n\nAll who think other wise, the sacrifice wise, of the law,\ncan also bend over and dble kiss their cheri bums bye bye.\nAnd such is not to be merciless, but rather to be merciful.\nFor it won't change the end that's notably already written,\nbut it will make what's evident ever more evident unto all.\n\nThe "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
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We are all in the same boat. We all die in the end. All humans are frail. All are sinners and come short of the glory of God.\nIn the end we are either saved by the grace of God because of our faith and dedication to the belief in Christ as our Savior. Or we are forever cast into outer darkness because of our unbelief of Christ as the true Messiah.\n\nI think I understood your question. \nGod bless you. Your spirit runs deep and strong. I admire your curiosity for grace and law. And the differences between the two.
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Justify being considerate outside of a "religious" context? Well ... I do good for others or am considerate for one simple reason that has nothing to do with religion. Gravity is a physical law. I think that, and I underline "I think" because its just my opinion, that like gravity there is a mental or psychological law that operates along these lines ... "What goes around comes around." I've noticed that if I'm inconsiderate, well, that's pretty much what I get in return. If I'm considerate, well, I get that back too. So, as selfish as it may sound, doing good can be viewed as enlightened self-interest.
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Hello sweet little child.. :)\n\nThis is lengthy so please forgive me ahead of time..here are quite alot of scriptures to support that we can lose our salvation..\n====================================================\n1. Fall from grace - Gal. 5:1-4,13 \n2. Be led away with error - 2 Pet. 3:17 \n3. Err from the truth - James 5:19-20 \n4. Weak brother may perish - 1 Cor. 8:11 \n5. Fall into condemnation - James 5:12 \n6. Be moved away from the hope - Col. 1:21-23 \n7. Deny the Lord who bought them - 2 Pet. 2:1 \n8. Depart from the living God - Heb. 3:12 \n9. Can be a castaway - 1 Cor. 9:27 \n10. Can become accursed children - 2 Pet. 2:14 \n\nWhat the scriptures say. \n\n1 Parable of sower \n\nMark 4:16 (Luke 8:13) "And in a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; (they believe for a while) and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. \n\n2 Fallen from grace passage: \n\nGalatians 5:4 "You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace." \n\n\n3 Pruning passages: \n\nJohn 15:5-6 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch, and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." \n\nRomans 11:19-23 "You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you. Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again." \n\n4 Hebrews Passages: \n\nHebrews 6:4-6 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open shame. \n\nHebrews 10:26-27 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries." \n\nHebrews 10:38-39 "But My righteous one shall live by faith; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul." \n\n5 Doctrinal Apostasy passages: \n\nActs 20:17,28-30 "And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church." ... "I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them." \n\n1 Timothy 1:18-21 "fight the good fight, keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith. Among these are HYMENAEUS and Alexander" \n\n2 Timothy 2:16-18 But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are HYMENAEUS and Philetus, men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and thus they upset the faith of some. \n\n1 Timothy 4:1 &quo
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"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming."~ Colossians 3:5-6 (New International Version) Bible
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An undeserved gift. Grace is a gift beyond comprehension that comes from the universe itself. It can be a revelation or a tremendous feeling of love or some insight that reveals the true nature of how things are. Many times it comes when you find yourself in nature or when a letting go/total relaxation happens. Grace comes undeserved but we are quite worthy to receive it. The peace, love, and clarity it brings is actually who we all are at the center. It is a self-remembering and words are almost inadequate to describe it.
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One of the main themes of Ecclesiastes is that all is vanity. I think the purpose of writing a time for this and a time for that, and a time for this and a time for that is to show contrasts and that life is repetitive. If you have this, you have that, and if you don't have this, you have that. \n\nEverything we do is repetitive on earth and is vain. I think even though it does say thou shalt not kill in the Bible, I think the point is just to show contrasts. Our lives are repetitive on earth, only in God do we find real life. Real life either starts at salvation or with God in heaven.
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1 \n1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues 2 but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. \n2 \nAnd if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. \n3 \nIf I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. \n4 \n3 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, \n5 \nit is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, \n6 \nit does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. \n7 \nIt bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. \n8 \n4 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. \n9 \nFor we know partially and we prophesy partially, \n10 \nbut when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. \n11 \nWhen I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. \n12 \nAt present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. \n13 \n5 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. \nTable of Contents  Previous Chapter  Next Chapter\nFootnotes\n1 [1-13] This chapter involves a shift of perspective and a new point. All or part of the material may once have been an independent piece in the style of Hellenistic eulogies of virtues, but it is now integrated, by editing, into the context of 1 Cor 12-14 (cf the reference to tongues and prophecy) and into the letter as a whole (cf the references to knowledge and to behavior). The function of 1 Cor 13 within the discussion of spiritual gifts is to relativize all the charisms by contrasting them with the more basic, pervasive, and enduring value that gives them their purpose and their effectiveness. The rhetoric of this chapter is striking.\n\n2 [1-3] An inventory of gifts, arranged in careful gradation: neither tongues (on the lowest rung), nor prophecy, knowledge, or faith, nor even self-sacrifice has value unless informed by love. \n\n3 [4-7] This paragraph is developed by personification and enumeration, defining love by what it does or does not do. The Greek contains fifteen verbs; it is natural to translate many of them by adjectives in English.\n\n4 [8-13] The final paragraph announces its topic, Love never fails (1 Cor 13:8), then develops the permanence of love in contrast to the charisms (1 Cor 13:9-12), and finally asserts love's superiority even over the other "theological virtues" (1 Cor 13:13).\n\n5 [13] In speaking of love, Paul is led by spontaneous association to mention faith and hope as well. They are already a well-known triad (cf 1 Thes 1:3), three interrelated (cf 1 Cor 13:7) features of Christian life, more fundamental than any particular charism. The greatest . . . is love: love is operative even within the other members of the triad (7), so that it has a certain primacy among them. Or, if the perspective is temporal, love will remain (cf "never fails," 1 Cor 13:8) even when faith has yielded to sight and hope to possession.
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Three Fwd Wishes: Grace => Mercy => Peace(Rest).\n\nPst - the D-evils "believe" there is one God, yet perhaps what they believe is their law is God.\n\nThe "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen. \n\nSource(s):\n\nHoly Bible is not Holy Holy in the end is already written.
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"damn you God for doing this to me" <--- taking his name in vain.\n\n"I am God" <---taking his name in vain
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selfless, motived by love; not for self promotion, & done in both faith & humility
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Not a bad question!!\n\nNot sure that I can help though.\n\nThe first thing that came to mind was this quote by Hightower:\n\nDiscipline without Freedom is Tyranny.\n\nFreedom without Discipline is Choas.\n\n\nI hope that helps\n\nGood Luck\n\nJimmy
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If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.\n\n2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.\n\n3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.\n\n4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,\n\n5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;\n\n6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;\n\n7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.\n\n8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.\n\n9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;\n\n10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.\n\n11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.\n\n12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.\n\n13 But now faith, hope, and love remain-these three. The greatest of these is love.\n\n\nThat is love. xxxxxx
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It seems to me that what is being stated here is that only God (represented here by "Christ"?) matters and all else - all worldly pleasures, are worthless as dung.  All the temporary things will pass away, and to cling to them is to cling to what will be destroyed.  Only cling to God and the things of God, who is eternal.
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I'll try to find it.\n\nWow, this IS hard. Haven't found it yet. I'll keep looking.\n\nWell, I just CAN'T find anything with those exact words, no matter how or where I look. The closest I can come is this poem by John Milton, which seems to have somewhat the same meaning:\n\nWhen I consider how my light is spent,\nEre half my days, in this dark world and wide,\nAnd that one talent which is death to hide\nLodged with me useless, though my soul more bent\nTo serve therewith my Maker, and present\nMy true account, lest he returning chide,\n“Doth God exact day labor, light denied?”\nI fondly ask; by Patience, to prevent\nThat murmur, soon replies: “God doth not need\nEither man’s work or his own gifts; who best\nBear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state\nIs kingly: thousands at his bidding speed\nAnd post o’er land and ocean without rest.\nThey also serve who only stand and wait.” \n\nSorry.  I tried hard. It was a fun search. Good question!