<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Too many links. Perhaps you could explain it to me so even a babe in Christ could understand. Surely such things of God need not be so complicated.</font><hr></blockquote><p> Well if you do not wish to read then I can not assist you (Acts 17:11). It is not complicated, just biblical. <br><br><blockquote>2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.</blockquote>As Joseph Hall once commented, “In the waters of life, the Divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade; and deeps where the elephant may swim. If we be not wise to distinguish, we may easily miscarry; he that can wade over the ford, cannot swim through the deep.... What infinite mischief hath arisen to the church of God from the presumption of ignorant and unlettered men, that have taken upon them to interpret the most obscure Scriptures, and pertinaciously defend their own sense!” <blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]I don't know how water regenerates unto salvation, since I nor Nee believe this even though having accussed of such. Isn't it amazing how men make mistaken assumptions about men to puff up self for whatever reason could there as they believe they perceive reality correctly. You said there were some wrong things also, what were they?</font><hr></blockquote><p> Nee believed in the Arminian "baptism in the Holy Ghost." I have already shown you “some” of what that belief entails historically. If you refuse to accept the history of a particular belief there is not much one can do. I could ask it another way: Was Nee an Arminian or Calvinist (I am giving Nee the benefit of the doubt here—he is closer to a mystic than anything)<br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]So some gifts are allowed to continue but others are not? Does it get confusing to pick which ones? </font><hr></blockquote><p> No it is not confusing for the redeemed (1 Cor 1:27-28, et. al.). Bible study is a wonderful gift God has granted us with. The Bible is not so difficult that you need a Ph.D. to understand it, nor is it so easy that you can be a lazy man and understand it. The OT says that children were to be stoned for certain offenses. Do you still stone children or was that something that was temporary in the OT? Do you set aside one day for worship? Oh, so that law still applies. The gifts, just like the law, take some studying to understand what is temporary and what remains to discern the truth.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Why do you think I dont understand Nee's context. My conscience is clear in understanding and satisfied.[quote] Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? How did I fail to address the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Is it not burial and ressurrection? I am not a Bible scholar on Christian possession, so I am not sure what would satisfy you of the hundreds of examples of men who were obsessed and and possessed in sin and thus by the evil spirit that inspires that sin. You could probably open the Bible to almost any page. I won't reply to your legalistic request of an example of laid out possession for everyone in the Bible in varying degrees has had evil influence in their lives at one point in their lives or another from obsessed activity leading to more pronounced possessed activity. </font><hr></blockquote><p>Legalistic request [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/rofl.gif" alt="rofl" title="rofl[/img]. Giving Scriptural proof for your assertions is legalistic? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/confused.gif" alt="confused" title="confused[/img]<br><br>No, once again for the third time my request is a Biblical request. One Scripture is all I am asking. What the problem is that you have Original Sin confused with Demon Possession. Do you know what Original Sin is? Do you understand the meaning of Total Depravity? Please do not confuse the issue by adding obsession to the mix. Our concern is only possession.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Let's deal with one thing at a time. I think we have enough questions on the table already to begin adding more. I believe Calvanism is fatalistically puffed up a killer of free will, a grand deception, not unlike how pentecostals use gibberish to feel they are saved, calvanists use total depravity and limited atonement for the same purpose.</font><hr></blockquote><p> Your understanding here is incorrect. You made a sweeping accusation: [color:red]Calvanism is fatalistically puffed up a killer of free will, a grand deception</font color=red> and offered nothing to support your statement. Maybe you can answer this and not be evasive: <br><br><ul>1. How many sins did Christ die for, and<br>2. how many people did He die for?[/LIST] If you do not have a proper grasp of how a person is born again, total depravity, regeneration, and conversion you will never understand the Bible or Calvinism? [color:green]But, I do find if unusual that you wish to talk about other topics and not salvation?</font color=green> [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/scratch.gif" alt="scratch" title="scratch[/img] This is not a good sign. <br><br><blockquote>[color:blue]1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:</blockquote></font color=blue>

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