Informative Article on God's Unconditional and Conditional Love ------

[Luce NDs]

The problem of god and the buried light (Jae Sous) is enigmatic to those determined about their personal wills!

 

[Luce NDs]

Hell is breaking out in the White House ... over what a powerful precident says is nothing but quid pro quo!

Thus teeth are pressed against something needing a bite ... mi R's?

 

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[U]PilgrimsProgress[/U] your quote -----maturity - is just try to focus on loving God and neighbour

That may be your view -----Spiritual Maturity to me means -----you don't just try to focus on God and neighbour --you do focus on God and neighbour ------God is the one who causes our Spiritual Maturity not us -----so trying to focus on God and neighbour will not get you to Spiritual Maturity --


DICTIONARY OF BIBLE THEMES – 5904 MATURITY, SPIRITUAL

Marks of spiritual maturity

Spiritual understanding Col 2:2 See also Ro 15:14; 1Co 2:6; 1Co 14:20; Eph 1:17-18; Heb 5:12-6:1

Discernment of God’s will and changed behaviour Col 1:9-10 See also Ro 12:2; 1Co 3:1-3; Gal 5:22-23; Eph 4:22-23; Php 1:9-11; 2Th 1:3

Stability Col 4:12 See also Eph 4:14; 2Pe 3:17-18

Care for the weaker brother Ro 15:1 See also Gal 6:1-2

Maturity is to be the aim of the Christian
Php 3:13-15 See also Lk 8:14 a reason for spiritual immaturity; 2Co 7:1; 2Co 13:11; 1Ti 6:11



The process of maturity

God causes spiritual growth Php 1:6 See also Gal 3:3; Heb 10:14

Possessing gifts of ministry Eph 4:11-13 See also Ro 1:11

Being equipped by the word of God 2Ti 3:16-17 See also Ro 15:4; 1Pe 2:2; 1Jn 2:5

Persevering through trials Ro 5:3-5 See also Heb 2:10; Jas 1:3-4; 1Pe 5:10

 

[Luce NDs]

All poor understanding of God ... but then if subsistence is an understanding below the norm ... sobeit!

Us at the lower level look up at the belly of the monster ...

 

[PilgrimsProgress]

You mean a masochist, don't you? Someone who desires punishment or pain? Though I guess Hell needs plenty of sadists, too.

Yes - sorry about that. (I either had a seniors moment, or conversing with fundies is doing my brain some damage)

 

[Jaebius]

There was nothing to recommend us. We weren't good. God's love in Christ stands out by contrast. God proves God's love toward us in that which Christ did for us. The effects of Christ's death continue. They're there today for all. That's God's love, a love which exceeds all we can imagine.

 

[Luce NDs]

For people of positive thinking ... is such negative comments about our guilt in changing the world ... a darker process ... ironic production? Thus we become waste of the gods of time ... once known in ancient Egypt as a tel ... like Armana!

All that really counted in being aware of the cosmos was the wee people! Those inflated believe us small things and deniable! Exorcised by brute force of BS ...

Except Ferdinand' gentle force of escapism ... thus we go on ... with considerable fabrication ...