What does your bible say a true 'christian' is ? ...

Saints were once sinners ...

Looking for a universally agreed basis of what 'god' is , we only find that 'god' is 'love' ...

Looking for a common denominator of ALL christians we find belief in the God of love and His scripture ...

Thus the problem of divided christianity that reflects disastrously in the structure and running of this site is that men do not yet uniquely understand God's word , whereas God 's word states that it is not of ANY of the private interpretations men put upon it without understanding it completely, as a whole :-

Luke 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

2 Peter 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

We could thus start reproving our beliefs to take account of all the scripture, because Jews often tend to ignore the NT [even MJ] and 'christians' tend to ignore the OT ... much can be resolved and reproved by seeing that the OT is not only about the old covenant , but about prophecy of the future and the new covenant of grace [Jer 31:31-34] ... and that the NT is about the Messiah of Israel , long-awaited and still awaited by many Jews ...

The scripture as whole makes clear the role of Israel ,that they were rejected , but are now to be accepted back by God because He has put His name on them, it also explains the role of apostate divided christianity which christians know about , but turn it into dispute instead of coming to reprove their OWN beliefs to the one truth scripture asserts it represents uniquely

The beginning step in this is to accept the definition of a CHRISTIAN set by God, not the one invented one this site following a much later tradition than the saints who wrote the NT ... te earlier definition is both more in line with scripture and resolves all the conflict of the current situation in christianity, division of belief which shows almost everyone must be wrong ... the answwer is reproof to scripture then, so everyone is moving toward the beliefs set down by God, not what has transpired since as sinners invent doctrine after doctrine to divide men [when God offers the spirit of truth to unite men]

Here then is the definition by God of what a christian really is :-

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

It must be clear to all that most who say they are 'christians' do not depart from iniquity , most even have died still sinners, still not obeying Jesus' command to love ...

But that is the very point , given all truth of God as promised by Jesus [John 16:13] one would be able to resist all Satan's temptations and love continually ... that then is the very purpose and reason why the trial of faith is precious , it tests if one has understood all truth from the spirit and so has departed from sinning , perfected one's love ...

It is simple to see that sin is simply unlovingness, breaking Jesus law of love, his commandment as lord to love ...

Jesus backs this up very strongly indeed by saying that he never even knew those who will still be sinners by the time of his return, and he certainly will not take any who have not departed from sin and so perfected their love [what John the baptist calls 'baptism of fire' the testing of faith given by God with his spirit of truth]

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Matthew 7:23 And then will I [Jesus] profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

It makes sense to take these words of Jesus and the saints seriously, not to water them down and discount them because most men find it impossible to stop sinning...

St Paul was sent as apostle to the gentiles who are sinners till death, there is then a role for teaching the gentiles the truth of scripture ... it simply does not matter that all the first 144,000 are saints of tribal Israel [Rev 7:3-8] because they are only first since God requires the perfect priesthood readied first , the many [who as we know go by the broad way] are saved afterward according to Jesus [Rev 7:9-10], what matters it to men if God does things in order, not saving all at the same time?

The site then will hardly be for saints unless they come to teach the gentiles the truth, but from Jesus' numbering there can only be about two thousand saints alive at any one time, scattered worldwide now the seven churches of God lie in ruins with no congregation of saints there any longer ... rather the site should perhaps accept that sinners are not YET fully christians because they do not obey Jesus as lord, cannot do so until after spirit baptism because of Satan... then we shall stop all trying to prove pet theories right and simply all aim to understand how scripture shows that god will overcome our sin in good timing of His written plan, not by our wishful thinking that we must be first necessarily... we know we are not baptised of the spirit if we are still sinners not knowing all truth of God [John 16:13]

We may be on the way to spirit baptism, who can tell whom God will atke first, but wgat does it matter if God elects us to be second, ... or third for that matter ...

he site should not pander to sinners in its structure, but follow the scripture ... that means ditching the man-concocted bureaucratic rules and substituting scripture as the authoritative law here ... love being the only acceptable interaction to aim for, and people being LED toward it by the site, not punished ,often unjustly and in Draconian manner, on the basis of the only limited judgement of other sinners ... Jesus warned against this sin against fellow men, we are not up to judging each other, harming ourselves by pretending we can... and the site is wrong to tempt people to do so... even the power of mods corrupts them often to do unloving acts in the name of the site... it simply is not fair to tempt people to use powers of judgement they do not have until they are without sin themselves... the site continually does injustice and censorship , it is not love ,a dn has n place here if we are even aiming to be christians...

1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid.How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

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