Hi 94,

You say that because you speak from a fleshly perspective.

When we talk about God we should use the terms that He provides in scripture.

Person is not one of them.

Hi KW,

You allow your theology to dominate your view of God and scripture.

Where the Spirit of God is there is freedom.

Hi Miia,

Yes you have got to get past fleshly thinking that elevates man.

The whole of scripture is about the works and words of the Spirit.

For His own reasons God chose weak humans to show His power.

To humiliate the arrogant angelic beings He allowed us to be victors.

Hi KW,

God’s power shows up best in weak vessels.

But you think he was born perfect in faith?

Seems inconsistent.

Hi KW,

I believe you are still entrapped in traditional ways of thinking.

Break free and realise that the man we are told to follow we can follow.

Hi KW,

Was anyone else given such an advantage?

Do you think a fair God would ask us to follow someone with such a head start?

Hi KW,

All are given a measure of faith.

Nature itself provides any further evidence we might need.rom 1

but you think one was given more advantages than the rest of us who are told to follow him?

Hi KW,

You hope to gain perfect faith by running the race.

Will it be too late then?

Hi KW,

Have you always had perfect faith-whatever that means?

If not can you follow one who has?

Hi KW,

Ask and you shall receive is the promise.

Peter wrote in that vein and suggested we add

virtue

knowledge

temperance

patience

godliness

brotherly kindness

and

charity

These are for those who have been reborn from above like Jesus.

He was full of grace and truth.

To only have the amount God invested in us

is to fail the…[Read more]

Hi KW,

Peter urged us to pray for grace in his second letter.

But you think a man came always equipped with such grace?

Hi KW,

So not a human we can follow.

A big head start

Hi KW,

yes sorry it was for Gene who should also study what it means to become part of the Body of Christ.

By theological theory you deny that Jesus of Nazareth was a man like us.

Hi KW,

Gal 3.27

For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ Jesus have put on Christ.

Rom 6.3

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised 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, w…[Read more]

Hi KW,

Yes the Son is the greatest in the kingdom.

Those born into him who share his Spirit sit with him in heavenly realms.

Hi KW,

..both Jews and Greeks are all under sin. Rom 3

satan rules men by sin in the flesh.

Jesus is an overcomer by grace not inheritance.

He did not sin but condemned sin in the flesh

Hi KW,

Jesus was born of a woman.gal 4

But did he get a free pass through Job 25?

Hi KW,

So Job 25 applies also to the Son of man?

Hi KW,

Jesus Christ was the first man to walk in the Spirit.

Previously prophets had spoken for or worked in the power of the Spirit at times.

He is the second Adam, the firstborn of the new creation and plan of God

Hi Miia,

I agree.

Jesus was a vessel for God

He was a mouthpiece and instrument for the Spirit