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1 | With Fear and Trembleing | Ephesians | dispen4ever | 208841 | ||
http://www.tgm.org/aogWholeArmor.htm Read James 4:7 We cannot possible work out our own salvation. To even try would leave us full of fear and trembling. We rely totally, completely, without exception on God. See John 14:6, John 3:16-17, Romans 10:8-13. Once you have confessed Him as Savior and are following Him as Lord, He is the source of your strength, your stamina, your ability to follow in His footsteps --- you've been saved! Therefore, there is nothing for you to "work out" !!!!! Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!! |
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2 | With Fear and Trembleing | Ephesians | DocTrinsograce | 208872 | ||
Hi, dispen4ever... This Greenwood fellow certainly stretches Paul's metaphor much farther than the Apostle would have ever imagined. Paul would never have guessed that the human head contained the seat of consciousness -- in his day, the universal opinion was that human conscience resided in the heart. It also amazes me how people take this metaphor of the armor, pulling it out of context. Ephesians, like many of Paul's epistles, contains indicatives and imperatives. The first half of the book is full of indicatives, the second half full of imperatives. In other words, the imperatives arise directly out of the indicatives. All the commands of Scripture are rooted in doctrine. If we lose sight of the doctrine -- or neglect it entirely as Greenwood has done -- the imperatives give rise to pointless legalism. (Of course, that ends of appealing to the masses, which might explain why such teachers manage to continue to pull down a salary.) These things are only the beginning of problems with this article. No, if resisting the devil is not based in the complete and ongoing work of every member of our Triune God -- as the prior chapters of Ephesians state -- we simply lade our readers with another problem arguably more serious than the first! In Him, Doc |
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3 | With Fear and Trembleing | Ephesians | jlhetrick | 208874 | ||
Doc- First of all, thank you for taking the time to read and consider the article by Greenwood. Second- thanks for pointing out some of it's blunders (I just finished reading it myself) otherwise many who are younger in the faith may end up doing what many of us have done. That is the quick building of unsound doctrine that will take much time and effort to correct later on. Of course, some will never unlearn it, or better put... replace it with the soundness of Scripture. Note to everyone reading... It's important to ensure that articles and websites we point to are sound in their doctrine. |
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4 | With Fear and Trembleing | Ephesians | DocTrinsograce | 208876 | ||
Thank you for the encouragement, brother Jeff. | ||||||