Resolutions

Originally posted by chaney3
Yes.

Perhaps the most prevalent theme of what Jesus taught while He walked the Earth, is the importance of His word:

Understanding His word.
Not just understanding His word, but believing His word.
Not just believing His word, but following His word.
Not just following His word, but keeping His word.

Or if you want to look at it the other way around:
To keep His word, one must follow His word.
To follow His word, one must believe His word.
To believe His word, one must understand His word.

As you seem to have surmised, many do not believe His word. It's a real problem.

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Perhaps the most prevalent theme of what Jesus taught while He walked the Earth, is the importance of His word:

Understanding His word.
[b]Not just understanding His word, but believing His word.
Not just believing His word, but following His word.
Not just following His word, but keeping His word.

Or if you want to look at it the other w ...[text shortened]... d His word.

As you seem to have surmised, many do not believe His word. It's a real problem.[/b]

I do NOT follow the words of Jesus.

Originally posted by chaney3
I do NOT follow the words of Jesus.

Seeing as you don't believe His words, that goes without saying.

What's surprising is how few Christians I've come across who have even really read His words no less sincerely tried to understand them.

Given the importance Jesus gave His word, you'd think they'd all know them forwards and backwards and sincerely try to understand them, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

On the other hand, almost all have known the church dogma forwards and backwards.

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That is completely incorrect.

What in your mind IS "completely correct"?

In fact it is so incorrect and ignorant of the gospel that I doubt you are even a Christian yourself and are just trolling along.

THE gospel are the words that Jesus spoke while He walked the Earth.

But it would seem that you have something else in mind. What in your mind is "the gospel"? Would it be the dogma that you've been taught? I imagine that you know the dogma forwards and backwards.

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Are you completely unfamiliar with the many verses and passages where Jesus speaks of understanding, believing, following and / or keeping His word?

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
In a nutshell Jesus was saying that everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin and that his true disciples will be freed from committing sin.

Is that based on your misunderstanding of Romans 8:2, or did you literally get it from a nutshell?

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I seriously do not think he is being a troll. I do find your response interesting though. It seems to have upset you. So if he is trolling, its working very well.
Why don't you ask him to explain, and you explain your version?

Originally posted by twhitehead
I seriously do not think he is being a troll. I do find your response interesting though. It seems to have upset you. So if he is trolling, its working very well.
Why don't you ask him to explain, and you explain your version?

I agree.
I do not think that ThinkOfOne is a troll, and also, he knows the Bible well.
The dilemma with him is his opinion that humans are capable of living a sin free life, in which I disagree.

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Jesus was speaking the will of God, but the fact remains that there are many verses and passages where Jesus speaks of understanding, believing, following and / or keeping His word.

Here's but one example:

John 8
51“Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death.”

You can continue to pretend that this isn't the case, but Jesus said what He said. How is it that you don't know that?