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To: Eagle Eye
dangus--"They shall do greater works than Jesus did in the flesh, because they shall become the body of Christ."

Eagle Eye--"So you're ok promulgating the doctrine that NT believers do greater works than God, is that right?"

All works which are called good by God's standards only happen through faith in Christ. There are many good works performed by men independently of God, but will amount to being good for nothingness by Divine standards when judged eternally. They are also parlayed into evil by the Adversary in an attempt to counterfeit Paradise independently of God here on earth.

Faith upon faith, ...even greater works than what was performed by our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, while He was here in the first Advent, shall be done by believers in this mystery Church Age. They are indeed ascribed to the believer who performs the good work by volitional responsibility, but they are also only possible through the indwelling of God in the believer. Since the believer's volition is involved, he is also responsible for the work.

80 posted on 02/06/2007 9:04:04 AM PST by Cvengr
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To: Cvengr

I'd agree about 99% with you.

Technically, "good works" (Agathos ergon) can only be done by believers working via holy spirit, thus are blessed by God.

However, if Jesus is God, the believers are doing greater works than God.

Jesus himself promised that those of the church of the body would do greater works than he and I can believe that, but I cant believe that those same believers can do greater works than God.


89 posted on 02/06/2007 9:33:21 AM PST by Eagle Eye (There oughta be a law against excess legislation.)
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