[Faith Presses On]

I did read what you posted. And no, I’m not arguing to be argumentative. Are you? And no, I didn’t come full circle and agree with you.

Many other people have tried to talk to you about your theology here, Jim, and you’ve attacked us all and have not answered simple questions, like a couple I asked you. Such as, what church or group of believers or theology is closest to your beliefs? and what is your interpretation of 2 Corinthians 5:20?

“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”

And one more question. Have you been born again in Christ?

[Jim W N]

My "theology" as you put it is the doctrine of the Gospel of the Grace of Christ, the same "theology" as Paul laid out in scripture in the epistles which the Pharisees hated then as you seem to here, and of which Peter said,

as also in all his [Paul's] epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.

2 Peter 3:16.

The "theology" of the Pharisees on this thread of which you may be a member is the doctrine of hypocritical religious self-righteousness and the use of the law to condemn others of which Jesus warned his disciples,

Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees ["they're so sad, you see"].

Matt. 16:6.

Tell me, how are the Pharisees on this thread of which you may be a member, any different than these:

9 Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—that they might accuse Him. 11 Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? 12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other. 14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

Matt 12:9-14.

I don't know if you're born again, but I do know your Pharisee buddies certainly live by religion and the law which is the ministry of death and condemnation (2 Corinthians 3:7.9). Either way, they live by the carnal minds of their own fleshly ("leaven") thinking which is enmity with God.

If you are to "press on" to greater faith as you moniker indicates, you're going to need to repent of the dead works of the flesh and self effort and embrace the grace of God, "for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Eph. 2:8-9).