Gideon, about your comment about the "name thing". The reason I mentioned both of those names was not to accuse you, it was to show people where to look to read the things that you will be saying now, because you have already said them. And if I only mentioned the one name, they would be missing some of what you said.
But if you want to talk about the deception of it, you were in every way deceptive. Nobody on the forum knew that you were the same person, including myself, until I could see by the way you spoke that you were the same and confronted you about it through email. You only stopped being deceptive to I when I confronted you, but you never told anybody on the forum that you were the same person, so you continued to be deceptive with them. If you were honest, you would have introduced yourself as being the same in your first post after changing the name, but you never said that at all. And the time you stopped being deceptive to the people on this forum was after two years of deception, when I mentioned in that last post for people to look at both names to see what you have already said. It has been so long since you changed the name, I thought it must have been mentioned by now, but it wasn't until I did a search of the posts a couple of minutes ago that I saw that this is the first time it was mentioned.
Gideon, you said,
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First, it is coming to me that according to what it seems you're saying, you either think that your actions are perfect, or you condemn yourself as lacking pure and complete faith. Which is it, or am I misunderstanding you?
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Why ask this question when I have said the answer many times in this forum. I have probably said it several times in our conversations about this topic over the years.
To answer your question, yes, you are misunderstanding I. I don't condemn Iself, I just know how I must trod and I will trod this way and refuse any urge or tempation to trod away from it, until temptation cannot even enter I thought. I am not perfect, I am trodding to RasTafarI and RasTafarI is helping I perfect I ways. As long as I have breath, Selassie I has given I another second to Live by the example of Haile Selassie I.
If I was condemning myself, I would not change anything I do, say and think and I would not trod towards Oneness with God, I would pretend that I was perfect and be condemned by my illusion. But I don't deal with illusion and I don't condemn Iself. RasTafarI condemns all wickedness within and outside of myself. And I burn the wickedness in I thoughts and actions until they are no more.
Gideon, you said,
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Secondly, I want to point out that Paul said in a straightforward way that he is not the one committing those sins, so that he is not guilty. Are you saying that I am twisting his words, or do you have another interpretation?
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If you show me what part of I reasoning you are refering to when you ask this question, then I will answer.
Gideon, you said,
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Finally, this statement you made is clearly not consistent with the bible, or the dictionary, or common sense:
"Paul speaks about the importance of faith and grace but he also shows that when faith and grace is there, then righteousness is also there. And he shows that those that sin are a slave to sin and are not in the grace of Jah."
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grace has more than one meaning. And the grace that Paul speaks of has more than one meaning. One of the definitions of grace is divine inspiration from the Most High. So if a person refuses this grace that the Creator has so graciously given us then they have no grace but are lead by their own foolishness.
Here are some reasonings to explain the second sentence that you quoted.
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John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
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So as long as you commit a sin, you are a servant of sin, not a servant of the Creator. You can pretend and make the illusion that your sin is not really sin, but you have been warned by the many watchmen that have come since the beginning blowing the trumpet.
Here are some reading from Romans 5 and 6 to keep with this topic
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20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
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grace is much more abound because it is more powerful then sin and overcomes sin. Sin only reigns until the death of the sinful thoughts, but grace reigns through righteousness Iternally.
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1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
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Do you not understand what this is saying. If a person is dead to sin, then they will not sin.
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7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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When the sinful thought is dead we are free from sin and no longer a slave, or servant to sin.
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11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
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To trod with grace and not be under the law, a person must stop their sins. As long as a person sins, they are under the law, but when a person stops their sins, they are no longer under the law, because their is no law against righteousness, there are only laws against sin.
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15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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So who are you a servant of, the devil which promotes sin, or the Creator that promotes righteousness. Whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness
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17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
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A servant of righteousness doesn't sin, but a servant of sin does sin. And those that trod to be servants of righteousness and remove sin and have faith that the Most High will remove their sin, they will remove sin and become servants of righteousness.
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19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
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21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Do you see who are the servants of God, it is those who are free from sin. Those that yield their members servants to righteousness unto holiness, not those that have yielded their members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity.
Ark I
RasTafarI
Haile Selassie I
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