JonHawk said:
That's because in your gnostic mind you can sidestep the cross of Christ, (Col 1:19-24)
the intercessory work of Christ (Heb 5:5-6) and create your own god.
Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, Acts 2:44
Why bother with your empty implications?
Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares
us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
our faith, Heb 12:1-2
Of course you do, but outside of Christ you're dead in transgressions, which means you don't have access to His Spirit.
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 2 Cor4
And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. Rom 8:9
That is, those who
are the children of the flesh, these
are not the children of God; but the children of the promise; Rom 9:8