We differ. Your last sentence is intriguing because you think it strange that a Christian would "hold Christ apart from every other person in every regard"??? He is God...we are not... and that certainly qualifies a special position set apart from every other person. While he was man he was still God and knew no sin...is there any other ever like that?? Just think for one minute about the creator of the universe humbling himself to become a man. That is pretty special!

We do differ. I don't share your view as Christ as God.

The Holy Spirit is accessible to everyone through the blood Christ. He isn't at our beck and call like some lackey.

Do you want to read that again? If he's accessible to everyone through the blood of Christ he's still accessible to everyone so yes, in a sense, he is at our beck and call. You just need to know how to call him.

God being like Sun Tzu is an insult to everything God is.

There's nothing wrong with pointing out qualities people have and saying "God is like that." You're hung up on semantics. You're coming to God's aid as if he needs your help. I think he's doing just fine without you feeling the need to stick up for him like this.

BTW "our righteousness is as filthy rags...there is none righteous no not one."

Again, we differ. I'm not into that Paul stuff.

Do you still want to claim any merit...personally I don't. I have nothing to offer God except a contrite heart

That's still an offering. You talk out of both sides of your mouth when you say there's nothing you can offer him, and then proceed to list something you can offer him. This is a problem I have with mainstream Christianity, which I really just view as Paul-ism. It's nothing but idolatry at its core. I think Christ did his best to waken people up to the reality of their own lineage, not just his own, but alas, humans prefer easy answers for the absence of the miraculous in their lives. They want an idol to worship, to save them, rather than accept responsibility as a Child of God, which Christ said we were. "Is it not written in your law, 'I have said, ye are gods, children of the Most High. If they were called Gods to whom the word of God came, wherefore do you persecute me for saying I am God's son?"

I think Peter got the message.

Paul, not so much.

We differ. Your last sentence is intriguing because you think it strange that a Christian would "hold Christ apart from every other person in every regard"??? He is God...we are not... and that certainly qualifies a special position set apart from every other person. While he was man he was still God and knew no sin...is there any other ever like that?? Just think for one minute about the creator of the universe humbling himself to become a man. That is pretty special!

We do differ. I don't share your view as Christ as God.

The Holy Spirit is accessible to everyone through the blood Christ. He isn't at our beck and call like some lackey.

Do you want to read that again? If he's accessible to everyone through the blood of Christ he's still accessible to everyone so yes, in a sense, he is at our beck and call. You just need to know how to call him.

God being like Sun Tzu is an insult to everything God is.

There's nothing wrong with pointing out qualities people have and saying "God is like that." You're hung up on semantics. You're coming to God's aid as if he needs your help. I think he's doing just fine without you feeling the need to stick up for him like this.

BTW "our righteousness is as filthy rags...there is none righteous no not one."

Again, we differ. I'm not into that Paul stuff.

Do you still want to claim any merit...personally I don't. I have nothing to offer God except a contrite heart

That's still an offering. You talk out of both sides of your mouth when you say there's nothing you can offer him, and then proceed to list something you can offer him. This is a problem I have with mainstream Christianity, which I really just few as Paul-ism. It's nothing but idolatry at its core. I think Christ did his best to waken people up to the reality of their own lineage, not just his own, but alas, humans prefer easy answers for the absence of the miraculous in their lives. They want an idol to worship, to save them, rather than accept responsibility as a Child of God, which Christ said we were. "Is it not written in your law, 'I have said, ye are gods, children of the Most High. If they were called Gods to whom the word of God came, wherefore do you persecute me for saying I am God's son?"

I think Peter got the message.

Paul, not so much.