Recent content by JBO

Not the same thing.

Yes, Adam was the first human created in God's image. But you said Abraham was the first man to receive righteousness by faith. That was what I was correcting.

The Bible doesn't say that. It says that righteousness was credited to him, but it does not say he was the first.

But it is not pointless. Because the mass of Christendom does not believe that the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ did actually reject the doctrine of the sin of Adam being imputed to all humanity. Jesus' sacrifice obviated any such imputation once for all mankind. The...

Dennis Prager, a devout Jew, has discussed this very question. Briefly, his answer is that taking the LORD's name in vane has nothing to do with vulgar language. Rather it is about doing evil and claiming it is being done in the LORD's name, i.e., by the authority of God, Himself. He says the...

That same person said, "I try to live as if I believed in God", meaning "I try to do what He says". And that is about as good as anyone can do.

I would agree with most of what you have said there. There is the indwelling Spirit and there is the empowering Spirit. The empowering Spirit gives the power to work signs, wonders and miracles. The indwelling Spirit is obtained by all who have been saved. The empowering Spirit was given...

That makes no sense whatsoever. Why would Jesus introduce water into the prescription in the manner that you suggest? It would serve no purpose to do that. It would only lead to confusion. The straightforward reading of the passage, given the introduction of John the Baptist, is that the...

Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:16; John 3:5: Acts 2:38: Acts 22:16; Romans 6:3-4: Galatians 3:26-27: Colossians 3:11-13: Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 3:21. The Bible never says anything about those who have not been baptized. I am saying that God has promised forgiveness of sin for those who have been...

It is one baptism with multiple results. It is in water baptism that God forgives the sins of the one being baptized and gives him the gift, the indwelling, the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Yes, you are correct; that commandment is not about swearing. It is about doing evil and claiming it is being done in God's name. A prime example of that is all the evil perpetrated under the Islam identity. All the evil that is carried out against the "infidel" in the name of "Alah" is...

Where did spirit come from? When was it "birthed? When was it rebirthed?

I they did, we are not that they did. Because that spells it out very specifically. The gift of the Holy Spirit is the indwelling Holy Spirit. The power to work miracles is not a sign of spiritual rebirth.

That is just one of the many reasons why the KJV is not my first source for biblical truth.

Who knows?