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In the middle voice subject both performs and receives the action expressed by the verb. The Greek word "tasso" is interpreted in the middle voice in Acts 20:13. In the context of Acts 13, it makes much better sense that it be translated/interpreted in the middle voice in Acts 13:48 also. In...

You are welcome. I have been known to do that more than once.

Wrong topic.

The fact that one cannot earn salvation does not mean that one does not need to do something to receive salvation. The fact that a condition is required to receive a gift does not negate it being a gift. If someone promised to give you a million dollars if you would send him your name and...

Faith which is believing in God is a requirement. It is something that we must do. It is a condition for being saved. Scripture tells us that there are other things we must do also. For exmaple. Rom 10:8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is...

You need to be very careful in such declaration. Consider the following: Rom_10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 2Thess_1:8 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our...

You lie ! ! ! I believe in God's sovereignty in all things. I believe in His foreknowledge. I believe in God's predestination decrees. I believe in God's election to salvation. I believe in God's omnipresence. I believe in all of God's divine character traits. I understand Calvinism. I...

I have no trouble with any of those. However, none of them establish the Calvinist doctrine of election. Those are all quite in agreement with 1 Peter 1:1-2. 1Pe 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and...

The bible says you were born again? Where does it say that?

I am not an Arminian. I am a Christian. And I am a non-Calvinist. It is the Calvinist with the very low view of God. They posit that He has created billions of human beings for the sole purpose of sending them straight to hell. I don't say that at all. You make up stuff I say just like you...

The elephant in the room is Calvin. What you, and others who believe falsely as you do, fail to understand is that if God has preselected some for salvation, based solely upon His own sovereign will, then there is absolutely no need whatsoever of all those not selected to even have existed. Do...

We are saved by grace through faith. We stay saved by grace through faith. And the saved are no less required to obey God's law than are the unsaved. We are not under the law for salvation, but we are under the law for living the Christian life.

You didn't answer my question. I am not sure why. Perhaps you don't really know the answer, or you don't like the answer and don't want to state it. You have a body; it came from your parents. You have a spirit; that didn't come from your parents. Flesh does not beget spirit. So then, where...

So you do not think your spirit comes from God. Interesting. Who else to you think as the power to make, form or create our spirits? Did you not have a spirit before being born again?

Was the teaching of the disciples directly by Jesus Christ not the revelation of Jesus Christ?

Yes, of course, Spirit gives birth to spirit. Who is without a spirit? The spirit of man is what separates him from the whole rest of the animal kingdom. Everyone has a spirit. Everyone gets born with a spirit. That spirit is from God.

Yes, of course, but on what basis did He choose His elect? Try reading and understanding 1 Peter 1:1-2.

Yes, ritajanice, that is in the ESV, the NASB, etc., etc. So why did you bother to copy it here? What do you think it all means in the context of the discussion at hand?

The common translation/interpretation of Acts 13:48 is wrong. First the statement that they were appointed to eternal life stands in direct contrast and conflict with verse 46 where the blaspheming Jews "judged themselves" i.e., decided for themselves to reject eternal life. So how can that...