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Christ came not to renew our old life, but to replace our old life with His. http://dtjsoft.com/union-with-christ/

We use oil at our church, but there is no power in the oil. The power is in the God we pray to (James 5:14-15).

Another passage on this topic is in Hebrews 12. For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls. You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with...

The Bible plainly shows Jesus to be God... Jehovah is the First and the Last: Isaiah 44:6 Jesus is the First and the Last: Revelation 1:17-18, 2:8 There can be only one First and one Last.

As James wrote, Abraham was declared righteous by God when he believed in him, not when he did the works. The works were only the evidence that what God had declared was true... And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness...

Yes, but those works justify us before man, not before God. James' point is how you show your faith before man, not before God. God was satisfied with Abraham's faith when he believed in Him. But we are not satisfied that someone has faith until we see the works. Here's another way of looking...

Nobody is saying Job was sinless. But the sins Job was accused of by his friends were false (Job 22:5-9), and he certainly had the right to deny those false accusations. Job did not claim to be sinless (Job 9;2, 14:4). All he claimed was that the things that happened to him were not the...

The works in Romans 4:5-7 refers to works used to earn salvation. The works James speaks of is works that are evidence of salvation. Salvation leads to works, not the other way around.

Some people are against physical discipline of children (like spanking). But I think the best result of physical discipline comes about later when they come under the Father's discipline. I hear too many Christians say, "Why did God allow this to happen to me?" when bad things happen, not...

Not necessarily. Repentance is just a change of mind. While many times it refers to turning from sin, it doesn't have to. God doesn't sin, yet He repented multiple times (Genesis 6:6, 1 Samuel 15:11, etc.). In fact, most uses of this word in the Old Testament have to do with God repenting. So...

James 2:21-24 does not show the full context. He wrote about faith shown towards man, not towards God,.i.e. how one human being can know whether another has saving faith (James 2:18). Salvation is by faith as Paul says. But saving faith will result in works, which are the outward evidence of...

As mentioned earlier, 'teaching the BIble' is very subjective. Satan quoted scripture when Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness, so even Satan can teach the Bible. But the question is, what is being taught? Is it accurate? Is it the whole truth? Is it what God wants you to know right now...

I think it is possible to be for or against OSAS, and still discuss the subject the subject with gentleness and respect for those holding the opposite view. But this subject and some others almost always turn into very ungodly verbal battles. It is much better to let the subject drop before the...

...and I'm not against candles, incense, etc. But as you said, the danger is in the distraction.

You will find incense mentioned in Revelation, but you won't find any teaching or instruction mentioning candles, incense, etc in the New Testament as a practice for Christians on earth. The old covenant had instructions like that, but not the new.

But how many of those will be truly saved? How many will be following Jesus instead of merely identifying with a particular religion?

Religion means different things to different people. In the Bible, the word is never used to describe how we follow Jesus, except in James where it is redefined as simply helping the needy and living uninfluenced by the world (James 1:26-27). Man tends to translate that into ritual, liturgy...

Upon reading this parable, I have asked myself, "If doing my duty results in me being only an unworthy servant, does that mean it is impossible to be a worthy servant?" But Paul showed one way to do it in 1 Corinthians 9:1-18. Paul recognized it was his duty to present the gospel, and therefore...

While Job was a type of Christ, he wasn't absolutely perfect like Jesus. He admitted he was 'unclean' like all men (Job 14:4). The three friends were entirely wrong about Job, and in the end, God said they spoke wrong about Himself (Job 42:7). Because of this, I think it may be dangerous to...

Some people are more 'wired' for tears than others. I am not. It is tempting to look at others who have experienced tearful repentance, and then think to myself, "I haven't cried yet... have I really repented?" But that is not what repentance is about. Even if I did have a break down, tears...