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I think maybe you will like this formulation, Grace: The stimuli from our flesh (hearing, seeing, etc.) goes first to our SPIRIT (mind, emotions, and will). Then, in the exercise of our mental processes (psychology), the spirit considers what one already has learned and understood in the SOUL...

Yes, sir! That was OT teaching. And they also taught that the soul or "ghost" was the spiritual body or person .. like when Jesus commended His spirit to the Father and "gave up the ghost." And so this is the "ghost" that we receive when we receive the Holy Ghost, Acts 2:38. It is "Christ in...

Starting with the soul, it is the soul that dies spiritually on account of willful trespass of God's commandments, Ezek 18:20. So it is the soul that is cut off from God. Man is soul, spirit, and body - 1Thes 5:23. As we know, the spirit and body are still alive. So what is alive is the...

I'll get back to you, but no. Most Christians, in fact, have the soul and spirit aspects of man reversed. It was only be beginning with "it is the soul that needs saving" (Jas 1:21, 5:20, etc.) that I was able to straighten the roles out. It is a worthy study, though. :) skypair

In my studying of the psychology of salvation, I've learned that the superego (our soul = heart + conscience) by nature restrains/superintends the ego (our spirit = mind + emotions + will). From birth or early childhood, we "by nature do the things contained in the law … show the work of the...

One thing for sure .. it is a copycat mark. Rev 7:4-8, 14:1 tells us that God is going to "seal," mark in their foreheads, the 144,000 saved of Israel. At the time of the mark of the beast (which is after God has sealed His faithful unto life), AntiChrist will be wanting to mark is unto "life"...

Yes, of course. But "receive from God the desire…" means we receive it from the Spirit of God .. the Word of God .. the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is not some "magical" event in our lives like regeneration or prevenient grace. And it does originate from a heart that is convicted of sin by the...

I don't believe this, Rev 16:15, is a reference to the 2nd coming but to the pretrib rapture. Look at Rev 3:1-3 and see that if Sardis didn't repent, Christ would come on them as a thief .. but there were still some who had not defiled their garments and who would be (IMO) raptured. Also, 2Cor...

I think you are taking away the purpose of the sacrifice by saying that we need not accept it on our own behalf by repenting of sin in order to receive forgiveness. Are we not to offer ourselves a "living sacrifice" in order to receive new life in Christ (Ro 12:1)? Are we not also called to...

"Out of the heart proceed the issues of life." (Prov 4:23) What others share with you as the way to salvation is what is in their heart. skypair

Biblical salvation is the gospel of "repentance unto life." (Acts 11:18, cf. 2:38, 3:19, 17:30, 20:21, 26:20) Salvation rests on YOUR decision. This gospel is given to us in Acts. Calvinist salvation is election unto life as taught in their gospel, the epistles of Paul mainly. Salvation rests...

Mainly that they believe in "faith alone" or in "works." They have it in their minds that they are saved but not in their hearts. skypair

My testimony is that, when I repented of my sinful nature and sin guilt, God took away the sin on my conscience, opened my spiritual eyes to kingdom truth, and I had "joy unspeakable and full of glory, Receiving the end of my faith, the salvation of my soul." (1Pet 1:8-9) Do you know what it is...

I have several folks who tell me that they were Arminian before they were Calvinist. And why wouldn't a person switch? If 1) Arminianism didn't work for them and 2) Calvinism is the least costly ("all of God") and OSAS "Cadillac" of salvations, that's a no-brainer, isn't it? As I see it, they...

The issue really is .. is what you call "faith" anything more than simply "belief?" Is it any more than "I think I am saved?" How have you proved to yourself that you are saved? Or does God have to prove that to you? Faith comes by evidence, Heb 11:1. What is your evidence? So there is a...

Spite is protective of our thoughts and actions which we feel help us to cope with life. This is a reductionist view. First off, our sin isn't always against God. Sin is simply "missing the mark" that is necessary to succeed. "Trespass" is the term the Bible uses to denote breaking God's...

I realize that is what you think it means. However, but Adam is our "head" in everything human. He saw God at creation — our "angels do always behold the face of God" as infants/children. He fell — we fall. Etc. Bias to sin = seeing our flesh instead of seeing God first. Basically, bias to...

I see the word "trust" bandied about as if it means "faith" .. as in "faith alone." But the kind of trust spoken of is simply strong belief. In my life I have believed many things that proved later to be false (just as you have of others' religions). But they trust in their religion just like...

If there is such a thing in Adam, it should include his entire headship .. his fall as well as his salvation. Let's face it .. Adam stands for all man. We are all created like him at birth - not corrupt nor incorrupt but CORRUPTIBLE in spirit, soul, and body. Like Adam, we fall from grace (fall...

You won't be surprised that I disagree. :) Why don't you go back to Genesis and show me the gospel Abraham believed in? I'm pretty sure it is the gospel of the entire OT .. the "gospel of the kingdom" of the coming Messiah, Gen 3:15. Job knew it, Job 19:25-27. skypair