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So how do you define, "Repent and believe the Gospel", and, "without holiness no man shall see the Lord"? Also, on what standard do you put forward to confirm that a believer is showing the fruit of repentance?

Repentance is about what we need to stop doing. The Scripture clearly says that no liars will enter the kingdom of God. Repentance involves confession for sure, but it is not complete until we forsake the sin we are confessing, otherwise the confession is just chin music. Fear is one of the...

Paul found it hard to be good. He said that there was nothing good in him, that is, in his flesh. If we are trying to be good to please God then we are barking up the wrong tree! Repentance is all about what we stopped doing, rather than adding good works to our already level of...

The Bible definitely says that it is through the preaching of the Gospel that people are drawn to Christ: "For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe" (1 Corinthians 1:21).

When is a door not a door? When it is ajar.

So: The Father is God. The Son (Jesus Christ) is God. The Holy Spirit is God. That's a given. But are they the same person? The Modalist believes they are the one person manifest in three ways. But the Bible describes them as three separate persons. So, if the Bible describes them as three...

Modalism is a heresy that says that God is just one person and that He manifests in different modes, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament He manifested as Yahweh. In the New Testament He manifested as Jesus, and in the church He manifests as the Holy Spirit. This is opposed...

If the Bible says that God raised Christ from the dead, then if Christ was just a manifestation of God in the grave, who raised Him from the dead then? If the sole manifestation of God is the Father in heaven at this time, who is mediating between you and the Father? Who is your advocate in...

Modalists are not saved. To be saved, one must believe that Jesus as a real person died on the cross to pay the debt of sin to take upon Himself the eternal wrath of the Father. If there was no Father, and Jesus was just a manifestation of God, then this manifestation paid the debt and took...

The problem with Modalism, which describes the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as manifestations of the one-Person God is summed up as follows: 1. No actual person was crucified on the cross for our sins. It was merely a manifestation. This is closer to Gnosticism than orthodox Christianity. 2...

None of this is about me at all. I'm just a retired guy who reads the Bible.

Jesus said to the rich young ruler, "There is none good except God Himself". That is good enough for me. In fact, knowing that God is good is the most terrifying knowledge to have. This is because mankind, through Adam's sin, is essentially bad, and what would a good God do with bad people...

You need to keep the "you" statements out of the discussion. This is not a two-horse race. We all have our opinions and have a right to them.

Those who support acts of sin are partaking in those sins, and therefore accessories. This means that God sees them as sinning and unless they repent and stop supporting abortion, they will perish in the same way that those who actually have abortions and those medical professionals who conduct...

Here is Isaiah 22:20-24 in its right context. 20 “In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of...

I had a Mormon missionary give me a whole list of Bible references like that just to swamp me with references to stop me giving a reasponable reply to him. Peter, Linus, and Clement were leaders of the early Christian church, but never popes of the Roman Catholic Church which did not exist...

When we link it with the prophecy of Daniel concerning the iron legs of the image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream being pagan Rome, and then a small horn coming out of it speaking blasphemies as identified as the Holy Roman Empire and then it suffering a fatal wound (1798 when the king of France...

This is a typical Jehovah's Witness tactic to pile up Bible quotes, usually out of context, to control a conversation, so as to make it difficult to make a reasonable reply, then to accuse those who disagree that they are being brainwashed.

It was not until 313-337 AD that Constantine handed over power to the pope of Rome and went to establish his headquarters in Constantinople. The papacy was first established in 410AD with Leo the Great as the first effective pope of the Roman Catholic Church. It is identified as the time when...

It already started to happen in 508AD where the paganised Papal system persecuted the true believers, as prophesied in Daniel. Then the Papcy suffered a serious wound when in 1798 the king of France kidnapped the pope and separated the Papal church from the state. But as the prophecy stated...