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What are these followers of Christ if they are not Christians? Acts 11:26 And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. called is from the Greek chrēmatizō refers to something from God Christian is a name Divnely given. Young's Literal Translation of Acts 11:26: "and having found...

As I pointed out the mark, the aim for man is doing the will of God, obey God's commands. Fear God and keep His commands for this is the whole (duty) of man, Eccl 12:13. Hence sinning is missing the mark in obeying God's will, sinning is not keeping His commands. The Christian can...

?? Christ did "taste death" for every man Heb 2:9. "Taste" means He did not really die?

Romans 1 and 2 Paul proves that both Gentile and Jew are under sin and those under sin are in need of justification. Paul's point in Rom 3:1-20 was to prove the Law of Moses that was given to the Jews could not provided total complete justification. Hence the law of Moses is not the solution...

Taken: Christians People are warned of falling from FAITH. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No, Paul and Peter warned CHRISTIANS over and over again about falling away, being seduced by false teachings People...

Kept by God CONDITIONALLY "through faith". One receives the promise of eternal life through faith and kepts it CONDITIONALLY through faith. The faithless have no such promise of eternal life. No where does God force people against their will to have faith and keep faith. Paul of his free will...

sin...Greek hamartia Strong's - miss the mark Thayer - failing to hit the mark So the idea of sin means there is a goal or aim man is suppose to be aiming at yet man misses it. That goal or aim is to be obedient to the will of God, obedient to his word. And when one misses that goal or aim, he...

The context of 1 Cor often gets ignored by those trying to undermine the necessity of baptism. There was sinful division at the congregation at Corinth, vs10-12. Instead of all following after Christ they were following the person who had baptized them, some said they were of Paul, of Apollos...

In the case of Simon, he believed and was baptized, as was those Samaritans per Mark 16:16......he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. If Simon was not really saved' no reason to think those Samaritans were really saved either. After being saved, Simon committed wickedness therefore...

People of their free will can choose to believe and people can by using that same volition also choose to quit believing. Luke writes of Simon that he "believed" (Acts 8:13) a statement of fact yet Simon fell away becoming lost due to his 'wickedness', he was in a state where he was perishing...

Christians are warned of falling, of apostasy. Both words carry the idea of a change in position...... apostasy...apostasia 646 apostasía (from 868 /aphístēmi, "leave, depart," which is derived from 575 /apó, "away from" and 2476 /histémi, "stand") – properly, departure (implying desertion)...

Hi, The promise of salvation is not obtained uncondionally nor can it be retained unconditionally. Therefore the OSASer cannot point to an example where God UNcondionally saved a person who was living and continually lived in disobedience, in defiance of God's will. Men must first...

....turning from God in disobedience becoming lost is men exercising their free will.

Salvation does not take away one's free will....men choose to obey to be saved and they can choose to turn away from God in disobedience losing the promise of salvation. This is why there are numerous admonishments, warnings to Christians about falling away, becoming an apostate. This is why...

Paul would be under the great commission as all disciples are from the first century through present time. (1) in the immediate context, Paul did baptize people (1 Cor 1:14,16) yet Paul did not sin nor was Paul to stop baptizing people for Paul was under the great commission. Paul himself was...

The issue is not about God's ability or inability to save men, but the issue is HOW God saves men and God never made salvation an unconditional promise......God never promised to save men unconditionally regardless of how men choose to live their lives. God has made obedience to His will...

That's not the case in Heb 6 1) the KJV says "if they fall away" but is better rendered "have fallen away" showing a state apostasy already. Again, apostate means one who has moved from a previous position from a previous saved position to a fallen position. Again, an always lost, fallen...

Hi, Anyone who rejects Christ has the spirit of antichrist. So there are many antichrists today as it was back then at the time of John. I do not see those who are antichrist as being predetermined against their will to be that way, they choose to be that way. "They would have 'continued' (or...

Those in Heb 6 that fall away, it says of them "seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." The present tense of the verbs 'crucify' and 'put' show they did not simply fall away and nothing more but they fell away and CONTINUED to crucify Christ and...

If those whom John was speaking about were "never saved" then the most the verse teaches us is that never saved people were never saved, the verse does not in anyway claim that a person who is saved cannot fall away. For a few verses later John writes: "Let that therefore abide in you, which ye...