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  1. Ernest T. Bass

    OSAS : Gnostic Heresy

    No, people become sinners, not born sinners. Rom 7:8-9 People go out of the way, not born out of the way, people become unprofitable, not born unprofitable, Rom 3:12
  2. Ernest T. Bass

    CALVIN was Correct on Acts 13:48 and 2 Pet. 3:9

    I cannot call it scripture when scripture does not teach it......so I call it Calvinism. Robertson was a Calvinist more then he was anything else.
  3. Ernest T. Bass

    CALVIN was Correct on Acts 13:48 and 2 Pet. 3:9

    Hi, Should I follow a video or follow the inspired word of God that is the repository of God's truth? The word of God does not teach that God's Sovereignty is about unconditionally, randomly choosing winners and losers when it comes to salvation regardless of man's free will.... Mt 23 "O...
  4. Ernest T. Bass

    CALVIN was Correct on Acts 13:48 and 2 Pet. 3:9

    Hi Any person can take a single verse out of context and read any idea he/she wants to read into it and make it say whatever they wish. This is how there is over 40k religious groups that have created an ocean of contradictions contrary and antagonistic the the NT. You cite Jn 6:37; 1) It is...
  5. Ernest T. Bass

    CALVIN was Correct on Acts 13:48 and 2 Pet. 3:9

    Even AT Robertson, a Calvinist, rejects the idea that the Calvinist idea of election is found in Acts 13:48: "As many as were ordained to eternal life (οσο ησαν τεταγμενο εις ζωην αιωνιον). Periphrastic past perfect passive indicative of τασσω, a military term to place in orderly arrangement...
  6. Ernest T. Bass

    Faith vs. "the Faith" - Which one was once delivered?

    The article "the" is in the original language to denote a particular faith. It's also singular in the original, therefore there is just "one faith" Eph 4:5. Jude 1:3 (3588 e) te........definitive article......dative feminine singular https://biblehub.com/text/jude/1-3.htm...
  7. Ernest T. Bass

    Faith vs. "the Faith" - Which one was once delivered?

    "faith" But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. HEB 11:6 Here 'faith' is defined by "believe" in this verse. Belief is what a person develops in their heart (Rom 10:9) that...
  8. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    Christians do sin but Christians repent of their sins. Rom 6, Christians are those who have died to sin and are saved by grace. Because a Christian is saved by grace does not give a Christian a license to sin for the Christian must obey God. Sinning is going against what God said therefore...
  9. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    John 10:27-28 27 - "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 - And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." Verse 27 must be quoted with v28 for v27 tells us who the pronouns "them" and "they" in v28...
  10. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    ---the disobedient have not been born again therefore lost and will remain lost unless/until they do the will of the Father, Mt 7:21 cf Jn 3:5 --sinners are not saved by grace, it is Christians who are saved by grace for it is Christians who have complied to the will of God while sinners have...
  11. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    Jesus does save therefore it would be up to Christ, NOT MAN, to determine what is to be required of Christians. Christ requires that the Christian, His followers do good works: Matt 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in...
  12. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    Everyone who lives in disobedient rebellion to God is lost and remains lost unless/until they have an obedient faith in God then they can be saved. I was lost until I obeyed the gospel of Christ (2 Thess 1:8). Those who "obey not" the Son shall not see life (Jn 3:36), those in flaming fire...
  13. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    Christ is the Author of salvation unto all them that OBEY HIM, Heb 5:9. Faith onlyism cannot change the plain teaching of the Bible. No verse teaches that Christ saves the ungodly disobedient/unrighteousness for they are the ones that will be lost. As long as one lives in ungodly rebellion...
  14. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    Jesus does save but He only saves those who obey Him, Heb 5:9.....Jesus said why call ye Me Lord Lord and DO NOT the things which I say, Lk 6:46. Keeping the OT law cannot save, works of merit cannot save but obedience to Christ is what saves. Your argument is false for no one has argued that...
  15. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    (1) believing is a work, not a work of merit, but an obedient work that sinners must CONDITIONALLY do in order to be saved and become a Christian. Believing is also something a Christian must continue to do in order to remain saved. This is why the verb "believe" is present tense in many many...
  16. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    You recite a story that has no Biblical basis to it at all. Let's look at some actual BIble verses. Philippians 2 would be a good place: "So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and...
  17. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    Again, show the verse that says obedience to God's will earns God's free gift or show one example where one's obedience to God earned that person God's free gift of grace......just one.
  18. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    Doing God's righteousness is not self-righteouness where one does his OWN righteousness.. Rom 10:3 "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." The Bible makes it plain there...
  19. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    I posted no verse out of context, it appears you just do not like what those verses say. Salvation cannot be earned so that is not the issue here but you keep bringing it up. Salvation is CONDITIONAL upon obedience to God's will and obedience is not a work of merit. There is no case in the...
  20. Ernest T. Bass

    Perseverance of the Saints is different from Once Saved Always Saved

    Psa 119:172 "...for all thy commandments are righteousness." "Obedience unto righteousness" per Rom 10:16 means obedience to Gods' commands. Yet those Jews would not obey God, they would not believe, would not confess, would not obey the gospel, Rom 10:9,10,16. Hence they were serving "sin...