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  1. Ernest T. Bass

    Can a Person be Born Homosexual?

    Homophobia is a made up term used by the left to call those who simply do not agree with the immorality the left loves to wallow in. The left tries to make themselves the standard of morality (when they have none) whereby they think they alone can decide what is right and wrong for all people...
  2. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    You are reading the idea of salvation being UNCONDITIONAL in your posts. As above for example, the verse does NOT say God unconditionally keeps Christians regardless of how the Christian lives. It does teach Christians are kept CONDITIONALLY BY FAITH. Those who abandon and cast off their faith...
  3. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    You can repoeat this a million times but cannot find it in the Bible the first time. Nowhere ever does the Bible call obedience to God a work of merit. Hopefully others will see the faultiness of your arguments and do not fall into the trap you have allowed yourself to fall into.
  4. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    You have not yet shown the first verse that calls obedience to God a work of merit. You have no shown the first verse that says unbeleivers are unconditionally saved/of God. So far you have taken verses out of context and creat a host of contradictions.
  5. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    You took that one verse out of context and isolated that verse from all other context and read your Calvinism into that verses. You have unbelievers saved/be of God which is completely antithical to what the Bible teaches. Verses speak of unbelief s a lost state you claim it is a saved state...
  6. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    The Bible is full of examples of God's free gifts having conditions, you ignore this for it does not fit Calvinistic ideas. Rom 5:1-2 faith gives access to grace therefore faith is a condition to receiving grace yet you have the faithless unconditionally receiving grace....the exact opposite of...
  7. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    Below is a post I made in another thread, but is relevant in this threada even more: The "worketh not" of Romans 4:5 excludes the work of perfect law keeping as required by the OT law of Moses in order to be justified by that law. (Gal 3:10; Gal 5:3). In Romans chapters 1 and 2 Paul proves...
  8. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    Here your statement is again with no proof from the Bible to back it up. For the umpteenth time I have asked, show an example from the BIble were a person's obedience to God's will is called a work of merit and that obedience denied grace? You can't show it for it's not in the Bible for the...
  9. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    As I showed earlier, you took that one verse, removed it out of its context isolating it from all other contexts and read your Calvinistic ldea into that verse. From the context of Jn 8, Jesus is not teaching Calvinmistic ideas but refuting those Jews argument that they were of God. If they...
  10. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    Your above statement is YOUR idea, it is not taught in the Bible at all. Again, many examples in the Bible of people being obedient to God's will in order to receive God's free gift yet nowhere is their obedience said to be a work of merit denying grace.... NOWHERE!!!! Therefore your argument...
  11. Ernest T. Bass

    "Faith + Works =...

    The "worketh not" of Romans 4:5 excludes the work of perfect law keeping as required by the OT law of Moses in order to be justified by that law. (Gal 3:10; Gal 5:3). In Romans chapters 1 and 2 Paul proves both Gentile and Jew are under sin and those under sin are in need of justification...
  12. Ernest T. Bass

    Can a Person be Born Homosexual?

    In other words, you have no concern about the truth that the Bible teaches nor have any concern about scientific facts and truth.....people are just to have to go along with your opinion and nothing more than your opinion or else those people will get called names as "homophobe" though there is...
  13. Ernest T. Bass

    Can a Person be Born Homosexual?

    I'm not sure if this post was meant for me, but if it was; 1) a few people are born with physical defects you describe but all people are born male (XY) or female (XX) and defective physical conditions some people are born with are not a choice they made for themselves whereas homosexuality is...
  14. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    Again, you're taking another verse out of context, isolating that verse from all other verses and reading your theology into that verse. 1 John 4, John is not giving a discourse on salvation, he is not giving a lesson on how lost people are saved but teaching those who are already Christians...
  15. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    Salvation is not by works of merit per Eph 2:8-9 but salvation is by obedience to God's will (Rom 6:16; Heb 5:9; Rom 10:9-10; Acts 2:38; etc). And obedience to God's will is never called a work of merit for they are two completely different things.
  16. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    I cited multiple verses that state unbelief is a lost state, yet you argue unbelief is a saved state, that is, one is saved in unbelief. Another idea of yours that has no Biblical basis. The context of John 8 is the Jews are claiming to be of God v41 and Jesus PROVING they are not of God...
  17. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    This idea of yours is not found in the Bible, it has no Biblical basis. Your refusal to answer the simple question below proves it: Can you show an example of God commanding some thing of man in order to receive God's free gift and that man's obedience to God's command is called a work of merit?
  18. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    The BIble does NOT say "hearing comes by being born of God" for people are not saved in unbelief Jn 8:24; Jn 3:15-18; Mk 16;16; Jn 5:24; Jn 6:40; Heb 3:12; Heb 4:11; Rom 11:20; Rom 10:10; Rom 10:13-14....
  19. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    The fact you are unable or unwilling to answer my simple question proves your argument to be wrong. Again, can you show an example of God commanded some thing of man in order to receive God's free gift and that man's obedience to God's command is called a work of merit? The Bible clealry...
  20. Ernest T. Bass

    Is believing/faith a work ?

    Those goods works of Eph 2:10 are required of the Christian, without those good works the Christian becomes fruitless and lost. For we -- those who are Christians are His workmanship -- one cannot make himself a Christian apart from God's instructions found in the NT. Therefore it takes...