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I believe that the common understanding of that commandment is wrong. It is not about swearing. It is about taking up God's name in the process of committing evil. It is about doing evil in God's name. Examples might be the advocating of slavery, such as was done in the early years of the...

There is no Christian in the NT about whom it cans be said that they were not water baptized. And by the way, there is no teaching anywhere in the NT about any baptism for the Christian. Nowhere. The Christian is one who has been baptized. He is not a Christian until he has been baptized. In...

The Living word is the gospel presented in the Bible, not some imagined voice of God spoken to you personally. Rom 10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone...

I am sorry, but that is about the stupidest analysis of 1 Peter 3:21 that I have ever read. The water of the flood of Noah washed away the evil in the world (Gen e:5-7: 21-23). It was a type. The antitype is the water of baptism which washes away sin (Acts 22:16; 1 Cor 5:11)). Peter said...

Nah, Peter didn't say anything like that at all. He simply stated the purpose for baptism which you seem to reject. Neither water itself nor the ritual itself saves. It is only God who saves. I am not surprised that you would disagree with Jesus. You think salvation takes place before sins...

That may be your view, but it is not God's view. It is not what God has said in the Bible. Baptism is no more a "symbol" of salvation than is believing in God. Jesus declared in the Great Commision of Matthew 28:19-20 that disciples are made by baptizing and teaching.

Well, that is true; however; where do you find any other such promise? You can't find it because it isn't there. That evangelist has no such authority. And run as if your life depended on it as fast as you can from any who would claim such authority. Baptism in the name of Jesus Christ did...

The reference of Jesus' saving the thief on the cross without him being baptized is such a tired old argument. The thief did not live under the New Covenant. The New Covenant with it's attention to faith-baptism was not even instituted yet. Christ had not at the time yet died and been raised...

We are not saved by the act of being baptized. We are saved by God at the occasion, the instant, of being baptized. I do not see why that seems to be so difficult for some to understand. It is an important distinction.

I think you are misunderstanding what God is saying. When God says, as He does in Romans 2:6 "He will render to each one according to his works", that will be accomplished independent upon whether or not one has been given the gift of eternal life. Thus such works are not the determinant of who...

Yes, there is only one. It occurs when Jesus returns.

Nothing removes sin. If you murder someone, he stays murdered. If you steal from someone, even if you returned what you stole, the sin would not go away. Our sin does not go away, God forgives the repentant believer when he is baptized. And being forgiven, i.e., being justified, is not an...

Where in the Bible to read that you do not have to keep God's law? Where does it say it is okey to steal, to murder, to covet? The law is made for mankind. The born again are not freed from obeying God's law. You cannot love God and disobey His law. It is just that the law is not the...

I believe there will be one resurrection. John 5:28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice John 5:29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

amillennial

I am not a premillennialist.

Just to be clear, I believe that first resurrection spoken of here (and in John 5:24-26) is the same one as the first resurrection spoken of in Revelation 20:5-6. It is the reason that the second death has no power over those of this first resurrection (Rev 20:6) They are the born again, the...

Paul doesn't actually say that. You are extrapolating to a faulty conclusion. Again, I ask you how much of the law is required to be justified? Jas 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. Therefore if you have failed in just one...

Yes, but how much of the law must one do to be declared righteous? I would argue that only by doing the law perfectly with never a glitch will anyone be a doer of the law who will be declared righteous. And of course that eliminates absolutely everyone.

I have not rejected that view. In fact I believe that the first resurrection for any believer is one and the same as regeneration. It is a rebirth, being reborn, being born again, in the spirit.