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The Word that Ritajanice is talking about faith coming from is not God's written Word; rather it is the "Living Word" that she hears and thinks comes directly from God to her which she then uses as a basis for her interpretation of God's written Word.

Are you telling us here that as a child you had faith in Jesus Christ the Son of God, but then sometime later you lost that faith or gave up that faith and thus you needed to become like you were as a child and believe in God once again? Is that what you think? If so, I don't know where you...

God didn't change; He just changed what He was doing.

Perhaps you could choose to study so as to hope to see what God has said through His prophets and apostles by divine revelation of the Holy Spirit. Act 2:43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. Act 5:12 Now many signs and wonders...

Mat 18:1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" Mat 18:2 And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them Mat 18:3 and said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom...

You need to read and study carefully Chapter 10 in Paul's letter to the Romans; particularly 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 preaching? If God is...

I wouldn't call you a liar or anything like that, but I don't find anywhere in the Bible that God says that.

How can you possibly say that you "believe in God" if you do not do what He says? If there is a message in the OT, it is the lesson of what importance God attaches to obedience. That message does not cease with the NT.

quietthinker, You have to forgive Ritajanice. She thinks that God is speaking directly to her personally and therefore anything she thinks God is saying must be true. Thinking that God is speaking directly to them personally is one of the most dangerous beliefs that one seeking God can...

All five of the doctrines being represented by TULIP are hotly contested, as well they should be, beginning with the concept of Total Depravity. That doctrine posits the condition that the spirit of man created by God is dead in trespasses and sins at the very outset at the individual's birth...

Well now, neither verse 13 nor verse 14 says what you are positing here. However verse 14 certainly says that Calvinism is wrong when it says that regeneration is required first before one can believe. It says specifically that we "receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." That is...

It is not those who are elect who become saved; rather it is those who are saved that become the elect (Rom 8:28-30).

Where does He say that? The truth is that He doesn't say that anywhere. What he says, through the apostle Paul by the Holy Spirit, is Gal 3:14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

I agree with those definitions. But it has everything to do with the decisions of the redeemed. Clearly you have the wrong definition of the word eklektos. The elect are those who have been freed, not vice versa. And yes, those who have been freed depends upon their decision to accept the...

Suppose your child is taken and held for ransom and you pay the ransom. If your child is 18 years old and decides, for whatever reason, not to come home, that doesn't mean the ransom was not paid. So yes, Christ paid the ransom for all. But some have decided not to "come home".

Announce away to your hearts content, but that has absolutely nothing to do with Christian baptism.

That was not me. I do not believe in infant baptism, I never did and I certainly didn't have my sons baptzed as infants.

AMEN! But there are faith restrictions. One needs to believe in God. One needs to confess. One needs to submit. One needs to choose.

I see nothing wrong with a Christian family showing God that they are going to try to raise their child to love Him. But that is not the stated purpose of baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. You trivialize the significance and importance of baptism if you claim that as a purpose.

It was issued as a command. Peter said, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ ...." Tell me, what did you do to respond to that command? Just curious. Paul also told us about the twelve Ephesians. He said, "On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the...