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So you yourself admit that receiving grace is CONDITIONAL upon man having faith. Yet man having faith does not earn the grace. Since Jesus saves those who obey Him (Hebrews 5:9) then faith includes obedience and faithful obedience is meeting the condition and earns nothing no more than Noah...

If the only way I can have faith is if God gifts it to me, then whose fault is it if I were faithless and lost?

In Acts 8 Simon and those Samarians "believed and were baptized" per Mark 16:16 therefore saved. Afterwards Apostles laid hands upon them giving them miraculous gifts, but this had nothing to do with there perosnal salvation fro they were saved when they believed and were baptized...

Obedience to God's will is not mystic rituals. Where did you get that idea?

In post #40 I was responding to Eternally Grateful who posted in post #37 "grace is not conditional. if it was, it is not grace." To which I responded "Then all men universally would unconditionally be saved, Titus 2:11."

See post #9 Christians do sin (1 John 1:8-10) the issue is does the sinning cause the Christian to lose his salvation each time he sins and the answer is "no". Even though the Christian sins daily, as long as he continues to walk in the light ALL his sins he commits are cleansed away, not...

Paul refutes grace alone in Rom 6. Even though Christians are saved by grace, God forbid that gives the Christian license to sin for Chrisitans are "dead to sin". Sin is transgression of God's law 1 John 3:4 and the only solution to not sinning is obeying God's law. Not obeying makes one lost...

1) Yes, one cannot be saved or lost if he was never physically born, never existed. 2) God's grace has appeared to all men Titus 2:11 but all men will not be saved for God has made conditional upon obedience Hebrews 5:9. I do not believe in the man made idea of original sin, infants are not...

Then all men universally would unconditionally be saved, Titus 2:11. God made salvation conditional upon men repenting and being baptized God made Naaman's healing conditional upon dipping 7 times in the Jordan In both cases the condition had to FIRST be met THEN one receives the free gift and...

Again, Noah's thinking about building would actually do the work in building the ark??? Again, where does the BIBLE define obedience as "works based salvation" earning salvation??

Repent and be baptized are in the imperative mood which is a commandment...they asked what the must do and they were COMMANDED to repent and be baptized. Repentance and baptism were not just mere suggestions they could take or leave if they desired to have their sins remitted but a requirement...

Acts of the Apostles 1:1-5 Jesus was speaking only to His Apostles promising them the HS for Christ had promised the Apostles the Comforter who would bring remembrance of all things to them and lead them to all truth....."but you (Apostles) shall be baptized with the HS". And the Apostles...

John did not say a person cannot know when he is born again. Jesus tells Nicodemus about the wind..."and thou hearest the sound thereof". Therefore Jesus did not tell Nicodemus he could not know when the wind was blowing for one can hear when the wind blowing thereby know the wind is blowing...

Any sin a Christian will not repent of, 1 John 1:7-10; Luke 13:3 No, the Bible does not teach that idea. Luke 1:6 "And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." John's parents were "blameless" but that does not mean they were...

God's grace is conditional. Therefore one must meet the conditions God has placed upon His free gift of grace in order to receive grace. Meeting the conditions is not adding to, altering grace in anyway nor does it merit grace. Titus 2:11 if grace were completely unconditional then all men...

1 Peter 3:21 refers to water baptism, the same water baptism Peter commanded to the Jews Acts 2 and Gentiles Acts 10 that saves/remits sins. OT Type: saved by water (flood) NT anti-type: saved by water (baptism) Acts 2 Peter convicted those Jews of their sins, their wicked hands crucified the...

God's commands are a necessity not just suggestions men can take or leave with no consequence. There is a cost man cannot afford to pay for not obeying God's commands for those who will not obey and repent will face God's wrath (Romans 2:4-5) be in flaming fire for not obeying the gospel of...

When one is water baptized one is born again and men do choose to obey the command to be water baptized or not. So those who are not water baptized/not born again is of their own culpability. If God alone determines which individuals will or will not be born again, then God is culpable for...

"Baptism doth also noW save us " 1 Peter 3:21 Some try and change the "w" in the word 'now" to a 't'.

I NEVER said Gentiles could not be saved prior to Christ coming to earth. I have, for example, in various posts of mine pointed to Rahab, a Gentile, who was saved (James 2:25). Yet Rahab did not live under the NT so she was not amenable to Acts 2:38, no one is amenable to laws that do not...