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God has made salvation conditional upon on obedience and nowhere ever in the Bible is obedience to God's will said to be a work that merits salvation.

God, not me, has made salvation conditional....men must conditionally have an obedient faith in order to receive God's gift of salvation. If salvation were completely UNconditional then all men without exception would unconditionally be saved (Titus 2:11) Romans 6 Paul refutes the idea that...

God commanded man to believe or perish (John 3:16) to repent or perish (Luke 13:3) and man either chooses to obey what God says and be saved or choose to disobey and be lost. There is no paradox here in what man chooses. God provides a pathway to salvation thru belief-repentance and man simply...

--Are you suggesting ALL who lived prior to Christ's death all the way back to Adam, Abraham, David (Psalms 23:6) are all lost since they all lived prior to (John 3:16-17) and had no chance to believe on Jesus ?? --how do you explain John's baptism which remitted sins (Mark 1:4) yet took place...

The 10 commandments were only given to the Jews, (Deuteronomy 5:2-3) therefore non-Jews/Gentiles were excluded from that "covenants of promise" (Ephesians 2:12). The Jews having their own law given them and not the Gentiles created a "middle wall of partition" that separated Jews from Gentiles...

I see this "paradoxical" idea is something that you came up with yourself. Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: These 2...

All works are not the same. Romans 10:3 contains 2 different kinds of works in it: 1) establish their OWN righteousness 2) obeying GOD'S righteousness Those Jews were lost for they were doing the WRONG KIND of work in establishing their OWN righteousness. Had they worked to obey God in doing...

One is either 1) obeying God's will or 2) disobeying God's will....there is no middle ground or third option. There is not an example in the Bible of God ever saving those who continued in disobedience and rebellion in doing His will. So the Calvinists argument dies right here. God has mercy...

Salvation most certainly is conditional upon man's behavior in obeying God. There is no example of God ever saving anyone who continued to live in rebellion, defiance of obeying God's will. Being born again is up to man. God has offered a way for man to be born again thru water baptism...

I do not agree with any of this at all. synergy - "the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects." Oxford Dictionary Part of this definition is "....a combined effect greater...

salvation is a free gift so there is nothing one can do to earn it. But salvation is conditional therefore one must obey to meet the conditions God has placed upon His gift. Meeting the necessary preconditions on a free gift does not, cannot earn the gift. Man doing nothing is not the...

I've always found and believed man made creeds to be pointless and useless. If a man man creed says EXACTLY the same thing the Bible says then the creed is not needed for the Bible already says it. But if the man man creed contradicts the Bible (which I see most all do) then they should be...

Salvation is a free gift so it cannot be earned. Since it cannot be earned does NOT mean man has nothing to do to be saved, man can meet the conditions God has placed upon His free gift and obeying to meet the conditions does not earn the free gift. Not one time OT or NT is one's obedience in...

There is a synergy that takes place where BOTH God and man have a role in man's salvation...no monergism. If man has no role in his own salvation then how will it be determined who will or will not be saved? Monergism makes God culable for the faithless/lost making God a respecter of person of...

Phil 2:12 work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.....God does not save those who do nothing for it is those "who doeth" the will of God that enter the kingdom Matt 7:21......Luke 6:46, 2 Thess 1:8 those who "obey not" are lost.

believes >>>>>>>>> unto righteousness obedience >>>>>>>> unto righteousness Romans 6:16 Since there is but one way to be saved, no alternatives, then NT belief that saves is obedience, believing is obeying the words of Christ (Luke 6:46) in repenting (Luke 13:3) confessing (Matthew 10:32-33)...

"Grace through faith" means both God and man have a role in man being saved....man's role is having faith which come by hearing the word of God (Romans 10:17) and God's role is providing grace. It also means God has made receiving His grace conditional upon man having faith. And since man's...

It is possible that a Saint can become a sinner, James 5:19-20. The one who was called "brethren" v19 who errs from the truth is now called a 'sinner' v20. So as long as the brother/Christian remains in the truth walking in the light he is not a sinner but seen as righteous by God. Yet if he...

The Bible clearly teaches that it is when one is buried in baptism that is the point when God has chosen to cut away the body of sin (Colossians 2:11-12). There is not a single verse that says sin are remitted when a "sinner's prayer" is uttered or that sins are remitted at a point of having...

God for His own reasons has chosen water baptism as the point where sins are taken away, remitted by the blood of Christ. Why do you continue to put words in my mouth I have never said???? It's the blood of Christ that remits sins in baptism, not the water. Again God has chosen water baptism...