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I generally hi-lite Bible verses in red so they stand out from the rest of my post. But the fact remains, whether in red blue or green, God does not hear sinners and there is no such thing as deathbed salvation in the NT gospel.

Yes, man does have the ability within himself to obey. John 7:17. Someone may say how can man will himself to obey Matthew 5:48 that says "be ye perfect"? Man cannot will himself to be perfect in obedience for men will sin. Yet what God requires (perfection) Christ provides a way. For...

Men have free will to chose whom they will serve. If a man chooses to serve sin unto death then he has no excuses for what he chose for himself to serve. Men are not beon totally depraved for such would give man an excuse for his sinning when man is without excuse Romans 1:20.

Obedience is a condition God has put on His free gift of grace. Therefore obedience cannot, does not earn grace. Out of all the obedient men in the BIble not one of them is said to have earned grace by their obedience. There is a difference between meting the condition place on a free gift as...

Paul points out that accountable men sin, he does not say men do not have the ability to obey. Men serve whom they choose to serve either sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness. Nor does Paul say men are born totally depraved and therefore unable to obey. Paul says men are "gone out...

I don't agree. John is writing to Christians, those who have been born again (he calls them "children" or "little children") and giving them warning them about heretics (Gnostics - antichrists) and encourages them to continue to walk in the light and confess sins. John tests these Christians...

....and this is why you argument carries no credibility when you call an inspired writer wrong. The error is with Luther and his faith only and not with the Bible.

In context, 1 John 1:7-10 is being written to instruct those who are already Christians. No alien sinner** was ever told to confess only and your sins will be forgiven. But instead, the alien sinner must believe John 8:24) repent (Luke 13:3), confess (Matthew 10:32-33 be baptized (Mark 16:16...

Interesting that you point out that water baptism is a "burial" and that one must "die". --2 Thessalonians 1:8 says in flaming fire God will have vengeance upon those who obey not the gospel of Christ. --what then is the gospel so one can obey it? --Paul said the gospel he preached was the...

--Baptism of Christ's great commission does save, Mark 16:16 --It is commanded, disciples have been commanded to go and baptize and men have been commanded to be water baptized Acts of the Apostles 10:47-48. --Water baptism of the great commission is for "all nations" and "every creature"...

Both contexts that you cite begin with the conditional word "if". IF one chooses to willfully sin or IF one chooses to continue to confess his sins. IF one continues to confess his sins then it is certain to be forgiven. IF one choose not to confess (willfully sin) then it is certain his sin...

Rom 6:22 "But now being made free from sin, ...." What happen that took them from being servants of unrighteousness (v17) to being made from sin (v18)? They "obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine, being then made freed from sin". Obedience came BEFORE justification/freed from sin.

One simply chooses to obey. God has given man His word, the gospel and man must choose to obey that gosle or be lost, 2 Thessalonians 1:8. The disobedient do not receive grace, mercy Jeremiah 18:10 while to obedient do Jeremiah 18:8. Noah had to first obey (build the ark) THEN his house was...

Man has the strength, the ability within him to serve sin or serve obedience unto righteousness and man will serve who he chooses to serve. WHAT man is to obey is the gospel of Christ or be in flaming fire, 2 Thessalonians 1:8. WHO man is to obey is Christ, Hebrews 5:9.

But Jesus does NOT UNconditionally forgive sins. Man must repent before Jesus forgives Luke 13:3. Man's sins are not just UNconditionally forgiven or transferred to Christ while the sinner sits idle impenitent of his sins.

We can look at Simon in Acts 8:13 where he believed and was baptized therefore had all his sin cleansed/remitted (Acts 2:38) that he had committed up until that point. Yet later he sinned and Peter told him " Thy money perish (present tense - apoleia -destruction in hell) with thee" and was...

Later in Galatians 1:23 Paul says "But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed." "the faith" refers to the ONE body of information found within the pages of the NT, the one faith of Ephesians 4:5. Before becoming a...

But there is not a single verse that says man is born with a sin nature/totally depraved. Yes, there are many verses that says man is sinful, wicked, evil but no verse says he is born that way...that is assumed into those verses.

Matthew 28:19-20 in His great commission. Jesus commissioned disciples (humans) to administer water baptism as the Phillip did with the eunuch. Humans cannot administer baptism with the Holy Spirit only Christ could do that. Secondly, this human administered water baptism was commanded. One...

I do not agree. Those that have an anti-water baptism bias do not want John 3:5 to be about water baptism so they want to get rid of literal water out of the verse. They have no problem with Spirit being literal Spirit but have a problem with water being literal water and this lacks...