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Faith is trust in the evidence. In the case of the Christian faith, we trust in Jesus, namely that he was raised from the dead permanently. It's historical evidence, which is always confirmed by eyewitnesses. The eyewitnesses in the Bible were willing to suffer three kinds of persecution as well...

You're right, but what does your answer have to do with my question?

Behold, I don't know why you add to my words. You say that I said, "God resurrects us and then gives us faith." I really said that he resurrects us AND gives us faith, not THEN. Please don't twist or add to my words. (You're talking to a former English teacher, pastor, and now a published...

For the first sixteen years of my life, I was a Pharisaical unbeliever who thought that I could measure up to God';s requirements by obedience to my parents and teachers. But God led me through a reasoning process within the Scriptures to convince me that he was real, Jesus was the only way to...

All of these passages SEEM to say that everyone will be savedl but taken in their contexts and coupled with other verses, they say something different, that humanity will be restored. But that humanity will be redeemed people who have trusted only in Jesus to get them into the Father's favor...

Respectfully, Behold, you are reading a lot into verse seven that really isn't there. In verse eight, the gift is faith as God's gift by his grace, that is, his free acceptance. If God didn't give us faith, we can boast that we came to believe, that is, decided to trust in Jesus. But Paul says...

What you say is all biblical, and we agree, Behold! The points of the passage can be easily summarized by the following: We were born physically dead to God (what I describe as "spiritually stillborn"--verses 1-3), God has made us alive to him by grace through his free gift of faith (verses...

But is it a literal or figurative crown symbolizing the authority we will have over the new heaven and earth? We'll find out.

Thank you!

Yes, it is a crown of righteousness in the heavenly kingdom, but the Bible doesn't give us a specific description of what all that means.

Summarize the teaching of Ephesians 2:1-10 for us.

"Sanctified" means to be set apart for God's purpose to be done. Here it means less than salvation. Yet, the influence of the believing spouse/parent God often uses, as he did in our family. For years, Mom was the only Christian until through her prayers, God saved me, my two brothers, and...

We believers will find out. I have a hunch that it will have something to do with the new universe in which we will live (Revelation 21:1).

A very good summary of the Bible's teachings!

The four are not as clear as you say. Believers are righteous saints, as Paul addressed them in his letters. The unclean are the wicked. There are two destinations with the narrow and wide gates.

Yes, it takes the Holy Spirit's influence to enable us to believe in Jesus as the only way to the Father's acceptance. But the Father does not have a human body; neither does he live on an outer-space planet, the way the Mormons believe. Most of all, God is one, not three Gods, also the way they...

I was an English teacher and then a sales manager before God renewed an old call to be a pastor, which I was for 27 years in the Christian Reformed Church. I'm not trying to sell you Calvinism. I am responding to your complete misunderstanding of Calvinism by trying to inform you. But you can...

You have it wrong again, brother. We who are elect are never worthy of election; it's all by God's grace (free acceptance--Ephesians 2:8-10) in Jesus that he saves us. I can only have assurance of God's work in my life that he has chosen me, but I don't know for sure who else is the elect...

What gets me about your approach to theology, brother, is that you don't talk about Scripture much, only voicing your ideas, mostly against Calvinists, or at least your ideas about what you think they believe, which are inaccurate. You never have answered my question about how Calvinists have...

Thank you, Rita. But why is there such a rule? You might as well ban discussions of God as one person (Jewish and Muslim), three Gods (Mormon), the universe (Asian religions), and taking a vacation (deism). Please pass on my recommendation to the moderators as follows: Block people who do...