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"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:" Not only is the language John writes symbolic, he also writes about things that "must shortly come to...

From the OP " The fact is that “foreknowledge” is never used in Scripture in connection with events or actions; instead, it always has reference to persons . It is persons God is said to “foreknow,” not the actions of those persons." I did not see in the OP where it was proven that God only...

Yes, as long as it is understood that belief includes repentance confession and baptism, for belief alone (no repentance, no confession, no baptism) is dead and cannot not make one a born again child of God. Contrary to the op, faith plus nothing fails to make one a child of God.

But God's forgiveness is conditional. One of my favorite verses begins with "IF": "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their...

No. Any who go to heaven will not take one unforgiven with with them. You seem to be under the impression God requires the Christian to be perfectly sinless. All God asks for is a faithful obedience in repenting and confessing of sins and that is not much to ask. Again, the last 5 verses of...

The last 5 verses of 1 John 1 begin with the conditional word "IF". These verses do show the Christian sins but IF the Christian CONDITIONALLY continues to walk in the light, then all his sins will continually be washed away. IF the Christian continues to CONDITIONALLY confess his sins he will...

The entire chapter of 2 Peter 2 shows the Christian can fall away beginning in verse 1 where he denys he has been 'bought' (redeemed) and the chapter ends with him returning to wallowing in the mire (sin), sin that had been washed away. John 6:40 "And this is the will of him that sent me, that...

There is no 100% unconditional guarantee the Christian will persevere. There are examples in the Bible of those that fell away, became apostates, 2 Peter 2.

The Bible does not teach individual unconditional election but corporate election. Romans 8:28-29 ---verse 28 refers to the group Christian, those whom God foreknew verse 29.

If the Christian remains faithful he will persevere. God does not make the Christian persevere but God helps the Christian persevere, for example, by giving the Christian an escape, (1 Corinthians 10:13), but it is still up to the Christian to take the escape God provides.

It appears from the context in 1 Cor 7, those in Corinth were giving special consideration to one's social status (marital status, occupation, etc) that one status was better than another, therefore some were trying to change their status. Paul's point is no matter what your social status was...

Yes, for a day is coming when faith will give way to sight, hope will give way to reality....but love continues on and on and on......

Ephesians 2:8----------faith>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>saves Acts 11:18------------repentance>>>>>>>>>>>unto life Romans 10:10---------confession>>>>>>>>>>>unto salvation 1 Peter 3:21-------------baptism>>>>>>>>>>>>saves Since there is just one way to be saved, no alternatives, a NT faith INCLUDES...

The Christian will not persevere if he does not conditionally repent of his sins. The Jews were once God's chosen yet because of their "impenitent heart" (Romans 2:5) they were cast off (Romans 11). Not one of the verses cited above says the Christian will persevere if he does not repent...

Christians sin, (1 John 1:7-10) so that is not the issue. The issue is can the Christian sin, remain impenitent of his sins, and still be saved anyway. The Bible does not teach salvation is UNconditional, it does not teach OSAS no matter what the Christian does.

I would agree with you. In 1 Corinthians 2:11 Paul's point is that you do not know what is in my mind unless I tell you. I do not know what is in your mind unless you tell me. Neither you nor I know what is in God's mind unless He tells us. If the Apostles were given thoughts from the Holy...

God never required the Jews to keep His laws perfectly, flawlessly. All God asked for was a simple faithful obedience. Abraham nor David kept God's laws perfectly but both were still justified anyway due to both having a simple faithful obedience. It has been said 'what God requires, Christ...

Below (in blue) is what you posted: "As salvation is a free gift, who gets that gift is under the control of the giver. Those who have recieved the gift want it and a relationship with Jesus so they will naturaly want to obey him as an expression of their love for him." First, God, the gift...

Yes. John shows those who continue to not obey God, continue to not be of God.

The Bible only gives man two choices: heaven or hell, saved or lost. Jesus says a man is either serving God (saved) or serving mammon (lost). Paul is pointing forth these two options in Romans 6:16: 1) serve sin unto death (lost) 2) obedience unto righteousness (saved) Being saved requires an...