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So your position is that the Christian can do these works of the flesh (adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like) and still be...

It says "all the nations" which includes both Gentile and Hebrew nations.....as in all nations, every creature found in the great commission. Romans 2:6 "Who will render to every man (Jew and Gentile) according to his deeds:" (Romans 2 is directed by Paul at the Jews ["o man" Romans 2:1] in...

The "world" is the total aggregate of people while "whosoever believeth" is a segment of people that came from the total aggregate of people (world).

Answering this question for myself, I have never argued that doing good works (feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, visiting the sick) will save a lost, unforgiven, alien sinner. What I have said, and what the Bible teaches, is that OBEDIENCE in doing God's will does saves. God has required...

From the text of Romans 11, God's people is not fleshly Israel for Romans 11 clearly shows that fleshly Israel was cast off and the Gentiles grafted in, Romans 11:7-22. So the question remains, who is God's people, the people God foreknew, Romans 11:1-2? As already noted in Romans 11 fleshly...

The baptism with the HS was a prophecy of Joel that the Lord fulfilled some 2000 years ago making that baptism obsolete. The one baptism today, the one means of salvation is the human administered water baptism of Christ's great commission. This baptism is commanded, it is how disciples are...

A person who chooses to mind things of the flesh and continues to mind things of the flesh will reject things of God. Yet there is nothing in the context that says it is impossible for a fleshly minded person to change from that life of serving the flesh to a life of serving God. 1 Corinthians...

John 6, God's sovereignty does not over ride man's free will. John 6:37 "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." The ones God gives to Christ is not done unconditionally, capriciously nor against the will of man. Those men who of...

I guess I do not see any difference. If God predetermines or predestined a man to do some thing, that man has no choice in the matter but can only do what God predetermined/predestined him to

"I believe all that happens is supposed to happen because not only was it foreknown to happen....." If foreknowledge means predetermination then that makes God culpable for all the wickedness and evil that takes place. How then can man justly, rightly be condemned by God for what God caused...

Romans 2:14 is not possible if all are born totally depraved.

The first few verses of Ephesians 2 are used by Calvinist to "prove" man is born totally depraved, but such is not found in the passage. Ephesians 2:1 "And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins," Paul is speaking about the Ephesians' own sins they committed...

Hi, There are many verses that speak to the fact that man is wicked, sinful, evil but no verse says he is born that way against his will. Men that are wicked, sinful because they choose to be that way. If you were born only able to do what is wicked, evil and sinful then you would have an...

It seems to me, if a person believes in the first one (total depravity), then he would have to believe in the rest of them. Reason being: --if all are born into this world totally depraved, then NONE could ever come to God and be saved, therefore --God had to unconditionally choose/elect some...

I believe those who use the term "works based" are trying to imply that if one does any kind of work at all he is attempting to earn his salvation. Seems most everyone on this forum understands eternal life is a free gift, therefore it cannot be earned. Eternal life is not an UNconditional...

Gal 6:7-8 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Again, YOU reap what YOU have sown. So those who...

It is about what one chooses to set his mind TO DO. Those that choose to mind things of the flesh will do works of the flesh Galatians 5:19. Those that choose to mind things of the Spirit will walk after the Spirit Galatians 5:16. Romans 8:1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them...

I have consulted God's word on the subject and it is very clear that each person will reap what he sows.

Would Mr. MacArthur (or yourself) claim that Noah's work in building the ark was Noah's 'own righteousness', that Noah "cranked up" the salvation of his house all on his own?

Luther's faith only denies that one obeys UNTO salvation, hence James says one is not justified by faith only......one is not FIRST justified by faith only THEN obeys. Luther's ideas obviously contradicted James and therefore he attacked the epistle. Luther also contradicts Paul in Romans...