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I think the concept that "salvation can be lost" is not only a contextual problem but it's deeper, it's tied to the misunderstanding of the Doctrine of Election. The elect are chosen by God. He is sovereign and doesn't change His mind. Some could say branches were cut off the Vine, yes, but they...

Well the writer is discussing the LAW of Moses, which he references in vs. 28. So he is discussing the Old Testament sacrifices, then contrasts that with Christ's final sacrifice in vs. 29: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son...

Then your faith is filled with doubts. We are justified by faith, not by works. It is a gift. You don't earn the gift. But we do respond by being obedient. That obedience is flawed. If you think your obedience isn't flawed, you are deceived. God makes us holy. Matt. 24:13 is a distinctive...

You need to start looking at the good in everyone. Have a little mercy, forgiveness, kindness, Jesus did with us. No one is perfect, everyone makes errors. But if we just focus on their errors, we won't receive any of them. We'll end up alone, clanging our own cymbal, beating our own drum into...

Bible time is good for all. But there you go again with "many men ... many churches rant" ... I asked for specifics and you paint a broad brush stroke as if the majority of Christians are so corrupt. I think most of us here do. In the beginning of my walk ( 33 years ago) I did attend a good...

Bible time is good for all. But there you go again with "many men ... many churches" ... I asked for specifics and you paint a brosd brush stroke as if the majority of Christians are so corrupt. I think most of us here do. In the beginning of my walk, I did attend a good church with a great...

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Prov. 13:20 Take one twin child who is adopted by some simple minded, godless, Hillbilly patents in Mississippi and the other adopted by two Christian professors, how do you think they will turn out? One...

Well the Bible says that God draws all men to Himself. That implies that some must resist and reject Him. By chance I meant opportunity. Every knee will bow means all who believed, all who were saved. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already...

There is no second chance opportunity after death! Your fate is fixed. You either believe in Jesus or not. Obviously if someone died and found themselves in Hades, they would change their tune, but it is too late. Jesus tells you a true story ( not a parable) of the Rich man and Lazarus in Luke...

"the churches"? Which ones specifically? That is a broad statement. There are probably a couple million. Which ones have you attended that you have analyzed and determined _ by your yardstick of measurements _ evangelize wrongly. And then the next question to follow that would be, Is your...

There is a need for God in everyone's life. >> People just can't identify it.<< Point out that there is a void in us that can't be filled with anything on earth. I am sure he is working on filling that void, it's that something that is missing. He can't figure it out. Typically these folks...

I absolutely agree in Biblical truth - all of it. Snd btw, our whole concept of agape comes only with the TRUTH, the WAY AND THE LIFE. I was taught in a wonderful Bible based church, filled with love and truth. My Pastor was brilliant, highly educated and spirit filled. A well balanced church...

Never really met any one of those. Sounds like the Hamas? Never really experienced a Christian church that I would describe that way. I've been to legalistic churches that don't grow much and make you feel like you are not worthy to take communion ... where the Pastor is pointing his holy...

Our temple is spiritual, it is not our bodies. If cigarette smoking was a sin then you might as well say all obese people are going to hell. You can then start splitting hairs with every single unnatural food or drink you put in your body, drug, alcohol ... a twinkie, a hot dog ( unless it's...

All civilization has become aware of good and evil, as this knowledge/ reality was released in the Garden, so the two will soon be separated by Christ when He returns. It is time for all to chose from the Tree of Life or forfeit their souls.

"falling away" means "defection of truth" Glad you pointed that out, it's like an epiphany to me, it's a sign of the times. Jesus is the truth, and the truth when we receive it, is reality. The world has been influenced and changed by Jesus. His love has spread to the far corners of the earth...

This inspired me 25 years ago and still does.

I know personally, when I was eleven and went to church, my soil must have been rocky. It meant nothing. It went in one ear and out the other and did not stick. I wasn't ready until I was 35 years old. So yes the gospel can be scattered like seed your way many times in your life and not take...

I like that. Lots of these scriptures are speaking to not only those who have been born again but to those who have not and think they are. Jesus gave us a general idea of this in his Parable of the Sower. The folks who have heard the WORD, and got excited for only a short time and fell away...

Very good. In other words, he's practicing what he preaches, runs the race, controls his flesh so that people won't see him as a lot hot air, or a hypocrite, then disapprove (cast him away, dismiss his theology).