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If you are saying that we as Christians can obey all of the things in the New Testament by faith that we are commanded, then… “Yes.” I do believe that is possible for a believer. I believe Christians can obey God and be faithful. On their own power? No. But by God’s power? Yes. Believers...

Do you mean that water baptism ensures a person’s salvation forever? No. I believe a Christian is first saved by God’s grace without works in their Initial Salvation, and then…. They need to continue in the faith. Faith starts off as a belief alone in Jesus as the Savior, and in believing the...

What are you trying to say exactly? I am not following what you mean here. Please explain more in detail please. Thank you, and God bless.

To everyone here: Temporal Belief Alone Salvationism is true because we are first saved by God’s grace through faith without works in our INITIAL Salvation (Which generally includes our believing the gospel message in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4). But Perpetual Belief Alone Salvationism is false...

To all: Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death” (John 8:51).

To all: In regards to Mid Acts Dispensationalism (Hyper-Dispensationalsim): Cornelius R. Stam (founder of Hyper-Dispensationalism, 1930s-40s) believed his message was concealed from the church until his lifetime. This is sounds similar to that of a cult like the JW’s, Mormonism, and Islam...

To all: Many do not understand that Paul was addressing the heresy of which I call, “Circumcision Salvationism.” This was the false belief that said you had to first be circumcised in order to be saved. We see this heresy mentioned in Acts of the Apostles 15:1, Acts of the Apostles 15:5, and...

I have created a list of the commands in the New Testament that would apply to us and they come out to about 400 some commands. There are 365 days in a year and so if you strived to obey each command every day and you accomplished that task, it would take you about a year and a few months to do...

To all: Romans 3:27 basically says that boasting is excluded when it comes to the faith (i.e. the Law of faith). For example: Hebrews 11:7 says by faith Noah prepared an ark to the saving of his house. So while faith may start off as a belief alone in Jesus as your Savior when you first are...

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Right, just because their obedience later was no longer applicable (Because of their previous disobedience and unbelief) does not mean it was an entirely different dispensation for all believers. Joshua and Canaan did obey and it did apply to them to enter because they believed. If things...

While that may not have been your intention, it sounded like you were saying the person alone was doing the good (By what you had written).

Now, there is a tradition of men saying that rising up out of the water in our water baptism is in reference to the resurrection. This is not true. Romans 6 makes it clear that the parallel of our resurrection is walking in newness of life (walking righteously). Water baptism is symbolized as...

Acts of the Apostles 19:1-7 says, “And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as...

The strongest points I recently held to for Spirit baptism replacing water baptism was... #1. 1 Corinthians 1:17 (along with 1 Corinthians 11:1). Paul says he comes not to baptize but to preach the gospel. In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul says we are to follow his example. So if we are to follow...

I believe this would be in her Initial Salvation. She did not have to do any good work to be initially saved. But after we are saved by God’s grace, the Lord our God does require us to continue in the faith and that faith does include instructions for us to do certain things. Our faith is...

I read it and I disagree. 1 Corinthians 12:13 says, “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” This verse is clear. We are all baptized into one Spirit.

Thank you for your being loving in Christ. I agree that we can be bold with our words in defending the truth of what we believe the Bible says and yet... love (with the love of Christ). Alan Ballou believes in what is called “Initial Salvation, and Final Salvation.” Other Christians believe...

1 Corinthians 12:13 is describing the baptism into the Spirit. Besides, what do you think happened at Pentecost?

Babes would be those who are like babies who are innocent and simple, and who do not seek to complicate matters when reading the Word of God. It is only those who believe they are advanced in knowledge who have these secret mysteries. No argument there. We don’t ask these questions because a...