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Yes, the "father of faith", living under the "old covenant", was a legalist earning his way to heaven. At least according to some here. Understandable when you completely discard the truth of salvation by grace through faith...under both covenants.

So Abraham, the father of the faithful, was a legalist? KJV Genesis 26:5 5 because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws .

You aren't alone. The statistics inform us that the numbers of people in the church addicted to porn are not dissimilar to the numbers outside the church. And those numbers are shocking. That is the world we live in today. I think there is one basic lesson all of us need to learn, which we...

Two recent additions to Brakelite's household.

Here's an interesting conversation on something else going on that is a deception and distraction from gospel truth... And a stark denial of Jesus as Messiah. I think you will enjoy this.

Your animus toward the Sabbath of the 4th commandment is palpable. You have a massive mistaken preconceived bias, which you then attempt to justify with scripture which only appears to support your stance with a superficial reading by those who want to believe as you do... Such understanding...

Interesting. Of course we have a contingent of Catholics who lay claim to their church's assertions that Rome was the center of Christianity and responsible for giving us the Bible. In order to bolster that claim we see a jump to Luther and Calvin and Zwingli and given the opportunity, others...

Not the point I was making but okay.

He says it well, but what does he mean by what he says? What of those who come to Christ at the last hour, those who haven't had time to develop character and overcome every habit and addiction? Many who have been Christians for 40,50 years, still struggle to overcome traits of character...

I think if you really wanted to acknowledge harmony in scripture, you will find that references to people in heaven praising God are resurrected saints. Not disembodied spirits/souls. KJV Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither...

I think there's both. We will never attain to the perfect holiness of deity, so we will always need that imputed righteousness through being justified by faith in the blood of Christ. But as we are, unless we are made into new creatures, by the impartation of Christ's righteousness into our...

The question I don't see you addressing, is the question related to character. Does the righteousness we receive actually forensically change who we are and how we behave? Does it affect character?

Imparted righteousness is a gift. It is the righteousness of Christ. As we receive Christ, we receive His righteousness.

I'm going to keep this as simple as I can. Justification was made for all men by the death of Jesus, the Son of God. It comes to individuals and is made effective personally, by faith. First, there is the fact established, second is the individual's belief in and trust in that fact. Why did...

Interesting, thanks for a different perspective.

God is good. Always. To everyone. I still laugh when I remember arriving here from NZ (where there are no snakes and in all my 60+years never saw a local widow spider) 7 years ago, when being driven from the airport to my daughter's home an hour away, focused intently on the side of the road...

All of which begs the question, why is it that in those nations that are advanced scientifically, having the advantage of invention and technology, such as Australia, New Zealand, the US, and Europe, are turning away from Christianity. While in those nations that are poor, generally uneducated...

As I contemplate my life, there are 2 things that at the moment are seemingly more in focus than anything else. First and foremost, is how far the Lord has brought me, and the unbelievably wonderful blessings He has given me since meeting Him in 1976. A marriage that despite our complete seeming...

Absent from the body. That is, from life in the present world. Present with the Lord. From a superficial reading of vs. 6-8 some have concluded that at death the soul of the Christian goes immediately to be “present with the Lord,” and that Paul, ardently desiring to be with the Lord (v. 2)...

Interesting isn't it, that Jesus said to judge others by their fruits, but the Adventists are judged by their doctrines, by people who neither understand them nor can be bothered to study them. What's more, the Adventist church is full of people who actually did set out to study their doctrines...