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Not directly, but it is applicable to all Christians of all ages from his forward. If you don't think so, that's fine with me, as you are surely your own person, but terribly wrong. Perhaps you should read what Paul says in Romans 2 and Romans 9 again: "For no one is a Jew who is merely one...

That's... what I said. The rest of your post... we're going in circles. So enough, except... I just gotta call you on the carpet for this: That you can't see it, or won't take it as it is, or whatever the case may be... it is what it is. You disagree. You're not alone. And that's... okay...

Well, me too, for sure. Our understandings are different, obviously. Well, I can, and I did. What Paul says in Ephesians 2:4-10 ~ that "God... even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ... and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly...

It's quite the other way around. We will not accept Him as our Lord unless we are born again of the Spirit. It's a matter of the heart. Right, but at the point of being born of the Spirit, our hearts are changed from stone to flesh. As God says: "I will give you a new heart, and a new...

I think there is some misunderstanding about "faith alone" (sola fide). It is not that we are "saved by faith alone," but rather that we are justified ~ declared righteous, imputed with the righteousness of Christ ~ by faith alone. Faith is defined for us in Hebrews 11:1 as... "...the...

Well, it certainly is necessary to believe God is Who He says He is... :) But the saving ~ the mercy of God and the changing of one's heart ~ happens before this point. I would say, Pearl, that like all truly heart-regenerate elect of God, you were spiritually reborn ~ because prior to that...

Yes. :) I mean, hey, Pearl can speak for herself, but... Yes. :) Grace and peace to you, Bob.

I'm not even sure what your point is, here, Rich. Let's see: Who do you think Israel is, Rich? Do you think what Jesus said before He died and was resurrected and ascended is any less important in any way merely because it was while He was still here on earth? Ah, "whereas the law made...

Sure. Man is certainly fallible. Not directly, maybe, but it is clear that belief in God and truly confessing God is a work of man only made possible by the working of God, because, it is God Who, because of His mercy and the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our...

Water baptism is a sacrament given to us by God and thus is an outward sign and seal of the covenant that we administer. It is not what saves. Baptism by the Holy Spirit is inward, and synonymous with being cleansed by and given new life in the Holy Spirit. Only God Himself can "sprinkle...

To the discussion about eternity, Jesus says: “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on his glorious throne. Before Him will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the...

I would say it's quite the other way around... :) No, but again, the other way around. It's quite okay, and even commendable, that the church build doctrines and creeds based in the Scriptures ~ although the doctrines and creeds are not then they themselves Scriptures but merely...

You're more than welcome to your opinion. Far be it from me to deprive you of that (as if I could do so anyway...). Either on the cross, or sometime in his life previous to being crucified. We do not know when he became a believer, because we are not told; we merely know that He was ~ because...

See, I think it's kind of disjointed now... :) You have no idea how much I don't care. :) I'm just playing with you, of course... :) Grace and peace to you.

That's... one of the manifestations of laziness I was referring to... :) That's not quite what I said, GEN2REV, and therefore pretty far from what I meant. My disagreement and rebuttal of the OP is pretty clear, I think. Read it again if you want. Or not, either is fine with me. I'll say...

Believing Gentiles are grafted into Israel, Ronald. Grafted in. We are all one in Christ Jesus. And as the Lord said, the meek shall inherit the earth. Grace and peace to you.

It could have been much bigger... :) A lot of lazy people in this world... :) LOL! No... Agree. Sure. Basically, that many read Revelation very wrongly and miss the entire point of the book... and come up with all kind of crazy, um, stuff. :) Not... directly. :)

Let's back up a bit... :) The most important event toward which history moves is the Second Coming of Christ. When we read Revelation with this concern in mind, we find descriptions of the Second Coming no less than seven times. So there are seven cycles of judgment, each leading up to the...

He's not doing anything of the sort, so the rest of this rant is rendered null and void. Nor am I. Nor would any good Christian who believes ~ believes rightly; knows ~ that once we are saved and placed in Christ, there is no more condemnation for sin ~ consequences, yes, but condemnation, no...

No, he's talking about all Christians, all who are in Christ, which now includes both Jew and Gentile. There can be no mistaking this fact. Paul himself clarifies this throughout his letters: "...in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into...