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WOW! Just read most of all that was posted today. I will only add a few things. The new birth again the topic of John 3:1-8 is a birth by the Spirit of the Living God, that enables a person to see, hear and believe. Except a man be born again by the Spirit of God, he cannot see the kingdom of...

The word of God is not alive in the sense in which you are attempting to explain yourself. No pun intended~I trust my exhortation is spoken in love. The seed is the word of God, but the word itself is not alive. The Spirit of the Living God within his people is what gives the holy scriptures...

Rita, while in some of your points I would agree, some you kinda go against what you are saying. How can you say, that the new birth is a mind blowing experience that one will never forget, if indeed it is totally unknown to us when the new birth is being performed by God himself? Man is...

Before God I trust that I' am. And to teach honestly before all men, and before God. I actually started out believing what I was first taught, back in the early seventies, much different than what if firmly hold today~I did not believe in that Calvinistic nonsense as you called it, or...

Eternally Grateful~Did you read my post above where I mentioned eternal justification? post #469 The word justification is used in at least five different senses in the scriptures and we must rightly divide them, or we will never fully grasp the meaning in what sense the word is used in a...

Well your posts is incorrect, yet you do have a small truth within it. What is the salvation from hell in this proverb? This cannot literally mean the lake of fire, or eternal life would depend on child discipline, not the grace of God. But hell is also used metaphorically for trouble...

Should I get into this thread? I just glanced over most of the posts, and see several different opinions~and most are just that...opinions without very much biblical support. 1. What we do know is this: There is no present hellfire where the wicked go at death and suffer in that fire as long...

Some secret acts of God are not revealed to us~ What we do see and know we can speak, but some things are hidden from us. I can with Abraham say: Yes he will, and I'll leave it there, and trust things I cannot explain because it is hidden from us.

Brother, God's justice was completely satisfied IN CHRIST'S life of perfect obedience~ We have been in Christ from all eternity, ( Ephesians 1:4 ) God has never view us outside of Christ legally speaking, never, not once. Do we need to go into this in depth? I can, no problem. I would do so...

Eternally Grateful I'm sure you~but you need to be converted practically speaking to be more perfectly sound in the scriptures. You are all over the place like children, with no sense of direction of knowing what you are saying. My brother, one needs to be made alive in Christ vitally speaking...

So many double verily in John's gospel that we do well to consider them carefully~ Jesus used them in teaching knowing that what he was about to say, was not understood by many not even among his own disciples until later on in the Acts of the apostles ~so when is was about to open up a doctrine...

This is true.

This is not correct~If one is born again first, then, and then only, they can have faith by hearing the word of God, for faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. The word of God is not the means of the new birth, but the means of bring to light life! Consider: The gospel does...

Oh brother, you sound just like Nicodemus. All men by nature are sinners living in sin~Jesus came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. You should know the scripture ~ But here's one for you: God quickens the dead sinner to life, by his almighty power, the same power used to...

Rita, use google and do a search.

Lambs are less than 12 months old. Adult sheep are 12 months and older. Jesus was cut off out of the land of the living at a very young age of around 33 years old, truly a lamb of God without spot or blemish. "Or maybe you mean a new Born Again in Christ?"....Yes

"Nicodemus answered and Jesus said".....heard this a few times over have we not? Thank God for this discourse between a master in Israel and our Lord~recorded for us to learn a wonderful truth~one must be born again, before they can see, and understand spiritual truth, impossible for it to be...

Well, dear friend, faith does come before understanding that goes with saying~yet, life comes before one could even have the power to believe. Let me break this verse down even more. Jone 5:1a Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: ..... Whosoever believeth~With much...

Three things you said that I would mention in order to better instruct the readers. They are: 1. Comes first before what? 2. Faith and belief not the same? Care to explain yourself? 3. "I had the gift of faith once I was regenerated Born Again"~ the biblical way of saying this better, dear...

It was a good stopping place~I will come back in the morning and finish. I have a lot of things to do, plus I'm old and do not move as fast as I once did. I love you name....Eternally Grateful... yes indeed.