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For what it's worth, I do not harbor any unforgiveness toward "God'sGrace". I also do not feel "wounded". What would you have me do?

I don't want to answer for Farouk, Nancy but I think he would agree when I say that those who fall away from the path of faith are those who find the world much more enticing than loving and serving Christ. Like Lot's wife, they turn back and are lost. I don't believe they ever had the...

Thank you for your concern and prayers, Grailhunter. :cool: Hopefully, it is not a lost cause.:(

Did you forget that NO ONE is righteous ("no, not one") except those who have been made righteous by the indwelling Holy Spirit and certainly not of ourselves? God sends the rain on the just and the unjust--He really is kind to all. Those who "remain in His kindness" are those who are under...

1 John gives very definite criteria for judging whether one is "walking in the truth" and/or "walking in the light". This is not to deny experiences of one sort or another but they can be deceptive, as you know.

But, if you recall, I told you that I wasn't insulted--that I'd have to care what you said about me to be insulted and I don't. No, it was just true to the way I see you. Blunt perhaps, but it was meant kindly. I also said that we are ALL ignorant. Lauding one's "credentials" (as a "Bible...

2 Corinthians 3:6 to be exact. :)

Did you forget that Jesus said that He NEVER knew them? Matthew 7:23--->"Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'" (emphasis mine)

Yes--there is a vast difference between "having faith" and "being in the faith." One is a casual affair--the second is a marriage. Acts 17:28---> "In Him we live and move and have our being...." I "have" a car but it is not mine to keep--it will be sold eventually, or left behind. But I...

(see Acts 20:27) If Paul thought it wise to teach the "whole counsel of God" shouldn't we? He warns the Ephesians in Acts 20:30.

If you are truly under the grace of God, you will not be permitted to fall. Paul states this very emphatically in Romans 8:35.

Thank you, farouk. That blessed me. :)

I am not "bitter" as you assume and imply--since it is quite clear about whom you are speaking from your third statement. You are ignorant--we all are--you would be wise to accept that about yourself. Do you have the Bible memorized? If so, are you word-perfect in that memorization? Since...

No insults of you were ever intended by me--simply criticism of what you were teaching. I honestly felt obligated to attempt to refute what I feel to be false teaching by you and others. The manner of commenting here, where the specific posts of others are cited in the response, probably is...

That is why it is troublesome when anyone says that they are "required" to do anything to maintain salvation. That takes salvation out of the hands of God and puts it into the hands of men. Under that false teaching, can anyone know that he/she has done enough "good deeds" to avoid the removal...

Hey--I've got an idea. Let's post a "good works calculator". We could enter our good works in it and it would tell us how many heavenly points we have earned. For example, we could get maybe 5 points for escorting an old lady across a lightly traveled side street. BUT a really impressive...

Yes. "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained...

Oops!:oops: Sorry, B.G. Didn't mean you. :D

Umm--no, that's not what Jesus Himself taught: "...No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.” (John 6:43-44) Where in the Bible did you get THAT bit of theology? After the previous verse says that many came to believe in Him this...

For those of us who missed it--perhaps you would like to reiterate why you think it does not mean what justbyfaith and others here think it does.