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Appreciate your input, and "bewitched" is a bit of a strong usage, but I still think if it were more than just an influence ("bewitched") it would be phrased something like "have not" or "will not," instead of "should not obey the truth." Especially considering Paul in the following verse...

Gal 5:7 "Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?" Myself, I'm looking also at the conclusion of Galatians in Chapter 6, and it never shows them as having chosen to accept the false works teaching, for they never made it to the point of circumcision, without which...

I agree, if you mean people try to be justified by the Law, considering this has never been possible and was not the Law's intent (Rom 3:20; Gal 2:16;3:11). Scripture is clear and simple concerning "essential doctrine" (teachings required for receiving salvation), but often difficult concerning...

Hi, and thank you for sharing your comments! Just wanted to say that those who are truly reborn will continue to mature in Christ and will always return to God (like the prodigal), regardless the difficulties experienced, as shown in the parable of the sower; which are to teach how to identify...

Hi, and thank you too for letting me know it is useful to you. God bless!

To me, seeking to be justified is not the same as being justified, and the hyperbolic expression has in on the fact that the Law could never justify, i.e. make one righteous, it being only a means of manifesting guilt and curse. I believe the intention of "you have been severed" means "you...

Those who are reborn (saved, redeemed) will always be led "into all truth" (Jhn 16:13), thus if a truth is never found (understood), it's because of not truly seeking. "Seek and ye shall find." If we are still at the babe-in-Christ level, we will often be too self-dependent while we continue to...

Paul was admonishing the Galatian Churches by informing them that the admixture of the Law with the Gospel of Christ was an attempt by the false teachers to “pervert” the Gospel of Christ (1:7), and nowhere in this Epistle does there exist any conclusions that suggests the Galatian Christians...

For believers, everything encountered, even all that is self-originating is used for their good (Ro 8:28); which is for the purpose of being continually “conformed into the image of His Son” (v 9), via growing in their faith. Thusly is all that transpires in the lives of the saints which is...

It’s not so much as what we are doing but why we are doing it; and how it is done will determine the effectiveness of its delivery! While in a babe-in-Christ stage we are not able to know much of what God’s desires are of many things, and until there is sufficient knowledge and comprehension of...

To me, the “elect of God” (Mat 24:24: Rom 8:33; Col 3:12; Tit 1:1) are those whom God knows are going to “choose life” (Deu 30:19) and receive the Lord Jesus; and this before the “foundation of the world” (Eph 1:4), even from the eternal past. He chose us before we chose Him, because He foreknew...

True, this issue is nonessential to the receiving of salvation. Blessed Holyday to your Family!

Always appreciate your comments, they are always applicable to the issues. Understanding God's omniscience causes me to realize that since everything that occurs in this life from beginning to end is foreknown by Him, whatever happens is suppose to happen, or He would have worked or allowed...

Hi and thanks for your reply and comments, to which I agree and like, esp. that all experience evil for a purpose. It's my understanding that the purpose for the tree of knowledge was for man to know his nature and be able to contrast it with God's holiness, so we would know His holiness. If...

In an era of error, for the last century and a half or so, in my opinion, there is an ominous manifestation that many believers are lacking application of significant Biblical growth truths. This sad but true condition has shown itself primarily through an unawareness (thus unintentional) of...

Hi and thanks for the interesting comments! I agree, He was revealing how we are to live in this life ("walk as He walked" - 1Jo 2:6), and He was also revealing how Christians will be in the next life: new body, no sin nature, "partakers of the (His) divine nature" (2Pe 1:4) which is our new man...

That's difficult to answer. We can know that neither concept effects any essential doctrine of receiving salvation.

Hi and appreciate your comments! Just would like to add that is was the Father who was “pleased to bruise Him” and “put Him to grief,” in order to “make His soul an offering for sin” (Isa 53:10). Zechariah 13:7 prophesied that God’s “sword” came “against His Shepherd, against the Man that was...

Whether or not God actually abandoned Him, it is true that the Lord Jesus knew what is was like to feel He was abandoned and completely alone. But He also knew He was returning to the Father, and everything it meant for those who are His.

Hi and thanks for your input! I'm not convinced that the Father might not know what to expect that He had to literally "forsake" His Son, considering "it pleased the LORD to bruise Him" (Isa 53:10).