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The Lord said He never new the 5 foolish virgins (v 12). These passage are the in the same sense as verse 46, which is classified "with the unbelievers" (v 46). Verses 47, 48 are descriptive of those who will receive varying levels of punishment in the lake of fire (according to the Bible...

It's my understanding that one can only reject that which is not received, hence "rejection". I understand it that the foolish virgins were not sincere, evidencing a casual desire in not ensuring they were ready; and the Lord showed were not believers (v 12). He was "unprofitable," Greek...

Hi, and it's my understanding (and among credible commentators) that Heb 6:4-6 is a supposition, "that it is impossible for those who were once enlightened . . . if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh." The sense is...

I wouldn't know how to understand it any other way concerning eternal life and eternal death ("second death"). That's ok, but I'm not understanding this either to make a reply. Sorry and keep trying, I'll get there.

Hi! Appreciate your reply but I don't fully understand it.

And why would God give salvation to one He knows is not going to want to keep it!

Hi, and amen! What an oxymoron, e.g. temporarily possessing eternal life?!

How could a believer ever desire to choose to return to the old life when "God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him" (Phl 2:13). He ensures that the believer will never again desire the old life!

I know what you mean, but in my understanding apostasy is eventually manifesting you didn't truly believe but merely made a show that you believed, as you've stated, "a false presentation of faith." Those who truly believe "endure unto the end."

There are two groups of people professing Christianity. Those who genuinely profess the faith by unceasingly manifesting it by their continued lifestyle of godliness; and those who falsely profess faith in Christianity (Jas 2:18) who cease from appearing to lives godly. Thus what the latter...

Very true and a great point! What apostates depart from is a false profession, manifesting they had no faith, which always endures.

Hi and I somewhat agree, i.e. those who are not reborn will not continue in their false profession of faith. If they do not "endure until the end" they did not endure at all, because endure means to remain. "Departing from the living God" to me merely is the same as any apostasy, which manifests...

Hi and God bless! I think I see the Law a bit different, in that when the Mosaic Law was in effect for Jews who believed in God (many didn't trust Him) it did provide deliverance (e.g. forgiveness, Num 15); and the way of forgiveness merely became a more involved method--through Christ.

The most understandable and encouraging attribute concerning salvation is that of its permanency, after all, it is called “eternal salvation” (Heb 5:9). What part of salvation is temporary, seeing that one of the meanings of redemption is that of being saved from “eternal damnation” (Mar 3:29)...

Hi, and amen! Thanks for your comment!!

It is truly beyond answering why it must be that the majority of mankind has and will continue to reject that which is the most important in this life—and the next! God’s great love, especially for those whom He knows will choose Him, is well demonstrated in the fact that He is allowing the...

At the point of rebirth we are given “all things that pertain unto life and godliness” (2Pe 1:3); and from then on the Spirit ensures that we will learn “the things that have been freely given to us by God” (1Co 2:12). This will “not be in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy...

When Saul, in his zeal persecuting he Church, was on his way to Damascus, the Lord in glory met him—that same Lord Jesus, Whom Saul had with his nation rejected and cast out, but now risen from the dead and glorified, appeared to him. It was then Saul discovered the true values of his precious...

Those who continue to “desire and do” God’s “good pleasure” manifest that it is He who “works in you” (Phl 2:13)! This is clearly an advantage shown within Christianity that was not a provision within Judaism. Nevertheless, the former dispensation was equally necessary as the present one, for it...

In Scripture the term “flesh” has two meanings: 1) the physical body; 2) the mere human nature, the earthly nature of man apart from divine influence, and therefore prone to sin and opposed to God. The prior term is the Hebrew word bä·sär' and is found only in the OT, which never refers to the...