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Of course real faith produces results.

Yes after I was saved I wouldn't call it work. Did you make a "decision for Jesus"? Now you're being silly. No, actually God does all the saving. My part is only to allow him. So, no works involved.

Yes because of our actions. He gives us free will. We aren't different species, not seeing the connection there.

Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. Now baptism is a good testimony. But...

Yeah, God chooses some people for certain jobs, and he chose for those who respond to Jesus to be his. But he died once for all, so he loves all.

I'm not sure what you are really saying. All humans are equal in God's eye's IMO. We all come from the same parents and are all created by God and he lovingly knits each one together. We receive punishment in various degrees because of our actions, but we are all sinners. Race is non-existent to...

I'm not drinking anything at this moment... But I don't drink coffee. However, I do have multiple cups of hot chocolate everyday.

Those are the ones with ADD right?

That's very confusing. We can obviously choose to increase our faith or decrease it, and yes, many think they have real faith but don't: Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven”

But we are warned about having genuine faith, not fake faith. . Matthew 15:8 These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Isaiah 29:13 And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their...

It's about works done on the earth to Christ....if built on any other foundation, they will not amount to anything. How one gets purgatory out of this, I have no idea. Look at the context: What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord...

Again, semantics. Both are true. Real mustard seed sized faith is enough, the Holy Spirit does the rest.

Not using those terms. Belief that gets us into Christ isn't merely mental consent. Real faith includes trust, which changes our way of life and way of seeing the world and well, everything. It's spiritual, therefore through the Holy Spirit, not just head knowledge.

No, it's everywhere in scripture.

I don't remember using that terminology anywhere.

How does that really relate to the idea of purgatory though? If the unsaved die forever or are consumed, they still die either way. What I'm asking is how does one get the idea that they go through some intermediate stage, then enter heaven? I mean, I read: " the great divorce" by CS Lewis too...

But you know what I mean. It's a useless argument about words when we know belief does make us partakers of Christ. How many verses do you want? For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped...

Where's the Bible teach about purgatory? My Bible says I can know I have eternal life. Not that I might make it if I get through purgatory. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the...

Semantics.

11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire... You are over complicating it. The Spirit baptizes, and the water is but a symbol of the internal...