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Why? Both are true.

Still dancing around the fact that the gentiles were already saved I see. Do you understand that the Bible reveals more Truth as it moves forward in time? The OT gives us glimpses of what God is like and how he works. And the New shows him revealed more and more, to both the diciples and to...

That doesn't even make sense. Peter didn't have the book of Acts...and.. Then Peter said, 47 “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” Not, " they will receive." Already done. They were already saved before...

Apparently you didn't read any of what I posted.

Peter doesn't say that they are saved by the water. Acts 2:38, “And Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’” Those who hold to the belief that baptism is...

I didn't skip anything. We were on Acts 10 and you jumped to Acts 2 rather than deal with the fact that the gentiles in Acts 10 were saved before baptism.

Ok, but that's not the question in my mind. The question was whether that person is automatically damned because of taking his life.

You just jumped to another chapter.? We were in Acts 10: 34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. 36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel...

I think there's definitely a difference in the effects some sins have in comparison with others. But not in the way God views sin in regards to eternal life. It only takes one sin to make me a sinner. I don't know if a worse sinner will suffer more in eternity. It seems just to me, but I'm not...

I'm not sure it's that simple. Yes, if a non-believer kills himself, he will end up in eternal hell. But, when people are in the state of mind to kill themselves, they aren't exactly rational. IDK. We had a friend take his life and it wasn't that he hadn't heard the gospel. It was a terrible...

Ok I do believe a person has to be repentant. But lots of people repent and sin and repent and sin...is that person out? I don't think so. Salvation doesn't depend on our performance. And we all do this to some extent or another.

Peter thought they should be baptized. This was after they had received the Holy Spirit, which amazed the circumsized believers present. Why were they amazed? Because they had not previously realized that salvation was truly for all and not just those who performed certain rituals and had...

That proves that they were already saved before getting baptized.

Simply not biblical. You sound like the Catholics trying to make baptism and communion part of your salvation.

I think perhaps the real question is whether one can be a practicing homosexual and be a Christian at the same time. Isn't this what some gays are trying to promote? And I think perhaps the answer is not so easy. If I say no, then how is my sin " allowed " but their sin isn't? Now they are...

(Part of this was written in the fall.) “I had this wild longing to go running through the forests of my yesterdays.” I read that in a comic book many years ago. Why do things like that stick in the mind? I think they reach something inside us, buried very deep, that we barely recognized as...

Where does modern Christendom tell us not to use Jesus' name? And yes, Peter healed in Jesus name, but it was not the words he said that healed people, it was God who healed people, through Peter's faith. 16 By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is...

You un's talk funny. :)

"The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of...

Lots of men will confess Christ insincerely. Otherwise, why would we be warned about tares in the kingdom? It has to be more than mere words.