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To me, there is believing about God, and believing in God. One can believe there is a God without believing in Him.

Only those who had the faith like those in Hebrews 11 were not in unbelief ("remnant of Israel"), unlike those in Romans 11 (cf v 32--"all" meaning most), which consisted of the majority of Israel, even to this day.

I also agree that we should admonish one another in the Scriptures, but it's how you do it that matters. If it's not out of love it's not useful (not accusing you of such)--Eph 4:15. The Jesus and the Apostles were rebuking unbelievers when they were addressing the Jewish religious leaders...

I'm only referring to genuine Christians because God is working on their growth. I find no necessity to accuse anything of an unbeliever, because it doesn't matter to him, nor of a believer, because accusing a Christian of being insincere is not spiritually correct. If they are His, He will do...

I would not hesitate to say that “the Book of Life” and the writing of its contents had no beginning and has no ending, for it is a conception of God, and everything known by Him is from everlasting (eternity past) to everlasting (eternity future), as in Psalm 90:2. Eternity has no time but it...

We should be seeking only what Scripture instructs, and that taught by the Holy Spirit. Regardless of why and what others may presume of another, if their motive is not love and encouragement in the "word of truth," if will lack effective use of the Spirit of God. Our motive should always be...

Hi DM - There is some good instruction in what you've indicated, and the proper approval can only come from God, and Godly men who know to avoid improper approval. "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these...

Do we collate our union and fellowship with the Father and the Son according to our obedience, or according to how we are to Them in the Son? Our obedience is the result of the Father’s work in us (Phl 2:13), which never needs to address the attainment of favor (already permanent in Christ)...

Hi NH - Myself, I believe Jesus was alone with the two sisters which allowed Mary time to be with Jesus. What Martha was doing wasn't wrong, it was just out of a lesser motive than why Mary was doing what she was doing, which was better. Good word DPM - The overall Christian theme in all things...

All Christians traverse through the same conformation progressions, because it is the same Spirit working in them the same life of the Lord Jesus (Col 3:4). The desire to please the Lord is a two-fold progression which usually begins with our service to Him, and then we learn the superior...

“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus . . . Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith” (Heb 10:19, 22). The Apostle does not take the stand of one in preeminent nearness himself to God, inviting others to draw nigh, as though...

True, God had always a way to communicate to some in the prior dispensation (His Spirit, angels mostly), but this dispensation involves "A new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh" (Heb 10:20), which was not available until Christ. They...

What is required now for salvation is regeneration of the Spirit of God, which was not possible in the prior dispensation, nor was it required until Christ. The thread's primary subject matter concerns the issue that regeneration of the Spirit (Church attainment) was not revealed nor could it...

I'm referring to the eternal indwelling of the Spirit (John 14:16), which position was "not yet given" (John 7:39) to man. This is the only means by which the Father and Son indwells the believer.

Hi DPM - There is a vastly significant difference between being with God and being in God! This will be the difference in eternity between saved Israel (unbelieving Israelites who become believers after seeing Jesus, and the Father puts the Spirit in them), and the Church.

The relationship Israel had with God was different from that which the Church has now, involves the difference between being with God, and being in God (which also involves many other truths), which was not disclosed before the Lord began to speak concerning the Church (Mat 16:18; John 14:21)...

Why does the Lord Jesus (and the writers of the NT) express a variance in significance between the revelation to the OT saints and that to the NT saints? It is because the prior led to the latter and the contrast between them enhances the importance of each, with the Gospel revelation being...

I also understand your views on this issue, and they may be correct, but I believe their choices were just a pattern for mankind and is the way God desires to teach us through autonomy, which is the most significant attribute given to man to distinguish him from all that is in the universe, and...

Of the New Creation it is written, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17). “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature” (2 Cor 6:15). A...

What God revels concerning what He does is no mystery to those who are His, but much of why He does what He does concerning His ways are mystical (Job 9:10; Rom 11:33). This is why I try to attribute greater attention to spiritual growth truths with which Scripture is openly clear. I learn...