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  1. ScottA

    The Mystery of 'Works' Resolved: Good works good, bad works bad.

    This is a misunderstanding and the result of misapplying the law to those who are not under it. To the contrary, that "double" feature that you are seeing is just God's way of bringing this "other fold" of the gentiles to salvation without the law as He did with Israel. And you telling Him He...
  2. ScottA

    The Mystery of 'Works' Resolved: Good works good, bad works bad.

    No...that does not accurately describe or apply to these times. This is the error. That is not "rightly dividing the word of truth." Sin is sin because of the law, which was given to Israel--not to the gentiles, and is not for these times. That all comes under the old covenant, but we are...
  3. ScottA

    Matthew 25:42-46

    I see that we are talking about two different things. I was commenting about Matthew 25:42-46 and how it addresses (in addition to other things) that other order-of-the-day and these times, which is to say, the arrangement by Jesus to build His church by what comes forth from the Father by the...
  4. ScottA

    Once Saved, Always Saved?

    I will take these one at a time--but why have you not at all heard and acknowledged the truth that these things were preached to those on the cusp of the greatest change in world history regarding salvation--that there are those who fall on one side and also those who fall on the other side...
  5. ScottA

    Once Saved, Always Saved?

    Let's address this first, as it seems to be getting in the way of our communication. (I will get to the rest of your post afterward). You have this wrong. What you describe as "cryptic remarks" vs. "clear explanation"...is just not the biblical model. I hear you--but really, would it have been...
  6. ScottA

    A post to an essay on the difficulty with dispensationalist eschatology.

    If you want to know the truth according to God--start afresh leaving behind all that you have learned that agrees with men's worldly logic and timing. God is extra worldly. He translated His extra worldly reality into worldly terms--because He was speaking to children. Stop making a doctrine...
  7. ScottA

    "This Generation" declared by Jesus.

    That new crack in your view is according to the foretold coming of all truth which was only before revealed to His servants the prophets (The seal is now broken). Which is: that from the beginning all things unfolded until Christ, but now are being refolded. As one man unfolding became the...
  8. ScottA

    Once Saved, Always Saved?

    If it does not make sense to you that "other sheep I have which are not of this fold" that some are "the dead in Christ" and others are "the living in Christ" and the difference is what occurred before and after the cross...then you have not heard Him, let alone me. But if you think you can mix...
  9. ScottA

    Matthew 25:42-46

    I have spoken clearly already, but now bluntly: Whoever offends one who has the spirit of God during these times, offends the Holy Spirit, which is not forgivable. Which now occurs even in the church.
  10. ScottA

    Matthew 25:42-46

    Let me put it a different way: If it is no longer the person who lives but the Spirit of God who lives in them, and one offends them--who have they offended, the person or the Spirit of God? The only correct answer is the one who lives, therefore the offence is against the Holy Spirit. And what...
  11. ScottA

    "This Generation" declared by Jesus.

    Yes, and this is done, because most look for the things to be fulfilled in the way that men think, rather than the way that God has so often done differently than they would expect....like bringing eternal life and victory by death on a cross. Such logic escapes them.
  12. ScottA

    The Mystery of 'Works' Resolved: Good works good, bad works bad.

    Most of what you wrote is both to the dead and to the living, but you have them mixed together, when they should be "rightly divided"...which you did not do. You spoke of and recognized both, but did not separate them. That is the irony of this line of thinking. To the contrary, properly...
  13. ScottA

    "This Generation" declared by Jesus.

    I am happy to end the conversation or continue it...but, no, what is obvious, is that it is the Father who applied those words to Jesus, and Jesus who foretold it. That cup included all tribulation, that of the whole world and all of history, making it the greatest tribulation that shall ever...
  14. ScottA

    Matthew 25:42-46

    “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? Mark 4:13 Thirty +/- parables did not prompt that comment and question to be entered into the eternal word of God. It's all parables. ...Anyway, the tie between Jesus' comments "inasmuch as you did not do it to...
  15. ScottA

    What Many Don't Understand

    This is also true of what we believe that is in error. It's like putting bars up to keep yourself out of all that is good and of God.
  16. ScottA

    Is it okay for a Christian to wear a st christoper pendant

    Yes. As Jesus said, "For he who is not against us is on our side."
  17. ScottA

    Hi I’m new

    Welcome Marc! A word of caution...forums are a lot like the world--full of both good and evil. Always good to seek God first, and beware the devil. And the reality is, people everywhere are still lost and trying to figure it all out--but this is a good move on your part--much here is good. Seek...
  18. ScottA

    Once Saved, Always Saved?

    Exactly--you don't know what context, so you act as if there wasn't a difference. But I told you the context--those words of holding out "until the end", were spoken on the cusp of the coming of salvation--literally the greatest dividing line in the history of the world...and you say, "What...
  19. ScottA

    Once Saved, Always Saved?

    Because...He was speaking to those who were born before salvation had come--He said those things before going to the cross. Context. But He also spoke of things that pertained to all--which is why Paul (the apostle to those who Christ must also bring, who clarified the matter after salvation...
  20. ScottA

    Once Saved, Always Saved?

    No, that is Paul speaking of those who were of the old nature and to those of these times who have not yet been born from above. However, if one is born of God they are from above, a new creation bound only to this world and this earthly house for service--to live is Christ. But what you are...