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It was the sanctification process that I was talking about, some people are more sanctified in this life than others. For being holy, yes either you are or you aren't.

And your friend may have been perfectly sanctified at that time, God can sure make exceptions. I'm not going to say for sure that he was making it up. What I do know for sure is that he most likely didn't go around bragging about it, else then he wouldn't have been sanctified in his humility...

Yes, it is in our nature for us to sin and God doesn't get rid of that nature in its entirety until we dwell with Him eternally.

Well, I think we can get pretty close to being perfectly sanctified (though it seems not many of us get there), but to be perfect like Jesus only occurs when we are dwelling with Him eternally. I know the verses that say we are to be blameless before Him, but we have to take the whole counsel...

Some people are just going to insist they can logically exhaustively comprehend God and there's nothing any of us can say that will change that. Only the Holy Spirit can, Oh, I like the new format! Well, it surely may change again.

That's exactly right. We are unable to obey in all things and be perfect like Jesus is; it is just not possible for the remaining corruption that is in us. God doesn't--for His own eternally wise reasons--sanctify us perfectly in this world. When Jesus told the "rich young ruler" to go and sell...

Yes, it is very similar to the dark ages; the truth of God's word is being phenomenally obscured by the propaganda of the devil and his league.

He might want to highlight this verse in Hebrews 12 "Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith". By His Spirit's indwelling power in us of course. I found him to be confusing when he disagreed with what he had written; at that point I tend to drop communications with such people as that...

That Jesus was never human was the popular heresy before the heresy which denied Jesus was God. It is interesting to me to note that denying the deity of Christ is now the trendy heresy. None of the points which Taken make amount to anything because they try to comprehend how a changeless and...

Well, God's word cannot contradict itself; since John writes also that if we have no sin in us we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us, it cannot mean that we no longer commit any sin (since the "we" that John writes of indicates believers). It therefore must mean something like to...

Praise God for your opportunity to share with others about Him! I pray He will bless your effort and that many sons will thereby be brought into the Kingdom!

No, not at all--we are to love our enemies as Jesus instructed us to. I was merely answering the question you asked as to why God gives people over to a reprobate mind and that is the only answer we have in God's revelation of Himself. We are not God. We are to follow the commandments which...

Wow. I'm so glad I don't watch television! It appears it would be important to not have the television on in a Christian household with children as well. As for homosexuality being a mental illness, I'm not too sure about that. It could be, though likely it isn't. Whatever it is, engaging in...

God tells us in Exodus, "I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion". (Those whom He gives over to a reprobate mind are those whom He chooses to not have compassion on). Most likely not the answer we want, but the only answer He gives us. Our ways are not His ways.

It's a sign to us, to ourselves. It is a symbol of our admittance into the family of God. No one has to be there but us; what you said doesn't mean anything. If no one but the husband and wife and the minister was there for their wedding (as it is in some cases), the ring which is given wouldn't...

That's actually not what I said, but okay. I actually have the Scriptural view of baptism. It is a sign and no more. You get adopted into the family of God by repenting and being born again. Baptism is a command by God as the sign of this. The thief is an example of a last minute conversion, not...

Exactly! I hope he will try to make an argument against what you quoted because it will be an exercise in futility and his failure will be obvious. He most likely will state the same verses he said over and over again--which is what people do when they do not have an argument. All those verses...

No, the desire is NOT GOOD ENOUGH if that person is *able* to be baptised. If one is able to be baptised, they should submit to the will of God and not hold rebellion in their heart. However if they are UNABLE to be baptised then this has NO WEIGHT on the matter of the state of that person's...

The one verse that people who believe in the necessity of baptism that negates that view is when Jesus says: "Any one who comes to me I will in no way cast out". There is absolutely no argument that can stand that anyone can make against that. Please try. Anything you will say about how...

Unfortunately, baptism is a sign. The act itself does nothing in the matter of saving. There are tons of people who have been baptised who are not saved. Romans 6 is describing baptism as what the sign signifies; I'm sure just about everyone he was talking to was baptised too. However, that in...