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  1. bdavidc

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    You’re mixing what God completed with what man does. Jesus didn’t give parables to take the place of doctrine, He used them to teach it. Every story revealed truth about the kingdom. The Bible never divides people by class or opportunity. God “shows no partiality” ~Romans 2:11. Both rich and...
  2. bdavidc

    Faith That Walks When the Road Isn’t Paved

    Faith is not lying to yourself that everything is alright when it’s not. Faith is standing up when everything in you is telling you to sit down. Hebrews 11 starts with a definition that shatters the world’s version of confidence: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of...
  3. bdavidc

    Faith isn’t proven when the road is smooth, it’s proven when you keep walking after the road...

    Faith isn’t proven when the road is smooth, it’s proven when you keep walking after the road disappears.
  4. bdavidc

    How Important is doctrine? Part 1

    Doctrine is not the property of the well-to-do or well-educated, it is the life-giving truth that goes to anyone who believes. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” ~Matthew 4:4. The word of God sustains the poor and the rich, the weak and the...
  5. bdavidc

    Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin

    This is exactly the same pattern you’ve used in other threads, and it needs to be called out plainly. You keep interrupting discussions by twisting the passage away from what God actually says. Hebrews 10 is not about temple rituals and it is not about “losing salvation over one sin.” That is a...
  6. bdavidc

    Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin

    When the verse in Hebrews 10 speaks of “after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,” it is not talking about someone who is born again. The Bible never says that knowing the truth is equivalent to being saved. Jesus said a man can hear His words...
  7. bdavidc

    Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin

    You’ve set up a strawman there, and Scripture demolishes it. Hebrews 10 is not speaking about a believer who sins and repents. It is speaking about a person who knows the truth and then rejects Christ Himself. The passage tells us what sin it is in verse 29. It is trampling the Son of God...
  8. bdavidc

    Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin

    You are twisting Hebrews 10 in a way Scripture never supports. The passage does not warn about going back to animal sacrifices. It warns about rejecting Christ Himself. That is why verse 29 says the person has trampled the Son of God, counted His blood as common, and insulted the Spirit of...
  9. bdavidc

    Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin

    Hebrews 12 is true, but it does not nullify or mitigate what God says in Hebrews 10. Scripture teaches that chastening is for God’s children when they falter and respond to His discipline, but the warning in Hebrews 10 is for those who know the truth and continue in sin. God disciplines sons...
  10. bdavidc

    Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin

    Hebrews 12 is true, but it does not nullify or mitigate what God says in Hebrews 10. Scripture teaches that chastening is for God’s children when they falter and respond to His discipline, but the warning in Hebrews 10 is for those who know the truth and continue in sin. God disciplines sons...
  11. bdavidc

    Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin

    Scripture does not say this as a warning against church-shopping, but as a warning to the heart. Hebrews 10 is warning against the danger of knowing the truth and then willfully choosing sin anyway. God plainly says that after receiving the knowledge of the truth that willful sin will leave “a...
  12. bdavidc

    Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin

    “We are not of those who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul” (Hebrews 10:39). Look around the church today. The lights are bright. The music is loud. The crowds are large, but the spiritual power is fading. Conviction has been exchanged for comfort...
  13. bdavidc

    What Does 'Surely Die' Mean?

    Yes, and as you have pointed out, most people here can see you are a false teacher by using their common sense. You’re not teaching Scripture. You’re teaching SDA-style fantasy built on Ellen White’s myth-making, not on the Word of God. Genesis never says the serpent had a different body before...
  14. bdavidc

    What Does 'Surely Die' Mean?

    You must realize what God says will happen to those who teach false doctrine. Scripture doesn’t let this go. God says, “If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words… he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing” ~1 Timothy 6:3 through 4. Jesus warned of...
  15. bdavidc

    What Does 'Surely Die' Mean?

    I do not assume anything nor add my own mystical ideas like you do. You keep demanding phrases the Bible does not use while ignoring the truths it clearly teaches. Scripture describes people as “dead in trespasses and sins” ~Ephesians 2:1, and explains that sin “separates” from God ~Isaiah...
  16. bdavidc

    What Does 'Surely Die' Mean?

    The verses you listed must be understood through the whole counsel of God, not by isolating poetic phrases. Scripture uses the word “sleep” to describe the body in death, not the soul. Jesus Himself made that clear when He said Lazarus was sleeping, then explained plainly, “Lazarus is dead”...
  17. bdavidc

    What Does 'Surely Die' Mean?

    You made several accusations that aren’t based on anything I actually said. Let me clear them up with Scripture, not theories. 1. I never mentioned a “third death.” You invented that and assigned it to me. Scripture speaks of spiritual death ~Ephesians 2:1, physical death ~Genesis 3:19, and the...
  18. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    Anyone can say someone doesn’t understand Scripture, but the only real test is whether the verses are used the way God uses them. “Rightly dividing the word of truth” means handling Scripture in context, not rewriting what it plainly says ~2 Timothy 2:15. Every passage I gave says the same...
  19. bdavidc

    Can the Bible contain mistakes?

    The very first question ever asked in Scripture came from the serpent’s mouth in Genesis 3:1, “Yea, hath God said…?” That question still echoes in our day. Every challenge to the authority, truth or perfection of God’s Word traces back to that same satanic seed of doubt. Scripture declares...
  20. bdavidc

    What Does 'Surely Die' Mean?

    The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) teaching looks biblical on the outside, but their doctrine at its heart is contrary to the Word of God. Scripture tells us salvation is completed in Christ ~John 19: 30, but the SDA teaching of an Investigative Judgment says Christ is still investigating believers...