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The false gods (Baal, Molech, etc.) are idols, as Psalm 115 says, which I quote in Post 65. Apart from Satan, whom Paul calls the god of this world, the false gods are just idols, not spiritual beings. I cannot recall a passage in the bible where God addresses a godess directly.

Thanks. Yes, as I understand it, the word "gods" is sometimes used in the bible of God-appointed judges. That seems to be the case in Psalm 82.

Where in the bible does it say that there are gods who die like men, or that men become gods when they die? The bible mentions the true God, and false gods. Of the false gods, the psalmist wrote: “4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not...

I would say that Behold was not cherry-picking. Yes, James was writing to Christians, and telling them that as Christians, they should live holy lives, for example, visiting orphans and widows, and keeping oneself unstained from the world. Doing those things does not make anybody a Christian...

That is true. A non-Christian can indeed visit orphans and widows, and merely doing good works doesn't make a sinner dead in trespasses and sins into a Christian. That is why I say that religion, as the bible describes it, can never save anybody. As you say, that requires the new birth.

True religion in the bible is not Christianity as such, but the outward aspects of being a Christian. As James wrote: “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (Jas 1:27 NKJV) So...

Thanks for that. Yes, I said that in the bible, the word "religion" is used to refer to the outward aspects of being a Christian. Christianity is not referred to as a religion in the bible.

That is strange. I have just looked at Post 37, and it is yours, not mine. You quoted the words of another poster, Behold, who had written, "Religion is always a barrier between God and man." I didn't write those words at all, so I am afraid your post has ended up as being rather confusing.

I do not agree that Jesus was telling the robber that he would be with Him on earth.

I agree. I had not even heard of John Calvin or the "TULIP" acronym when I believed the doctrines of grace. I believed them and still do believe them, because I find them in the bible. When you look at the Confessions of Faith of those who hold to the doctrines of grace, such as the...

You might as well say that the very first sin in the Garden of Eden was not charged because the law had yet to be given. But a law had been given. God had told Adam and Eve that they were free to eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They...

Where does it say that it applies only to the Pharisees? John 5;28-29 say: “28 “Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 “and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the...

No I don't think that. The bible does say that Christians were chosen/elected by God: “3 ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the...

No, not a robot or a car, but we are all sinners by nature, and the bible tells as that as such, we cannot receive or know the things of God, and salvation is surely such a thing: “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he...

No I don't think that monergists believe that God the Son didn't contribute anything to the work of salvation, but that the work of salvation is the triune God's work, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

But Israel had already been chosen as the people of God.

Easton's Revised Bible Dictionary has this paragraph in its entry on repentance. (It follows a description of false repentance, like the repentance of Judas Iscariot, which was merely regret.): "Evangelical repentance consists of a. a true sense of one's own guilt and sinfulness; b. an...

Just to save misunderstanding, do you mean that all who are monergists, in other words, those who believe that salvation is God's work, are "truly not born again?" Or did you rather mean that there are some people who call themselves monergists who are not really born again?

Yet in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, they both died. Lazarus is described as being "in Abraham's bosom." The rich man is in a place of torment: “19 ¶ “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. 20 “But there was a certain...

The difference is that the word "Trinity" is not found in the bible, though the doctrine represented by that word is. The word "religion" is found in the bible, referring to the outward results of faith - the "good works" that follow being saved.