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Dear GodsGrace, You said: When all commentaries agree... I'd venture to say that they're 99% correct. This is not true. After Paul's death, the churches all became apostate and began teaching "perverse things" that Paul said would come into the church. If a teaching is widely accepted my most...

Dear ProDeo, It is true people have different experiences along the pathway to salvation but they all follow the same pattern that Paul laid down with his conversion (1Tim 1:16). No believer can deviate from that pathway. Here is a summary of that pathway: A person begins the pathway to...

Dear ProDeo, Yes, I am writing from experience. You can find my conversion testimony on my teaching website that shows just below my member name. Joe

Dear GodsGrace, I was thinking about something else that I believe is an issue for you. This has to do with the spirit word "babe". The spirit word "babe" is used by Christ in TWO different analogies, both of which teach the pathway to salvation. If a person tries to combine the two...

Dear GodsGrace, The commentaries on the Early and Latter Rain are incorrect. Water is a spirit word that represents the Holy Spirit. When it falls like Rain, it indwells the person it falls on. It can be either the Early Rain or the Latter Rain. Associated with the Early and Latter Rains...

Dear GodsGrace, I thought I would make one more post to you since I thought of another scripture to use. Since you seem to like to use the term "born again" for salvation, I will present the verses where Christ mentions how a person is born again. John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him...

CONTINUED FROM THE PREVIOUS POST... Here is a very simple and clear statement by Paul that teaches how Christ saves a person: Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his...

Dear GodsGrace, Converted believers cannot fall away because they have been "born again". After a person is born again, their salvation is secure. But for unconverted babes, they absolutely can fall away; and since the death of Paul, they all have. You said: UNLESS, you SPECIFICALLY respond...

Dear ScottA, You are not seeing the true Christ. The true Christ is all powerful, merciful and patient. There isn't any scripture that says Christ will abandon the foolish virgins (the apostate church) upon their bodily resurrection. It is true that the foolish virgins will not be found in...

Dear ScottA, Yes, during the conversion process, the man of sin/child of the Devil is destroyed. But before he is destroyed, the person will be born again as a child of God. Scripture calls this process "conversion". Conversion requires Christ to give a person both the Early and Latter Rains...

Dear ScottA, I would respond to your comments but I really don't understand what you are saying. Maybe you could restate your post for me? Joe

CONTINUED FROM THE PREVIOUS POST... You said: As you already know only those who have part in the first resurrection have no fear of the second death. (Rev 20:6) Yes, I have presented the Second Death in my other posts but I'm not sure you understand it yet. Everyone will experience the...

Dear rwb, My response is going to come in two separate posts. I'm sorry but there was so much I wanted to present. You said: To be born again means we have spiritually entered into the Kingdom of God in heaven. The only way according to Christ to both know and enter the Kingdom of God in...

Dear rwb, Here is the verse: Col 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, (this is before they were converted) God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, I will present three points concerning this verse. 1). The phrase "when you were...

Dear rwb, FYI, I used to live in Rogers, Arkansas and have made many trips to Branson with my family to visit Silver Dollar City. We only moved to Colorado six years ago. Joe

Dear rwb, You said: Jesus shows tells us we must be born again to know (see) and enter the Kingdom of God. He does NOT say we must be spiritually resurrected. Yes, being "born again" is one of many ways that describes that a person has been given a new spiritual life. This new spiritual life...

Dear Brakelite, You don't understand how Christ works within a person. He does not force anyone love Him. What He does do is to change the person's heart and mind by giving them the Holy Spirit. After a person's heart and mind are changed, they will be able to see the love and goodness of...

Dear rwb, You asked: Then why does Christ repeatedly say that whosoever believes in Him shall not/never die? I answered that question in my post. Christ is talking about converted believers who have been spiritually resurrected. Once a person has been "born again", they will never...

Dear NotTheRock, When a person dies, they are dead. Their spirit will then return to God - but without a body, the person has no consciousness and no life. This was even true for Christ when He died on the cross. Christ really did die for the sins of the world. Without His bodily resurrection...

Dear Brakelite, I will respond to just one of your comments. Here is the verse again: Mat 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. You said: The sword was a metaphor for all violence and hatred and...