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The substance and evidence existing previously is God's word. We hear or read from God's word. We believe what it says about God, about Christ, about the gospel and we then believe in God. That is faith. That is the faith that saves. That is the faith through which God justifies and...

You should study up a little and learn what justification is and what it means that it is received by faith. Maybe a little dust up on what faith is would help also.

Interesting comment and so true.

What topic within soteriology does not devolve into a fight between the Calvinists and the non-Calvinists if both participate?

OK.

The general understanding of 2 Corinthians 5:21 is that God made Jesus Christ the sin-offering for us; in a manner similar to the OT practice of the lamb being a sin-offering. With Jesus Christ, He was the perfect sin-offering. Sin wasn't imputed to the lamb in the OT. That would not even have...

Your male nature is to not be monogamous. So have you been unfaithful to your wife (if you are married). Also the male nature is to be sexually active with a variety of females, married or not. So is that the case with you, are you sinful in that? Or is that a nature that you decide whether...

You think the effect of Adam's sin was for everyone. None of that nonsense about all men being limited. Apparently you think, in constrast to the statement in verse 15, that the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of Jesus Christ was not nearly so effective as the sin of Adam. The...

Actually it isn't taught anywhere in the bible. That says what happened to Adam and Eve. It says not one word about any corruption of human nature. Ephesians 2:3 says absolutely nothing about Adam's effect on human nature. Again, all true, but nothing there even suggests that all of that is...

And I surprised you've never understood. All that says is that Adam was the first man to sin and the first to become dead in his sins. It then says that death spread to all men because they sinned. Nothing there says anything about death spreading to all men because Adam sinned. His death...

What Bible doctrine of original sin? What bible doctrine of limited atonement. In your interpretation of " Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men" means every person without exception. Romans wasn't written in the Hebrew language. That is not Reformed Theology. Reformed...

Rom 5:15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. If the many who died through one man's trespass are, as you claim, the entire mass of...

And you change the meaning of the word mid-sentence and create an entire false theology on that mid-sentence change.

Romans 5: 15-19.

Original sin is a false doctrine.

I might have been able to give you a decent answer to that once, but my studies for my Greek courses were over 60 years ago and I didn't keep up with it. I wish I had. But I [τοις] is the definite article for the saints.

Jud 1:3 ᾿Αγαπητοί, πᾶσαν σπουδὴν ποιούμενος γράφειν ὑμῖν περὶ τῆς κοινῆς σωτηρίας, ἀνάγκην ἔσχον γράψαι ὑμῖν παρακαλῶν ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι τῇ ἅπαξ παραδοθείσῃ τοῖς ἁγίοις πίστει. Strong's G3588 ὁ, ἡ, τό ho hē to ho, hay, to The masculine, feminine (second) and...

Gal 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Is that promoting justification by works?

Hobie, you must have the Catholic concept of forgiveness. It is not some on-again-off-again condition needing to be renewed at each incident of the child of God committing another sin. Forgiveness is a state of being for the one who has been saved. Paul refers to that as having been justified...

But the verses don't say what you want them to say. That is the problem with so much of what is wrong within Christendom.