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Do they confuse them? How do you prove this is so? How many do you know that are confused in the way you say they are? And why should I explain a phenomenon that you're asserting? You explain it since you say it is a thing that afflicts "many." No, actually, you haven't. You've said that...

??? You started this thread concerning 1 Corinthians 15. I've given my perspective on it. Now you're giving yours (though, in a rather unpleasant way). If you're making assertions about the chapter, you're obliged to back up those assertions with appropriate argument. If you don't, then I'm...

This is quite beside my point in offering the verse, which was to demonstrate that the Bible does give "shoulds" to the Christian, which you said that it didn't. In the case of Romans 7:4, the "should" is concerning "bearing fruit to God." As Paul wrote, the Christian should do so. I have no...

It isn't, I think, that my statements are unclear, it is that you don't care to understand what I'm writing and so don't ask me what I mean. Instead, you've assumed my meaning, imagining thinking on my part, rather than letting what I write speak for itself. As a result, you've often argued...

Luke 11:42 42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. John 13:15 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you...

Submit to God. Romans 6:13 And do not present your members as [d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 6:19 19 ... just as you presented your members as slaves of...

Oh? I don't see that in the passage/chapter in question... This is quite an assumption you're making, here, and an ill-defined one, too. What do you mean, exactly, by "lost the focus to actually read the Scriptures as written"? Why do you refer to these two spheres, or realms, or planes of...

Why would you? I was talking about how you've misrepresented my own words. Yes. Obviously. I've never said otherwise.

This is a lie. I understand very well why you read a SandL view into God's word and by what proof texts. And it's precisely because I do understand your view, and God's word, too, that I reject your SandL view as false. It is not necessary to obey God IN ORDER TO REMAIN SAVED (Eph. 2:8-9; Tit...

Okay. I don't recall writing that you were unsure about these things but only about which view, OSAS or OSNAS, was correct. You said I shouldn't think that I could know for sure which one was correct. I disagreed. In all of this, though, I didn't say you were unsure of your own personal...

Yeah, the more unsure a person is about their faith, the more disturbed they are by those who aren't also unsure. *Shrugs* It's just how it goes, I guess. As I said, your uncertainty about God's word in no way obliges me to be likewise uncertain. I'm not a Calvinist but I do try to be as...

My words divorced from their full context. Just like you do with God's word. Every person who is prooftexting illegitimately says the same thing" "This bit is irrelevant." It's a very convenient statement when forcing one's ideas onto the words of others, but it always results in distortion of...

I don't know why you think your uncertainty about this matter of the believer's eternal security ought to be mine, too. Can you show me where in what I wrote about why I'm secure in Christ, I have misinterpreted God's word? Where does Scripture deny that God always accepts Christ and that I am...

The Two Basic "Invitations" of All Sin. No matter what sin it is, at the heart of every one are the same two "invitations": - Deny who you are in Christ. - Deny God's Lordship over you. Why do I make this observation in a discussion of Romans 6? Because Paul addresses both "invitations" in...

Amen! And again, AMEN!

Meet your own standard. Hah. This is always the sort of vague reply I get in response to the question of how far is too far. What does it mean, exactly, to "live after the flesh" and to the point of losing one's salvation? What is it, precisely, to "sow to the flesh" sufficiently to dissolve...

Okay. You're saying the question of whether or not one can lose one's salvation cannot ever be known. Right? If so, I can't, of course, agree. I think the Bible is crystal clear that my salvation rests entirely in Christ and his finished work at Calvary, not in me. I am "in him" and because he...

God "forces" all sorts of things upon us: He imposes our physical features and limitations upon us, never asking if we want to exist and in what particular form (male or female, short or tall, skinny or hefty, etc). He imposes on us the earthly environment into which we are born, forcing us to...

What the saved-and-lost crowd want to propose is something akin to a man drowning at sea who is, at the last moment, pulled from the water by a passing fishing boat. The almost-drowned man lies on the deck of the fishing boat gasping for air, and trembling with cold and fear at his near-death...

I sound judgmental? Hmmm... What do you mean by "judgmental"? A person is being judgmental whenever they hold any opinions and/or beliefs. Take your own remark to me that I'm judgmental. Your remark is itself judgmental: You've judged me to be judgmental. That makes you the very thing you've...