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Romans 6:3-11 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness...

Just so you know: I don't subscribe to Dispensationalism and all its attendant... peculiarities. www.thenarrowpath.com

No, it is written to all who would be saved through the atoning work of Christ at Calvary. This is why it's in the Bible and not some other Jew-specific Christian text. Galatians 3:26-29 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into...

To what end, though? Some want to say "to the end they keep themselves saved." But I think Scripture teaches that believers are to do as God's word commands, not to retain salvation, to retain one's relationship to God as His adopted child, but to enjoy daily, life-changing fellowship with Him...

No, I'm a born-again child of God, not under a dispensation, but under a new covenant made possible in and through Jesus Christ. See Hebrews 7-10:22.

Who is in view in verses 4-6? A person who is: - enlightened. - tasted the heavenly gift. - partakers of the Holy Spirit. - tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come. What sort of enlightenment, tasting, and partaking would it be reasonable to think a person has who...

Suffice for what? What does it mean to "fall away from the faith"? The Galatian Christians were being seduced by Judaizers, lured back under the impossible law-keeping approach to God that Christ had abolished (He. 7-10:22) through his atoning work at Calvary. Paul is quite fierce in his...

1 John 1:19 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

Uh oh. Have you taken up a sinless perfection belief? I sure hope not. See 1 John 1:8. Christians may live according to who they are in Christ, or they may not. But if they choose the latter, they demonstrate either that they are not saved, or that they badly misunderstand what it is to know...

The above is how you want Scripture to be "used," which is fine, but what you may want in a back-and-forth in a thread is not what others are therefore obliged to give to you. I don't know why I should have to cut-and-paste Scripture that you can't be bothered to look up on your own. I do this...

Anticipating the objections of those who had "slanderously reported" that Paul was teaching a sort of "free grace" doctrine where sin could be indulged because "grace did much more abound," Paul begins Romans 6 with the rhetorical question that he did. Romans 6:1-2 6 What shall we say then...

Romans 6:1-11 6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried...

Everything that is true has a narrowing effect on our thinking because truth exposes what is false, thus excluding it from our true beliefs and often from our interest and attention. In other words, truth is, by its nature, exclusivistic. Since the Bible is true, it will have this excluding...

It should be obvious that the Gospel was not literally preached to the whole world. Paul was speaking hyperbolically, like young Bobby who wants to go to the concert of his favorite musician and says to his parents who are unwilling to fund his trip "But everybody's going to the concert!" Many...

Thank God the video included some thoughts from Mike Winger near the end! It's so deeply repugnant to me to see this grotesque parody of the spiritual power of the ancient apostles of the Early Church. I couldn't watch the whole video front-to-back but skipped through most of the middle of it to...

Personally, I despise AI. Have you seen the movie Wall-E? In it, human beings aboard an intergalactic space shape are unwitting hostages to the robot technology that is supposed to be serving them. All of the humans have become obese and indolent, self-aware blobs of tissue that are served...

Yes, there are people throughout the Church, holding every stripe of doctrine, who are guilty of gross, persistent sin. This is not the condition only of those who hold to OSAS. I don't know, though, any person who holds to OSAS - and I know many hundreds of them personally - who are mired in...

Great! Yup. Exactly. John 14:26, 16:13 and 1 Corinthians 2:10-16. There's no need for me to guess. I know quite well how the Spirit works now and how he worked in the Early Church. ??? I can't make much sense of what you've written here. It sounds like you're having a rant against OSAS...

As you do with God's word, you've taken my words out of their context. And you get the same contortion of my meaning as you've been getting in your interpretation of Scripture. Nope. But you're entitled to your opinion - however mistaken it is. Nope. I've already explained why this is false...

I'm not sure why you would just deny everything I explained about why those who hold to OSAS - myself among them - don't think as you say they do in the quotation above. Is there some reason beyond your flat denial and unfounded assertion above that should persuade anyone to believe your...