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I don't think you know what "cherry-picking" refers to, colloquially. It is not "cherry-picking" to offer a rationale, an argument, for one's view. You do this regularly. Are you, therefore, cherry-picking, too? What did John say about the sort of people Paul described here to Timothy? 1 John...

No, you don't "just post Scripture." I've already demonstrated that this isn't so in my last couple of posts to you. The instance of the withering of the fig tree, described only in Matthew's and Mark's Gospels, was not about losing one's salvation but about the power of faith. Matthew...

See above. They only "say this" once you've forced a saved-and-lost construction upon their words. No, you post Scripture and then add your own saved-and-lost spin to it; you don't "just post Scripture." See above. I wish Scripture was, for you, as you think it is. But the eisegetical...

I assume you have a print Bible. Yes? Perhaps even a digital one on your p.c.? There's Bible Gateway online, or Blue Letter Bible. Can you not access them? I find your confusion here very odd. Perhaps you're expecting that I hold to antinomianism, or I'm a "free grace" person who thinks...

Flat contradiction is not, by itself, a successful argument for your position. It's just contradiction - like what arguing children do on the playground. As I showed in my last post, this isn't so. Simply asserting what you do here by no means counters what I explained or makes your assertion...

Aren't you leaving out something rather in important in your calculation above, namely, the Holy Spirit? Yes, those who aren't indwelt by the Spirit may take up various doctrinal beliefs by a sort of religious osmosis, unconsciously imbibing the beliefs of family and whatever religious culture...

Faith doesn't - and can't - save anyone. Only Jesus saves (Jn. 1:4, 12; 14:6; Ac. 4:12; 1 Ti. 2:5). But our faith in Christ puts us into position to be saved by him (Jn. 3:16; Ro. 10:9-10); it's how, in part, we "draw near" to God (Ja. 4:8). Good works don't save us, either. All of our works...

Colossians 1:21-23 21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, 22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith...

1 Corinthians 9:21-27 21 to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I...

Hmmm... This is an interesting statement. Does one's journey toward Christ-likeness, toward ever-deeper fellowship with God, require that one recall the "swamp of sin" one once occupied? All I see in the NT are commands to orient my focus upon the "mountain": Hebrews 12:2-3 2 fixing our eyes...

This is certainly what many men, in particular, need to hear these days. I encounter so many of them within the Church caught in porn! It's very good to hear of one who has been delivered by God from this addiction. I understand. I hear Christian guys often saying something like the following...

I appreciate the passion of your call to sinners to be free of their bondage to sin. Where, though, is your explanation of the "way of escape" from temptation about which the apostle Paul wrote? (1 Cor. 10:13) Is it not futile to tell people a way to freedom from the power of sin exists but not...

This observation by no means counters what I wrote. Not even close. To "abide in Christ" is to be saved. One cannot be saved and not abide in him, after all. And neither verse 2 nor verse 6 of John 15 actually refer to a saved person who has lost their salvation. I've already addressed this...

Yes. Once a person is saved, they have this ability. Read Romans 6:1-11. That's not, of course, how Christians usually frame their sin, but this what they are doing when they choose to follow the direction of the old, carnal Self. I "like" it? Where did I write such a thing? Nowhere. ...

Jesus indicated that he was God: John 10:30 30 "I and the Father are one." John 10:33 33 The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God." Mark 2:5-7 5 And Jesus seeing their faith said to the...

Brother, I don't fault your being passionate - provided it arises from a genuine, agape love and concern for those misguided by Dispensationalism, and for those disseminating it. Both are deceived and both need the Light, and Love, and power of God to win free of demonic error. Rebuke, yes, but...

Have you forgotten what Paul wrote in Romans 7:14-22 and Galatians 5:17? It is in light of the things Paul wrote in these two places in Scripture (and others) that his injunction in Philippians 2:12 makes sense. Yes, the born-again person is given a "new nature" in Jesus Christ (2 Co. 5:17), but...

Come on, now. I'm no Dispensationalist and was not raised on "Scofield's footnotes instead of apostolic doctrine." My father has always been staunchly opposed to the Secret Rapture and Dispensational interpretive system and raised us accordingly. You're being unduly dismissive here, then...

Philippians 2:12-13 12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Philippians 2:12...

I think you are "doing it to yourself." With the devil's help. But, you know, the proof of really knowing and walking with God isn't in how many people gather around you, how many may follow you, but in seeing the life and work of God's Spirit within you. The Bible tells us what the Spirit does...