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Changing your mind is pretty easy .. repenting of all that you know and understand and trusting is what God teaches you is true repentance (2Cor 10:5, Isa 55:7, Ro 12:1) of the heart. Salvation/justification calls for HEART repentance (Ro 10:9-10). skypair

Well, there are 3 biblical gospels. 1) The everlasting gospel (Ro 1:18-20, Rev 14:6-7), 2) the gospel of the kingdom (Mt 24:14 — of Messiah's coming), and the gospel of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:36-40). However, at this current time, there is also (in addition to the gospel of Jesus Christ), the...

…is starting to make sense to me. One gospel to save the spirit (mind) and one gospel to save the soul (heart) .. so the church "adds to the church daily" those who know about God and those who "know God, or rather are known of God" (Gal 4:9) worshipping together. It's like the "foolish...

I believe that the application of this is first seek His justification and then ("and His righteousness") His sanctification. Justification is by believing and obeying the gospel of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:36-40). That calls for discarding everything you think you know about God (Acts 20:21, 2Cor...

Duh! God the Father did send His Holy Ghost, His Son, into the earth to create all that exists. Or do you not think that Jesus was God? Actually, no. The Son was in the form of God called the Holy Ghost even before He "made himself of no reputation .. the form of man." (Phil 2:7-8). Christ...

Salvation is but a moment .. sure. But it seems your view of the Trinity needs updating. The Father is all Truth = omniscient. So, yeah, the Truth never changes and is true throughout eternity. But since it also includes time, things are true in a certain and logical order. Now the Holy...

"Seek first" is the sign that we are to live in the course of time. Decreasing and increasing, likewise. And so there is a timeline with salvation. There has to be that day that you enter into covenant with God in the name of Jesus Christ. After that, you are "building" up your Holy Ghost...

It's clear .. but why do you take away the timeline? Rather I would say that when Jesus said "take up your cross and follow Me," Let me just show you the beauty of our participation with Christ. Jesus was on the cross when He said, "Why hast thou forsaken Me." That is what we say when...

Well, this is true .. but what justifies is repentance of the heart right up front. It is a certain "promise" to turn from our wicked and unrighteous ways (Isa 55:7) and "turn unto our God." A few passages that will give you the idea of what this is (besides Isa 55:7) are Ro 12:1, 2Cor 10:5...

Yes, sorry — Jas 2:24. Thanks for the heads up. :) skypair

Interesting perspective. I haven't heard that one before. So is your choice a) to repent to God of sin or b) repent to yourself that you will put away sin? skypair

Yeah, 1Cor 15:23-24 is talking about the 3 raptures. 1) When Jesus was taken up on the 3rd day, He took "captivity captive" which included those who came out of their graves (Mt 27:52) the day of His crucifixion. 2) Then the pretrib rapture, 3) and then at the end of the Millennial Kingdom...

Well, I think you are on to something here. There is a mystery involved — the mystery of iniquity, 2Thes 2:7 and it will soon be manifest in one person, "that Wicked." But the mystery is this: the spirit of antichrist in the church. It is the idea that the man of flesh is not surrendered to...

Thanks, nc. For the reasons you and I agree on, I dislike hearing believers say, "I am a sinner saved by grace." Actually, we are no longer of the sin nature but of the Christ-nature in our soul. When we sin, it isn't from the heart but from the weakness of the flesh. We are in the same...

Right .. and when he BELIEVES in his spirit or mind that he is a sinner, there is a conflict called conviction going on in his soul, which is his heart and conscience, that must be reconciled by repenting from the heart from sin and to God in the name of Jesus Christ. (Acts 2:38) Yes, I agree...

Oh, you probably didn't realize that our spirit is our mind -- our intellect. We hear or see things every second, process what we see or hear, and make decisions about what to do with the information, right? And if we believe what we hear, often we use that information to see if it is true. A...

What you are describing is repentance to yourself, michael. Do you see that? You are committing to yourself to change. What that amounts to is saying that you can save yourself. No, you have to repent to God because you can't turn from sin and be obedient to God in your own power. It can't...

I think you might reconsider your view if you understood that there are 3 forms of repentance: 1) change of mind, 2) change of heart/soul, and 3) change of behavior. The one that faith along leaves out and which leads you away from OSAS is the change of heart. If you believe the gospel, you...

Thanks, Godsgrace. :) What I have found is that those who believe in faith alone 1) not only leave the question of faith in what? alone (so many churches teach that if you have faith in what they teach, you are saved) but also 2) they do not understand the difference between changing their...

Yeah, I thought it was just b/c I don't type out the whole book title. Hmmm. skypair