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There are different translations of those verses that avoid the word "lust". Have you verified the translation you're using is accurate?

Yup, but everything belongs to someone else until it's given to or lawfully appropriated by you.

I would suggest that it's the lust of the eyes. The powerful desire to possess what we see that hasn't been given to us or earned by our Labor. "Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the...

I don't oppose sacraments. How can you oppose something which doesn't exist?

That's just ignorant of biblical theology. Scholars devoid of the Holy Spirit condemned the Lord of Glory and had Him nailed to a cross. You can not arrive at spiritual truth through carnal thinking. "But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness...

Rape is unrighteousness. Murder is unrighteousness. One doesn't justify the other. However, if you believe in a sovereign God, then absolutely everything that happens is ultimately in His control. He has always used unrighteous people, evil men, to accomplish His purposes. "There is no one good...

My post was an argument, not a question. You do know that an argument may contain questions, but a question isn't an argument at all, right?

Well, since I've been teaching salvation by faith alone, through grace alone, in Christ alone for 24 years, I'd say that you haven't understood a word I've said (but somehow I'm not surprised.)

Read it again. The first verse precedes the darkness and the waters. You're reading meaning into scripture that isn't there. "1In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the...

Water baptism doesn't save. It's an ordinance by command of the Lord Jesus Christ, and performed by the Apostles and Saints in the book of Acts. Saint Steven is a well known example of having baptised a believer, the Ethiopian eunuch trying to understand the scroll of Isaiah. I've said it...

Yes, and growth is typically regulated by hormones which alter the effect of repressors in active DNA. Timing of interactions is critical and that is another layer of complexity. "For You created my innermost parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, because I am...

I am one with Catholics, but only those who have been born again of His Spirit. That doesn't come by way of sacrament and never did.

Well there fella, I received the gospel as true, and then received His Spirit through prayer and by believing the word of God. I'd heard about the Reformation, but didn't know the doctrine. In fact, the Holy Spirit taught me from scripture for three years before I even went looking for a church...

Why? I have His Spirit, and His power when He needs to manifest it.

I am not now, nor have I ever been a "Calvinist". Where do you get this stuff from? The only Calvin I'm familiar with is a cartoon character with a pet tiger. You do know that the whole point of a new and better covenant was that we were incapable of keeping the old, right? "“Behold, days are...

Well, you can ask for gifts at any time and those gifts are empowered by His Spirit. That really isn't a second baptism. I believe this because I've received gifts on different occasions, but my experience isn't proof. However, I firmly believe in an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the latter...

A choice of limited option that doesn't express your will is not a free choice, never was, never will be. I had a conversation with one of our deacons this weekend over the topic (he's potentially an elder in the congregation, but we don't have the biblical structure established.) He leans...

That describes two baptisms and disagrees with the Nicene creed, based upon a literal understanding of scripture.

At one time the practice of adult baptism was condemned and persecuted. "Anabaptists" were considered heretical, but I'm not familiar with their accepted doctrines.

There's nothing about "immersion in the Spirit" in those verses. Let me make a dark comparison from the torture called water boarding. In water boarding, water is poured over a face covered with cloth so that water is filled into the victims mouth and lungs. They would drown if unable to cough...