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Yes, if the gospel is grace and you believe it, they you repent (act of faith) as evidence that you believed the gospel and God forgives and saves. Then, when you repent of individual sins turning from them in obedience to God, you are evidencing knowledge and belief of SANCTIFYING truth/grace...

OK, so you are of the Calvinist persuasion, right? So, the biblical view is a bit more involved. According, for instance, to Ro 10:13-15 a person hears the gospel preached, believes (what you call "faith"), calls on the name of the Lord, and is saved (and, NT, is regenerated, Titus 3:5)...

I find my testimony to be very much as I understand Paul's to be. I considered my soul to be alive to God through Presbie, Methodist, Congregational, and "Christian" churches. The law was there but I never took it seriously because of these churches were not telling me of the consequences of...

You know, when you don't believe in the biblical pretrib, premil rapture, scripture becomes nonsense and confusion — everyone starts seeing stuff that isn't there .. or seeing stuff that belongs to Israel as belonging to them. I think I will bid a sad, "Adieu" to this prophecy board. Swine...

I think we all should take to early in the day to pray meditating on how God would face the challenges that we expect for that day. It takes a lot of worry out if we anticipate and prepare in the light of God's word (which is our Holy Spirit). And, of course, there will be events that we...

I believe that, whether Israel was on the giving end or the receiving end of judgment, God was showing His wrath towards people, nations, that have gone so far from Him that they can't be drawn to Him or back to Him by love. I would suggest that the same holds true in our days of WWI, WWII...

Are you saying that he didn't know that sin had spiritual consequences while he was a Pharisee? Sure he did .. he knew everything about the spiritual consequences of sin seeing as how he understood that the blood of the Pascal lamb each year only covered the sin on his conscience until he...

Absolutely -- we ALL are like this, the sin not affecting our heart or conscience (SOUL) until we knowingly transgress against the law. Nor, indeed, was he. This is why we say of prospective converts that "You have to get them lost before you can saved them." It is the Reform tradition won't to...

I like your "Lifelong student…" blurb. :) Let me ask you this: When the Spirit is grieved, is your spirit grieved when you have committed a sin? Is your spirit quenched when God's Spirit in you is quenched (you've omitted a work God told you to do)? That is how your conscience in your soul...

How old were you when you knew the 10 commandments? How old when you knew you had broken one of them? How old when you were convicted by the Holy Spirit of sin (Jn 16:8-10)? Did that knowledge lead you to any kind of rest before you received Christ as Savior? I wonder if you, as you see...

That's a new one on me. :) Wow! He wasn't even a Pharisee then .. though his father was. He didn't even know the commandments, NC (Ro 7:9)! "When the commandment came in, sin revived, and I died." Can you even imagine a Pharisee that didn't know the commandments??? Let's get serious, shall...

So you are placing "eternal life" as coming AFTER you die? Is that when you say that it starts? skypair

OK, you are suggesting that we can even do that, right? Are you now sinless? or you lose your salvation? And you are also suggesting that "grace" is what -- salvation? The "free gift of grace" is the freely given wisdom of God and those who apply His wisdom (like the gospel) will be saved...

Absolutely not. This issue of repentance has gotten a bit misunderstood. There are 3 forms of repentance. 1) "By responding in [belief] we are repenting" = changing our mind, our spirit (mind, emotions, and will) 2) By repenting to God with a "broken heart [soul] and a contrite spirit,"...

See .. I knew you would have another narrative .. one that I have heard before that makes a mockery of the text. One sits down to rest and stands up to ACT. So God can send them a strong delusion Zech 11:10 NIV, 2 Thess 2:10-12 NIV, Rev 13:13 NIV. It is clear that there are angelic powers over...

Ever read the Left Behind series? I think that there is a fairly good accounting of what it will look like in the missives of the old rabbi in that story who was sending out messages on the radio from in hiding. There were conversions as a result .. until they found him and martyred him. I...

You are exactly right about the salvation experience of justification before God and receiving the Holy Spirit. It is unforgettable! But there are those who had no experience of receiving the Holy Spirit. They think that God gave the Spirit to them at some point before they believed so that...

But that is just human nature, NC. You are tempted by what you can see, touch, know. What do you think about what Paul said, "I was alive once till the law came in?" (Ro 7:8-9) Though he had sinned (coveted), he was not dead in soul nor in spirit, right? Therefore, he did not have a sin...

Well, not to put too fine a point on it .. what exists before the temptation is the desire of the flesh. It is not to satisfy the soul that we sin .. it is to satisfy the flesh, our innate carnality. But doesn't that reply exist when one is ignorant of something? It's not sinful to want to be...

Let's test that, shall we? We are born the reverse of Adam in creation. Adam knew nothing of his flesh (didn't know he was naked) and was well aware of God (walked in the Garden with Him). We, on the other hand, are well aware of our flesh and totally ignorant of God and His law. So, since...