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One of the most important things to grasp about salvation is how to KNOW that we have it .. how we LEARN that we have it. In Psychology, there is a process for learning everything that we know. It is called the "stimulus-feedback loop." It works this way: we receive through our senses a...

1Thes 5:4, the very passage you cite, tells us that we can know approximately when it is near, at the door. "For you, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief." You seem to be simply believing what someone else told you rather than study it out for yourself...

Because we restrain and withhold "that Wicked," the AntiChrist. (2Thes 2:6-8) He cannot be revealed until we are gone to New Jerusalem, Rev 3:10-12. However, it appears that your tradition is not biblical so you wouldn't know about that anyway. skypair

Think about this, NC: What if you believe something that God didn't say in His word. Would you even know it? Salvation is much like the proverbial "scientific method." You believe something but can you prove that it is true? How would you "test" it? By OBEYING what God said. What has God...

Negative! We are made partakers of the divine nature in Christ! 2Pet 1:4-8! Read it, NC! It is a progression. Sorry but I don't agree with things that are not biblical. Jesus' nature is the only humanly divine nature and He never had a nature of man in anything other than the nature of the...

This is really interesting to me. Thanks for keeping it objective. :) My understanding is that, when the "process" of salvation is done, we will be like our Father, no? The first step is that our soul be as His (re: 1Thes 5:23). The process of sanctification, which begins with our soul...

Sure, I understand that. But is our rebirth any less a part of our nature than it was a part of Jesus' nature? skypair

Sorry, that is talking about the Jewish saints at midtrib .. those who appear in heaven in Rev 7:9 out of the great tribulation. But we know that in Rev 6:9 AntiChrist has martyred many church saints .. the left behind for their "testimony" regarding the "word of God." So prewrath .. yes...

[/COLOR] This is SOOOO important, NC! In putting off the old man, we are to consider what Christ did on the cross as the pattern. When God laid our sin on Jesus and forsook Him, God was actually laying our "old man" on Jesus so that He might accomplish by His death what we accomplish by our...

We, too, are "born of the Spirit," no? Have you not been born of the Spirit? I was when I was 16. I also "emptied myself" though it was of sin and through repentance .. not at Jesus did of His divine privileges. Without doing so, He could have never been like us .. and without doing so, we...

Either that or YOU are following the Satanic lie, right? OK, let's review the rapture passages so that you won't blaspheme the Spirit any longer — first off, Rev 4:1. John experiences the rapture in a vision in which he is taken up to God's throne in heaven and shown what must come...

Right, but you will note .. WE have to engage with the Holy Spirit with our minds/spirits and our lives/temporal bodies. That makes us into the express image of Jesus when we do, right? It makes us yet another person/form of the Trinity, doesn't it? A form that was created without the...

This should be an interesting discussion. I recently read a book about the Trinity. I don't have it with me just now but will reference it soon. This view is held by Ted Peters and a man last name of Sexton. Theirs is a fairly intriguing view. The view says that the personages of the...

There are several things I can think of that dispose me to think that DJT is the end times President. 1) I believe that America is the subject of Rev 18:1-8. If that is so, we can definitely see that he will bring in an America that will make the kings and merchants of the world rich and...

Ro 11:26 teaches that, beginning in the tribulation and through to the end of the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, all believers of the nation of Israel will be saved. The first tranche will be the 144,000 during the tribulation -- "first fruits" is what they are called in The Revelation. Then...

I agree. skypair

Traditional baptists are more like semi-Pelagians whereas, standing in opposition are Calvinist baptists. It's not, as some think, the distinction between evangelical baptists and fundamentalist baptists. That's fine. I didn't know till recently that I was a traditional baptist. I was on a...

That's a little confusing to me. To me, God gives = imparts to us salvation, the Holy Spirit, the gifts. etc. They are our righteousness now, right? But when we use them to do His works, He imputes righteousness to our account until He can actually bless us temporally and reward us in New...

That's a good start. It's where I was about 35 years ago. But there is so much wrong. For one, the "locusts" out of the pit are demons who possessed men ("left their first estate," Jude 1:6) and took their souls to the pit when they died. So the demon that possesses A/C is the demon of the...

You need to read Heb 12:22-24. Paul went to 3rd heaven (2Cor 12:2-4) where he saw 1) "the general assembly and church of the first born …" and 2) "the spirits of just men made perfect" — the OT saints. And do you not know that, even when we sleep, our spirits are active? And if they don't...