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Well, think about this: Did it really matter that you were guilty of Adam's sin or were depraved to the core when you heard the gospel, believed it, repented, and were saved? i'm suspecting that you were guilty of your own sins by that time and the Spirit didn't convict you of Adam's sin...

I'd like for us all to take a look at Zech 11 — a passage that almost no one studies in relationship to the days we are living in. In fact, I brought it up on one site and a very fine pastor said that he wondered where I got my thoughts. "Well, the Holy Spirit, sir." So here goes my brief...

One thing I would like to note .. maybe you can add some insight that you have — In Dan 12:11-12, there is a period of 75 days for, what I believe, are the judging of living and resurrected Israel (30 days) and judging of the Gentiles (45 days). Now to some extent, I thought that the 30 days...

I got better news for you! Remember how long it was between the birth of Christ (0) and the destruction of the temple (70 AD) signifying the change in dispensations? So my thought is that from 1948 until the Temple is rebuilt and sacrifices offered will be 70 years. Now the only question is...

I have yet 3 other takes on the churches. One is from Rev 2-3. There are 5 churches there that will all of in part be raptured like the wise virgins —Ephesus, Smyna (all), Pergamos, Sardis, and Philadelphia (all). That leaves 5 left behind like the foolish virgins. So Thyatira ends up being...

This is good, phoneman! As I told Stan, one of the reasons we confess our sins (1Jn 1:9) is to ask for God's help in coming to the place where we can do as you say — repent or turn from them. There are many sins that are besetting sins .. not easily dealt with .. especially those we commit...

Even more, Stan, confession 1) means seeking God's help with that sin; and, 2) since we are forgiven all our sins in heaven, it is praying God to have mercy regarding the consequences of our sin here in the earth. Regarding (2), it is like doing to the person you have wronged and asking them...

OK, how about Acts 17:26 — God "has made of one blood all men … That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel for Him though He be not far from every one of us." Or Ecc 3:11 — "God has put eternity in their hearts…" .. in their deepest of desires. Meanwhile, when Paul speaks of it...

I like your take on it. God bless. :)

Yeah, that first is pretty good. The spirit is between the soul and flesh so that the spirit is the "battleground" between carnality and spirituality. The old heart and conscience are of the soul. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked because it is really focused on self (survival and...

I would just have a little pushback. Your thoughts would be true if man were either only soul or only spirit. But man is both. So whereas the heart/soul cannot sin and is sinless (1Jn 3:9), the WILL/spirit still desires the things of the flesh and is always tempted. Many think that the...

I agree with where you are going with this, emekrus. Grace is not license, right? Here's the problem .. most do not even know the meaning of "grace." "For you are saved by grace..." right? Grace is the wisdom of God = Holy Bible = Holy Spirit revelation which, if applied by man, leads to...

This is good as far as it goes. I think you would benefit from the following... Our spiritual man is made up of soul and spirit. In our soul (which is the part of us that needs saving) are the heart and the conscience, as you say, which make up our nature .. human nature (innocent from birth...

Generally, when the Bible talks about works, it is referring to works of the flesh -- either of the law or of "good" works and deeds. Obedience to the 10 commandments, for instance. But salvation is by a work of our spirit -- a decision and a "calling on the name of the Lord" for salvation (Ro...

Excellent observation! Yes! There is a repentance from ignorance .. then there is a repentance from sin and sin nature by prayer to God for salvation .. and then there is a repentance from sinful behavior where we quit a specific sin (2Cor 7:9-11). Because God wants us to be blameless body...

This is a pretty wild thread, guys. Do you realize that we already saw the harlot in the wilderness. This is not preterism. The first 8 verses of Rev 17 and the first 4 verses of Rev 18 are pre-rapture. The harlot showed up in the wilderness of Chorazim in May 2000. Amazing! In the midst...

Actually, Cornelius was "safe" under the "everlasting gospel" before Peter came to him. That is, the everlasting gospel holds a person "just" before God if 1) he acknowledges the God revealed to him in creation (Ro 1:18-20), 2) glorifies and thanks Him, and 3) has not knowingly sinned against...

Do you know, however, that those he was addressing there believed the gospel "in vain?" (15:2, 14, 17) So they heard the good news but they had not "put off the old man"-- "Fool, that which you sow is not quickened [saved] except it die first?" (15:38) Die first? Jesus showed us how to do...