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The Lord didn't tempt Adam and Eve to transgress their one commandment, but He knew it would happen. It remained within His sovereign plan. I can say this with confidence because: knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received...

I love your posts here brother, straight up biblical truth, but there will always be those workers in the vineyard that think the owner is unfair for paying the late entries the same as the early ones.

"Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating his Christmas pie, He put in his thumb and pulled out a plumb, And said, "what a good boy am I!" There's a little bit of Jack Horner in all of us. ;)

Truth is that they weren't that motivated despite the resurrected Lord's instructions and most of the disciples stayed in and around Jerusalem until the first Christian persecutions by Herod. No one was actively preaching to the Gentiles until Paul was sent out to preach to the Gentiles, and...

I enjoyed your post, but you should understand that with God, there is no plan B. The Lord knows the end of a matter from its beginning. He knows what's in our hearts, and there is nothing hidden from Him. This is the quality theologians call "omniscience." I haven't supplied the scriptural...

You don't agree with scripture. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For...

“For the Lord will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free. Deuteronomy 32:36 This verse is from the song of Moses, a prophetic glimpse of all redemptive history with respect to Israel. The men were...

I struggled with those verses early on after receiving the gospel, but I started treating the language as consistent through scripture and realized that the Bible also uses the word generation to refer to 2 classes of people, the generation of the righteous and a generation of wickedness, the...

What then do you believe carnal means? Most people associate it with the Hollywood definition as being associated specifically with lust. This however, is not how scripture uses the term or there would be no exhortation to follow the Spirit and put to death the deeds of the flesh. This...

You misunderstand what holiness means (as well as what carnal means.) The sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, were among the holiest of men of Israel, priests under the covenant of Sinai, yet they were struck down and consumed by God before the altar for offering profane incense in disobedience to...

If you're not a Saint, you might be a disciple, but the Epistles were written to the saints and not to you. Salvation is of God alone, not distributed by men through sacramental works.

The Pharisees were given sound biblical explanation to their objections, yet still rejected the voice of God through the word made flesh. Even from the first century AD, carnal minded men have rejected the notion that salvation is of God alone, and have built false doctrines to diminish His...

You also disagree with Martin Luther who introduced the very reasoned and biblical concept he called "bondage of the will". "Free will" is a consequence of deliverance from bondage. Those who remain under the dominion of sin, victims of our fallen nature, may have choice but are inclined to...

Not at all. Salvation is a very broad term in scripture. Life is offered to ALL, but outside "there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." God has prepared a kingdom for the righteous and if you take Him at His word, His kingdom is for those who do what is righteous rather than those who simply...

Dead people don't seek God, that's exactly why such language is used to describe our fallen state (we all have the breath of life, even under a curse.) Thank you for an edifying post that supports the biblical teaching.

I saved a friend's life when we were kids. He was going under while trying to swim a narrow channel in the bay area off Freeport long Island. He's a retired adult now, happily married and with grandchildren of his own. It was a righteous act, but I was still just another child of wrath like any...

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of...

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our...

Did you actually read what I wrote? Why would a cartoon character with an imaginary pet tiger care about predestination? The context of my conversation is election, a doctrine clearly taught by scripture. If you can't help make an argument for God's word, you're just another stumbling block in...

Well, let's not forget the Apostle Paul's teaching : 21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of...