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Uh, pretty sure that they all support God's election. None of them disprove it.

And this is why people cling to the notion that there are 2 separate sets of saints and a secret return of Christ for His Church while those other special saints have to wait for another return. "The problem with living sacrifices is that they tend to crawl off of the altar" author unknown...

Not at all. I'm not familiar with Calvin's doctrine, but election is taught plainly by the scriptures, including the Apostles. If you believe, it was God who made you believe by revealing Himself in the person of His Son. Faith comes by hearing the word of God, but many hear the word of God...

Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The Lord has made them both. Is this a biology lesson or is it revelatory?

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:11 The topic is beleaguered because some professing Christians believe that they are "good people" and were...

I've been told that Martin Luther was deeply Antisemitic, but I don't know how anyone would know that (I've never bothered reading his theses or published works.) I've participated in online discussions since the days of telephone modems and computers with 8080 processors. I remember online...

I used to listen to a few radio ministries that were taught by Jewish believers in Jesus (or Yeshua ha mashiach) and they definitely have a different perspective from most churches. Personally, I can't comprehend why anyone would believe themselves Christian and yet dismiss all the prophecies...

That's good, because at this point I just haven't a clue what you’re talking about. (I'm obviously missing something in your conversation. ) Or maybe I do. Are you implying that the Holy Spirit isn't the Spirit of Christ and that the living Word didn't inspire the prophets?

Thank you. The Lord has guided me faithfully in my calling for about 26 years, and though He allowed my baptismal testimony to be tested by Satan, He has never failed me and has been working toward my restoration, even when I've been slack, or preoccupied with my situations. If we are faithless...

Everything that Jesus did and is recorded in scripture was done in the context of the law and the prophets. He came to fulfill scripture and nothing about Him in scripture is outside the context of the law and the prophets. Do you understand this most basic doctrine?

I don't agree with everything Keraz says, but chapter 24 of the book of Jeremiah does have a parable using figs as a metaphor for Judah. The assumption that I make (as well as others) is that our God is not a god of confusion and is consistent in His usage of simile and metaphor. Eg. If leaven...

Thank you for your kind advice. The Church that I attended before my divorce was in the process of building a ministry to support people going through or having gone through a divorce and I would have been comfortable in that fellowship, having participated in fellowship with many of its...

Thank you for being thorough with your research. People uneducated in physiology, virology and immunology can only either trust or mistrust the medical authorities. For my own part, I fall on the side of mistrust, but chose to wait for the approval of the J&J shot and booster because I believe...

Years ago, in the first congregation that I became a member of and about 3 years after believing the gospel, I recall hearing at least one older woman referring to herself as "back slidden ". Even so, she still attended worship services, Sunday school, and prayer meetings regularly, displaying...

I have a hard copy, but I also bought a kindle version so I can increase the font size for my old eyes. The first abridged Bible that I owned was a pocket psalms and New Testament that my dad carried around Europe in WWII, and when I had to wait hours for tunnel closures to do camera and cable...

Most evangelical teachers would say that attributing the work of the Holy Spirit to " the air " (imagination ) is the unforgivable sin (blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.) It's hard for a believer to imagine a person hearing God and rejecting Him, but many heard Jesus and didn't believe.

Amen brother. In the end this is always true.

Its a pretty easy read with no deep theology, but enjoyable.

The passage is true, but is a generalization about recognizing a "creator", not about believing Christ. The Bible agrees with itself always. Paul teaches that the natural man is at enmity with God. You can believe in God and hate Him. This is actually the natural condition of mankind. Paul and...

I don't think that my experience is common, but I believed the Lord as a child, loving His teaching from the limited gospel readings that I heard in RC masses. This love lead me to read the Bible while still very young and I did love passages in the psalms and book of Isaiah which I understood...