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I was asking how you all reconcile the verses shared.

Here, you assert that my "opinion" that you have not answered the OP was an erroneous opinion; but, later, you admitted that I was right that you didn't answer the OP, because you weren't even trying to answer it. It seems like your practice is to try to put people down without thinking about...

OK I'm going to go ahead and block you, because I've seen your posts elsewhere, and you only chime in in order to offend people and be abrasive.

The thread has an OP, and the understanding is that we are going to be on topic. If you came in with a different understanding--that you would be off-topic--I guess I can't help that. I had an expectation, and maybe you had a different expectation. I have a topic I'm discussing, and I don't...

@marks In the context of John 12, this would be important, because the text says many of the leaders believed, but ("but" being a seeming negation of the conclusion that their "faith alone" would result in eternal life for them), because they loved sin, they would not confess their belief--ie...

When you supply me with your way of reconciling the passages I asked about reconciling, I will recognize you have answered (or, at least, have attempted to answer) the OP; until then, how can I "opine" you have answered? Maybe that is true, because God always shows me "the Cross", or Jesus...

Yeah, I think, in context, James's point in referencing the demons' "belief" is to point out that they have no plans (and perhaps cannot have plans) of actually changing the way they behave--James says "behave in a way that is in keeping with your faith", seemingly, the same as Romans 14:5, 23...

But, then, howcome I didn't experience God's love and peace (though He always whispers "peace" to me, among other things) until I decided to focus on loving God rather than just "believing"?

Isaiah 30:21You will hear a voice behind you saying, 'This is the way; walk in it'" I am here trying to discuss the Scriptures so I don't get deceived. lol

1. They didn't confess--that is the issue. 2. The text says they believed. Aren't you adding to and removing from the text when you deny they believed?

1. This does not even come close to answering the OP. 2. Nevertheless, I am interested in anything that will get me God's love and peace... but why did God's love and peace go away? Doesn't Jesus say "He has never left Me because I always do what pleases Him"? I must have sinned.

Yeah, that's basically how I think about it, but, before, when I would do everything I believed the Holy Spirit would tell me to do, afterward, one time, when I went to pray, God told me I was trying to save myself. I said, "Yeah, what's wrong with that? I have to do works to save myself." He...

What is "interfaith"?

Why inquire as to what I refer when I've already supplied you with what I refer to in my initial post?

I could just as easily have asserted, "There's no contradiction," but, then, I wouldn't have asked, in the "Bible Study" section of this website, how others have reconciled these things.

I was wrangling with trying to understand these things for so long, then, yesterday, I had a thought that I should love God (even though it is "a work of the Law", in a sense), and, then, I felt God's love, and a supernatural peace--and it made sense that we would do, easily, what this "love"...

Yes, I'm aware of your belief that is based on a single line of Scripture; still, my question hasn't been answered : how do you reconcile that one line of Scripture with all the rest of the things written in John? For instance, did the leaders who believed, but loved sin, and, therefore...

I'm not saying "I have found contradictions", I'm asking, "How do you all reconcile these things?"

LOL That assumes we fully understand Paul. Yes, lambs love Truth... but what about when "Truth" is uncertain? Yes, but if unbelief is iniquity, and it is not clear what it is we are to believe, how can we rejoice in truth, and depart from iniquity?

I have difficulty reconciling some verses in John. How do you all reconcile the following verses? 1. On one hand, it seems like all we need to do to have eternal life is to believe in Jesus. John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not...