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Sorry to tell you, but Romans 4 doesn’t somehow cancel the book of James. It’s sad that the majority of believers never read anything but someone’s proof texts on a given topic - this is especially true about works. They quote Ephesians 2:8-9 about being saved apart from works, without having...

Jas 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Jas 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Jas 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? Jas 2:23 And the...

I don’t know what provision you mean. No one hunts for game with a sword. Swords and guns are used either in self defense, or attacking to take something from someone, as in war or theft. It’s evident they were to get the swords for self defense. Since the whole reason Jesus came was to die on a...

Jas 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Jas 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Jas 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? Jas 2:23 And the...

First of all, Jesus said they would be least in heaven, not be in the lake of fire. Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be...

Destroyed by fire, perished by water - neither one means the earth ceases to exist, and a brand new planet is created that we are moved to. 2Pe 3:5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word...

The answer is most likely that the law of Moses wasn’t given until 430 years after Abraham, but there was still some kind of law from God that they had, and violated. For instance you quoted this: Paul wrote that there are those who will be judged by how well they kept Gods law written on...

There’s NO DISTINCTION within the law of Moses: it ALL has to be kept when it’s in effect, in order for them to have righteousness: Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. Deu 6:18 And thou shalt do...

I keep telling you that if your proof texts mean the world is literally burned up and replaced, then it was literally destroyed by water, and it’s been a different planet since then. 2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: It was cleansed by water...

When He returns it’s crystal clear He uses flaming fire on evildoers - not on everyone. He in fact lands on mount olive and saves the city of Jerusalem from destruction by armies - which is ridiculously redundant if He was just going to destroy the world by fire, anyway. 2Th 1:8 In flaming...

Why would Jesus preach the gospel to the damned? There’s no second chance once you die... That would be redundant, IMO.

In the New Testament it clearly shows 3.5 years of general tribulation and 3.5 years of great tribulation when the mark is given for 42 months.

Except Ecclesiastes is not a book of the law, anymore than psalms or proverbs are, thus it’s not stating a law from Mosaic law, but a general principle that there’s a time for war and killing and a time for peace.. And in the new covenant: 1. Jesus told the apostles that because he was going...

Except the city with that throne doesn’t descend from heaven until Revelation 21, and that’s after the new heaven and earth appears, with no oceans on it: Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. Rev...

That’s the unsaved who are judged for speaking IDLE words. A persons belief in eschatology is not an idle word, and the clear context in that passage is that an evil man will be judged for speaking evil words. Therefore using that text to claim damnation for someone’s mistaken interpretation...

Having faith is available to all, since faith comes by hearing the word of God, per Romans 10:17. The very serious problem with claiming Adam had no choice but to sin and fall, is that makes God the author of sin. Hard core 5 point Calvinism has God decreeing Satan’s fall, then Adams fall -...

You can get off track by assuming the KJV means what you think it does, since language changed so much in 4 centuries, and making doctrine out of it. Here’s what the passage meant in the original koine Greek: Rev 10:5 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his...

JWs claim Jesus was Michael, who got a huge promotion to being A god, per their addition of an A in John 1:1 that doesn’t belong there. But then they contradict the claim Jesus stopped being Michael, by using the text where Jesus returns with a trumpet sound and the voice of an archangel, as...

So what? Do you not know that God put all kinds of symbolism in the temple of Israel in the Old Testament? Are you then going to claim that temple was symbolic, too? Using symbolism is what God always does. It’s easy to tell the literal from symbolic. Symbolic- a farmer planted a seed in the...

All means all. ALL THINGS were made by Him, not some things. John 1:1,10,14 Jesus aka the word, was WITH God and yet also WAS God, in the beginning, referring to Genesis 1 - and He, the word, made all things, including the world, then was made flesh and dwelt among us (was born as a man) in the...