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Yes, Paul said that he was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious; but when he says "I am the chief of sinners" it is in the present tense. He owns his past because he understands that the Ethiopian can't change his skin or the leopard his spots. But that his living of a holy...

I would only encourage the reader to also read the scriptures that are referenced.

No, I don't believe that it is. It is not that the person is saved by any kind of work that they do; but it is that in being saved, their heart has been altered so that they have a specific kind of attitude towards sin and righteousness. I'm not sure it pertains to the conversation; but I feel...

And I have expressed my view which refutes your point of view.

Of course I am speaking of genuine faith in Jesus; a heart faith that is unto righteousness (Romans 10:10). When you place your faith in Jesus, He gives you the Spirit (Galatians 3:14); and as the result of that you can bear the fruit of the Spirit; against which there is no law (Galatians...

Let me just say that my understanding of eternal security has to do with POTS rather than OSAS. POTS...Perseverance Of The Saints...this assumes that you persevere in faith and that you continue to be a saint (holy one). 1Jo 3:6, Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not...

My doctrine is based wholly on what the Bible teaches. No; for the righteousness that we have in Christ is practical (1 John 3:7, Romans 5:19, Matthew 5:6).

I do not consider myself to have apprehended (Philippians 3:12-14) and that makes me a candidate for perfection (Philippians 3:15). Not sinless perfection (1 John 1:8)...perfection (Hebrews 10:14 (kjv)). For the element of sin within me can in fact be rendered dead (Romans 6:6, Galatians 5:24...

I agree with you 100%. I agree with this also, in the sense that a sinner is one who commits sin. But if you define a sinner as someone who has indwelling sin, then I identify myself as the chief of sinners according to the flesh (1 Timothy 1:15, Romans 7:18). No (1 John 1:8). No; a...

If you have faith in Jesus, then you are fully persuaded that, what He has promised, He is able also to perform. Consider promises like 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (kjv), Hebrews 10:14 (kjv), 1 John 3:9; 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:3, 1 John 2:6; Jude 1:24, 2 Peter 1:10, 1 John 2:10; 1 John 3:6, 1 John...

No, that would be a lie. You called my gospel false and perverted when I had not ever leveled such an accusation against you to call you a false teacher in the same manner. Which is what it says in the context of the verse in question (2 Timothy 2:12). And, Micah 2:7 is the verse that I...

Even that is not entirely accurate. You must call on the name specifically of "Jesus Christ of Nazareth" (Acts of the Apostles 4:10-12). If you call on any Jesus, you could have the wrong Jesus (2 Corinthians 11:3-4). Is calling on the name of the wrong Jesus going to save anyone? I think...

In Romans 11:20-22, it should be clear that Paul is exhorting those who "stand by faith" that the people of Israel were cut off and that those who "stand by faith" might also be cut off in a similar manner if they do not continue in God's goodness. Read it. Rom 11:20, Well; because of unbelief...

No; what puts the spirit of life in us is faith in Jesus Christ; and as the result of that faith, we do works for the right reason. Agree... In Romans 7:6 it teaches us that we are no longer bound to the letter of the law but are obedient to the spirit of it. That being said, the law is...

@Tong2020, You have said that Romans 11:20-22 is being misinterpreted by some of us because we don't understand it in its context of the whole chapter of Romans 11. So, here is your opportunity to give your teaching on how the context of the passage nullifies the plain meaning of the passage...

No, it isn't. We have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand (Romans 5:1-2) and we are saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9). Believe is the verb for the noun faith. Provided that you reaize that the name of the LORD is "Jesus Christ of Nazareth" (Acts of the Apostles...

No. Perfection, yes (Hebrews 10:14 (kjv)). Sinlessness, no (1 John 1:8).

Just so you know, I have not leveled against you anything that you didn't level against me first. Not saying that what I did was right; just that I did not do it in hatred but only in self-defense (for they say that a good defense is a good offense) I just keep trying to show you that you...

This is Paul using the literary tactic of IDENTIFICATION...he identifies himself as carnal, although he personally is not carnal, in order to define carnality and so that he might win the carnal to a living and saving faith in Jesus Christ (see 1 Corinthians 9:22). For he is here penning holy...

Eze 33:12, Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the...