Search results

Proverbs 18 13If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. You must not have read before answering, because your "answer" is not about what I wrote.

So... I'm guilty of wrongdoing, and this guilt proves I'm misrepresenting/misunderstanding Scripture, because... you met some Christians somewhere with whom you disagreed? Interesting.

No, actually, and when I cite Scripture, you try to tear it in pieces so it can fit your tradition. I'll post the passage here, and you'll do the same. 1 Corinthians 10 1For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2and...

Nope, I've explained my view several times, and you're either intentionally misrepresenting me, or you're just incapable of understanding me.

"Sowing to the Spirit" is explicitly defined as "doing good" in the passage. This has already been addressed--I have no right to dismiss passages of Scripture, so, again, I believe BOTH ideas, not one or the other. Right, yet not all "abide" (1 Jn 2:28), bc they're led away by idols (1 Jn...

You're trying to correct Paul--Paul was the one who said that the salvation which the Jews experienced (by the blood of lambs) by the hand of God, but still fell under His wrath for sinning after having already been saved, was meant to teach us Christians about what can happen to us after we are...

So, John, whose words I cited, and Paul, whose words I cited, are "under Law"? You can use all the "smear" tactics (eg, "LEGALISM!") you please, but none of those emotions are going to change Scriptures I quoted.

The entire passage is about doing good, from start to finish. It's one cohesive whole. He, then, explains that "in due time" you will reap the harvest of eternal life from the Spirit if you continue to sow to the Spirit by doing good deeds and do not quit doing good after a while. It's not...

For the record, and for clarity, I'm not saying we are under the Law of Moses. 1 John says the love of God is that we keep His commands, and they are not burdensome to us--you misinterpreted me as having said "a murderer can earn eternal life if he does a good deed", but that wasn't what I...

Galatians 6 6The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. 7Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the...

Nope, read Galatians 6:6-10, word by word, and tell me what it teaches. I didn't ask you about Romans 3. When you run to another concept you think proves your point (it doesn't), that's a logical fallacy called "begging the question".

No, lol, that is not my belief at all, and I can't believe any honest person would concluded such a thing from anything I've written. Someone who abides in Christ has a dedication to God, and keeps God's commands--they're not raping or genociding people, they're serving God.

It seems you deny Scripture that explicitly teaches eternal life is a harvest reaped only by doers of good, then--I explained how I embrace both that doctrine and the doctrine you raised (ie, in that we currently have eternal life). Am I wrong for affirming Scripture? If it doesn't mean what...

Salvation by grace through faith alone is real, it's just not the entire story--that salvation is, in 1 Cor 10, compared to the salvation of the Jews from Egypt, yet, after salvation, they sinned, so they died under God's wrath, and did not inherit what was promised. Paul says the same is true...

In other words, since I believe all of Scripture, not just my favorite parts, I don't believe EITHER we have been given eternal life, and that that life is located only "in His Son" (1 Jn 5), OR "doers of good will be repaid with eternal life" (Gal 6), but a synthesis of the two that is found in...

Sounds "logical".

Your point was already addressed a few pages back.

Would it be correct to say you would define "predestination" as a Monergist would--that it means God chose you before time, then saved you in His time, and, since that is so, those who are saved cannot thereafter forfeit salvation?

Many assert James 2 (wherein James calls his Christian audience (he knows they're believers, or else he wouldn't call them "adulteresses against God"--unbelievers who sin are not being "adulterous" to God, since they're not "married" to God) to repent of sin, and to not only have faith, but to...

What is predestination? How is predestination brought to bear upon your life? What evidence is there that you believe it? How has it affected your life, or how does it affect yourself life? If it doesn't affect your life, would you say it's good that your life remains unaffected by Biblical...