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1. No, I said FASTING DID NOT YIELD RESULTS, BUT BRINGING MY DIFFICULTIES WITH SCRIPTURE AND MY Life TO GOD DID YIELD RESULTS, SO, BEFORE YOU RELY ON FASTING, FIRST TRY BRINGING YOUR DIFFICULTIES TO GOD. 2. God says we're not supposed to reveal when we fast, so I don't think I want to talk...

1. You didn't answer the question: So they don't have faith even though he says "you stand by your faith"? 2. The same ones to whom Paul says "you stand by your faith" the warning "if you disbelieve, you too will be cut off" is given. God includes ("grafts in") believers into His people, God...

So, they don't have faith, even though he says "you stand by your faith"?

1. Some people do actually deny believers can fall away by unbelief. 2. Romans 11, which I shared, explicitly teaches believers can be "cut off".

I had so many questions about the Bible I didn't want to consult these writings--I wanted to understand the Scripture first--but now that I learned to bring my difficulties to God, and let God answer them, I'm getting standing in Scripture, so I won't mind reading these other men. Thanks.

Here it is again: Romans 11 20Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; 21for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. 22See then the kindness and severity of God: to those who fell...

Faith is monotheism; unbelief is idolatry. The Gospel is breathed and empowered by God's Spirit, for God's glory. The false Gospel is breathed and empowered by demons, for demons' glory. When we believe God justifies by Christ we receive God's love. When we disbelieve it is like eating from the...

There is a pride in Peter's confident assertions of his love for God (which ultimately led to failure and public humiliation), but a humility in Apostle John's reception of God's love for him ("the disciple Jesus loved").

There is a reason John the Apostle (not me) did not say "love God"--because it is imperative that we love God, it is even more imperative that we receive God's love ("we love because He first loved us"), which is the monotheism of the obedience of faith ("little children" are led away from...

@Philip James Some material shared here that you, being a Catholic, might appreciate: We're justified by righteousness--the righteousness of keeping the Law of Faith (Ro 3:27). Faith is counted as the man's righteousness--man having God's righteousness (Ro 3:21). (One of Jesus's Names is "God...

The very same ones Paul said had believed Paul also said could be cut off for unbelief--even if your ridiculous error ("Paul writes theologically instructive letters to unbelievers!") were granted it would do nothing to help your view. The text is explicit: believers can fall into unbelief...

So obvious.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

1. The text explicitly says those who had had faith could fall into unbelief. 2. The Jewish believers in the Roman Church had many objections to Paul's Gospel--Paul preempted (perhaps in part based on his own questions and/or his experience preaching to other Jews) and responded to them. Much...

Nope, they had believed ("you stand by faith"), yet could fall into unbelief ("you will be cut off"). Paul wrote the epistle to the Church in Rome (Ro 1:7). He doesn't write theological letters to unbelievers. Try again. The Jews were "cut off" for their unbelief. The Gentiles were "grafted in"...

You all cannot prove your view from Scripture. That's what this discussion is showing.

The ones he is addressing, however you prefer to refer to them, had already believed but could afterward be cut off. Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith... to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; for...

OK We see it differently. The readers will decide who has put forth a more faithful and exegesis of the text.

Not sure how anyone could ever reach such a conclusion when reading the text. Romans 11 13I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 14in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them. Paul is referring to...

The Spirit is in Christ. Christ is called the Vine. We receive the substance in the Vine, the Spirit that is only in Christ, if we abide in Him by obeying His commands (1 Jn 3:23,24). The Gentiles in Ro 11 "stand by faith" (v20), so, yes, they have faith. You can bear fruit only if you abide...