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Yes, we're "saved" by God's grace through faith in Christ--and Paul says that that "salvation" is comparable to the "salvation" of the Jews from Egypt, and, just as they sinned and fell under God's wrath and forfeited the promise, that applies to Christians, including himself. 1 Corinthians...

Yep, you're saved--and Paul says that that "salvation" is comparable to the "salvation" of the Jews from Egypt, and, just as they sinned and fell under God's wrath and forfeited the promise, that applies to Christians, including himself. 1 Corinthians 9:27 - 1 Corinthians 10:13 27But I...

The question is not whether Christ is the only way to God and life (the eternal life is "in His Son" 1 Jn 5), the question is about the definition of being "in Christ": His life He lays down is only for His friends, and He defines "friends" as those who do what ever He tells them to do (Jn...

Well, we are saved by God's grace through faith in Christ, so that is correct, and, yet, Paul says if Christians don't live righteously, walking by faith after being saved, they can be "Condemned" for "sinning" (Ro 14:23; 1 Co 9:27-1 Co 10), which James also talks about (though he knows his...

Right, so the good works aren't "proof of salvation", as if they "automatically flow from faith", as many say.

So, Christians don't sin?

Yeah, I actually have to stand in "Christ saved me". That said, above all, what matters is Scripture, which teaches that works are necessary for justification at the last judgment (Ro 2:6-16), and that we only reap eternal life from the Spirit if we live a life of good works (Gal 6), that the...

So, your view would be that the works are not for salvation?

James compares the persuasive power of mere words against a lifestyle--and it's for salvation and justification. Galatians has a context: the Gentiles are being convinced by demonic doctrine to become Jewish--"neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts, but faith working through love" means...

(In case you "remember" this post, I had shared it on another Christian Bible discussion site.) Since we are saved by grace through faith in Christ, given to us by Christ, Christ is our Savior... but, then, what place do our works have? I want to have a discussion, because I find discussing...

Thanks. I think this came to me after someone prayed for me, or after God answered one of my prayers (I don't remember, but I do know it was by God's grace): There is a connection between the fundamental issue Paul has with being "under Law", and this issue: when we are going to take credit...

I really have been helped by discussing things with other believers who have grace--they, themselves, do not need to have answers, but they have the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit they have edifies me, reminds me of Scripture, and moves me to trust in and pray to God, and that has really been...

All such prayer is welcome.

Thanks for the interactions. Yeah, the only way it coheres is the way that is straightforward. It doesn't work any other way. About sinners who insist "only" their flesh sins, but not their spirits : sin is spiritual slavery, so it is not possible the spirit is not involved in any sin. Will...

Don't know how I could stop God from loving me. I don't feel the love though.

Yup..

It may be that he encountered people who deny Paul's authority because he taught Jewish believers are not under the Law.

You've wasted enough time and space--either reply in an on-topic fashion, or don't respond at all.

Even granting this is true, in other words, it is not "as I wish". Thank you for admitting that you erred.