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We do have the Holy Spirit now. And some, through the Holy Spirit, have the spiritual gift of "discerning of spirits". Not exactly. The reality is that I do not only apply the immediate context; but I take into account topical context also. Not out of topical context. If anyone has the...

I already told you the reason why. Maybe you should re-read my post.

God instituted the bet because He had a plane to put Job through the fire so that the impurities in his life might rise to the top so that they could be dealt with and so that God could finish His work of sanctification in Job's life. He merely used satan to turn up the heat. It should be...

Because the same Spirit exists in eternity and also exists in time indwelling human flesh. See John 1:1. Since the Word was "with" God, was He beside Him? It killed separation, not distinction, in my mind. Jesus is not only the arm of God. He is all of God. In Him dwelleth all the...

Yes, you must repent before being baptized. But you will be receiving the true Jesus as he exists in Spirit (the Holy Ghost) when you go under and then come up out of the water. The Holy Ghost is absolutely promised as the result of repenting and being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for...

Let me point out to you that it is my belief that every verse of scripture stands on its own as a bastion of spiritual truth. As Hosea 11:1 was taken out of context by Matthew in Matthew 2:15 and he, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, applied it to Jesus, when in the original context it...

By all means. My point is that we as the saints will judge both the world and angels. So then, Jesus is not the only judge. I will not argue with your point if you are saying that we will not be true and righteous when we judge; except to say that if our judgments will not be righteous and...

Isa 53:6, All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

That is not the focus of the difference that I am describing. It is "should"...iffy...versus "shall"...which is more absolute. There is no difference between not perishing and being saved.

You might be surprised how someone with the mind of Christ might, in a moment of increased stress, fall into sin, giving into temptation when they truly had the mind of Christ previous to that...and had been delivered from a lifestyle of sinning. This happened to me; and for many years I also...

Yes, faith is certainly the key to salvation. Baptism and/or calling on the name of the Lord is the key to assurance of salvation. A person can merely believe and they "should not perish" (John 3:16). If they believe and are baptized they "shall be saved" (Mark 16:16) If they call on the...

The false prophet's "fruit" would be the works of the flesh... Gal 5:19, Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Gal 5:20, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Gal 5:21...

There is a certain type of soil (Luke 8:13) where the person has saving faith (see verse 12) and falls away in a time of temptation. So the door that they exit by is through committing some kind of deliberate sin in rebellion against the Lord....as we have been discussing in Hebrews 10:26-31

Falling from grace might entail going out the same door that they came in...forsaking grace by leaving the mansion that is grace (because the door is Jesus and the key to the door is faith).

I mean that they don't have to maintain their own salvation or keep themselves in faith... Because they are sealed by the Holy Spirit and He keeps producing saving faith within them. While there may be a need to desire that I might keep the faith as I endeavor to make my calling and election...

You are still very accountable on your day of judgment for the contents of that message...because the Lord knows that it was sent to you...and your not reading it may indeed mean that you will go to hell instead of heaven because it may have been the very message that saved you... But that is...

Actually you do. Then you never read Jude 1:3-4 in the NIV... I'm not really going to go crying to anyone because what you say is very simply a lie. I know that I am a recipient of the grace of God ever since I told Him, "I don't know if You're real but I'm going to start reading Your word...

My point was that someone understood it...whereas you tried to say that it was not easily understood.

It is very true that we have the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. It is also true that we don't get there by not confessing our sins when we do sin. Notice that in 1 John 1:9, when we confess our sins, we are not only forgiven but we are cleansed from all unrighteousness. So then, those...

Obviously we are saved by grace through faith. So if someone falls from grace, they are no longer saved. Therefore the very concept of falling from grace is conducive to a person falling from grace, according to @Behold's theology. The reality is that we are kept by the power of God through...