Search results

Nope. It is up to the choice of the person to whom the gift is given to either receive or reject that gift. Do you mean to tell me that you did not receive the gift that God gave to you? Of course you did; if you are indeed saved. If you didn't receive the gift of salvation then I have a...

I would say on @Ferris Bueller's behalf that it is indeed a major part of the issue.

It is the same law; it is merely fulfilled in our lives differently than it was in the Old Testament.

It is written, Mat 22:41, While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Mat 22:42, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. Mat 22:43, He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, Mat 22:44, The LORD said...

The fact that they are given does not guarantee that they will be received. Every man has a choice to either receive or reject what is given.

That's why in what you think is my promoting of self, I am not in fact promoting myself but am promoting Christ.

It isn't redeemable. This is also what is commonly preached by most Bible scholars.

My promotion of self does not have self-promotion as its goal but the promotion of His name. The only reason why I place myself as carrying the truth is because I know that I carry the truth and that others don't. So then, if I promote myself, it is because I know that I carry the truth and...

My spirit is one with the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17). When people do not hear what I preach, I know that they have the spirit of error (1 John 4:6).

Of course they are given. They must be received in order to be apprehended.

Good grief, @Chrisophany. Take my words in context for once. We will receive a new, glorified body when we are resurrected...mortality will be swallowed up by life...and I was not denying this. The subject matter was not the resurrection. It had to do with whether, while we walk this earth...

1 John 1:8 is not in contradiction to verses that say we do not sin as the born again. We do not have to sin as believers because the element of sin, while it dwells within us, has been rendered dead if we have received the second benefit (2 Corinthians 1:15) of entire sanctification. You...

Even if I promote myself, I am of Him...because I promote myself not for the sake of my own self-promotion but so that His name might be promoted. 1Jo 1:8, If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Your doctrine about the beginning of the devil's sin is...

My discernment tells me that those who don't hear me have the spirit of error...1 John 4:6. No, we do not agree on that. gnosticism. John 8:31-36 does not bear out that those who believed in Jesus were still slaves to sin. I believe that the people you are speaking about here were...

What law do you say is written in the heart and on the mind of New Covenant believers? Because I would say that it is the law of faith, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus that has set me free from the law of sin and death. Sin is defined in this law as walking after the flesh rather...

It is not something that I would argue with you over. The response when I discern that someone isn't born again isn't pointing the finger; it is prayer.

Of course. What does that have to do with the subject at hand?

For these reasons, I submit to you that God chose to redeem people who would respond to His wooing by the Holy Spirit whom He foreknew would make that choice from the beginning of time (Romans 8:29-30, 1 Peter 1:2). Because if He chose them on any other basis, it is an arbitrary decision to...

If I must promote myself in order to get the message of Christ to people then I will do so; for I know that I have the understanding of who Christ is and of His gospel message to the world and that there are others who claim the same thing but their claims are faulty because they do not...

It most certainly is a major part of the issue.