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No, that is not what I said. A church meeting on Sunday is not the same thing as a church teaching Sunday is the Christian Sabbath, or that keeping Sunday saves anyone, proves anyone’s salvation, or is God’s final test. If a Sunday church teaches that, then yes, that should be rejected too. The...

Neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God.

Hebrews 10:26 does not say a born again man is justified, sealed by the Spirit, given eternal life, passed from death unto life, and then lost again. You are reading that into the text. The verse says, “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there...

I am not saying any man-made system gets a blank check. Scripture is the standard, not a denomination, not a confession, not a movement, and not a church label. A church or denomination is only sound to the degree that it stays under the authority of Scripture and keeps the gospel clear. “For...

I agree with the warning. A religious name, an outward place among God’s people, and the appearance of waiting for the Lord do not save anybody. Matthew 25 is a serious passage. But I would be careful saying “all were His” and “half the church were locked out.” Jesus does not say that. He says...

Can a person sin? Yes. Can a false professor fall away? Yes. Can a person deny Christ and be damned? Yes, if that denial is where he remains. But that does not prove a born again believer can be given eternal life, sealed by the Spirit, passed from death unto life, and then become spiritually...

That still does not answer the verses. Eternal life is not something God gives after we prove we were faithful enough. Scripture says, “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” ~Romans 6:23. A gift is not a wage. Yes, true grace changes a man. Grace is not a license to...

You are still doing the same thing. You are taking every warning passage and forcing it to mean a born again believer can be justified, sealed, given eternal life, passed from death unto life, and then be damned again. That is not what the text says. Yes, a believer continues believing. I am...

If the man in the stairwell is born again, then yes, the Spirit of God dwells in him. If he is not born again, then he still needs Christ like every other sinner does. The Bible does not teach that God lives in every person automatically. Paul said, “Now if any man have not the Spirit of...

MatthewG, I agree that the glory of the LORD filled the temple. The Scripture says that plainly, and I am not denying it. The cloud was real. The glory was real. The priests could not stand to minister because of it. But that actually proves the point I was making, not the opposite. God...

I agree with that. A home gathering is not automatically spiritual just because it is in a home. You can move from a hall to a living room and still carry the same flesh, the same confusion, the same pride, and the same lack of order right through the front door. The issue is not house or hall...

I understand what you are saying, and I am not against a hall, a meeting place, a library, rooms, books, hymns, fellowship, or the practical things that help believers gather together. If God has provided those things and they are being used in a way that serves the saints and points people back...

I agree that Revelation 1:20 is important because Jesus does not leave those symbols to guesswork. He says plainly, “The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.” That matters. When Scripture interprets a symbol, we do...

I agree that epistle means a letter. I do not have any problem with someone saying “Paul’s letter to the Romans” instead of “the Epistle to the Romans.” That is not where I disagree with you. The problem is that you are taking a simple word definition and then using it to strip away the...

You are half right on the word and wrong on the conclusion. Yes, mathetai means disciples, learners, pupils, or followers. Nobody needs to pretend the Greek word only had a religious use. But that does not mean the New Testament use is spiritually empty. Words get their force from context, and...

We are not “back” to the question. You are dragging us back because you do not like the answer Scripture already gave. The Bible already defines eternal life. “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son” ~1 John 5:11. “He that hath the Son hath...

You are not correcting my position. You are proving my point. You wish I had a flawed understanding of the lifelong process of salvation, but I do not. You keep listing warning verses as if the mere existence of warnings cancels the plain promises of Christ. That is not Bible study. That is...

You missed the point of my post. I was not defending the movie. I was not saying it was a good movie. I was not saying grey aliens are our friends. I was not even making the movie itself the main issue. The movie was only the springboard. The point was that people are fascinated with the idea...

Trevor, you are answering an argument I did not make. I never said believers should forsake assembling together. Hebrews 10:23–25 is Scripture, and I fully affirm it. Christians are not called to be isolated. We are to exhort one another, provoke one another unto love and good works, and not...

You are changing the issue. I did not say every act of Christ’s ministry was completed at the cross. I said His sacrifice for sin was finished at the cross. That is exactly what Scripture says. Jesus said, “It is finished” ~John 19:30. Hebrews says, “By his own blood he entered in once into...