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But those are not conditions. They are all things which Jesus says are true of His sheep but are not true of those who are not His sheep. In John 10 He wasn't giving instructions about how to become one of His sheep. Indeed, He actually told some of His hearers that they did not believe...

Although not named "Jesus Christ" in the Old Testament, all the way through the OT is teaching about the coming Messiah, starting just after the Fall, when God made that wonderful promise about "the Seed of the woman": “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and...

I agree that belief/faith is not works. I believe it's more than that. It's believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, as the apostles said to the jailer. Ephesians 2:10 talks of good works as having been prepared by God for the saved sinner to walk in. Good works are done from obedience and a...

No, I have never said that works are not necessary. What I have said is that to be saved, one must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, then works will follow, not to make us any more saved, but to show that our faith/belief is genuine: “8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that...

He hadn't died on the cross when He told the disciples, several times, about His death and resurrection. For example: “17 ¶ Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them, 18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be...

Sorry for misunderstanding. I thought you meant me because you were replying to my post.

Not by me!

Sorry, but in what way has my post here denied and rejected all my other posts which you've read? I have, since I became a Christian over 50 years ago now, always believed that we must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. I also believe that, as Ephesians 2:10 says, good...

That doesn't make sense, unless you imagine that believing in Jesus means simply believing that He exists/existed. The words of the apostles to the Philippian jailer were: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved." Yes, believe that He is Lord, that He is Saviour ("Jesus" means...

But Paul also addressed His coming in the flesh. For example: “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” (1Ti 1:15 NKJV)

So what gospel did Jesus preach, in those verses I quoted in Post 3? What "good tidings" (same Greek word as translated elsewhere as "gospel") did the angel proclaim to the shepherds? (Sorry, our posts crossed. I see that you believe there are two gospels, and that is how you explain how...

So how do you account for those verses which talk about Jesus preaching the gospel, long before He met Saul on the road to Damascus? Here are some examples: “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness...

You must have misread my post. Faith/belief in the Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient to be saved, as the apostles told the jailer. That faith, if genuine, will result in good works, as Ephesians 2:8-10 says. These good works don't make us any more saved, but they demonstrate the reality of our...

But I repeat, it is not merely believing that Jesus exists that brings salvation. We need to believe that He is Saviour (as the name Jesus means "Jehovah saves",) that He is the anointed of God (that's what "Christ" means), and that He is our Lord (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ). The...

It's certainly more than merely believing that He exists. Yet believing in the Lord Jesus Christ is what is required to be saved. The jailer at Philippi asked the apostles how he could be saved. Their answer was: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved."

I have never heard anybody say that they sinned because the darkness made them do it. In fact in my experience, people who don't believe in God don't believe in sin either. I agree with you that we do need the light: “6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 This man came for a...

Agreed, the picture Behold used is not perfect, but it was only a picture. The work of Jesus is finished. He said from the cross, "It is finished." When He returned to heaven, we are told that He sat down, speaking again of His work being finished. So even though a full scholarship does not...

I am not going to continue discussing with you, as you falsely accuse me of dishonesty. I may have different beliefs to you, but that doesn't mean I am lying when I state them.

Yes, but based on the bible. I know you don't agree that the bible teaches the reality of Satan, but the belief is bible-based. I have quoted many such verses. Again, you interpret them differently. No it is not. You can tell me as many times as you like that it is, but my answer is that my...

The fact that Revelation consists of a vision given by Jesus Christ to John means that there is plenty in the way of symbolism in it. The fact that Satan and the devil are mentioned in many other passages of Scripture as a real being shows that he is not a symbol. As for interpreting...