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You say you are looking for a word study; well the Greek word used in John 3:3 & 5 is gennethe, and it is the 3rd person, singular, aorist, passive, subjunctive of gennao, which means, 'to beget.' In the passive voice it is usually translated 'born,' but it would not be wrong to render it as...

First of all, thanks for your kind words, and even more, thanks for reading it! I don't get the impression that anyone else has. :rolleyes: It is obvious that James' and John's cup of suffering could not be redemptive; they were sinners. What the Lord Jesus meant is simply that they would...

Sartre By Himself / Sartre par lui-mème (1959) The Words / Les Mots (1964)[126] Witness to My Life & Quiet Moments in a War / Lettres au Castor et à quelques autres (1983) War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War / Les carnets de la drole de guerre (1984)

'Agnostic' is a word of Greek origin. The Latin equivalent is 'ignoramus.' I know; I used to be both. I am happy to believe your assertion that you do not continually talk about God. I only observe that you have come onto a Christian website to talk about Him. ;)

You are the one who brought up Sartre, not I. I think you may find something along the lines of what I wrote in one of his autobiographies, where he speaks of the ‘absence’ of God rather than God’s non-existence. In the same work he also refers to God as an ‘old flame’ and to atheism as a...

I tend to find in discussions of this sort, there is a faulty statement made early on which negates the whole argument that follows. This is your view. You are entitled to your opinion, but the authentic omnipotent God might disagree with you. 'But our God is in heaven; He does whatever...

This is wrong. The word hamartia is never used in the New Testament to mean 'sin offering.' In Hebrew 10:6 & 8, the term used is peri harmartias, literally, '[things] concerning sin.' In Hebrews 10:18, it is prosphera hamartias and in Hebrews 10:12, 26, the term is hamartion thusia...

I only just caught up with this thread. Good post! Faith always involves doing something (Hebrews 11). I wonder if you've considered an aspect of Genesis 6:14. The Hebrew word translated 'pitch' here is kaphar. Only here in the O.T. is it translated as 'pitch' and 70 times it is rendered...

Romans 4:3-8, quoting Genesis 15:6 & Psalms 32:1-2. 'For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Now to him who works, the wages are not accounted as grace but as debt. Bu to him who does not work but believes on him who justifies...

This is just wrong. The whole passage is written in the Present Tense. He's not saying, "If we used to say that we had no sin we would have been deceiving ourselves and the truth would not have been in us," which is what you're trying to make him say, but the grammar of the text won't let you...

I'm not sure what you're trying to prove with this stuff which is pretty basic and found in several commentaries. It does not alter the fact that 1 John 1:8-10 is in the Bible. Note that John uses the 1st Person Plural, 'We.' John is including himself with his readers. If John and his readers...

Whatever 1 John 3:9 means, it cannot contradict 1 John 1:8-10. The key to reconciling the two texts is the Greek Present Tense which denotes continuous action. So 1 John 3:9 means that no one who continuously sins is born of God, for His seed remains in him and he cannot continually sin. If...

Isaiah 53:6; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24. And I don't care who wrote that; it's junk. If someone doesn't hate sin and fear sinning, he's most certainly not saved.

Our own righteousness is filthy rags. To depend on it is the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 5:20; Luke 18:9-14). 'I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing' (Galatians 2:21). When we are saved, the Holy...

Hymn by Charles Wesley: 1. 'Tis finished! the Messiah dies, cut off for sins, but not his own. Accomplished is the sacrifice, the great redeeming work is done. 'Tis finished, all the debt is paid; Justice divine is satisfied, The grand and full atonement made; Christ for a guilty world has...

Almost nothing in your post is correct. The truth of P.S. long predates Calvin (think Bible, Clement of Rome and Justin Martyr); John Wesley was an Arminian and taught it; his brother Charles wrote at least one hymn about it. C.H. Spurgeon taught P.S. and George Whitfield preached it. They...

So what does it mean to be ‘accursed of God’? Let Paul answer first: ‘These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power’ (2 Thessalonians 1:10). And then the Lord Jesus: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after...

A similar concept is that of a surety. This is someone who guarantees the debts of a friend and must pay them in full if the friend defaults. There are several warnings in the Book of Proverbs against becoming a surety (Proverbs 6:1-5; 11:15; 17:18), since one is making the debts of one’s...

This subject came up on the Calvinism thread for some reason although it is not an exclusively Calvinistic doctrine and long predates Calvin himself. I feel the subject deserves more discussion here and therefore have started this thread. I am going to take some time to lay out the Biblical...

Either you have misread my post or I have explained myself extremely badly (probably the latter :oops: ), because I agree with you absolutely. :)