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Ah. Well, I have given you an answer to your question - though not quite in the form you wanted. I've been online for a long time (over twenty years, though not continuously, of course) and being guarded is now a reflex. Being new to this website, I'll keep that guard up with fellow posters...

When I share the Gospel with folks in-person, my usual approach is either to quote Scripture pertaining to the Gospel to them, or take them to a Bible and show them in it the same verses/passages I would have quoted to them and then answer their questions about it. So, I don't typically "share...

Should my words differ from the Gospel declared to me in God's word? I don't think so... In any case, I have no difference to assert, no unique phrasing of the Gospel that I would set forth. I accept the Gospel as it is in the verses I cited to you. How about you? What did you "first believe"...

I believe in the doctrine of eternal security but in the decades I've held to this view, I've never put it like this or thought of it in these terms. This is, at least as far as I'm concerned what is called a Strawman of the doctrine of eternal security of the believer. The doctrine simply - and...

Hello, PS95. Thanks for the welcome. I do ask many questions, yes. It comes from being a discipler of men for the past thirty years. What did I believe when I first trusted in Christ as my Savior? The Gospel. I was saved at eight years of age (I'm just shy of sixty, now) and remember being...

But as I pointed out, James never actually says this. This is your addition to his words. Instead, James tells us exactly what he meant by "dead" and it isn't "a faith that cannot save." He wouldn't say this since faith is not what saves you; faith in Christ merely positions you to be saved by...

Yes, faith is necessary to salvation but it is not the means of salvation. See my dentist example. Or consider a "life-ring" thrown to a drowning man. Does his belief that it will keep him afloat make the ring capable of doing so? No. He reaches for it believing it will save him, but it is the...

On what grounds from the text of the end of 1 John 1 do you make this assertion? What you've said in the quotation above appears to be entirely ad hoc, imposed upon the text in service to the sinless perfection doctrine. 1 John 1:5-10 (NASB) 5 This is the message we have heard from Him and...

Simply denying what I showed from the words of the apostle James himself doesn't change or negate what he wrote. James 2:14 14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? Where in this verse does James write "faith alone doesn't...

Revelation 14:3-5 (NASB) 3 And they *sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth. 4 These are the ones who have not been defiled...

This was interesting. To begin a response to all you've info-dumped here, let me quote the following: 1 John 1:7-10 7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we...

Heaven is heaven because it is where God is. He makes heaven, heavenly. And so, if our view of God is small and weak, our interest in being with Him forever in heaven will seem tedious and uninteresting. If we have a life as a follower of Christ now that requires a lot of add-ons to make...

James actually explained what he meant by a "dead faith": 1.) It is faith that is alone, existing separate from corresponding works. James 2:17 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. 2.) It is faith that is spiritually (and practically) useless. James 2:20 20...

Very often, yes. Contend for the faith, absolutely, but endlessly arguing about it is, as you say, a waste of time - time better spent on other things.

What he's doing is also called "projection" - accusing others of the very things of which one is most guilty.

If you're not going to actually read and understand my posts before you respond to them I see no reason why I should respond to your questions. If you had read and understood my post, you would see that your questions here already have their answer. I don't think Jesus spoke any falsehood...

@bdavidc wrote: "The Bible gives clear and sufficient answers to all of this, not based on feelings, but on the truth of God’s Word. First, salvation is not about performing well or feeling something emotional. It begins with repentance and faith in Jesus Christ (Mark 1:15). Repentance...

John 15:1-6 1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4...

But what does it mean to be changed inwardly? How is one certain that this has occurred? Many times, people come to believe they're saved when they aren't because they have no concrete basis from which to examine/test their belief. What is it to repent? How does one know one has repented...

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