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Yes, there is only one. It occurs when Jesus returns.

Nothing removes sin. If you murder someone, he stays murdered. If you steal from someone, even if you returned what you stole, the sin would not go away. Our sin does not go away, God forgives the repentant believer when he is baptized. And being forgiven, i.e., being justified, is not an...

Where in the Bible to read that you do not have to keep God's law? Where does it say it is okey to steal, to murder, to covet? The law is made for mankind. The born again are not freed from obeying God's law. You cannot love God and disobey His law. It is just that the law is not the...

I believe there will be one resurrection. John 5:28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice John 5:29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

amillennial

I am not a premillennialist.

Just to be clear, I believe that first resurrection spoken of here (and in John 5:24-26) is the same one as the first resurrection spoken of in Revelation 20:5-6. It is the reason that the second death has no power over those of this first resurrection (Rev 20:6) They are the born again, the...

Paul doesn't actually say that. You are extrapolating to a faulty conclusion. Again, I ask you how much of the law is required to be justified? Jas 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. Therefore if you have failed in just one...

Yes, but how much of the law must one do to be declared righteous? I would argue that only by doing the law perfectly with never a glitch will anyone be a doer of the law who will be declared righteous. And of course that eliminates absolutely everyone.

I have not rejected that view. In fact I believe that the first resurrection for any believer is one and the same as regeneration. It is a rebirth, being reborn, being born again, in the spirit.

I will leave it to you to research the issue. But Zwingli's view seems clear enough for me. He rejected the RCC's view of infant baptism and the more general view of baptismal regeneration as the RCC proclaimed it. Yes, that is Cross's opinion which he references in his text. However, in...

I have not said anything different. But are you suggesting that God cannot save anyone who has not been baptized?

Recovering the Evangelical Sacrament: Baptisma Semper Reformandum (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2013; 403p., pb.), written by Anthony R. Cross. Baptism: Zwingli or The Bible? Jack Cottrell Both are available from Amazon.

I think I just did. Baptism is the time in the life of the repentant believer that God saves him. That is God's promise to the repentant believer. I would comment here relative to 1 Peter 3:21, that the water of baptism is the type to the anti-type of the water of Noah's flood. Both are the...

That is not what the Bible says. Yes, perhaps. But not all that significant in relation to being saved. Only by the fact that in having been baptized, the repentant believer received forgiveness of sins and was given the gift of the Holy Spirit. That gift, among other things constitutes the...

Actually, Huldrlych Zwingli in the early 16th century introduced the false idea that salvation was disconnected from water baptism.

Almost universally, the male of the human species is polygamous by nature. And that, whether you like it or not, is how God created it. Thankfully, God does not hold us accountable for being polygamous by nature; rather He holds of accountable only if we commit polygamy.

I agree, in a sense, that baptism as zero to do with the removal of sin. Such can only be accomplished by God, Himself. However, it seems clear enough from passages such as Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; 22:16, Col 2:11-13, etc. that baptism is the occasion, the time in the life of the repentant...

Colossians 2 clearly says that baptism is for the forgiveness [remission] of sins. Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. Col 2:13 And you, who were dead in your...

Did he conceive himself? No, it is not defiled. The nature of man does not cause him to commit acts of sin. The nature of man as God created him allows him to sin. But it is mans choice to sin. that is snot true. You have it exactly backward. Men are lost because they have sinned. The...