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I tend to agree with most of what you say there. However, in His response, "your request is granted" was not done "in faith", but rather in absolute knowledge that it would be done. For what it is worth, I do not believe that Jesus, as the man, had any more ability to perform miracles in and...

I didn't really overlook the point of the quote. It is just that there are many who do not think it is false.

"and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near" (Heb 10:24-25).

Mark Twain's statement, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so", is false. Faith is believing in something or someone you "know" to be true but can't prove to be true.

There is considerable confusion in what faith is because of the two different English nouns "faith" and "belief". The verb forms in English are to have faith and to believe. In the NT Greek, there are not two words; there is only the single verb πιστεύω [pisteuō] and the single noun πίστις...

Faith is used in at least two different ways in the Bible. The most usual way in which it is used is in the sense given by Hebrews 11:1. In that sense, faith is believing in something that cannot be proven to be true: " Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things...

You go back and re-read my post. I was responding to the post by ritajanice which posted Ephesians 2 as proof that faith was a gift. And I did not say that it follows that faith is not a gift. I said that Ephesians 2 does not say that faith is a gift.

CONTINUED, Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Again, omitting any context whatsoever ever. That passage, Romans 8:28-30, sets the condition at the outset that Paul says...

Where does scripture ever say that mankind does not have a free will ability to choose? A computer does not have the ability to make the choice to obey or disobey any of God's commands. Actually, a computer doesn't have the ability to make choices at all. It simply responds according to the...

Except of course you will not leave it closed there.

That is not true. Ephesians 2:8 doesn't say that grace is a gift either, but grace is most definitely, by definition, a gift. The point is that those who claim that Ephesians says that faith is a gift are wrong. I presented the bases for proclaiming it is wrong.

That is correct. However, when Paul declared that we are saved by faith, not works, it is works of law that he spoke about. Clearly he did not refute Christ's own words that faith is a work. We are saved by grace through faith, and faith is a work according to Jesus.

Clearly. it is you spewing out the manmade mumbo jumbo. You simply refuse to understand and believe God's word.

You are indwelt with the Holy Spirit because you believe the Bible to be the truth. That is the purpose of the written revelation of God, i.e., the Bible. It provides us with the word about Christ, from which comes faith.

That is nothing short of heresy. God has given us His Written Word through the person and work of the Holy Spirit. It is through that Written Word that we can come to believe and obey the gospel (Rom 10). That you would even think for an instant that God is unable to communicate effectively...

It should be obvious, even to you, that the faith spoken of in that passage is not referring to the saving faith of every believer. Rather it is a special miraculous gift from the Holy Spirit given to only a precious few, just as is the case of all the other special miraculous gifts from the...

The "it" in "it is a gift of God" in Ephesians 2:8 does not reference faith. Greek grammar will not permit it. Besides, the word "it" is not even in the Greek. Your KJV has, for Ephesians 2:8, the following: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift...

Again, with the false doctrine of Determinism. Mankind does have free will ability. It was by the sovereign will of God that He instilled mankind with free will. You would deny God the ability to do that. Shame!

Jesus declared faith to be work (John 6:29). If it is work, it cannot be a gift. And faith is a condition for receiving salvation. (Mark 16:16; Rom 1:17; 3:24-25; 4:1-8; 4:22-25; etc.)

It does according to Paul.