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If you knew what a Christian is, maybe you would understand. But since you don't........

Yes, of course. It is by faith that they healed the lame beggar. The NIV is not a good one for that verse. That is Peter telling the council why the Gentiles were being accepted. They believed in God. OK , so what are you trying to say?

Opinions, opinions, only opinions.

Once again an irrelevant piece of understanding void of God's living word.

To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:

That is indeed true. The spirit in man is "the breath of the Almighty". It is the spirit in man that makes him understand, gives him understanding. That is what the Bible is for. That is what the Holy Spirit did. The Bible is how God gives the spirit in man that understanding. He gave that...

I have no problem with any of that. The problem is your view of who and how God chooses. To think that God would choose most of humanity, having absolutely nothing to do with who they are or what they do and giving them no recourse, to be eternally condemned is really bad . That stinks to high...

Given that you obviously haven't a clue about even what a Christian is, this discussion is worthless.

What or who do you think a Christian is?

That is true. The question is which comes first. I say the one who believes and baptized is saved. Those are the ones which God foreknows and elects. Since God is omniscient, He knows even before one is born, before even the creation of the world, who will believe. He doesn't predestine the...

You don't even know what the word means. It is not some religionized jargon kind of word. There is no distinction in the Bible between faith in God and believing in God. Belief, faith, in God is both the mental assent to the truth of God plus placing complete trust in God. One can believe...

The Bible doesn't say that you must be saved either. But any who understands what it means certainly should want to be saved. What in the world to you think it means to be a Christian but a faithful follower of Christ? The typical modern-day use and meaning of the the word Christian has no real...

You are both wrong. Faith is not a gift but it is a requirement to be born again. To be born again is to be saved. One cannot be, is not, born again and yet not saved. To be saved one must believe, have faith, in God. Rom 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed [had faith...

Of course a Christian is born again. A Christian is one who has been saved, one given the gift of eternal life with God in heaven. One cannot be saved and not be born again. Neither can one be born again and not be saved. To be born again is to be saved is to be a Christian.

That is true enough. One must believe in God. For some that is easy, particularly for those who are born and raised in a God fearing Christian home. But for others, it may take time to come to a belief in God; for some it takes years. John 3:8 isn't saying that you don't know when it...

The gift of Ephesians 2 is salvation - salvation by grace through faith -- PERIOD.

There is no "initial" born again experience. It is not something that God does over a period of time. It begins and ends in an instance. It is that instant in time when one goes from being a lost sinner to becoming a saved saint.

The truth is that Paul was still dead in his trespasses and sins three days after his encounter with Jesus. Obviously, he had not been born again until his sins were washed away, whether or not you want to believe that in baptism sins are washed away.

So you think that he was born again three days before his sins were washed away? How silly of you. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Nothing there about the sins of...