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Every sin, no matter how innocuous it might seem to you, deserves death, the second death. That is a fundamental precept of the Bible. Adam simply ate fruit from a tree that God told him not to. And he died spiritually. The "I am not as bad as him" is not a defense in any sense whatever.

As much as I hate what John Dewey did to our educational systems, I don't think the problem with different definitions of words in the Bible is with Dewey. The problem is the fundamental differences in theology. For example it is not a dictionary difference, even in the original language, in...

And there we have the perfect example of what I just spoke about above in reply #34.

The problem is not usually what the Bible says, although sometimes it can be when different translations are involved. It is usually what does the Bible mean by what the Bible says. In order to discuss anything rationally, it is necessary to have some agreement on the definition and meaning of...

To be born again is to be saved; or at least it is a part of being saved. From the words of Jesus, "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved...." I must leave now. I will be back later. I think there is a fundamental problem here about what it means to need to be saved, what it means...

You have asked several questions. Which one specifically are you asking now? I have a question for you. How high is up? When you answer that question, maybe I will try to answer your question differently than I have already.

Rom 10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? That is the answer.

A Christian is one who is in Christ. Not all who claim to be Christian, to be in Christ, are truly Christian. But that is for them, not us, to say. And you have said it.

Which as I have said previously, that only means that you either do not know what it means to be a Christian or you do not know what it means to be born again; but it would seem to be both.

Well unless I had someone who was very knowledgeable about the Bible, I probably wouldn't know much about Him. Rom 10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone...

You want me to show you where God's word is wrong? Seriously? What an absolutely asinine request.

I have about ten commentaries in my personal library on Paul's letter to the Romans. Among them there is a range of views on the meaning of the letter generally and specifically with respect to various passages. There is not a one of them that would come even close to your views. And given...

I believe those passages from God's word. Why would I not? That doesn't mean I agree with what you think those passages mean. The difference would be the issue of your view about calling and thinking that God has Himself, based upon nothing whatsoever about the individual, decided whom He...

Why don't you start by explaining it. Then I will decide whether or not to bother showing where you are wrong.

There is so much wrong with Calvin's understanding of Romans 9. But regardless of what you think Romans 9 is all about, God clearly establishes the conditions for whom He will save and whom He will condemn; and it has nothing to do with speaking to anyone directly. It is a bit ironic that you...

Good luck with that. There is not much chance you will succeed since it fairly clear that there is no understanding at all about what either being born again or being a Christian means.

First, that is a terribly tortured rendering of the words logos and rhema. But I will leave that for others to do their own research on it. My first inclination when I hear anyone claim to have been spoken to by God is to reject, almost out of hand, whatever it is that they think God said. If...

Those were not "false" Christians. They were Jews, his kinsmen according to the flesh, Judaizers.

When do you think we are forgiven?

A sower of such confusion.....