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Speaking of circumcised hearts, read what Paul said about that. For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in...

How does He do that?

You would have us believe that God is directly responsible for believing. And yet given that not all believe, that means that it is God, not the unbeliever, who is responsible for the individuals unbelief. Are you really sure you want to go there? That is in direct conflict with 2 Peter 3:9.

The law is written out in the OT. Please find the book, chapter and verse that contains baptism as a work of law. You can look all you want but you will not find baptism as a work of the law. Baptism is not a work of the law. Believing is something that we do. It is not a work of the law.

Faith leads to quickening, not the other way around as you seem to be saying. That is, faith does not come from being born again; rather, those with faith are born again. Now it is true that the Holy Spirit was working. And the major way in which He works is through the written word, the...

I am sure of three things here. I am sure that the gospel is presented in the Bible. I am sure that Jesus Christ has not called the Bible into question. And I am sure that you have completely misunderstood Paul's message in Galatians 1:8.

How much of the rest of the Bible do you think is not of God? My suspicions on that? Everything that you don't agree with. But whether or not that is the case, it is clear that you and I have nothing more to discuss, since you have no acceptable authority to base your opinions on. In...

Obviously, you do not think the Torah is a Holy Spirit inspired revelation from God.

Well first of all killing the animals for the hides is not a sacrifice. Second, God doesn't sacrifice to himself. Third, God wouldn't even need to kill an animal to provide skins for cover. He could simply make the skins. But at any rate none of that is anything more than making some form of...

The typical counting of laws in the Law of Moses is 613. Those many Jews who stay in bed on the Sabbath obviously do not know the Law very well. You should't use them as a guide.

Because, as is recorded, Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil". They knew then that they had done wrong. But there is no indication whatsoever that they had lost their ability to know and understand fully what God was saying to them. Where...

Be careful with that one, I do not believe that the spiritually dead no longer has the ability or inclination to know the ways of God. Did Adam and Eve, once they had sinned, no longer have the ability or inclination to know what God was saying to them or what He wanted them to do? I think they...

What do you mean I don't have any scripture to refute you? I have the Bible. God, through inspiration by the Holy Spirit, spells out the law in His written word, the Bible, which is what Paul is referring to. Besides hearing and believing the Gospel is something we do. It is very strange...

When the Bible says, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27), the spirit of man is that which is created in God's own image. It is that spirit in God's own image that separates man from the rest of the animals. Among...

I believe the real explanation is that the human being is a soul, a living being. That being has a body, i.e., flesh,, and a spirit. All other animals are souls, living beings. They have a body, i.e.,flesh; they do not have spirits. In both the OT and the NT, when speaking of the human...

That you believe that anything we do is a work is of no consequence whatever and is not important. What is important is what the Bible says. You have inserted your own erroneous thinking into Romans 3:20. The Bible doesn't say that the deeds of the law is what we do. The deeds of the Law are...

To believe in God, i.e., to have faith in God, is a work (John 6:27-29). It is not a work of Law. There are many things that we do that are not works of law. Being baptized is something we do, in the sense of allowing someone else to do something to us, it is not a work of law. Hearing is...

Romans 7:18 and the entire passage concerns Paul's acknowledging that he does commit sins. However he does not refer to himself there as a sinner; at least in what I read there. I believe that in 1 Timothy 1:15 Paul is referring to his past condition as a sinner. He includes himself as one...

No , Sin was not the cause of death. Sin was the cause of their getting kicked out of the Garden. Getting kicked out of the Garden meant that they no longer had access to the fruit of the Tree of Life so that nature took its course and they eventually died. That nature was the creation of...

The Bible never says that we can't stop. But it does say that no one ever has stopped. Paul, in speaking about himself, said, Rom 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Rom 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the...