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Whatever.

You mean like adding your own words that born of water = natural birth?

The gift of tongues was given to Balaam's ass (Num 22).

I could be mistaken but I believe that A T Robertson was the Greek "expert" who said that "for the forgiveness of sins" in Acts 2:38 and elsewhere could be translated/interpreted as "because" of the forgiveness of sins. That is something that no other Greek "expert" would say or tolerate...

It would seem that you fail to distinguish between the gift (indwelling) of the Holy Spirit and the gift (empowering) of the Holy Spirit. The indwelling Holy Spirit is a gift to each and every one saved. The empowering Holy Spirit is a gift to selected ones and not associated with salvation...

And your attempt to replace God's word with your own is amazing, and sad. And I am not replacing the spiritual baptism of God from the physical baptism in water. What I am saying and what the Bible is saying is that it is in the physical baptism in water that we receive the spiritual baptism...

I think Paul disagrees with you, Rom 10:8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); Rom 10:9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the...

Hear, believe, confess, repent, be baptized, live, and walk in the Spirit, rejecting & turning from a habitual life of sin, then the work of Jesus' will be completed in us through our glorification at his second coming!

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. Yes the heavens declare the results of God's work and power; however, the heavens declare nothing about God, Himself, except as...

(ESV)Act 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (KJV) Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus...

How is one faithful toward God if he hasn't the Bible for information and data about the God, Jesus and the Gospel?

One would think, from your description, that the Bible is even needed. Yet the faith that you allude to is by hearing (reading) the word of Christ. Where else but the Bible do you hear (read) that? Answer, nowhere else.

And you should be careful calling the commands of Jesus himself in Matthew 28:19-20 blasphemy.

Speaking of John the Baptist, Mark and Luke both present the same thing :Mar 1:4 John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Luk 3:3 And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the...

Yes that is true; however, it is a serious mistake to deny that the baptism spoken of with respect to salvation is water baptism. Even John's baptism in the Jordan was for the forgiveness of sins. The difference between John's baptism and the baptism spoken of by Peter at Pentecost is water...

The reference to the Holy Spirit in 1 Thessalonians 1:5 is Paul's statement of his divine inspiration, not some declaration of the false doctrine of illumination. The question is what is meant by "opened her heart". The claim that it is a statement of regeneration is false. But it is true...

Not amazing. But that is why Timothy needed the Holy Spirit inspired teaching of Paul. Act 8:28 and he (the Ethiopian eunuch) was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah (the OT). Act 8:29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go up and join this chariot." Act...

There is only one baptism (Eph 4:5). Water baptism is Spirit baptism. "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Born of water and Spirit is the one single baptism.

Yes that is true, but that impulse is not some divine inspiration direct from God to us. God has produced, through divine inspiration of the authors of the Bible by the Holy Spirit, all that is necessary for one to believe in Him (John 6:45; Rom 10:17). We are saved by Grace THROUGH FAITH...

The Bible is what gives you the information and data to believe in God. Faith comes by hearing (or reading in the Bible) about Jesus Christ. That comes from no other source.