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No; that would only mean that you don't have the spiritual gift of the discernment of spirits.

And what I mean by, as long as you are in this flesh, is, that as long as you are dwelling in a human body and have not yet received your glorified body.

1 Timothy 1:15 is a trustworthy saying that is worthy of all acceptation; that each and every one of us is to adopt to our own lives. It is not to say that we are sinners in the sense that we sin; but it is to say that we are sinners in the sense that we have indwelling sin.

I'm afraid I disagree with you, @Joseph77. It has been one of my major goals in life to reconcile apparent contradictions in the holy scriptures; and doing so has served to provide added insight into what the contrasting scriptures mean as they are applied together. As it is written, 1Co...

Gal 3:12, And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

Jhn 6:47, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. Luk 8:13, They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. If you are going to say that...

I don't see a contradiction between them. It is reconciled in that Luke 8:13 is speaking of a nominal, lukewarm, or shallow faith and John 6:47 is speaking of a heart faith that is unto righteousness (Romans 10:10) and enduring to the end (Matthew 10:22, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 3:14). But how do...

Actually, sin doesn't hurt God (Job 35:5-8).

God does indeed have blood (Acts 20:28 (kjv)). Act 20:28, Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. You do accept the kjv as inspired?

These verses (all the verses you have quoted to support "losing salvation" and my verses that support eternal security) are reconciled in my mind; and I have even told you how they are reconciled in my mind. So the job you have to do is to think about how they relate to each other until they...

I am also of the opinion that the Bible never contradicts itself; but that any contradictions that one might bring up are only apparent contradictions and seem to be so because the person bringing them up has not looked deeper into how they reconcile with one another.

So, apparently the Bible contradicts itself. If your verses do indeed refute the idea of eternal security, then you have a problem, that can only be resolved if you can somehow reconcile the verses.

So, here are three of my verses: Jhn 5:24, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Here, the person who hears the words of Jesus and believes on...

Luke 8:13 is clearly about someone who has faith. I agree that the one whose faith is nominal, lukewarm, or shallow is very likely not even born again. Faith has to do with surrender; and works result out of that surrender. However, scripture is clear that works do not save us. Works are...

It appears that the one who is born spiritually can die spiritually (James 1:14-16, Romans 6:23). One would die by allowing sin to become full-grown in them. Now, in John 11:25-27, we find that spiritual life cannot be extinguished for the one who "lives and believes in me." This would...

Only if it is scripturally refutable.

Jesus died and rose again, never to die again. God condensed His Omnipresent essence into a finite human body (see Luke 1:37) God carried over His infallibility into His human nature when He became a Man. That is because Adam and Eve sinned. Jesus was not subject to the sin-DNA carried...

I believe that I have also answered all of the verses that you have mentioned in one fell swoop, here: post #67 (Dead faith.) and here: post #72 (Dead faith.)

No, you haven't. For you to do that, you would have to actually quote the verses that you think so what you think they do so that they can be subjected to scrutiny; rather than just referencing them. The least you can do is reference them in such a manner that we might be able to scroll the...

God has His perfect will; and His active will; and His permissive will. What Calvinists are trying to defend is the concept that God is sovereign. In God's permissive will, God allows mankind and angels to make decisions that will bring evil and harm to a situation. Even though evil does take...