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This only proves my point...that you do not earn your salvation by any works that you accomplish. Not even works that are done in the power of the Holy Spirit. In other words, you are not saved by them. Those who are not in Christ (those who are not under grace) are clearly under the law of...

Very profound thoughts. I will let the reader decide by reading the verse: Gen 15:6, And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. Of course Abraham was justified before man by works (Romans 4:2). God was looking at Abraham perhaps from the perspective of...

He ascended bodily: He will return bodily.

There is clearly one Lord (Ephesians 4:5); and that Lord is the Father (Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21). In light of this, can you say that Jesus is the Lord? No one can say that Jesus is the Lord except by the power of the Holy Ghost. In other words, you can't confess it unless you are born again...

I don't think that you have thought through the information that I have presented in post #261 (Galatians 5). God has given to every person the capacity for free will... Now granted, the inclinations of an unregenerated person are in a certain direction...as are the inclinations of a...

No doubt. Amen, you are preaching to the choir.

Here is the reasoning through TULIP that makes me to believe in free will. If Irresistible Grace be the reality, then the reality is also either Limited Atonement or Universalism (the challenge of this post will be to show a third option). It is not Universalism since Matthew 13:41-42, Matthew...

You say no outwardly and then proceed to explain how the answer is yes.

I wouldn't call it an argument; it is really more of a statement, that might be backed up by arguments or else refuted by them. Act 1:9, And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. Act 1:10, And while they looked...

It shows that Jesus released His Spirit back to the Father (into eternity).

Concerning the eternal security debate. I believe that the passages that tell us that we might lose our salvation are intended by the Lord to place His fear in our hearts in order that we may not depart from Him. The promise of scripture is that His for ever fear in us means that we shall not...

Abraham is nowhere in the context of Ephesians 2:8-9. Just a side point: the Jews are not the only ones who are under the law, it is all those who are not in Christ (who are not under grace), who are under the law. Scripture: Rom 6:14, For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not...

See Luke 23:46.

One of the blessings of this forum, is that it is not easy to be banned or even infringe on the rules here. I like it that the moderators are more lenient. It makes for an easier time of posting; for you do not have to worry about whether your post is going to be deleted because of some...

And this is not something that I am arguing against. For I believe that if someone is born again, their heart is regenerated and renewed so that they are no longer impenitenlty disobedient and/or rebellious. If I'm not mistaken, Romans 4:2-3 is speaking of Abraham; but Romans 4:4-6 is...

Because God is outside of time (Isaiah 57:15); knowing the end from the beginning: and therefore He knew Jeremiah before He was even born; what his life would be.

The following scriptures also come to mind: Gal 2:16, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the...

In Ephesians 2:8-9, the scripture is clear that salvation is not of works, also in Romans 4:1-8, Titus 3:4-7, and Romans 11:5-6 (kjv), you will see that grace and works are mutually exclusive as pertains to what saves us. It is not by works of righteousness which we have done (i.e. our obedient...

Context. Romans 9:30-33 speaks of those who stumble at a stumblingstone; and that stumblingstone has to do with rejecting faith for trusting in one's obedience to save them. No one is arguing that living/saving faith isn't obedient. For I teach that we are justified by a living faith alone...

If obedience is unto justification, then obedience is unto salvation. That would be salvation by works. Obedience is unto righteousness in one sense; in that it takes us being outwardly being obedient for us to be declared righteous by man. Before the Lord it is clear from the holy scriptures...