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Too bad he's a different Jesus than the real One.

There is a definite work of faith (1 Thessalonians 1:3). So I don't say that at all.

I hope you make it.

I'm interested in what you have to say about the matter. What is NT saving faith? If you say that one must have works in order to have saving faith, I would have to disagree with you. Romans 4:6 is clear that the Lord imputes righteousness without (apart from) works. Works are the result of...

Hi @"ByGrace", Thanks for the invite. I encountered the Lord as the result of having read the secular book by Peter Elbow called Writing with Power. In the book it said that there is a demon or a stag on your shoulder that you sometimes cooperate with and sometimes struggle against in order...

It's CDO...you have to put it in alphabetical order. :D Personally, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. But I consider that Jack Chick was also one of His disciples; and it is written, Jhn 15:20, Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have...

Really? Then what is? I'm not saying that baptism (in water) in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, is absolutely essential for salvation; I am saying that it can be a point of contact for saving faith. Is the addition of water baptism the thing that stumbles you? What of...

Dave L has long since left the area.

I have a limited knowledge of what gnosticism preaches; but this is what that sounds like to me. Consider that there is one Lord in holy scripture (Ephesians 4:5); and that the Father is that Lord (Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21). In light of this, can you say that Jesus is the Lord? No one can...

Christ is God; and therefore your statement is self-contradictory.

You probably weren't made aware of that doctrine because you're too low on the totem pole. ;)

Scriptures to look at are 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Luke 11:9-13, and Acts of the Apostles 2:38-39. Believing that Jesus died for you, was buried, and rose again, is the first step to receiving the Holy Ghost. The next step is to ask, seek, and knock. When in doubt, the Holy Ghost is absolutely...

Where is their power coming from then? Also, doing the will of the Father, biblically, is the sure result of being saved, and therefore if someone doesn't do His will, it is the sure thing that they aren't saved. But Matthew 7:21 is in no way teaching that salvation is of works. Because that...

If one perishes he was not a recipient of the promise; for the promise is that "they shall never perish." Nevertheless, they only apply to those who have mere mental assent to the tenets of the gospel; a lukewarm, nominal, or shallow faith. There is a faith that immediately brings everlasting...

I see it as silliness too. Nevertheless the silly thing is that what Chick is saying (i.e. Kolob) is actually a "secret" of the upper eschelons of the Mormon church.

Obeying the gospel is to place your faith in Jesus unto receiving the Holy Ghost (Galatians 3:14), by whom the love of God will be shed abroad in your heart (Romans 5:5); and then practically worked out within your life (1 John 3:17-18).

2Th 1:6, Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 2Th 1:7, And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 2Th 1:8, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God...

Actually they do. Deeper in (and sometimes even at the surface level), Mormons believe that we all pre-existed as spirits and were, in fact, the angels that either stayed loyal to God in the first war or else rebelled and were cast out of heaven (the planet Kolob). info courtesy of Jack T...

Or, maybe we have not yet had our nature transformed so that our behaviour might not reflect unholiness of character. Also, for many believers, we are dealing with two natures. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Since all of us were born...

But doesn't our behaviour reflect accurately what is in our nature? If our nature is ungodly, then the law is a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ: it shows us that we are sinners in need of a Saviour (Galatians 3:24-25, Romans 3:20). Here is what it says in James about that: Jas 1:14, But...