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The same heat that melts the wax hardens the clay. We don't know if clay chooses to harden because it is clay, and wax chooses to melt because it is wax. But the offer of salvation is what brings forth the response. Personally, I believe there is a predetermined choice involved that is based...

Galatians 5:22-23 may be talking about a supernatural faith that comes subsequent to the initial faith that grants us access into the grace wherein we stand (Romans 5:1-2). It is not saying that one cannot have faith apart from salvation. According the verses I quoted to you, faith comes...

Precisely the point. We are unredeemable unless Christ saves us by giving us a new heart and a new spirit (Ezekiel 36:25-27, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 3:3). Jesus is the Christ. 1 John 5:1.

See John 2:24-25. Jesus set the example for us. He knew what was in man (as it is written in Jeremiah 17:9). You have assumed the worst about the Christian music industry.

To @Dave L: Romans 5:1-2, Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. I believe it is your position, contrary to this scripture, that...

If a person is righteous in his own strength (apart from Christ), then his righteousness is as filthy rags (menstrual flow)...Isaiah 64:6. It is like the scribes and Pharisees who were impeccably righteous before men...Jesus said that they were like whited sepulchres that appeared outwardly...

Isaiah 5:22 is literal. Proverbs 9:5 is figurative. Sunday at 8:24 AM#71 Scripture, please?

Oh, but I am humble and proud of it...one time, I even received an award for humility and I pinned it up on my wall! :p

Philippians 3:9, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. See also this thread...The Righteousness of God

I see these two types of righteousness in this way. His righteousness is Christ living His life in us and through us (Galatians 2:20) and it is practical in our lives (1 John 3:7). Our righteousness, I would define as that which comes from who we have become through sanctification. I identify...

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First of all, I think that the Lord is saying to you that He has revealed Himself to you but you have not taken a step of committing your life to Him (with the first verse). In the second verse, He is saying to you that either you have come to Him in faith and therefore you are in the faith...

My advice to you is to take it slow...Isaiah 28:16.

It definitely does fit from my perspective.

The Spirit of Jesus...the Spirit of God...Matthew 28:19.

Something that has not been answered except with an accusation against me that I am narrow-minded (PRAISE THE LORD!) is that you should answer the question, "who is the Lord?" is it the Father (Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21) or Jesus (1 Corinthians 12:3, 1 Corinthians 8:6) or both (Mark 12:29 (kjv)...

Not attacks...attempts to get you to wake up and open your eyes.

Is that Universalism? If it is, I suppose it is okay to believe in it as long as you yourself have entered in through the narrow gate and also don't preach it (Universalism). Because if you preach it and end up being wrong, the people to whom you preach could end up in eternal punishment...

@amadeus wrote: Did John the Baptist have faith in Jesus? If He did (and I believe that scripture bears out that He did indeed), then Romans 5:1-2, Ephesians 2:8-9, and a plethora of other verses are sufficient to make my point quite adequately. re #1720.