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Hi Axehead, I don't think this is a true statement: "When we repent and come to the Lord with a whole heart, He places a hedge around us so that we walk in peace. Should We find ourselves not walking in peace, the powers of darkness are attacking us. The hedge has been removed because of some...

The majority of pre-trib believers do not agree with the "stated" OP, imo

Hi Retro, I guess it depends on how one is reading it within the context. As Peter was speaking, he was giving a "salvation" message, not a "national deliverance" message. When you get down to it even in the latter days when they "call upon the name of the Lord", it will be to receive salvation...

Thanks, Vet

Retro, I agree about vss. 19 & 20 but I still believe vs. 21 is ongoing. How did you get saved? Didn't you call upon the name of the Lord for forgiveness and to accept His gift of salvation. I know I did. Isn't that what everyone has done since Christ's sacrifice? I don't think "national...

Hi Vet: Your Q: So what is that he was reminding them of? Where, when and from whom did they first hear about the coming of antichrist? My answer: The bible tells us that not everything Christ said and did was recorded, so they could have gotten their first inkling from the Olivet discourse and...

Hi Retrobyter, Romans at least as far as I'm concerned for this particular discussion isn't in the picture. We are speaking of Acts 2:17-21. Peter is speaking that it was fulfilled, at least partially, on the day of Pentecost. I'm not gonna call him a liar, you may if you wish.

Whitestone, Your words: "Those who still sin, have yet to receive the Holy Spirit of Christ fill their body soul and spirit. Otherwise they wouldn't chose to continue in sin, crucifying Jesus again and again in their wickedness." This is a false adaptation of what is being taught. The verse in...

Hi Rockytopva, I just wanted to go on record as being another rapture believer, however, I don't believe in a pre-trib rapture. My eschatology is pre-wrath. The point I want to make is that Christ doesn't "come as a thief in the night" for the church. No, the thief reference is regarding the...

Hi all, Without getting over excited, I'm just offering this as an alternative theory. I am in no way saying, "thus saith the Lord." Perhaps, because I'm a male of the species, I've always been uncomfortable with the description of the church as the Bride of Christ. As I've listened to various...

Are you asking someone specifically, or in general?

Hi Dragonfly, I appreciate the courteousness of your reply. Your words: "We are complete in Christ. We are seated with Christ." Yes, but we appropriate that by faith. The key is understanding Heb. 11:1 - " Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." We...

Forget it Vet, "There are none so blind as they who will not see". BTW, I agree with you vet.

As I said in my first post, the answers lie in the verses you gave. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.But I say unto you, It shall be more...

Cliff, Your words: The so-called "male genes" are in women too since Eve was constructed with organic tissues amputated from Adam's body. This isn't true because God used a virgin, human woman to be the channel for His Son, Jesus. God did the conception because the basic sin nature is passed...

Whitestone: Your words - "The other is one of those who calls themselves a "sinner saved by grace". They teach that it is ok to sin now and again, that nothing can be done about it, that 'grace' will take care of it. The one has eternal Life. The other is admittedly crucifying the Lord afresh...

I think what Cliff is referencing by 'Adam's spirit" is the basic sin nature that we all have passed down through the male genes. We don't get "rid" of it but we can overcome it and become it's master instead of it mastering us as we grow in Christ. We won't be free of that nature until we...

For clarification purposes when I speak of sinning, I'm not talking about "obvious" sins like adultery, drunkenness or stealing. We know the word "sin" means lawlessness but another definition of sin is "missing the mark". What is our mark or target, if you prefer? It's to act like Christ in...

JohnnyB and others: Johnny, your words - "You said "Even the Holy Spirit within us can't stop us from sinning because we are still in our mortal, corruptible bodies" - I do not want to go above and beyond my comprehension of this statement, but it sounds to me like you are saying the Holy Spirit...

son of man: Your quote - "Does Christ sin? Does the Spirit of God sin? If you abide in Him and Him in you "you will not sin". The implication in scripture is that one will no longer be ruled by sin and self-motivation but it doesn't say that we will never sin again, that's preposterous...