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  1. bdavidc

    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    You have not corrected the contradiction. You have only hidden works behind the word “grace.” You say justification is free, but only “initial,” then claim it must be preserved through obedience and can be lost through sin. Scripture never teaches temporary justification or justification...
  2. bdavidc

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

    You are assuming what you need to prove. Yes, Scripture teaches judgment. No, Scripture does not teach an investigative judgment beginning in 1844. That date is not in Daniel 7, Matthew 25, Revelation 22, or anywhere else in the Bible. God does not investigate people because He lacks...
  3. bdavidc

    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    Mocking the wording of Romans 4:5 does not answer it. It only shows you cannot refute it. Paul is not my Lord. Jesus Christ is. But Paul wrote by Christ’s authority: “The things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord” ~1 Corinthians 14:37. Jesus said the Father’s will is that...
  4. bdavidc

    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    You have gathered a long list of commands, warnings, and evidences of spiritual life, then used them to support something none of them actually says. Scripture commands believers to obey, endure, pray, bear fruit, and follow Christ. But Scripture never says that Christ provides an “initial...
  5. bdavidc

    How Confidant Are You Being Saved?

    Being fully confident of salvation is not a lack of humility when that confidence rests in Christ rather than in yourself. John wrote, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life” ~1 John 5:13. Paul said, “I know...
  6. bdavidc

    In response to a question I was asked. Who created OSAS.

    Men created the acronym OSAS. God revealed the truth that those who are truly born again are kept by His power and will not finally perish. Jesus said of His sheep, “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” ~John 10:28. He also...
  7. bdavidc

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

    That quotation proves nothing except that Ellen White knew how to use biblical words. The issue is not whether she sometimes wrote about Christ, grace, faith, or imputed righteousness. False teachers often mix truth with error. That is what makes them dangerous. A cup of poison does not become...
  8. bdavidc

    If sealed with the HS, how does one become UNsealed ?

    You keep repeating the same definition because you cannot answer the text. Yes, the Holy Spirit is the seal. Yes, He proves God’s ownership. Yes, this is all on God’s end. That destroys your position, not mine. Scripture says the Spirit is “the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of...
  9. bdavidc

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

    Yes, Adventism is harmful, and your attempt to dismiss every correction as rumor is exactly how false systems protect themselves from Scripture. The investigative judgment is not taught anywhere in the Bible. Christ did not begin reviewing believers in 1844. Jesus said, “It is finished” ~John...
  10. bdavidc

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

    You accuse others of dishonesty, but you are the one ignoring what the texts actually say. No, the exact phrase “Christ is my Sabbath” is not written as a quotation in the Bible. Neither is the word “Trinity.” The question is whether the doctrine is taught. Christ said, “Come unto me, all ye...
  11. bdavidc

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

    How should it be treated? As a system of error that must be exposed, rejected, and not given a safe place beside the gospel. When a religion adds Sabbath keeping, Ellen White, investigative judgment, dietary restrictions, or denominational loyalty to the finished work of Christ, it is...
  12. bdavidc

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

    An individual SDA can be a true Christian if he is trusting Christ alone for salvation, not Sabbath keeping, church membership, Ellen White, dietary rules, or any added system. But the SDA system itself is not biblically sound and should not be treated as just another harmless Christian...
  13. bdavidc

    Creation shows there is a God. But creation does not save sinners. Romans 1 says men are...

    Creation shows there is a God. But creation does not save sinners. Romans 1 says men are “without excuse” ~Romans 1:20. Christ alone saves ~Acts 4:12.
  14. bdavidc

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

    The label “Christian” has baggage because men have abused it, but Scripture still uses the name. “And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch” ~Acts 11:26. The answer is not to be ashamed of the name because the world hates it or corrupt men misuse it. The answer is to make sure we...
  15. bdavidc

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth?

    Which major Christian church in the U.S. is closest to the truth? I think the closest church to the truth would be the one that plainly holds to the gospel in the actual bible not traditions or men's opinions, teaches the Bible as God’s final authority, preaches salvation by grace through faith...
  16. bdavidc

    God Does Not Live in Your Church Building

    Acts 7:45-60 is not a soft passage. Stephen is standing before religious men who believe they are defending God, Moses, the temple, and the truth. But Stephen shows them from their own Scriptures that they are not defending God at all. They are resisting Him. That is what makes this passage so...
  17. bdavidc

    If sealed with the HS, how does one become UNsealed ?

    The issue is still being shifted away from what the text actually says. Ephesians 1:13-14 says believers are “sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.” Ephesians 4:30 says, “grieve not the holy Spirit of...
  18. bdavidc

    If sealed with the HS, how does one become UNsealed ?

    I agree. False professors do not prove that Christ loses His sheep. They prove the warnings of Scripture are true. That is exactly why 1 John 2:19 matters: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.” Their departure...
  19. bdavidc

    If sealed with the HS, how does one become UNsealed ?

    @doctrox The problem is that you are assuming what the text needs to prove. You said, “It is believers who become apostate.” But 1 John 2:19 directly addresses that kind of departure and says, “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have...
  20. bdavidc

    Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says, “‘Heaven is my...

    Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says, “‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? ~ Acts 7:48-49