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The passage is about Abraham's receiving God's call and thus having faith, which is impossible without having the Holy Spirit, regardless of when that occurs, either before Christ's death and resurrection and Pentecost or after. as Scripture clearly attests. It does; faith is faith, regardless...

Now, keep in mind from above that faith is the gift of God, worked in us when we are born again of/by the Spirit… <smile> Hebrews 11:8-10, 17-18 — “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was...

In Galatians 5:4, FTL, Paul is not discussing the question of whether a genuine believer can lose his or her salvation. He is only saying that people who may once have made a profession of faith, if they are now truly seeking to be justified by the law, must not really have a relationship with...

Not with Christ, no; you don't mean to, I know, but what you say here is very much tantamount to saying Jesus ~ God ~ is not perfectly faithful, and that God, in giving you newness of life in the Spirit, did not really put His Spirit within you, both of which are categorically false. Yet you...

You think so, sure. There was hardly any, if any significant, disagreement regarding the Old Testament canon ~ there was some debate, yes, " and by 250 A.D. there was nearly universal agreement on said canon of Hebrew Scripture, and the Apocrypha was not included. You're right, the Roman...

<smile> Okay, well, we very much disagree... I say the same thing about your "two bodies"... well, I wouldn't call it a "philosophy," but certainly a misunderstanding. It is really a very wooden understanding of what Paul is saying there in 1 Corinthians 15 in particular. Actually, that...

Okay. But I think that is in opposition to what Paul says in Ephesians 1:4-5 (not you being opposed to it, of course, but antithetical to what he writes there), and I believe the only names written in the Book of Life are God's elect. I would say Paul is very clear on that ~ what God created...

"play on Greek..." <sigh> Goodness gracious. <smile> No, he "revealed" ~ said ~ that we have two natures, that our old sin nature is still present in our body (correlating with what he said of himself in Romans 7), but that sense we've been born again of the Spirit we now have a spiritual...

...from above: You did, and they were... bad. <smile> Really speaking of something else entirely, the context was very different. So again... you can't, not with any validity anyway. <smile> And I explained why, using Scripture to do so... Well, that's good that you say that, but you...

I know. <smile> But thanks! <smile> Good... O...kayyyy, but, we won't reject it if we are in Christ, because at that point we have been born again of the Spirit, and we will do no other; we don't even consider rejecting it, because... well, to put it in the words of Isaiah (35), our eyes...

Well, as to the first sentence, this is basically what I've been saying... because John is very clear on it in 1 John 2:19 of the "many antichrists" (unbelievers) who "had come" and had been among them, saying, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they...

Ah, well I'm simply showing the massive holes in the Catholic ~ and Baptist and a host of other denominations ~ idea that eternal life, if given by God, can be somehow lost. Jesus very clearly says in John 10 that it cannot. The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable (Romans 11:29); God...

Right, but that whosoever is dependent on something. Read what Joel says in Joel 2:32 ~ which is one of the Scriptures He was directly referring to in John 3:16 ~ and, well, see what you see. If you really do see, then great; you certainly don't have to tell me about it... :) Right, not yet...

God ~ Father, Son, or Holy Spirit ~ never says "I might"... but always "I will." If you one is truly born again of the Spirit, he/she will not. Of his/her own free will and accord. We can stray from time to time... But if one has truly been given by the Father to Christ, that person will not...

No, I provide a smattering of a much, much greater body of work, the whole counsel of God. It's a bit like what the writer of Hebrews says at the end of Hebrews 11... time would fail me to tell of all the Bible passages that speak to what I'm saying. Ohhhhhhh, I absolutely agree. I wish you...

Faith is a gift of God by His Spirit (Ephesians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 12:9). His promises are contingent on nothing but Himself ~ His own perfect will ~ and have their 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus; He will keep every single one of His promises. Scripture is very clear on this over and over...

The Canon of Scripture was not "declared by the Catholic Church; that's quite ridiculous, and as Paul says, all Scripture is God-breathed (2 Timothy 3:16-17). And two points to the rest of this: 1. You just made the argument for Sola Scriptura, and 2. The Holy Spirit did not just write...

That was my point; Sola Scriptura does not posit in any way, shape, or form, that Scripture is the "only authority." But it does posit ~ hold ~ that Scripture... which is to say God and His Word... is the only source of authority for Christian faith and practice. But hey, don't let that stop...

It does, but in the sense that I related to you. But Christ's atonement is only effectual for many, not all; we know there will be some/many who will not be saved. I mean, they can be... Fair enough. If that is true, then why do some go to hell? Why do the ones of Jesus's left at the...

Oh boy. <smile> As I said a few posts ago to another poster, KUWN, there is a sense in which Christ died for the world — His sacrifice was sufficient for all — but also a sense in which Christ only died for God’s elect — His sacrifice was only made effectual (by God, of course) for those God...