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No. ... but He empowers us to want to start trying to and He enables us to Love God and Love each other (a good start). Acts of the Apostles 2:37-42 [NASB20] Now when they heard [this,] they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to...

Since NOBODY makes this claim except as a 'strawman' it is a moot point to the discussion of whether God NEEDS YOUR "help or permission" to save you [Synergysm: mother of salvation by faith and works] or God saves "all by Himself" [Monergism: mother of salvation by faith alone ... and even faith...

... If only God's arm was not so short and we could trust in Him! :eek: [that was sarcasm ... sometimes it is hard to tell on Forum posts.]

I was curious, so I employed my "Google-fu" and here are the verses in context: Daniel 3:46-90 New American Bible Revised Edition [LINK] 46 Now the king’s servants who had thrown them in continued to stoke the furnace with naphtha, pitch, tow, and brush. 47 The flames rose forty-nine cubits...

Personally, I think the Didache makes perfect sense … baptize (immerse) in running water when you can and pour the water when the preferred option is impractical. I just get annoyed at emphatic statements about what the Bible says that are not true. The “Truth-O-Meter” has 6 ratings: TRUE –...

“pants on fire”

That was just plain sad. You have my sympathy. I pray you meet Jesus some day and He eases your life of uncertainty.

Trick question! :) According to Ephesians 1:4 "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world" ... so I was saved "before the foundation of the world." According to Romans 5:6-11 "we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son" ... so I was saved when Christ died on the cross and...

Baptists believe in ordinances rather than sacraments. God saves "just because" (Ephesians 2:1-9) and we obey because He changed us and "said so" (Ephesians 2:10). Baptist Faith and Message VII. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the...

That's because "he" was right. ;) [sorry ECFs] ... but I didn't want to be rude by getting into that argument on a topic called "Difference between Catholic and Protestant" since that isn't a difference. Presbyterians "pour" and are Protestants and some Russian Orthodox "immerse" babies and are...

Thayer's Greek Lexicon βαπτίζω; [imperfect ἐβάπτιζον]; future βαπτίσω; 1 aorist ἐβάπτισα; passive [present βαπτίζομαι]; imperfect ἐβαπτιζόμην; perfect participle βεβαπτισμένος; 1 aorist ἐβαπτίσθην; 1 future βαπτισθήσομαι; 1 aorist middle ἐβαπτισάμην; (frequently [?] from βάπτω, like βαλλίζω from...

Wrong ... reread John 1:1. You are deliberately denying what John is saying in Chapter 1. Nothing good can come of that. These actions are like those of the people in Romans 1 who professed to be wise and exchanged the truth for a lie.

You must be a JW ... they are the only other people that I know that incorrectly build castles of sand on an erroneous belief in Greek grammar with respect to the need for "ho" before theos. Since I am no Greek Linguistic expert (I only read a few scholarly articles published for peer review to...

Technically, the word "baptiso" means to "whelm" or "submerge in liquid", so "Immersion" really IS in Scripture. Trinity and Rapture I will give you. ;)

That is the WHOLE POINT of John 1. (The crowd understood what Jesus was saying …) John 10:30-33 [ESV] I and the Father are one." The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"...

Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God Not all by itself, you have to keep reading to verse 14 where the “word” became flesh. I guess it is a good thing that John didn’t end his gospel at John 1:1. However, only someone with an agenda can read the gospel of John and come away thinking that John did...

CATHOLICS: Better stained glass, more statues, prayer candles. PROTESTANTS: better music, pot luck dinners.

Universalism and New Age are both CULTS built upon an all-loving ‘mother’ creator easily molded into the idol of your choice.

So if I claim a rapture, followed by a great tribulation, followed by a Millennial Kingdom, followed by a great revolt (Armageddon) and then the new “Heaven and Earth” … you would only object if I attempted to call an end to “this Age” before the “new heaven and earth” (the age to come)? You...

22 major reasons to abandon the Premil doctrine Perhaps, but I have only 1 reason to let them keep the Premil doctrine … what harm does it do? If a person is saved (trusting in Jesus Christ) for the forgiveness of his sins in this life and eternal life when the time comes to “cross that...