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Jun2u, Let's look at the gender of some of the nouns and the demonstrative pronoun in this verse (Eph 2:8-9 ESV): "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God". The noun, grace - charis - is feminine gender; The noun, faith - pistis - is...

I found the second option, 'We can lose our salvation (Arminianism' to be a straw man fallacy. Jacob Arminius believed in 'Perseverance of the Saints' (in Works of Arminius). Therefore, I voted for 'None of the above' as I'm convinced that perseverance of the saints is the biblical doctrine and...

Logabe, That's a red herring logical fallacy of a response. You did not deal with the evidence I provided regarding 2 John 2. When you use a logical fallacy like this, it engages in fallacious reasoning and thus prevents our having a rational conversation. Oz

Logabe, The Greek of 2 John 2 in this prepositional phrase, is eis ton aiwna (I use w to transliterate omega because of the problem using an ellipse with o on this forum). Aiwna is the accusative singular of aiwn. What's the meaning of aiwn? Arndt & Gingrich's Greek lexicon gives the meaning in...

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It's too bad that you did not put salvation in the title of your thread. You had more in the OP than salvation, including: 'Notice the contrast between doing God’s will vs. practicing lawlessness (sin).' 'What is all this business about "God is no respecter of persons"?'

Zachary, According to the heading you created, you state that it is possible to reconcile all of the NT Scriptures. Have you examined all conflicts and supposed conflicts in the entire NT and reconciled ALL of them? Please reconcile these three verses: 1 Cor 11:5 (ESV): 'but every wife who...

To the contrary, 1 Corinthians 14:2 (ESV) states, 'For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit'. Notice the language 'no one understands him', so we are not seeing the teaching that this is a human language (as in...

The Barrd, You seem to have confused two different manifestations of the Holy Spirit. 1. In Acts 2, this is a unique once only initial falling of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost when there were actual languages spoken. 2. However, in 1 Cor 14, we are dealing with the gifts of the...

Hora, You have chosen 2 excellent passages in John 5:25, 28 to demonstrate a common theme in the NT regarding faith. Remember that this is Jesus speaking. It's what NT scholars and Bible teachers have referred to as 'already but not yet'. Let's examine these 2 verses in context: John 5:24 gives...

David, What you 'feel' is irrelevant. You have provided not one shred of biblical evidence to support your 'feeling'. It's time that you learned to do exegesis of Scripture.

The Barrd, It is with great sadness that I see that you have been exposed to some terrible extremism in the Pentecostal-charismatic movement. However, you and I need to be warned of these biblical emphases: 1 Cor 14:39 (NIV), 'Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do...

The Barrd, I'm a former Assemblies of God pastor and Bible College teacher. I'm 'former' because I could no longer tolerate the excesses and extremes in the movement. However, there are supernaturally genuine manifestations among the fake. Or should I say that among the genuine you will find...

However, in 1 Cor 14 Paul is dealing with disorder in the Christian Corinthian congregation where there was tongues without interpretation/revelation (1 Cor 14:6-11) and he calls on this chaos to cease and get back to doing things decently and being in order (1 Cor 14:40). I'm of the view that...

Stan, I'm not addressing this specifically to what you have said. I've been reading through this thread and have become distressed by what is being advocated or tolerated. This existential experiencing of the Holy Spirit on the floor and 'in the Spirit' seems to be avoiding this biblical...

Hora, I encourage you to provide the Bible reference for your quote. Let's look at the context of this verse (Heb 10:23-26 ESV): Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good...

Hora, Welcome to CyB. I'm pleased you've joined us to ask a critical question: How do we discern the true vs the false with regard to Christ? Paul's instruction to Timothy gives a concise answer: 'I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead...

The Barrd, It is important for us to emphasise that the Almighty God who created the world and sent Jesus to die on the cross and be raised for our justification (Rom 4:25 ESV), is the one who breathed out the Bible (2 Tim 3:16-17 ESV). There is a person on this forum who chastises people who...

Wormwood, I'm coming to that conclusion also. Understanding accurately the position of one's opposition is primary in being able to critique it.

Do you know what hermeneutics means? I see you are an Aussie. If you read the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) online, you will find that you need to engage in interpretation (hermeneutics) of what is written. You not only have to know the English language words, sentences and paragraphs (semantics)...