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I am not defending sin, I am defending grace. I have noted that two other times before. I would be more than happy to discuss John's 1st letter if you like. For now, you may be interested to read my response posted right above this one.

Belantos wrote: “You are missing the point of the Proverbs passage. It is about therighteous person returning to God everytime he falls. The Matthew passage is unrelated as it talksabout forgiving an offending brother. You forgive only when there is repentance.” First off, under grace...

Duckybill, When lookingat the book of 1 Corinthians, it is helpful to know what problem Paul wasaddressing, as well as the parties involved. The primary problem was not that the Christians at Corinth were engagingin sinful acts (they were, and Paul was concerned, but that was not the...

As long as we are still living in sinful flesh, our outer man is living in sin. Our inward man if it be of Christ, is not.

No. We still have to love the Lord with all our heart, mind and soul and we still have to love the brethren as we love Christ. It also involves at first repenting and then learning of him and then giving your life to him.

Regarding "Jacob vs. James".... The KJV and all other versions I know of refer to him as James. Thus, for the sake of clarity, I will call him James. He was pretty straightforward in saying that if you are guilty of one sin you are guilty of the whole law. Both Jesus and Paul made similar...

I trust this was a typo and you were speaking of James? From James chapter 2 he explains that, "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, is guilty of all." (That's a direct quote from the KJV). In verse 9 he says that if you have respect of persons, you have...

I have read them and I do know the context of those verses. They ultimately state that you do need a preacher and you do need to go to Church. If you believe they are taken out of context, by all means put them in proper context. I have no doubt that you can't be in a church that teaches...

This is problematic then, because everyone is practicing "sin". It doesn't matter if they are big sins, little sins, intentional sins or unintentional sins. If you are guilty of one sin you are guilty of them all (Jas 2:10). Repenting is important, but you must repent of all your sins. The...

The problem with taking that stance is that if people practiced it in the times of the Apostles, no one would have followed Paul, Peter, John or any of the other Apostles. If you thinking you don't have to follow a man (who is preaching in the name of Jesus, and thus is his ambassador) please...

No disrespect intended, but why do you care? Are you giving for charity or for the teaching? If you were in the days of Paul, Jesus, James or Peter and they asked for money, would you question them? Would you ask Paul what he would do with the money? I understand there is corruption in...

The Bible says that Faith come by hearing and by hearing the word of God. That's in Romans 10. It also says you can't hear without a preacher that is sent. Other verses say that a man of God is the one who will give an account of you. That you must obey a preacher. God himself noted it's...

Hi. This is my first post, but I've been lurking for some time. I read that someone was frustrated that people were not voicing their opinions or supporting what they believed. That is the only reason why I'm posting now. I do believe we must voice our belief. I have no doubt that...