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You don't need to add the word "alone" next to faith in those passages of scripture in order to figure out that the word "faith" stands alone in connection with receiving salvation. Hence, FAITH ALONE. Do those passages of scripture say faith "plus something else?" Plus, works? NO. So, then it's...

My views on OSAS fall more into the category of eternal security of the believer (Ephesians 1:13-14) or preservation of the saints. (Psalm 37:28; Jude 1:1) OSAS type of thinking does not lead me to embrace licentiousness/a license for immorality. I only believe in OSAS IF we are truly saved/born...

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In James 2:21, notice closely that James does not say that Abraham's work of offering up Isaac resulted in God accounting Abraham as righteous. The accounting of Abraham's faith as righteousness was made in Genesis 15:6, (also see Romans 4:2-3) many years before his work of offering up Isaac...

Romans 5:1 - Therefore, having been justified by faith, (apart from additions or modifications, hence faith alone) we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. *What...

James does not mean that faith is dead until it produces works and then it becomes a living faith, and works are the source of life in faith or that we are saved by works. That would be like saying that a tree is dead until it produces fruit and then it becomes a living tree, and the fruit is...

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I was not only born and raised in the RCC but I also attended a Catholic school for 5 years. I've heard similar testimonies to mine from other former RC's as well. https://www.justforcatholics.org/a14.htm

Yes. I thought I tagged you but it turns out I did not. That was in response to your question, - "Jesus had to clear up his confusion?"

Prior to my conversion several years ago while still attending the Roman Catholic church, I basically saw God as a tyrant who couldn't wait to punish me every time I messed up and throw me into hell for not being "good enough." That is an unhealthy fear of bondage and insecurity which is not...

Are you saying that Nicodemus was not confused? In John 3:4, we read - Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

The process of being conformed to the image of Christ is not about maintaining our salvation by works but it does involve the work of the person, yet it is still God working in the believer to produce more of a godly character and life in the person who has already been justified by faith...

How could Jesus be talking about physical birth and water baptism at the same time in John 3:5? Jesus had to clear up Nicodemus' confusion. Now in regard to John 3:22, by this time Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus is over with and He has moved on. John 3:22 - After these things Jesus and His...

Notice in Philippians 2:12 that Paul said to "work out" your salvation and NOT "work for" your salvation. When we "work out" at the gym, we exercise to develop our body that we already have and not to get a body. Farmers "work out" the land, not in order to get the land, but to develop the land...

In 1 Peter 3:21, Peter tells us that baptism now saves you, yet when Peter uses this phrase, he continues in the same sentence to explain exactly what he means by it. He said that baptism now saves you-not the removal of dirt from the flesh (that is, not as an outward, physical act which washes...

Folks in Pentecostal and Charismatic circles believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a distinct experience from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit upon conversion and consider it a second blessing. I view Spirit baptism as occurring simultaneously with becoming born again/receiving...

In regard to the word "water" in John 3:5, there are those who would argue that the natural sense of the passage parallels water with being born out of a mother’s womb and with flesh based on the answer of Nicodemus to Jesus. Simply stated in that case, two births are necessary. The first is a...

The waters become murky when folks conflate water baptism and Spirit baptism.