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Wouldn't you say James knows he's speaking to Christians, he's just calling them to repentance? He criticizes not the validity of their faith but the incompleteness of their faith, telling them they must correct their works, and compares the sinning believer to a body without a spirit : the body...

1. Well said. 2. The phrase "eternal security" isn't in Scripture so any Tom Dick or Harry is free to assign any meaning thereto. I like to stick to the Word.

1. Go read the Greek for "under" and come back to the conversation. You need to stop eisegeting. 2. Again, they are severed from Christ and He is of no avail to them. What could Christ do for them? He's the Savior. How does He "save"? By grace. Oops! They're "fallen from grace" so they can't be...

Don't tell me you believe James 2 is talking about "true" and "false" faith too. LOL Someone can have "true" faith and still go to hell--eg, the false prophets Matthew 7, the unforgiving servant Matthew 18, the lazy servant Matthew 25:24.

Yeah, they reject Apostolic teaching : our salvation corresponds to the salvation of the Jews from Egypt (they too were "saved by the blood of the lamb"), not to "inheriting the promise". They ignore the warning "nevertheless with most of them God was displeased and they fell under God's wrath...

You know, it's refreshing to read someone (a number of you guys) who is just making sense. I really love it. It's so difficult talking with people who have to twist everything around. Thank you. Thank God for His grace.

No, this is called "carnal reasoning"--where you consult your own logic rather than God's Word. If you'd consult God's Word you'd see we have precedent where God's children have become "no longer His Children" Deuteronomy 32:5.

I reject eternal security.

No, because Christians can err and go back "under Law" (eg, entire epistle of Galatians), and a OSASer like yourself would deny that they lost their righteousness right (of course I would reject that, since Christ was no longer in them and they needed Christ to be formed again in them Galatians...

In other words, Paul knows they're going to say "Cut the entire thing off?"--and he's saying that that is exactly how they should think about becoming circumcised as if it determined their standing before God (they should be aghast at circumcision, too). Yes, Paul has Timothy circumcised, but it...

Actually, in Paul's mind, they were already "cut off" from the assembly. This is another play on words, actually : when Paul says "severed from Christ", he's saying, "You severed your foreskin thinking you're bringing yourselves nearer to God, but you actually ended up severing yourselves from...

In the context, though--I don't think it should be ignored--this was a repudiation of the false Gospel of circumcision ("If I still preach circumcision"). "If circumcision really is so helpful, cutting the entire thing off would be much better [both are bad]!"

That's not what that verse says. It says "kept by God's power through faith" but it nowhere says God's power continues keeping those who depart from the faith--and Hebrews 3:12-13 says the heart can become hardened and unbelieving on account of sinfulness, and Hebrews 10:36-39 says if we don't...

Yep, and the unfruitful, unproductive Ephesians 5:11 are condemned to hell/outer darkness Matthew 25:25.

Yes, actually, that is what he wrote. Because the false teachers were trying to tell the Galatians to get circumcised and follow the Law, Paul is infuriated and says "they should emasculate themselves!" In other words, "If circumcision is so great, they should cut the entire thing off and that...

The Greek word often translated "faith" can also mean "faithfulness"--eg, "faith of Christ" really means "faithfulness of Christ", it doesn't mean "Jesus believed".

I wonder : could "righteous requirement" refer to how some of the Law was not really God's will? Jesus teaches the Law contained concessions for evil men (the rabbis actually agree)--eg, Matthew 19 where he says "Moses gave you the certificate of divorce because of the hardness of your hearts...

Yep, and another error the Calvinists make is in assuming that peoples' "soils" (hearts) cannot change from good to bad soil... which is refuted in Hebrews 3:12-13 which teaches if a believer is sinning it can harden their heart and turn it into a wicked heart of unbelief. Clearly, then, the...

1) I guess you would hope for better things from Paul, too, right? He said "I wish those who are teaching you false doctrines you would cut their entire penises off--if circumcision is so great, then how much better would it be to cut the entire thing off!" Galatians 5:12. 2) To say I'm...

Among many other passages Hebrews 10:36-39 proves we can stop believing.