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We have already been over this numerous times. https://www.christianityboard.com/threads/does-god-expect-us-to-obey-the-hundreds-of-nt-commands-on-day-one-of-our-service-to-be-saved.50837/page-11...

This is all Biblical in the New Testament, but that does not mean that just because a particular denomination today has the name "church of God" or "church of Christ" stamped on the front of their church building means that it lines up with the teachings from the church of God/churches of Christ...

Danthemailman's faith which trusted in Christ alone for salvation (apart from works) is what saved Danthemailman. (Romans 4:5-6; Ephesians 2:8,9) God imputes righteousness apart from works. Believers are shown to be righteous by good works which follow. (James 2:14-24) False. (Romans 4:2-6)...

Faith that remains alone (barren of works) demonstrates that it's a dead faith. In James 2:14, we read of one who says/claims he has faith but has no works (to evidence his claim). That is not genuine faith, but a bare profession of faith. So when James asks, "Can that faith save him?" he is...

It's you who has things twisted around and the end result is always the same (salvation by works). The apostle Paul made it clear that we are not saved by works (Ephesians 2:9) and that God imputes righteousness apart from works (Romans 4:5-6) and that it's not by works of righteousness which we...

No contradiction at all. You just don't understand because you teach salvation by faith AND works and cannot see beyond the veil. It takes a genuine, living faith to produce good works. (Ephesians 2:5-10) Something that is dead cannot produce anything. Faith DEMONSTRATES that it's genuine by...

I certainly do believe 1 John 1:7. I just don't believe your EISEGESIS. As I previously explained to you multiple times before (please pay close attention this time) In 1 John 1:6, we read - If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth...

We live by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7) Purifying ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God is what believers seek to do as children of God.

...All the apostles where in the Lords church! That church has local churches. All of these local churches are universally the church of Christ, Romans 16:16, -Greet one another with a Holy kiss. The churches of Christ greet you. Christians are members of the Lords church, that church according...

So according to you, believing in Jesus unto salvation IS DOING EVERYTHING that Jesus has said and commanded? Have you flawlessly obeyed Jesus your entire life? It's a rhetorical question. Your statement is a typical response from works-salvationists, including LoveGodsWord from Christian Forums...

Another long winded post promoting type 2 works salvation and sinless perfection. Typical. Of course a door and a gate are really not that different. In regards to the words of Jesus in Matthew 7:19, a good tree represent a believer and a bad tree represents an unbeliever. All genuine believers...

Gnosticism is strange to me. In regards to 1 John 1:6-7, here is how I understand it. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of...

Happy Thanksgiving! I will be eating turkey AND Jack Stack BBQ at my brother in law's house for Thanksgiving. We are all originally from Kansas City and we love our BBQ! :)

Man is saved through faith and not by works (Ephesians 2:8,9; Titus 3:5; 2 Timothy 1:9); yet genuine faith is substantiated, evidenced by works. (James 2:14-24) Christ saves us through faith based on the merits of His finished work of redemption "alone" and not based on the merits of our works...

Amen! In Luke 13:24, we read "strive to enter through the narrow gate" (multiple other translations say "door") and in John 10:9, Jesus said - "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture." Jesus is not teaching salvation by works here as...

Amen! In James 2:19, we see that the demons believe "mental assent" that "there is one God," but they do not believe in/have faith in/trust in/reliance in Jesus Christ for salvation. In other words, they do not believe in/on the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 16:31) and are not saved. Their trust and...

Those who believe they live a sinless, without fault or defect, flawless, absolute perfect life 100% of the time (exactly as Jesus lived) are suffering from a terminal case of self righteousness. (1 John 1:8-10)

Amen! Ephesians 1:13 - In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the...

Yes, the gospel is the "good news" of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) and is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that BELIEVES.. (Romans 1:16) To "believe" the gospel is to trust in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the ALL-SUFFICIENT...

*Says/claims* to have faith is the key word in James 2:14. That is not genuine faith, but a bare profession of faith.