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@Pearl Yes, I agree; baptism on demand is too widespread...there needs to be some fruit or sense of genuineness about one's professed conversion.

...and the passage continues about 'the answer of a good conscience toward God'. Hebrews 9.14 speaks of the conscience being purged by the blood of Christ through the eternal Spirit.

@Pearl They indeed need spiritual discernment and a good grounding in the Word to be able to discern where people are coming from.

@soul man Like, if the believer feels s/he wants to get a faith based tattoo, go do it wholeheartedly. If s/he really hesitates to do it, then hesitate wholeheartedly! Like you said: Tattooing in our day is big, if you need or want a tattoo, that is what you should have written in the biggest...

I can't agree with the statement highlighted. John 3.16.

@Mantis I'm sure nature, near you, gives you a lot to observe appreciatively... :)

@Mantis The believer who by the indwelling Spirit cries Abba, Father (Romans 8.15) indeed desires to feed on the Word of God, the central theme of which is the Person and work of Christ...

@GodsGrace I guess when you speak you don't yet have opportunity to talk about tattoo parlors in S. Carolina... :)

@GodsGrace Great passage there at the end of Matthew 28: Father, Son and Holy Spirit working together for the blessing of sinners by the Gospel through faith in Christ..

We are not communicating well. Love for the truth and love for the Scriptures and love for sinners all tie in harmoniously in Christ; we don't have to set aside truth and doctrine in order to love one's fellow men. (But I fear our exchanges are going round and round in circles.)

@Blood Bought 1953 That too.... :)

@soul man I do love Philippians! :)

Indeed so...

@Pearl The Lord Jesus said in Matthew 7.16-20: "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither...

@Lifelong_sinner FYI....thread I started...

@Lifelong_sinner We indeed see both God's sovereignty and human responsibility: "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." (John 6.37).

@Lifelong_sinner Romans 8.38-39 is so clear about the keeping power of Christ. :)

Scripturally, love and truth go hand in hand; and Scriptural doctrine is revealed truth.

@Triumph1300 Too true! Spurgeon is a great source for pithy quotes, indeed.

@Pathfinder7 Theorizing can be good - if consistently Biblical - but in the end faith is all about one personal transformation through a knowledge of the Person and work of Christ...