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It all depends on whether one is a Calvinist or an Arminian. A Calvinist's definition of repentance is that it is a one time act involving a total change of direction from rebelling against Christ to embracing Him. God endows the person with saving faith to enable him to embrace Christ, and...

OK. I understand your position. I see no point in arguing the point about this. All that happens is we get sucked down into the vortex of a stalemate. It is much better to stick to what we have in common. But the best of British luck with the other chaps on the thread! :D

The JWs believe that Jesus was a created being and not God. They conveniently ignore the various references that Jesus clearly indicated that He is God. When Jesus forgave the sins of the paralytic who was lowered through the roof, the Pharisees present asked, "Isn't God the only One who can...

Are you either a Mormon or a JW? Sounds like you are expressing their doctrines.

My question concerned your last sentence where you said that preferring the values of men rather than God was blasphemy against the Spirit. That was the bit I can't see in the Scriptures anywhere. When Jesus spoke about it, He said it was speaking against the Holy Spirit. I felt the need, in...

Where does the Scripture say that?

The definition that Jesus gave was that attributing the work of the Holy Spirit to that of the devil was blasphemy against the Spirit. There is no other definition in Scripture, so unless a person is saying that an experience or action of the Holy Spirit is of the devil, they are not...

All this looks like a personally concocted premise with selected verses of the Bible to support it. Reminds me of Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead" where two minor characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet are made the major characters and the major characters, the king...

I didn't really mean to rub your nose in it. :)

Exactly.

But the ninety nine did not make any claims to righteousness. Jesus said they were just and did not need repentance. That is the major difference that I think you guys are missing. Anyone is is not a blockhead dolt would know that being just in Jesus' view has to have previously repented...

Although your point about those who think they are righteous is correct, using these references to make out that the ones who did not need repentance in the reference in the OP just doesn't wash. It is obvious that someone who thinks they are righteous when they are not still needs to repent...

As Christian believers with the availability of the supernatural gift of discernment of spirits, we need to see clearly beyond the human element in these movements that seem to be bent on destroying the peace of our societies. What needs to be seen is that the devil has come to steal, kill and...

If a soul is saved every minute, then there must be continuous rejoicing in heaven! This does not imply that the soul already saved is not as precious in God's sight as the new convert. Every saved soul is valuable to God, but the reference is showing that a soul being born again is a great...

I think assuming that the ninety nine never repented and therefore were not saved is reading a bit too much into the reference. Jesus said they didn't need repentance, clearly implying that they had repented at one stage and were now justified. We must be careful about making the Bible say...

The ninety nine just persons all were sinners at one time and came to repentance one at a time and there was joy in heaven each time. The point is that it is such a great miracle for a lost sinner to come to repentance having been freed from the grip of the kingdom of darkness, that each time a...

I have no problem with the concept and that much needs to be done in all our respective societies to redress the wrongs done through discrimination and injustice. Every society has its "second class" citizens, from Hitler's Germany in its treatment of the Jews, to Australia's treatment of its...

I guess that hating the police, business owners and innocent members of the public through the looting and violence done by their members is not part of their equation of hate. Most intelligent people would call that gross hypocrisy.

"You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in...

Jesus said that the person who hates is a murderer and will not inherit the kingdom of God.