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Your guilt should make you run to Christ instead of running away from Him.

The trouble is that some of these liberals think they can tell God what He is really saying in the Bible. I saw a good cartoon in our local newspaper where a little bird depicting NZ was telling a giant American eagle to exercise restraint over an international issue. I thought it was very...

Oh, come on! The mark of the beast is on the hand and forehead, not a needle in the arm!

How do you know that Adam was 30 years in the Garden when the Bible doesn't mention it? And there is nothing in Genesis 1-3 that mentions the "Lord's Day". All that is shown is the seven day week with the seventh day a day of rest. God doesn't need to rest, so that is why He set up the...

The Greek word for "it is finished" is Τετέλεσται. It appears in all the existing Greek manuscripts. Here is an article that shows how it was used in the First Century, showing that it is not a modern theological concept as you are saying. Was “Τετέλεσται” actually stamped on paid bills and...

It was in the news yesterday.

This is what this thread is turning into:

The bottom line of the gospel is that a person is saved by believing that Jesus is the Son of God who paid his or her debt of sin on the cross of Calvary. That's about it, Straight out case and there it is. Denominations, Catholic or Protestant are irrelevant. There won't be Catholics or...

I don't bother getting contentious about it. It is a waste of time and energy and just ends up in a bottomless vortex of tit for tat arguments back and forth with people talking past each other.

James does not speak of being justified by works in terms of salvation. His use of justification is by way of demonstration, in that what we do after conversion demonstrates whether we are truly saved or not. Also, these are not works from our own self-righteousness, but the works that God...

We don't know how long it was before the woman was created from Adam. We can get a clue that it wasn't just a day or two, because Adam named all the animals, and that had to take some time. Now, before anyone starts to say that it would have been just about an impossible job, we need to know...

I know I am putting my oar in, but if you cannot maintain or ever have been able to maintain perfection in your works, then your works are evil and you will get what your works deserve. Straight out case, and there it is!

But your theology says that we are justified by our works, which essentially is compliance with God's moral law. Paul clearly says that if we seek to be justified by our works, grace is no more grace, and Christ is of no effect for us. You are scuppered by your own theology.

Every priest, bishop, cardinal, right up to the pope himself, have broken God's moral law and will be found guilty for their own sin at the judgment, so I can't see how people who are sinners themselves can forgive the sins of other sinners. God doesn't give power or gifts to dirty vessels.

No believer seriously believes that. That is what you are saying about believers, talking through the filter of your own theology which is works-based. Every believer I know and have known for the last 53 years since I first became a Christian, and all the ones I have read about, know that...

But your theology, clearly stated by you, is that you believe you are justified by your works. I am saying that if that is so, you have had to live a perfectly holy life, without fault, since your youth. If not, then God can justly find you guilty at the judgment and make you pay the ultimate...

So, if breaking just one of the Commandments means, as the Scripture says, breaking all Ten, then you are scuppered every time you say "OMG" or look at a woman with lust, or just for not loving God with all your heart, soul and strength at all times. So if we are expecting to be justified by...

I will be judged on whether I kept to the standards required of me in relation to God's moral law. I will be found guilty because I have not been able to maintain that standard. The Scripture says that if I seek to be justified by God according to keeping God's moral law, then I need to live...

Here is the official statement from the University of Taihape New Zealand concerning the meaning of life:

I got a three month ban for another forum for telling an atheist that if Genesis 1-3 is not literal history then there is no gospel, Jesus died for nothing, and hence no Christianity. I think I trod on the toes of the theistic evolutionists! :-)