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So, if you say you are not good, on what basis do you make that evaluation?

Adam was immortal until he sinned, and then he became mortal with the sentence of physical death in him, which occurred around 900 years later.

Informative. :-) It doesn't alter the fact that the fellow is a murderer and will be found guilty in the judgment and will be sentenced to an eternal "prison" without parole if he doesn't turn to Christ.

Well, let me ask you this question: Do you believe that death existed in the world before or after Adam? Also, can you show me one present example, observable and testable by the scientific method, of one species of animal changing into another through evolution? We are not talking about...

I am presently reading through, "Evolution, The Lie" by Ken Ham. Very informative. Ken Ham's messages on Answers In Genesis have been very interesting and helpful to me to understand the difference between evolution and creation. Also Ray Comfort on his Living Waters Youtube channel asks very...

Just so you don't misunderstand me, I am not doubting that you are born again. I'm just using responses to survey what believers know about what the gospel really is about. In the 1970s, Bill Bright brought out "The Four Spiritual Laws" as an evangelism tool. I used it in my work in Teen...

So, after saying that, the unsaved person says, "I'm a good person, so I'll get to heaven." How are you going to answer him?

So you are saying this is not God's Word? "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned" (Romans 5:12). This verse is saying that sin and death entered the world through Adam, showing that sin and...

What I am saying is that the Apostles didn't preach a different gospel than Paul. It depends on the particular group of listeners. A missionary to Papua New Guinea native ex-headhunters, is not going to word the gospel in the same way as someone street-preaching on a New York street.

So, if you are saying that evolution is not a belief system based on faith, and therefore a religion, then, using the scientific method which proves that something is actually scientific, show me through actual observation, in the present, evolution actually working. We have already discounted...

So, in the light of the Ten Commandments, do you consider yourself a good person?

You've avoided giving me a straight answer to my question.

You know, you would be more credible with me if you tended away from the personal "you" comments. Better to stick with kicking the ball instead of the player. You need to see the exchanges grailhunter and I are having. We absolutely disagree on the issues, and yet he remains respectful and...

Methodists are a long way from that now. In NZ they are very liberal and have gone right away from the central gospel truths, and concentrate on the social, community, and "greenie" ecology issues, adapting (or twisting) the Scripture, when they use it, to bolster their points. I think that...

Sick of me yet? :-) Actually the OP was about heresy in the church, and I started on about evolution as an example of that. It has produced a very interesting and fun discussion and I am so glad that it is remaining respectful, although there is one member who is persisting in personal...

I get that. But what I see is a confusion as to what the gospel of Christ really is. So my question in post #20 is for someone to say what gospel would they share with an unsaved 18 yr old.

It's not me who sets the boundaries of salvation. The Bible does. Jesus said that no one comes to the Father except by Him, and He said "You must be born again". Also the Bible says that God will judge us according to the standard of the Ten Commandments. If we fail, then we will be guilty in...

If you were truly born again of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit Himself will give you those answers. I don't have to defend God's Word at all. Because the natural man, who is not born again, cannot understand the things of God because they are spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14)...

But you said that death existed before Adam. This is a contradiction because when God created Adam, He looked over all His creation and saw that it was very good. So if death was present, do you think that God saw that death was very good? Paul says in Romans that death reign from Adam to...

You see, when the Jewish leader Nicodemus came to see and talk with Jesus, Jesus told him that unless a person is born again he can never inherit the kingdom of God. In other words, unless you put your trust in the finished work of Christ on the cross which took the penalty of your sinful on...