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It depends on the foundation of your faith. If you received Christ on the basis of His Word - "Come let us reason together; though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as wool", and "Those who receive Christ have the right to be called the children of God". Then you are saved, not...

He told me so and I took his word for it.

It is one thing to have a spirited, lively debate about the issues and to give each other a definite run for our money, and it is quite another to rubbish and abuse each other because we have differing opinions. I have very definite opposing views about the Roman Catholic church which is think...

It is, because I personally know of a man who was a fully Spirit-filled Christian in a Charismatic church, and then because "of the hypocrites in the church" turned right away from Christ and declared himself an atheist who wants to go to hell because that's where his unbelieving wife is going.

But Paul never told anyone to do that! Anyway, the Apostle to the Hebrews has not been proved to be Paul. What the Apostle is saying that we should progress from just handling the milk of the word as just ordinary carnal people with their hearts and minds still in the world and to develop...

Through my experience in the former forum I was involvement with for the last 15 or so years, it seems that it is almost impossible to turn an atheist from his atheism.

I think after 53 years closely studying God's Word and completing a three year Masters in Divinity I know a whole lot more of the Word than you think I do!

I will block him if he flames me again.

I warned you about flaming me. Final warming before I block you.

Never in a million years!

Doesn't come up for me, so I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what.

Don't knock John MacArthur! That is close to sacrilege to me! :-)

As I pointed out in another thread - James speaks about the actions we take to show that we have faith, not religious works or compliance with Mosaic or moral Law in order to be accepted by God. Being religious and moral does not save me. Faith along in Christ saves me. It is the unmerited...

The Scripture is quite clear that we should turn away from the works of the flesh. If we don't, we are not proving that we have genuine faith in Christ. That's what James is talking about.

Paul said in Galatians that seeing that they live in the Spirit they should walk in the Spirit. What this tells me is that they received Christ through faith and therefore started living in the Spirit, and now they have to show their faith by walking in the Spirit, turning away from the works...

This is talking about a whole church and not the individuals within it, so we need to be careful about applying this to individuals. Yes, you are quite right that if a person remains in an unbelieving state, his salvation is at risk.

So you are saying that those whom Jesus said adopted faith while in the shallow soil or the soil infested by weeds were not genuine believers from the start? I understand that what you are saying is Calvinist doctrine and would apply to many who become religious without being genuinely...

I understand that you don't believe it, so in due respect I won't labour the point.

Yes. That is the Scripture definition of the word. The Roman Catholic church as redefined the word "saint" as "Saint", being a super-duper Christian who is honoured about the common "herd" of believers. Especially applied to those super-dupers who showing total compliance with the doctrines...

Hebrews is addressed to both Jews and Jewish Christians. It is a warning to Jews that if they receive Christ as Saviour they need to stick with Him or take the consequences if they fall back into their unbelieving Judaism. And it is a warning for Jewish Christians that now they have tasted...