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The verse you display was a unique day, Pentecost. Some of these listeners from many nations and languages heard Peter preach powerfully, repented (turned to God for the first time in their lives), believed in Jesus and were baptized by the Holy Spirit. There was no water baptism there at the...

I am not debunking water baptism. I got water baptized as a symbolic outward expression, a public testiment to my identity in Christ, of His inward spiritual cleansing. I was already born again long befire that. It's ceremonial. Communion is also symbolic. We are to remember His sacrifice...

If a Pastor addresses congregation and says, "Brothers amd sisters, I have an anouncement to make. There are tares in our midst, beware." He is addressing the majority, warning them of evil doers. Capisce? I'm really sorry that Christians on this board do not believe that their salvation is...

A warning is given to believers that there may be unbelievers (tares) among you with an evil heart. You are using scriptures to defend your point that are actually proving mine. Lol. I'm sorry, I'm done.

Sorry, I was taught and believe that the only true Christian in the Parable of the Sower is the one with fertile soil, the rest are not. That is right. "Abide in" means "im Christ", spiritually born again. This passage is giving an example of both believers and non-believers. The analogy of a...

Can a drug addict, or an alcoholic, or a criminal stop for awhile and then go back to the gutter. People do this all the time when life gets stressful, they lose a job or their wife and give up and fall further than before because they do not have the Lord. This is not someone who has faith in God.

I submit to you that these are NOT born again Christians! The seed was not scattered on fertile soil, nor did it take deep root. The seeds of these folks were scattered on rocky or shallow soil. They did hear and receive some knowledge of the LORD, maybe went to church for years, and temporarily...

Yeah but your comment implies that the unsaved is waving the flag OSAS: "the Presumptuous Man who "climbs down a ladder into the pit, sits comfortably among the filth, swats away the uplifiting hand of Jesus, and pushes a OSAS License to Sin in His face." ??? I don't think they understand that...

Again, your definition of a presumptuos man, one who practices sinful behavior, is not saved. Yes, an infant Christian can get puffed up, point his holy finger at everyone else while he fails to look at himself in the mirror and take the log out of his eye first before trying to remove the...

Baptism into the "name" of the Father and of the Sin and if the Hily Spirit. It means beung immersed into God. We are in Christ - not in water. The water is symbolic for washing away sins, a spiritual cleansing. It is a spiritual cleansing. Baptism by the Holy Spirit immerses us into a...

I believe that verse applies to this life, not the next.

I think not. "Those who endure shall be saved" is just another way of saying thise who have faith. Those whose "love will wax cold" were never saved.

These statements are contradictory. If you are a Calvinist, you are saved, because you believe that Jesus died for your sins and rose on the third day. If you are a Arminian you are saved for the same reason. I am neither and I am saved for the same reason. So, maybe you do not realize the...

Proverbs 29:13 plainly says God enlightens all whom He choses. He enables people to see. They are all blind. He removes the veil so they can see. Then He convinces us, we agree and say yes. Still some resist. Spiritually we cannot come to the Father unless He first draws us, enables, removes the...

Your description of the presumptuous man does not sound like a born again Christian to me. CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IMPUTED TO US. It is never our own righteousness by which we attain a just nature. That theology is a salvation by works andnit us wrong. We have a salvation by grace through...

How could be saved before you are baptized by the Holy Spirit? Your statement contradicts itself. I hope you are not implying that water baptism saves? It is your belief in Christ that saves as it did with those who believed in Christ on Pentecost. They were saved instantly - not by water...

Spiritually, we have been born again and are dead to sin because Christ paid the penalty for our sins. The wages of sin is death. We in essence were transported back in time with Christ on the cross and died with Him, and rose with Him, a new creature. However, we still have our flesh. We are...

It is a spiritual birth. We died to our old selves/ways, yet we haven't been buried yet. We render ourselves as dead, yet sin still dwells in the members of our flesh. Our spirit is pure. We are waiting our full redemption, death amd resurrection. There is a tension between the two realms. My...

Good point. Im the day if Pentecist, three thousand believed and were baptized by the Holy Spirit. I believed and was baptized by the Holy Spirit _ before _ I got water baptized, which is a public testimony, an act of obedience and submission, identifying yourself with Christ ceremonially, with...

To Christian Believer, That was a very wonderful insight you shared with us. Yes, we read and study God's Word and don't always receive the rich depth of meaning until many years later. We are all in various levels and God grows us individually at different paces. I was wondering if you minded...