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Hi DNB, Just a quick comment regarding your selection of verses. Give me a professing Christian who doesn't assert rank, title, authoritarianism, elitism, or impose coercion and officiousness on me, or claim a divine right to hold me in subjection, and I will hear them and respect...

Hi marks. Thanks for your post. I think I can best answer your questions with another question, which is something Jesus Himself did on occasions. That question is "How should God's People, His ekklesia, His called out ones, assemble and interact?" Obviously we are not all going to agree on...

Hi Episkopos, We seem to be of like-minds with regard to the assembling of the ekklesia for simple fellowship. The religious mindset that insists on the institutional, denominational, hierarchical model for congregational identity and interaction is indeed not biblical but is of a Babylonish...

Why do you consider there to be a contradiction rather than a complimenting? If God foreknows what choices people will make is He not permitted to decide what the consequences of those choices will be? In Paul's case God decided to intervene because He knew Paul would accept His directing. I...

The Holy Spirit is sometimes called "The Helper". Mat 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Heb 13:6...

Think about it, Renniks, freewill and predestination are not mutually exclusive. As an analogy, because I chose to travel a particular road I am predestined to go where that road leads. Those whom God foreknows will be faithful to Him are therefore predestined to be conformed to the image of...

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Joh 14:6 Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.

Hi Renniks, Calvinism wasn't heard of among the early Christians, and freewill and predestination weren't considered mutually exclusive but part of the dynamic that adheres to God's infallible foreknowledge of those who remain faithful and are thus His Elect. 2Pe 1:10-11 (10) Wherefore the...

Why, interacting on forums like this, of course...:)

Hi Episkopos. You do well to raise this subject. Just as the entire Bible is occupied with the need for detection and correction of error and apostasy among God's People, so should God's People be occupied with it, hence the exhortation to "look diligently" in Hebrews 12:15 Heb 12:14-16 (14)...

Absolutely, marks, and many are the tests of faith that await the babes in Christ to bring them to maturity. 1Co 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 1Pe 1:3-7 (3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus...

Hi marks. I believe the condition of a person's heart determines whether they continue in the faith of Jesus Christ, as the parable of the sower illustrates: Luke 8:4-15. The Wayside Hearer - has a trafficked, compacted heart from which the Word of God is snatched away before it produces faith...

Reading the thread title I thought the subject under scrutiny might be Brian & Bobbie Houston of Hillsong.com. There are numerous sites dedicated to the problem of the Houstons and Hillsong. Here's one of them: How Hillsong & Brian Houston Are Destroying Christianity

I simply agreed with your statement " there is so much to grace that man cannot begin to fully understand. its better experienced than understood", and emphasised the desirability of grace over law, in accordance with Scripture. Here's another verse that gives an example of why grace is...

Let's not get off track here. Experiencing God's grace is indeed desirable, as Hebrews 13:9 teaches: Heb 13:9 (9) Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been...

Correctomundo, Ezra. The experiencing of God's grace is desirable. The Galatians were foolish to fall from grace. Gal 5:4 (4) Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace. Here's something to ruminate on... the more a person sins...

Good point, RogerDC. Faith without works is dead, and unable to provide a conduit or channel for God's grace to flow through, but on the flip side there is such a thing as dead works, repentance from which Hebrews 6:1 mentions as the first of six foundational commitments to move on from once...

Hi Ezra. When people claim we are saved by grace alone they are in harmony with what the Bible teaches. However it is important for us to appreciate that without faith there is no conduit for God's grace to be conveyed to us. Either you believe Ephesians 2:8-10 and Hebrews 12:2 or you don't. Eph...

plenipotentiary [ˌplɛnɪpəˈtɛnʃ(ə)ri] NOUN plenipotentiaries (plural noun) a person, especially a diplomat, invested with the full power of independent action on behalf of their government, typically in a foreign country. synonyms: diplomat · representative · ambassador · minister · emissary ·...

Roman Catholicism is an insult with its infallibility of the Pope, Mariology, and Purgatory and Transubstantiation falsehoods. Blind guides and vipers, is what Jesus called those in His day who kept the people in religious bondage to their false ideologies. I haven't even hinted at the...