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See, now, this is not true. Sorry, EG, no offense intended. James's letter is addressed to "the twelve tribes in the Dispersion"... To brothers in Christ (even to us, by extension) ~ whom he addresses as sinners somewhere between 15 and 20 times in his short letter, by the way. So, being...

So goes the Watchtower narrative. It's very... creative (in several ways). :) At any rate, time and truth are on the same side. Grace and peace to you.

Exactly my point. The New World Translation is not all bad... :) ... much of it is, well, reengineered to express things quite opposed to the Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) texts of the Bible, especially concerning the nature of the triune Jehovah and the Father, the Son, and...

Right, I believe it, because the Holy Spirit said it, quite clearly. :) The phrase "born of water and the Spirit" is not to be separated in the way that you suppose. Jesus's whole context is of being born again, which is wholly of the Spirit and not in any part of man. So, the phrase "born...

Yes, please, note Peter's phrase there concerning a good conscience toward God. In 1 Peter 3, a comparison is drawn between salvation in the Noah's ark and baptism. In both instances, believers are saved through the waters of judgment, since baptism portrays salvation through judgment. The...

One wonders why ~ or if ~ Jehovah's Witness subjects listen to Jesus at all, since they do not believe He is God as He Himself proclaimed and showed Himself (many times) to be, even assigning the Name of God to Himself. So they don't listen to what he said in any those instances, and they don't...

Well I agree with this, but your understanding of this tribulation is erroneous. Well yes, when Jesus returns. 1 Corinthians 15:52. Sure. Which is at the close of the tribulation period/age. We can't really know this. All we really know is that ultimately, it ~ Israel, God's Israel ~ will...

(2 of 2) Yet again, Gods grace, there are two senses to the "for the whole world" thing, sufficiency and efficacy. In the sense of sufficiency, yes, Christ atoned for all sin; His sacrifice was sufficient to achieve the salvation of everyone who ever has lived or ever will. But in the sense...

That's not possible, because Calvin was Calvin. :) Well, it's not. Hyper-Calvinism is a distortion of historical Calvinism. Nope. Hyper-Calvinism is a distortion of true, historical Calvinism... what John Calvin believed and wrote. Not really, no. A little more formal, maybe. Yeah...

Ah. Well... :) I agree that Revelation 20:6 (actually vv.4-6) describes the first resurrection, but for those of us who have been saved, we have experienced this first resurrection -- new birth in the Spirit, which Paul describes in Ephesians 2: "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the...

Well, faith without works to validate it is dead. But yes, faith is a spiritual gift, given by God at the time of the conversion of one's heart by the working of the Spirit. Good works are the outward evidence of God-given faith. Without works, the "faith" one has, if it could be called faith...

Nope. All believers are the "little flock," which is not really little at all. They will number as the stars in the heavens and the grains of sand on the sea shore... that no one will be able to count. God is very clear that heaven and earth will be one. Revelation 21 is very clear. We are...

Right. Well, okay, but God ~ His Holy Spirit ~ did not stop working in people... theologians... after the early days Christ's church. He's still very active in theologians ~ some of them, anyway :) ~ even today. As Jesus said in John 14, "...(God the Father) will give you another Helper, to...

Here is an excerpt from an article written by a pastor/theologian named Tim Challies. It is excellent. A hyper-Calvinist is one who: Denies that the gospel call applies to all who hear, OR Denies that faith is the duty of every sinner, OR Denies that the gospel makes any “offer” of Christ...

The 144,000 of Revelation 7:1-8 is a symbolic number denoting a "complete complete completeness," so to speak. It is God's Israel in its entirety. The innumerable "great multitude" from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb...

Chapters 11-13 of Revelation contain five references to various periods of time. In these three chapters, we have the following three temporal terms: 1,260 days, mentioned twice (11:3; 12:6) 42 months, also mentioned twice (11:2; 13:5); a time, times and half a time, mentioned once (12:14)...

Um, yeah, I agree, but this doesn't seem to have anything to do with what we have been talking about. I'm not sure how you got here. But... no matter. Grace and peace to you.

Okay, so when are you going to stop? :) Ah, you seem to be fooling yourself. Lean not on your own understanding, friend. Now, where have I heard that before? :) Grace and peace to you.

Anyone, any person, can talk and argue with any other person as long as they want, and even until Jesus comes back, but no one can argue with God. That being said, I have yet to hear anyone offer any alternative understanding to the understanding of the following passages that God's salvation...

Paul is very clear in Ephesians 1. In speaking to those in Ephesus who are in Christ, he said (wrote): "...(God) predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the...