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I don't believe outside sources over scripture. Those outside sources I cited just happened to line up with what scripture teaches and iron sharpens iron (Proverbs 27:17) but if you are only going to listen to what church of Christ preachers say on the subject then you won't seriously consider...

Sorry to hear that. My phone did not mention a virus. Try this link. Jen Psaki bashes GOP Speaker Mike Johnson for being a 'religious fundamentalist' https://www.foxnews.com/media/jen-psaki-bashes-gop-speaker-mike-johnson-religious-fundamentalist

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/anti-christian-bigot-jen-psaki-warns-democrats-that/

Bottom line. SCRIPTURE MUST HARMONIZE WITH SCRIPTURE. Your biased interpretation of Acts 2:38 does not harmonize with what God said in Acts 10:43-47 and also in numerous other passages of Scripture which make it clear that we are saved through belief/faith "apart from additions or modifications"...

These ministers of the devil are SELF promoters who teach SELF effort, SELF preservation and SELF righteousness. They are all about this below:

Yes, the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit was committed by the scribes and Pharisees who had witnessed irrefutable evidence that Jesus was working miracles in the power of the Holy Spirit, yet they claimed instead it was only by Beelzebul, the prince of devils, that Jesus cast out demons. (Matthew...

Yes. There are 3 tenses to salvation. 1. We have been saved from the PENALTY of sin (justification) 2. We are being saved from the POWER of sin (ongoing sanctification) 3. We will be saved from the PRESENCE of sin (glorification)

It comes from false teachers who are motivated by PRIDE.

Without that vital union with Christ, there can be no spiritual life or productivity. Those who profess to know Christ but whose relationship to Him is self-attached, Christ neither saved them, nor sustains them. Eventually, the dead self-attached fruitless branches (like Judas Iscariot) are cut...

Those who teach salvation by works/works righteousness misapply Hebrews 12:14 to imply that if we are not sufficiently living a "holy enough" life then we won't be saved. This is not about obtaining "enough" personal holiness (practically speaking) in order to merit eternal life based on our...

Physical death or spiritual death? Some people jump to the conclusion that John is talking about believers committing certain sins that lead them to spiritual death, but that does not seem to fit the context. 1 John 5:16 - If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death...

Amen! Yet there are those who are merely self-attached to the vine, but not actually attached, like Judas Iscariot. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/rwp/john-15.html This explains why Judas Iscariot did not abide in the vine, did not abide in Jesus. He was not a genuine believer...

Ephesians 2:8 (AMPC) - For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the...

Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Yes, John is not teaching salvation by faith + keeping the commandments. This is not about obtaining or maintaining our salvation by works. John is giving demonstrative evidence of those who have come to know God and belong to the truth. Huge difference indeed. John also exposes those who do not...

Romans 5:1 - Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. *What happened to baptism?

Yes, John gives us confirmation in 1 John 3:19-24 how we can know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence. Now he who "keeps" (guards, observes, watches over) His commandments (descriptive of genuine believers) abide in Him, and He in him. And by this we...

That is what scripture teaches. Scripture must harmonize with scripture or else we have a contradiction. Luke 24:47 - and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. *What happened to baptism? Acts 3:19 - Repent therefore and be...

Like I said before, the laying on of hands prior to receiving the Holy Spirit in scripture is the exception and not the rule. Water baptism is neither the direct cause of receiving the Holy Spirit or the means by which we are saved. These Gentiles received remission of sins and the gift of the...

Believing on Him (Jesus) means we are believing on/in Him (trusting in Him) alone for salvation. You just demonstrated that you believe on/in your baptism for salvation and don't believe on/in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. In John 3:36, we read - He that believes on/in the Son has life...