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God is sovereign and He can judge as He wishes. But the text never says that Abraham justified himself because he believed in God as so many are doing today. God has absolutely no part in it if we are doing the claiming for ourselves. And people seem to prefer that. There is a marked...

This conclusion comes from a misunderstanding on your part of what grace is. Paul said IF we put to death the deeds of the flesh...we will live. That's all James was saying. Same as Paul. Even if we trust the good sounding verses up to our eyeballs, if we live according to the flesh we will...

I agree. Jesus was alone....so then the love of God couldn't be made manifest in the way that God desired. Of course there are the miracles. ;) The single grain of seed died and became many. One plant is not a crop. So then it is scope we are talking about in the idea of greater. We can show...

Acts 9:31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase. God continued to increase the church. He raised it to a new level. Was the fear of the Lord...

I see it this way. God is not malicious or vindictive. But He has promised us that we will reap as we have sown. If we play with fire we are bound to get burned. God is righteous and not a respecter of people ...whether being Jewish or not. (and we Christians could learn from this) The...

Greetings to my fellow Board members. We are told by Peter, after having visited Cornelius the centurion and his oikos, that God accepts people from the nations along this criteria. Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35...

I would just like to add in here that Eve, the wife of Adam, was taken from a PART of Adam's body....not his WHOLE body. (I think this agrees with Amadeus and ByGrace). I see it like it like Eve was taken from the closest rib to Adam's heart. So it is proximity to Christ that makes us His...

God bless you Helen! :) Later...

You know where it says that Capernaum and Bethsaida will fare worse on judgment day than Sodom and Gomorrah? Well, death could be seen as better than an eternity of shame and dishonour. Outer darkness is to be cast out of the presence of God for ever. Hell, as we call it, is the destruction of...

Whereas I see these as identical (position and condition). The difference I see is in our responsibility and our faithfulness to that. To whom much is given more is required. Our condition IS from our position. If we are in Christ then we don't sin. So then our condition is directly...

I think he's right...I just would like to know how HE came to that conclusion. I came to that conclusion from a different route. :) It is one of the river systems that come out of Eden in Gen. 2. One of the 4 destinies of man. It represents the righteous from every nation, tribe and tongue.

I'm hearing a big difference in your position as opposed to the doctrine that HR is promoting. He is saying that the ONLY sin that exists is unbelief...meaning a Christian will NOT be held responsible for his actions. Your position is that yes he is responsible...but not to a place where it is...

Helen...I don't think you are understanding HR's doctrine. It's a twisting of the word. It is the belief system of the Conquistadors who raped and pillaged with impunity even while trying to get the native inhabitants of the new world "saved"...by putting their trust in the cross. They even...

A person with a bad disposition...and who knows he has one...will at least offer up a warning first. So I see that as better than just attacking as some do here. But I never addressed him...it must be the conviction of a nearby post...the simple proximity of which gets his dander up! :)

The real smokescreen is in believing that our human beliefs...religious opinions and doctrinal stances are what saves us. I find that a simple bible reading will show that we all will be judged by our works. But this is of course contrary to the belief system of many,...so it is rejected...

I think you are under some delusion...I'm not talking to you. It would be a waste of time seeing you have a tremendously high opinion of yourself which only the deluded would share.

No created being can defend God. That takes a huge ego to even think like that. But it is possible to defend the gospel. Although the best defense of the truth is the practice of the truth.

Which shows your position is also defeated. Satan indeed gloried in the cross because he misunderstood it. But you are misunderstanding it as well. So then your doctrine ties you to a spiritual defeat...ironically...at the cross. But there is still time for you to surrender yourself to Christ...

How do you get that the waters (peoples) mentioned in Rev. 17:15 refers to the Euphrates?

You can trust that Jesus was crucified. It is reported in the 4 gospels and elsewhere in the bible...AND Josephus makes a comment about it. Then there is this shroud that perhaps also has a bearing on this. But believing what happened historically to Jesus has no saving merit whatsoever. You...