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I do not equate being justified by works as being saved by works. (Romans 4:2-3) Man is saved through faith and not by works (Ephesians 2:8,9; Titus 3:5; 2 Timothy 1:9); yet genuine faith is evidenced by works. (James 2:14-24) Christ saves us through faith based on the merits of His finished...

There are multiple healthy, well balanced churches which hold to essential Christian doctrine that you could attend, yet sadly, there are also multiple false religions and cults who do not hold to essential Christian doctrine and pervert the gospel...

SDA’s wrote the book on erroneous and have institutionalized deception.

I believe the gospel by trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of my salvation. (Romans 1:16; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4) No supplements needed. Spirit baptism is the reality of being buried with Him into death and raised to newness of life and water...

A non believer needs to repent (change their mind) before they can place their faith in Jesus Christ for salvation, which goes beyond mere “mental assent” belief that Jesus exists. In Acts 2:37, their "belief" at this point was "mental assent" that Jesus was the Messiah and that they were...

Your sugar coated double talk still amounts to salvation by works and is heresy.

We are placed into the body of Christ when we believe the gospel. (Ephesians 1:13) By ONE SPIRIT we are baptized into ONE BODY.. (1 Corinthians 12:13) This is Spirit baptism and not water baptism.

The Lord’s church is the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:18,24) that is made up of all born again believers, regardless of what church building with a name stamped on it that meet at on Sunday.

Do you claim to be sinless, without fault or defect, flawless, absolutely perfect 100% of the time exactly like Jesus Christ? Be honest. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Are you dropping your stone or throwing it at me?

You continue to misinterpret those verses and teach salvation by works. John 3:18 - He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who (is not water baptized? - NO) does not believe is condemned already, because he has not (been water baptized? - NO) because he has not believed in the name of...

Yes and in Ephesians 2:8-10, we read - 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. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in...

Yes and in James 2:14 we read of one who merely says/claims they have faith, but they have no works (to evidence their claim). That is not genuine faith, but a bare profession of faith. So when James asks, "Can that faith save him?" he is saying nothing against genuine faith, but only against an...

Who said I was a Baptist? I actually attend a non-denominational church. Your multi step plan of salvation comes straight out of Campbellism. Your theology has originated with men, namely THOMAS CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, WALTER SCOTT, and BARTON W. STONE. Did these men actually "restore" the...

I have seen certain people over the years abuse and misuse the words of Jesus "go and sin no more" in John 8:11 to teach sinless perfection, yet Jesus was telling the woman to go and leave her life of sin, namely, she had been practicing adultery. Also, Jesus cannot compromise his perfect holy...

In James 2:21, notice closely that James does not say that Abraham's work of offering up Isaac resulted in God accounting Abraham as righteous. The accounting of Abraham's faith as righteousness was made in Genesis 15:6, many years before his work of offering up Isaac recorded in Genesis 22. The...

Your 4 step plan of salvation sounds like the gospel of Campbellism, which is the result of bad semantics and flawed hermeneutics. No contradiction on my part. Repentance actually “precedes” believe him/believe the gospel/faith in Christ (Matthew 20:21; Mark 1:15; Acts 20:21) and belief/faith...

In 1 Peter 3:21, Peter tells us that baptism now saves you, yet when Peter uses this phrase he continues in the same sentence to explain exactly what he means by it. He said that baptism now saves you-not the removal of dirt from the flesh (that is, not as an outward, physical act which washes...

When I first became a Christian the first Christian church I attended was full of too many people who came across as judgmental, mean spirited and self righteous. After attending there for around 3 months, I remember turning to my wife during a sermon and stating to her, “Christian or not...

To believe in Jesus “unto salvation” is to trust in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation. (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) If you trust in Jesus Christ PLUS SOMETHING ELSE (water baptism, sabbath keeping, law keeping, works in general) for...

Oh the irony and I quoted former SDA’s who are no longer enemies of the gospel.