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No – fear of the Lord SHOULD preserve the faithful, but it doesn’t always work that way. Just as Israel was an unfaithful spouse – so can ANY individual be unfaithful. God didn’t have any LESS power in the Old Covenant than He has in the New Covenant. Fear of the Lord has been a theme with...

Then, as an “old, grey-haired” man, you should have the knowledge and wisdom to understand that God does not look kindly on hypocrites. Accusing people of precisely what YOU are doing is something that Christ condemned . . . Matt. 7:1-2 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the...

True. Without love, one's faith is meaningless (1 Cor. 13:1-3).

I couldn't agree with you more. It's unfortunate that you don't practice what you preach. Your utter hatred for all things Catholic is a dangerous obsession that pretty much contradicts everything you just posted . . .

You’re doing it again. You‘re cherry-picking verses to refute others. Scripture CANNOT refute itself. The verses you just posted – in CONTEXT - reveal a faithful GOD – and His desire for a faithful people. HOWEVER, since we are imperfect creature – we stray – just as Israel did for...

It’s not ME you need to worry about . . . Your heresy, which is the ancient heresy knows as “Docetism” was dealt with over 1600 years ago. You are simply rehashing an argument that the Early Church already settled. Both Ignatius of Antioch and Irenaeus wrote against this heresy – which was...

According to Paul – you can have faith that can move mountains – yet have NOTHING because you have not LOVE. The 9 or 10 verses I presented show unequivocally that a converted BORN AGAIN person can fall away and LOSE their security if they do not endure in faith. We are NOT guaranteed...

Heb. 10:26-27 & 2 Pet. 2:20-22 BOTH speak of those with an “Epignosis” being in danger of falling away and LOSING their security. The other 7 or 8 verses I presented support this idea.

Sorry, but, as I stated before - your entire argument goes down the drain with "Epignosis". Epignosis is different from oida or gnosis, which are "knowledge". Epignosis is s full, experiential and relational knowledge of Christ. Here is some Protestant scholarship on the meaning of Epignosis ...

You mean like going on an obsessive mission to denigrate Christ's Church because of your own disgruntled bitterness towards it? It might interest you to know that Christ also rebuked hypocrites (Matt. 6:5, 23:13, Mark 7:6) . . .

Yes, if they drop dead at that moment. Otherwise - they need to cooperate with God's grace by obedience and endurance in faith for however long they live.

From the top down again . . . First of all - Eternal Security is a false doctrine that is not only NOT supported by Scripture but condemned: Romans 11:22 “See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God's kindness to you, provided you REMAIN in his...

WRONG. EVERY person is flesh and spirit. These verses aren't talking about people "other than" human men. They are talking about regenerated souls of human men. You have FAILED to show where the Bible differentiates between a human man and some other kind of man. Christ is God. Christ is ALSO...

Let's start from the top down . . . A person can be born again, regenerated - then LOSE his secure position. The Bible warns us over and over that this can happen (Matt. 7:19-23, Matt. 10:22, Matt. 24:13, Matt. 25:31–46, John 15:1-6, Rom. 11:22, 1 Cor. 9:27, 1 Cor. 4:4, 1 Tim. 4:1, Heb. 3:6...

No - I don't know what you meant. As I stated - I am a Catholic. "Roman" is the Rite to which I belong. NOT all Catholics are Roman Catholics as I explained to you. Yours is an ignorant view. As to the Catholic Church being a "counterfeit" religion - that is an equally-ignorant view by...

First of all - whether a priest is "saved" or "truly regenerated" is not the issue. It is an issue of AUTHORITY. Christ gave His Church and its leaders the AUTHORITY to excommunicate (Matt. 18:15-18) - and Paul reiterated this (1 Cor. 5:5). Guess who was sitting there receiving this authority...

Not sure what you mean by "Romanism" I'm a Catholic - not a "Romanist", whatever that is. That being said - I don't make up the rules of language - I simply abide by them. As I stated earlier - Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus lists "Mediator" and "Intercessor" as SYNONYMS: Synonyms of mediator...

Intercessor and Mediator are SYNONYMS. A synonym is a word that is spelled differently from another word but means essentially the SAME things. in·ter·ces·sor /ˈin(t)ərˌsesər/ noun 1. a person who intervenes on behalf of another, especially by prayer. "they rejected the notion that an...

"Roman" or Latin simply refers to the Rite. There are some TWENTY Rites that comprise the Catholic Church. Among these are the Roman/Latin, Ruthenian, Byzantine, Melkite, Maronite, Coptic, etc. ALL of them together make up the Catholic Church and the liturgical differences are largely just a...

No - what YOU espouse is an unbiblical view called "Easy-Beilevism". We are tole repeatedly in Scripture that we must have enduring faith - and that faith is NOT a faith of simple belief. This is why Luther despised the Epistle of James - referring to it as the "Epistle of Straw" because of its...