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Of course. Which makes repentance a condition of salvation. It is self delusion, and at great danger of eternal loss, that anyone promotes any idea of unconditional salvation. Such a concept exists only in the mind.

I expected a response like that. So you disagree that we need to repent as a condition of salvation?

Sorry mate, but you've no idea what I'm talking about, and you're personal animosity against any established church is coloring your whole sense of biblical truth. Even Jesus said, "repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand'. Now, try and convince me that salvation is offered to anyone who...

Though salvation is most assuredly conditional, (God's love is unconditional... Apocalyptic prophecy is unconditional... Most other prophecy is conditional... God's promises are conditional) I would hesitate to call salvation a reward. Though conditional, salvational isn't something we earn. But...

Standard response, and no more valid now than when it was first invented. Your entire defense is based on the assumption that the church that became headquartered in Rome during the fall of the empire was the same church that the apostles were the foundation of. To validate such a claim however...

WWUTT

God can raise communities of true believers from the rocks if He so chooses. Attempting to claim only one line of faith is the one God established is an exercise in futility when faced with God's omnipotence. If the original line goes astray, which it did, then God can, and did, use other means...

Jesus told the apostles that the holy Spirit would teach them all things. Yet you disagree. You didn't answer my questions. A. On whose interpretation are you relying that only the apostles were taught by God? B. Why do you believe none can be taught of God today? Keep in mind the...

Not mine.

I'm glad you liked Paul's post MJR. I did too. In fact, I would imagine there would be very few Christians who would suggest that their works are what saves them, oh, except maybe for Yeheren and his fellow Catholics although even they would be reluctant I imagine to claim their works alone are...

According to whose interpretation? Oh. On that basis then only Nicodemus needed to be born again. Depends who's listening. And God does give some more insight than others... That's why they are teachers. Not everyone is as open minded as others... Not everyone is as ready for truth as others...

KJV John 14 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. And your church interprets scripture through the lens of tradition. In fact, in some cases...

Within those scriptures you claim as being established by the church, has a principle character, Jesus. From Genesis to Revelation He is revealed as our Lord... Our Brother... Our pastor... Teacher... Savior... And more. He gave us, through His own example and counsel, the means by which we may...

I think a little perspective is required here. The Protestants, in denying Catholics power, were protecting the realm from a foreign power. Catholics in those days did not recognise any Protestant rulers as their own and were willing to commit treason to establish a foreign king to rule over the...

Bro, I have to vehemently disagree with you in your thinking that something you are doing... Love... Saves you. It doesn't. Not one bit. Your salvation was accomplished 2000 years ago in and through the death and Resurrection of Christ. There is nothing, not one thing, that you can add to that...

Let me muse a while, see if you can follow where I'm tracking. I think you all would be familiar with scriptures that would validate my thoughts... There is power, creative power, in God's word. As we read and study God's word, we are changed. Jesus said in His prayer to His Father that we are...

God didn't need to use the church to spread the good news. He could have used any other means, but He chose the church. And if there's a select group in the last days to finish that work, that doesn't mean the church is redundant, because the church, throughout the last 2000 years, has...

KJV Romans 2 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. KJV Romans 3 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. KJV Matthew 12 37 For by thy words thou...

You are still advocating that our works save us. That is not the gospel. We are saved by faith in Christ... In the shed blood at Calvary. Now while I wholeheartedly would say that without the love you speak of none will be saved... Our love does not save us. There is a difference. KJV Matthew...

Read posts 306,7, 8. Everyone has been told something, and so very little any of us learn is not handed down to us from others. With regards my views on Catholicism, I rely on Catholics themselves and their own teachings. As in those posts above. Am I not to believe them? mmm. The thing is, what...