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The reason is that he lived in the time of greatest transition, that time where the word was preached to the dead in Christ and also to the living in Christ. Each would have to endure. But his message was more one of having faith in the face of adversity, and to have hope throughout the entire...

It is no contradiction to say that all things are possible with God, but also that He does not change. The problem lies completely in our inability to grasp that all things have been determined "in the twinkling of an eye", meaning that even though our "moment of decision" takes a lifetime, it...

Well...it is not opinion to agree with the scriptures. But even if opinion and even if you leave God out of it...how do you get "unsaved" out of "saved?" "Saved" is the word used by God. Do you believe that He defines the word the opposite of what He said? Or is it that you do not take Him at...

I mean that I do not stand on either side of the argument. I don't see any conflict in the scriptures. The scriptures are certain: One who is saved, is eternally saved - that is the word and promise of God. Those who have a problem with it do not understand even the use of simple language...

On the contrary, you need to catch up. I have read the OP and addressed your question. Lets move on...and please don't presume to know my spiritual condition.

Yes. My comment to Zachery was to say that I do not stand on either of the opposing sides, and have no need to reconcile, for I see no conflict.

Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of...

Thanks to JOB I now know the meaning of your acronym. But I am not sure what you mean by "OSAS NT verses" as opposed to "anti-OSAS NT verses." I see no contradiction in the scriptures that shows any opposition actually exists.

I have need of nothing. Christ is sufficient. What is "OSAS?"

All these are fulfilled in Christ, and we may know we are sealed in Him for eternal life when He is in us, when and if we have received the Holy Spirit (which is to be "born again of the spirit of God"). As for "Once saved, always saved", the only error here is how some define "saved" as...

This is good. What "Other Faith" leads you to believe this?

This is very good and I really like your writing style, so I don't want to rain on the parade you have begun. But this is [only] the word as it is publicly understood, i.e. the ecclesiastical account, a worldly study. Surely there is profit in the word. But how much greater, after all this time...

If I could but convey a glimmer in the darkness, men might turn aside to see.

Not to condone the rapture teaching. But I agree, for decades now I have not been to a church that did much more than speak the same old christianese out of one side of the mouth, and spirit hindering criticism out of the other side, while preaching the word without knowledge in the same way the...

Cool. Tongues is the official sign of Christ's church, that of the body receiving words by the spirit of God, just as Peter came to know that Jesus is the Son of God. Such gifts were to be evident throughout the church age.

I think I get you bb, but that is kind of backwards. It is possible that what we believe is accurately aligned with the truth of what will be, but just as likely that it is not and our beliefs are simply wrong. It is more a matter of what "is" true being manifest into the telling of that moment...

That's fascinating. I marvel at the detail. Although I must confess, I am not wired in the way of the riddle, but rather in the way of its simpler translation. It is good to remember that "all things" of God that are public, whether created, written, or spoken, "come in parables." As for...

History (His story) is a story written before the foundation of the world. As such, our freewill occurred then...and this is the story of how it plays out in time. On such a timeline, our freewill is completed by us before we ever experience it...which makes us last to know. When Jesus stated...

It only fits if you rightly divide His word. The "last trump" and "the end" are all the same timing, which is "in the twinkling of an eye" and is "at a day and hour which no one knows" (because it is our last hour in the world before we die) - the rapture, as it were.

The challenge (and the confusion) is in rightly dividing the word. If we consider it from God's perspective, it is a one-time mass event. But it is not a one-time mass event from our worldly timeline, but rather as Paul explain, "each in his own order." Which cannot be corrected by other...