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@mailmandan I had a breakthrough today. I determined I would FORGIVE from my heart someone who had offended me to glorify God. Then others. Many will misunderstand, and think " glorifying God" means casting out devils, doing miracles (Mt 7), but STEP #1 in telling the world about our Wonderful...

I may have been granted, due to others' prayers, and graces, not anything of my own, to understand : The unforgiving steward was, indeed, forgiven, but, afterwards, due to his behavior, had that forgiveness rescinded. His faith was not completed by works. What was his faith? That he was...

Like I said--and I meant it from the heart, I didn't say it emptily--I REALLY wish you all could, because you have Christ, explain Scriptures in a coherent way... but... God does what He wants.

It's not even an issue of "faith alone versus faith and works", it's, literally, just the plain bare facts of what is written in Scripture. Literal logic. If it were any other issue, I'd have the same objection--"You are being incoherent." In my understanding you all are hitting upon a very...

1. I understand what you mean by this purported dichotomy. 2. I reject the false dichotomy.

I really wish you "faith alone" people had a better way of understanding and explaining Scripture--one that had any coherence at all--because you really do have a great treasure to share, knowing Jesus, but you can't help anyone who actually reads the Bible, because they can see you are flat out...

Yes, I think "Free Grace" I'm referring to is a much more novel movement.

Not sure, since the same passage says if we deny Him He will deny us--"before the Father." No, I am not sure if there is a difference between us abiding in Him and Him abiding in us--that would not make sense to me--but I don't understand these things perfectly, and there's a verse where He...

Jesus says He abides in the Father, and the Father in Him, and that, because of this fact, to see Jesus is to see the Father, and that, in connection with this, Jesus speaks and acts only as the Father commands--this makes sense that to see Jesus is to see the Father, because Jesus only speaks...

It can't be a coincidence, though, that it was only when I believed the right thing, that He granted me to rejoice in His Presence, right?

It's not that I've changed my mind about "Faith Alone", but I've experienced God's Presence when I've considered that I'm already in right standing by faith alone, because of God's mercy, and I believe that apart from Him I can do nothing, but, with Him, things are so different, but I fluctuate...

Trusting Christ fulfills the New Covenant "requirement", "the Law of Faith", so that you are "justified" by the "righteousness" of having fulfilled that requirement (ie, "faith is counted as righteousness"). Jesus says, "For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved me and have...

Answered.

No, no answer has been given to the answer already furnished to your "answer"--ie, 1 John 5 says "the eternal life is in His Son", and this shows that the branch that does not abide in Him will not have the life that is only "in His Son". We differ. I'm finding it difficult to believe that...

Thanks

Many things could be said--like how a dead branch never issues from a tree, but only a living branch, and, later, it may stop receiving the substance that is only found in the tree, so it may be removed--but it is important to recognize, here, that the warning to "abide", taught by Jesus in Jn...

Yeah, He also says branches that don't abide get cut off, so I was having difficulty. Yeah, and 1 Jn 5 says "this [eternal] life is in His Son", and, if you take into consideration that abiding in Him (where the life is) isn't automatic, nor assumed (otherwise, John wouldn't have commanded...

If only that verse was there, I might agree, but He also says some branches don't abide, so they're.cut off and are thrown in the fire, so I was having difficulty.

Anyway, I don't want to get off topic. If you want to discuss OSAS / NOSAS, please join another thread--maybe one of mine.