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Almost as important as knowing the gospel is knowing what your soul is. The soul is that part of your spiritual being that needs to be saved (Ezek 18:27, Jas 1:21, 5:20, etc.). If we are not just ro presume that we are saved, we need to know how the soul is changed from death to life. What...

Lk 24:46-49 "Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that REPENTANCE and REMISSION OF SINS should be preached IN HIS NAME among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the...

According to theory, the "id" consists of our primitive, natural instincts. Id is guided by the "pleasure principle" (or pain avoidance) which principle is that we react to certain stimuli a) without thinking b/c we want b) immediate gratification of our needs or urges. The id is stimulated...

There are two acceptable views of the Trinity that I am aware of... 1) Immanent/Classical/3 in 1 God or one triune God: In this one, God is one having 3 "subsistences" (not actual persons) all 3 of which share the same attributes. This is the usual and biblical view of Catholics and...

The Trinity can be explained as the image of God mirrored in each (one) man. As the Father is to God, the soul is to man .. as the Holy Ghost is to God, the "inward man" (soul + spirit) is to man. As the Son is to God, the body is to man. Now these 3 are said to be "Persons" because they go...

It occurs to me that, if we are God's spiritual offspring (and we are, Acts 17:28-29) .. and if God created not one evil angel (they turned on God themselves) .. why do we think that God creates His offspring (us) totally depraved by original sin and born spiritually "dead" in sins??? Does it...

In my studying of the psychology of salvation, I've learned that the superego (our soul = heart + conscience) by nature restrains/superintends the ego (our spirit = mind + emotions + will). From birth or early childhood, we "by nature do the things contained in the law … show the work of the...

Biblical salvation is the gospel of "repentance unto life." (Acts 11:18, cf. 2:38, 3:19, 17:30, 20:21, 26:20) Salvation rests on YOUR decision. This gospel is given to us in Acts. Calvinist salvation is election unto life as taught in their gospel, the epistles of Paul mainly. Salvation rests...

I have several folks who tell me that they were Arminian before they were Calvinist. And why wouldn't a person switch? If 1) Arminianism didn't work for them and 2) Calvinism is the least costly ("all of God") and OSAS "Cadillac" of salvations, that's a no-brainer, isn't it? As I see it, they...

If there is such a thing in Adam, it should include his entire headship .. his fall as well as his salvation. Let's face it .. Adam stands for all man. We are all created like him at birth - not corrupt nor incorrupt but CORRUPTIBLE in spirit, soul, and body. Like Adam, we fall from grace (fall...

In the opening of Calvin's third book in the "The Institutes…", he talks about "the secret and special operation of the Holy Spirit that we enjoy Christ and all His benefits." Secret and special operation??? You mean we can have is and not know it? And this secret and special operation "is the...

Our fellowship is studying Job. Job sinned against God when he blamed God for creating him (Job 3) and causing his afflictions. He became bitter with God breaking their relationship such that Job knew that, when he died, he would go to hell (Job 7:20-21). We all know that it was Satan...

…is starting to make sense to me. One gospel to save the spirit (mind) and one gospel to save the soul (heart) .. so the church "adds to the church daily" those who know about God and those who "know God, or rather are known of God" (Gal 4:9) worshipping together. It's like the "foolish...

Where is this gospel given? It comes from the epistles, but the gospel of Jesus Christ comes from Acts. So I want to make some observations about this. 1) The gospel of grace is man's "reverse engineering" of the gospel of Jesus Christ. By that I mean, the gospel of grace is cobbled...

EXACTLY!! And when He became flesh, He was the "Light." :) So get this: The Father sent forth the Word, Holy Ghost, in the pre-incarnate body of the Son which is really the body of God. Then the Holy Ghost, Word, overshadowed Mary and the Spirit (which creates everything out of nothing)...

‘Ro 4:3 — "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.'” God came to Abram and said that He would give Abram a land that He would show him. Abram wasn't declared righteous because he believed the promise though he did believe in the land and that God could give it to...

I was reading the intro to Galations in my Ryrie Bible the other day and in it he says, "Man is too weak to accomplish self-salvation of self-sanctifcation. … Paul's answer was to proclaim justification by faith plus nothing." That is far from what he preached! In Acts 26:20 Paul says, "But I...

The Holy Spirit = "Spirit of God" .. "the Word" (Jn 1) .. the wisdom of God (Prov 8:22-36) .. the scriptures (Eph 6:17) .. the "gospel of Jesus Christ" The Holy Ghost (not found in scripture since the KJV) = the "Christ in you" (Col 1:27) .. the "Comforter" (Jn 14:26) .. the "mind of Christ"...

I listened to a sermon this weekend wherein the pastor said, "God is radically free to His administer His justice, grace, and mercy as He wishes. It is nothing He finds within the person." And this would be in keeping with the Calvinist notion of "total sovereignty," right? Only thing is, He...

I hope everyone realizes that none of these things saves. "And if any man shall [pray], 'I have sinned and perverted that which is right and it profited me not,' [God] will keep his soul from going into the pit and his life shall see the light." (Job 33:26-27) This is what the NT calls "calling...