You didn't even once cite the texts that explain on a fundamental level, the antithesis that exists between faith and works?
By definition alone, the principles are incompatible - you either earn your salvation, or it is by the grace of God that one is saved. What are you going to do, somehow...
The resurrection body is why heaven will be perfect. Can We Sin After Receiving Our Glorified Body?
Jesus appeared to Paul and the apostle John in the same glorified resurrection body that he appeared to Thomas with.
Jesus said that no one is good but God alone. Jesus didn't teach that we...
Just because those in the graves hear the voice of God and that refers to spiritual resurrection and not physical resurrection, it doesn't mean that it excludes a physical resurrection. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The saved will resurrect in a different body, but they will...
Consider the wording from one who ought to have the most confidence of all, the main early evangelist, Paul. Yet as he wrote:
"...If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of...
Here's a thought I'd like to share with you, Harel13.
It says in Galatians 4, 'But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.'
From this, I understand...
Dear friend, you only part quoting me here I believe does not really help the conversation. I believe what I posted earlier is supported by the scriptures and the completed statement in context was in relation to you posting strawman arguments no one has said or believes. I posted that no one...
I would like you to read YOUR sentence again very carefully, because it demonstrates exactly what Martin Luther is saying.
I'll break in down into component parts.
Obedience to God's law is not how we are saved. [TRUE! SALVATION IS OF GOD, IN CHRIST]
Obedience to God's law is the fruit of...
Many anti-NWT 'scholars' decry the NWT's translation of "in Christ," "in "God," etc., as "in union with."
But Ralph P. Martin tells us that the phrase ‘in [ἐν] Christ Jesus’ is regularly used by Paul to mean “ ‘in union with Christ’, which is often tantamount to ‘in the fellowship of his...
Dont mean to be rude, but are you serious???? I hope you dont think because I am not christian, Im ignorant of scripture.
According to the bible, a person who does not have the righteous mind of god (who isn't motored by god), is unrighteous…
A person who does not have a righteous mind is...
What Jesus did was to pave the way for us to be saved by establishing the New Covenant and becoming its High Priest. His sacrifice did not automatically ensure everyone would be saved- hence there is still a Judgement, which he will oversee.
As for your John 6:29 reference - to believe in...
What Jesus did on the cross is more than enough. I cannot set my own works before the work of God. (John 6:29)
The holy Spirit is being poured out so that people will bear the fruit of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23) Not so they can display the soiled tatters of their own self righteousness...
By your own words those contributing to bigotry and intolerance are not Christians. Besides Mt 25:37 tells us that those doing these good works are righteous. Doing the right things with the wrong motives is of no value(I Cor 13:1-3). The only motive God accepts is doing something because we...
That's not true. Often the Christians are not doing good works at all but contributing to religious bigotry and intolerance through their words and deeds. They think they are Christian but they are not. That is why I quoted Matthew 7:20-23
You are playing God and judging again. You don't know...
Thanks for your thoughts, but I don’t think you were very clear in telling me what the gospel is of the Emergent/mystic.
You have mainly stated that you think the gospel the fundamentalists believe the Bible teaches is "Believe in Jesus or die'", is extremely narrow and judgmental, does not...
Question: "What does it mean that there is no condemnation in Christ (Romans 8:1)?"
Answer: “No condemnation” can be defined in courtroom language. To have “no condemnation” declared means to be found innocent of the accusation, to have no sentence inflicted and no guilty verdict found. By the...
Norman: Don't be too hard on him. He probably needs assistance to debate against you. Take it in a positive way.....you must be a good debater, if someone needs to find experts to argue against you.
Norman: Hello JFish123, In post #
Norman: In regards to your post #62 II see that you plagerized all your information from the web-sites and a PDF file below. It is obvious that you cherry-picked your way around the internet to give an answer (s) to my OP. Usually, one would list sources to...
The verse reads, "For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will
be made alive." It seems to be saying that in the same way
Adam brought death and sin to all, Christ will bring life to
(that very same) all.
There was no "accepting Adam" in order for Adam's actions
to impact all of...
(NASB)Romans 7:5
For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
(NASB)Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,
(NASB)1 Peter 4:1...