Recent content by Alan Dale Gross

In this inexcusably irresponsible hack job, hit-piece, the author, Craig Lantz, ThD, PhD, is not only dependent upon his creation of a Strawman to define anyone who makes use of the King James Version as being King James Only "people who have been indoctrinated their entire life into the KJV...

10. Tenthly, if this custom, said to be practiced before the times of John and Christ, is the rule to direct us in Christian baptism, there were several circumstances attending that, which should be observed in Christian baptism, to make it regular; 'Baptism' must be done before three...

5. Fifthly, to say, as Dr. Lightfoot does, that Christ took baptism into His Hands as He found it, that is, as it was practised by the Jews, is greatly to derogate from the Character and Authority of Jesus Christ; and it makes Him, Who came a Teacher from God, to Teach for Doctrines the...

John the Baptist was Saved in his mother's womb and was Sent from God to baptize with the Authority of God, as a part of the Whole Counsel and Manifold Wisdom of God for those baptized, including Jesus Christ, to Fulfill All Righteousness. 3. Thirdly, to suppose that John took up the practice...

Under to O.P., "The Jewish Foundation of the Church". I know of no evidence that any of the following quoted statements are 'wrong' and I do not believe any evidence exists; Adapted from: A Body of Practical Divinity by John Gill, Chapter 5 Complete unabridged article attached, with...

The Literal Interpretation of the genuine New Dispensation of the New Testament called "the Regeneration". "Walvoord cites Mt. 19:28 as proof that in the Millennium the Apostles will sit on twelve (earthly) thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. But this text says nothing whatsoever...

Why Do Both Paul and Peter refer to The Jewish Foundation of the Church as a Nation The same reason 'they call fans of the Kentucky Wildcats' basketball team, "the Big Blue Nation", because their school color was 'blue' and those saints were a portion of the population who share their...

"in revelation glory with the earthly glorious kingdom of Jesus Christ" has NEVER been in Jesus Christ's Mind. I haven't seen it in the Bible. There are a lot of extra-Biblical Heresies where NO VERSES AT ALL in the Scriptures to support them and this one of them, in your mind. Would you like...

You cut the phase that you call my "honesty", but for the sake of honesty, I believe we should read and review my whole sentence, with its very specific qualifiers. Otherwise, I need to thank you for your dishonesty? Then I am saying as I continue my stance in this same sentence, the...

Two specific individuals are in the immediate context and are who Paul is referring to, as being Chosen in Love, as Jacob was, or not Chosen and , therefore, relatively speaking Hating Esau. Individuals are Chosen, WHO ARE MENTIONED BY NAME, "neither having done any Good or Evil". IV. ELECTION...

Yes. Exactly. In one sentence, you've got it. Some don't even get it if they consider it from a whole book, or the Bible for that matter. While, the deadness of a lost sinner is an immense subject, when God is talking about the soul being 'dead', He simply Means 'dead', and He simply Says...

After having first Sinlessly not Chosen them before they had ever done any Good or Evil, it is not sin, logically*, for God to Decree to Damnation, secondly, those who afterward were Found to be in the perpetual State of sin until the day of their death. *and 'chronologically', as it may be...

Knock yourself out for the Lord, brother!! Thank you. Praise the Lord!!

"Deus otiosus (Latin: "inactive god"), and also known as the clockmaker theory, is the belief in a creator god who has entirely withdrawn from governing the universe after creating it or is no longer involved in its daily operation." Unlike classical theism, Deism is the belief in the existence...

God was no respecter of persons when "the children being not yet born, neither having done any Good or Evil, that the Purpose of God According to Election might Stand...", issued out into one of them being Chosen and the other left. Actually the Bible says, "the children being not yet born...