Recent content by David Lamb

Yes. I think of that hymn, "From Whence this Fear and Unbelief?" One verse says: If thou hast my discharge procured, And freely in my room endured The whole of wrath divine, Payment God cannot twice demand, First at my bleeding Surety’s hand, And then again at mine. If the Lord Jesus Christ...

I would say there is a third way of ending the phrase, "Jesus dying for........." That is, the word "sinners." As far as I am aware, there is not instance in the Bible of a Christian saying to anybody, "Jesus Christ died for you," except where one Christian is addressing another Christian, as...

Do you really imagine that people who say they are Calvinists/believers in the Doctrines of Grace study their Bibles alongside Calvin's "Institutes"?

Only if the pastors are obese through over-eating, rather than some medical condition such as hypothyroidism. We cannot just assume, "That pastor is obese, so he must be a glutton!"

I agree that many people (not only pastors) are obese because of over-eating, or eating the wrong kinds of food. However, surely some people are obese because of some medical problem such as hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid gland.)

Thank you for making that clear Anthony. I'm glad that you don't believe that Calvinists think God is the Author of sin. Regarding the Book of Life, I don't see Revelation 3 or 1 John 5 as teaching that everybody's name is written in that Book by default, and that some get their names...

I believe the Doctrines of Grace, sometimes known as Calvinism, but I do not believe God to be the Author of sin, nor do I believe that such is a Calvinist teaching. The Calvinistic "Westminster Confession of Faith" says in Paragraph III:I "I. God from all eternity did, by the most wise and...

Yet John goes on to write: (Joh 1:14 NKJV) And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The One Who "became flesh", and dwelt among John and his fellow disciples, and Whose glory they beheld...

I think 1 Corinthians 10:13 applies too: (1Co 10:13 NKJV) No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

Just to avoid any misunderstanding, let me just make clear that I am not saying that works are unimportant or unnecessary. What I believe on the basis of Scripture is that we are not saved by our works, but for good works.

If it was just Ephesians 2:9 you might have a point. But the whole passage, Ephesians 2:1-10, stresses over and over again the impossibility of working to obtain salvation. Paul tells his readers that they were dead in trespasses and sins, so totally unable to contribute to their salvation...

Just because I didn't refer to them all in my post does not mean that I had not read them Also, I am not "preconditioned to reject, will reject everything, including common sense and undeniable facts." However, when I read a passage such as Ephesians 2, and see the clear words of Paul that...

How is that any different to having St Peter's (Anglican) church just a few steps away from All Saints (Anglican) church and St Paul's (Anglican) church?

I believe it refers to the fact that the saving work Jesus had come to earth to do had been completed.

The KJV and the ASV say "generation." The NKJV, MKJV, YLT, LSB, NET, and ESV all say "genealogy." My concordance has the following entry on the word translated into English as "generation" or "genealogy": "1078 genesis [ghen -es-is] from the same as 1074; n f; TDNT-1:682,117; [{See...