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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.Personally, I trusted Christ as Savior at age 4. One of my Bible college profs (1972) was Erend Ten Pas, who wrote a pamphlet advocating... -
Ascetic X, Bother, the thief on the cross is the clearest example of what I mean by “the heart turns to Christ.” He turned to Christ as...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.Well of course. Yes, John MacArthur declared that the Sermon on the Mount is a salvation message, but it isn't. Nowhere in Matt. 5-7 do...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead...
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Well, there is more and less extreme versions of Calvinism and Arminianism. I'd agree with receiving Jesus as Saviour. He doesn't...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.No. The semantics (meaning) of "confess" and "obey" are not the same. "Confess" is well known as the Greek omologeo, "to say the same."...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.Well, of course they do believe in regeneration. But I object to your "even more so." But here you missed my point about the Holy...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.None of these refute my presentation of the Greek grammar. The KJV gets it right: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.But what does 1 Cor. 15 say the Gospel is? You are misquoting the verse, perhaps from the NASB? It does not say "Jesus is Lord,"...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.About Paul Washer, when he gives his own testimony, he said he "believed" in Christ, but he doesn't say he "made Christ Lord" of his...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.Good post. This is the crux of the matter. The LS advocate would lay the responsibility of the change of life on the believer. However...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.No, that is not what I wrote. First of all, it is not I who says repentance is a change of mind, it is all the lexicons. Metanoia...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.Good post, though I don't quite follow your characterization of repentance as somehow surrender. The Greek word is clearly a change of...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.Now, if Lordship salvation occurs anywhere in the Bible, it must be in the book of John, because the Apostle declared in ch. 20, "30 And...
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John of Japan replied to the thread The Two Surrenders.I know I'm going to regret joining this conversation. I've done so before here on the BB. Having said that, here is my point, which has...
