Recent content by Martin Marprelate

What we have here is a form of Roman Catholicism. They believe that an infant is regenerated by 'baptism' and the cooperates with the Spirit through Confirmation, Confession and the Mass and through his good deeds to be saved. No! These are not things we do in order to be saved, but because...

Romans 3:19. 'Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may become guilty before God.' OK, so what does the law say? Numbers 15:27-28. 'And if a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female...

We had better all hope that God forgives sinners or every one of us is in deep trouble. The question is, on what basis does God forgive sins So it's salvation by works, albeit with help from God? So why did the Lord Jesus have to die. Could He not have shown solidarity with us (if that's what...

@JonC, I'm sorry! I have just written a great long screed in answer to you and then accidentally deleted it. :Mad I will write it again, but it may take a little time.

Do we still suffer the wages of sin? No; of course not. So how is your position not Penal Substitution? He becomes a curse to free us from the bondage of sin and death. He becomes a curse; we don't. Penal Substitution. He, although sinless, suffers the wages of sin. To what purpose? If...

@Paleouss, Thank you for that helpful post. :) There is one point that I think you may have omitted. The law was added because of transgressions (Gal. 3:19). It was put in place to restrain sin. That is a reason for any kind of law. As you enter my village in England, there is a 30 mph sign...

There are three theologians called Roth, so it's a bit difficult to know which one you mean, but it seems that all the people you mention are Mennonite theologians, and of course Menno Simon was the originator of the sect. So is denial of the Doctrine of Penal Substitution central to Mennonite...

Scripture, please. This is what I wrote. Sins are what sinners do, sinners are people who commit sins and sinfulness is what leads people to sin. To try and separate these things doesn't work. It is because the Saviour paid for our sins in full that we can be born anew and no longer be...

I am more interested in the Bible than I am in your belief. If we are to enter into discussion, it is to find truth rather than to vindicate our own beliefs. One of the things I find most irritating in your posts is that you do not provide Scripture for your arguments. In posts 62-64, you...

Romans 6:23. The Lord Jesus, the sinless One, must pay the wages of sin on our behalf so that we may receive the gift of God 'in Christ Jesus our Lord.'

[Part Four] Next, we come to Galatians 3:10-13. God’s law pronounces a curse on law-breakers: ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them’ (v.10; c.f. Deuteronomy 27:26; James 2:10). We ourselves are cursed, for none of us have...

[Part three] So what does it mean to be ‘accursed of God’? Let Paul answer first: ‘These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power’ (2 Thessalonians 1:10). And then the Lord Jesus: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body...

Who are those ‘in Christ’? Those He came to save; those who were given to Him by the Father before time began. “Christ came not to strangers but to ‘brethren’ (Hebrews 2:11-13). He came here not to procure a people for Himself, but to secure a people already His” (A.W. Pink). There are many...

I placed this on the forum several years ago. It represents my thinking on the subject of Penal Substitution. I also wrote an article on P.S. and the Trinity, which I will reproduce if anyone is interested. Isaiah 53:6. ‘We all like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, into his...

Notice here the old "against the person dodge." ;) I had to smile at this one!! Many, many lost people seek after God, but they do not find Him because they seek Him in the wrong way. Foe example: 1. They search in the wrong direction (e.g. Romans 10:3). 2. They do not search with all their...