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Acts 28:23 NASB When they had set a day for Paul, people came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until...

Acts 15:2 NASB And after Paul and Barnabas had a heated argument and debate with them, the brothers determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue. Here we have a group determining to give direction to Paul...

Luke7:8 NASB “For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under myself; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.” Here we have a person given direction to act under...

I see I goofed with Romans 13:1. I reacted to hypotasso but missed that "tasso" does indeed appear in the text. My bad. Tasso appears in the phrase, governments "established" by God. This establishes an important distinction for "governments." The idea is not any government that may be...

1) No one advocated "soul sleep." 2) No, the OT saints were not "truly saved" if "truly saved" means saved as in reconciled to God in Christ. 3) Yes, the OT saints were saved through faith by grace, and this includes their initial assignment to Abraham's bosom, rather than Hades. 4)...

Yet another taint so post, devoid of anything other than denial.

LOL, here we have someone denying the very words of Christ, who said Abraham was in Abraham's bosom.

What we have here is a copy and paste of the false teaching fabricated to alter the meaning of Acts 13:48. 1) Who did I say acted upon those agreeing to the arrangement? The person in authority giving the direction. Thus passive. Thus the grammar argument is irrelevant. Thus an argument...

I see where "tasso" was said to mean this or that, but an arrangement by mutual consent was either not mentioned or was not clearly mentioned. However, in every NT usage, someone in authority sets the arrangement, and then others agree with the arrangement. Someone is put into a position of...

Monergism refers to the biblical belief that God alone, without depending on the person, causes the salvation of the individuals He chooses to save. This is proven by Romans 9:16 The lost have the innate ability to grasp the fundamentals of the gospel and believe it. This is why Paul spoke to...

Yes, that is my point.

Sir, I proved the OT saints were made perfect before they entered heaven. I proved saints are made perfect "in Him." Therefore I proved the OT saints were "baptized" into Christ. Full Stop You misrepresented what Hebrews 11:39-40 says, it says the OT saints had to "wait" to be made perfect...

If you look at each and every usage of "tasso" in the NT, you find it always refers to an arrangement by mutual consent. Paul provided the direction, the requirement of the gospel to believe, and as many as agreed with the direction to eternal life believed. Whether you consider the verb to be...

Thanks for the clarity, the OT saints were made perfect by their spiritual baptism into Christ. They were made perfect by the washing of regeneration. Let me see if you will answer this: How does an individual become "in Him, in the Beloved, in Christ?" Of course my answer is by being called...

I do not think we need to brand our determination of the most likely meaning as absolute certainly. I am frequently concerned that many translation choices are driven not by context, but by tradition. I am not overly concerned with the mistaken views brought in general by this or that Greek...