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Sorry but I was responding to your post, where you stated that Calvinists believe that faith merits salvation. I responded to say that Calvinists do not believe that. How is that changing the subject?

Calvinists (at least, those I have come across) do not believe that any sinner merits salvation. That is why we need a sinless Saviour. It is His merits that save us, not our own. As Paul wrote to the Christians at Ephesus: “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works...

Yes, and praise God, it is a sure and certain hope, unlike when we say, "I hope it won't rain tomorrow."

Only if they believe in Jesus Christ.

God doesn't offer any hope to those who continue to refuse to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Of ourselves, yes we are. When we do, it is not because we are better, more sensible, or have a higher IQ then those who don't, but because God has enabled us to do so. As to your "no hope" scenario, there definitely is hope: “1 ¶ Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace...

When God created Adam and Eve, their wills were indeed free. Since their fall into sin, they and their descendants became slaves of sin. It takes an act of the sovereign God to free them. The fact that Adam and Eve could choose to obey God or not to obey Him took nothing from God's sovereignty.

Thanks! I can assure you they are not all like that.

If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour, then that shows you to be elect. Paul wrote to the Christians at Ephesus: 3 Blessed be]the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose...

But God is almighty. He is called King of kings: “which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,” (1Ti 6:15 NKJV) He does everything that He wishes: “9 Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no...

Yes. Faith and belief are two English translations of the same Greek word pistis.

But John wasn't inspired to write the phrase, "believes into Him." English wasn't even around then. The Greek word he used which you say should be translated into English as "into" was eis, which most English versions translate as "in."

No dodge, I assure you. I was just saying that being mistaken about some aspect of God's truth is completely different to telling lies about God's truth.

Sorry, but I have been all the way through the messages in this thread, and I cannot find a single post from somebody called Mark Ward.

Who is Mark Ward? You were replying to a post from JonC, who, incidentally, didn't say that it was a sin to read the KJV.

But I would say that 1 Corinthians 13:1 is not talking about instruments to be used in worship, but about the effect of speaking fine-sounding words without true love. The sounding brass and the clanging cymbal are pictures that Paul uses to illustrate this. Although I agree that it could...

True, but I wonder how far you would take that? Psalm 150 includes these words: “3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; Praise Him with the lute and harp! 4 Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes! 5 Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him...

I would suggest that an outright lie purporting to be the gospel is not the same thing at all as Christians' understanding of the gospel varying.

No unmasking was needed. I openly stated my reason for posting what I did. It was to question your accusation of being off-topic. If I had claimed to be answering a question from you, and then failed to address that question, that would be a different matter, but I made no such claim, and did...

I would say that a key verse in the matter of worship is this one: Joh 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. As far as I am aware, the New Testament doesn't say anything about musical styles to be used in worship, which musical instruments are...