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Every once is a while, we find a blockbuster verse that conveys in ambiguity what we had not understood before our study of the verse. 1 Corinthians 1:30 is such a verse. Here is the NASB translation as footnoted and scrubbed of italic additions. But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who...

I) In my declining years, my vision is deteriorating, thus I often increase the size of the fount. Thus you charge I do it to add to my argument is false. Whereas your effort at disparagement is the fallacious against the person ploy. 2) To claim the "therefore" only applies to the prior...

God's provision of innate Soul Competency is required both make sense of witnessing, as otherwise the effort would be akin to casting pearls before swine, and to allow us to see the justness in holding those responsible for going against what they see are right. incompetent people are not held...

Yet another diversionary post from those unwilling to discuss the truth of scripture. God desires all people to be saved in accordance with His redemption plan. That is why Christ laid down His life as a ransom for all. That is why He tasted death for all people. That is why He became the...

"Saved by grace through faith." This phrase requires that our faith is somehow utilized in the process by which God unilaterally saves people. The phrase does NOT read "Saved by grace without utilization of faith." The Calvinist rewrite of yet another verse. "Everyone who believes into Him."...

A well known foible in bible study is to read into scripture one of the meanings of the English word used to translated a Greek word or phrase. If, rather than "foreknown" the translators had used known beforehand, all these fictional claims the word refers to foreseeing the future, the modern...

John 19:30 NASB Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. 1) When a bible student sees the word, "Therefore" we are trained to ask the question, "To what does the "therefore" refer? 2) In...

Yet another diversionary post to change the subject prevent discussion of the actual meaning of scripture.

Since the Calvinist viewpoint misconstrues the writings of the NT, it can be traced back to the inventions of Augustine and the dark ages. Apostle Paul, God desires all people to be saved, whereas Augustine, God desires all KINDS OF people to be saved. This rewrite was necessary to support the...

God provided our Soul Competency to allow us to gain access to salvation through our faith, but the result makes us "Responsible." Everyone (including the lost) is able to respond to God's appeals for reconciliation, because a Divine Provision will be heard and understood. [This concept is...

God chooses to credit as righteousness the faith some believers, demonstrating Soul Competency. If the lost, the "dead in their sins," those that are unable to understand "the things of the Spirit" suffer from "Soul Incompetency" or "Total Spiritual Inability" then why does God credit their...

Knowledge refers to information acquired or formulated by someone, God or humans. Thus it is noun and describes information held in someone's mind. The Greek word is derived from the Greek verb "to know" and refers to the act of perceiving and understanding something or someone...

Actually the first Particular Baptist church was established in 1638, by John Spilsbury, see Post #2! And the first Traditional Baptist church was established in 1609 in the Netherlands, and the first Baptist church established on English speaking soil in 1611. See Post #1. Thus the...

I see I made some typos in the opening post. Here are the corrected sentences: 4) Acts 16:4 says God opened Lydia's heart meaning the gospel was presented in a way she could understand and accept without any supernatural involvement. This also is consistent with the sequence, first the lost...

Please stop using the monkey wrench of false teachers to unleash absurdity upon the thread. No comprehension of how the Greek word translated "kept" is used to describe confinement in Jail. Then of course the usual avalanche of against the person fallacious argumentation. Par for the...

1) Scripture teaches many will seek the narrow door (Christ) but will not find it. Thus the lost are able, in their spiritually dead sinful state to seek God. Luke 13:24 2) Everyone who believes [as discerned by God] that Jesus is the Christ, has been and remains born anew by God. The...

LOL, now they do not even recognize born anew believers as being "kept" as if in a jail cell." No study, no growth.

Yet another blast proclaiming sheer nonsense. They never address that people were actually entering the kingdom, but then were prevented from going in. Obviously lost people are able to seek God. Next the idiotic claim if you a person is unable to keep the whole law, they are unable to try...

Picture this, a person is in a locked jail cell, and the jailer calls to him and says, "you are at liberty to walk along the Atlantic City boardwalk. An hour later, the jailer says he has added time to the sentence because the person did not avail himself to the "opportunity." Yes, that...

To break it down logically, Soul Liberty must contain Soul Competency, and Soul Competency results in Soul Responsibility, as taught in scripture. Thus, traditional Baptist beliefs are radically different from Particular Baptist beliefs. Responsible - Everyone (including the lost) is able to...