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First, in Philippians 2, the NIV says that Christ " emptied himself and became nothing". Second, in another verse, the NIV fails to signify what the KJV says, that "God was manifest in the flesh".

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If our adoption is still to happen, it will happen, not at the second coming of Christ, but at the rapture of the Church, when to the dead saints and to the living saints, theie will be given their glorified bodies. See Romans 8, I Thessalonians 4, and I Corinthians 15.

That's not the meaning of the word in the Greek. Works do not merit. Faith merits. Faith is a work of God, but not a work of the Law.

Please, I ask you, as much as you have the ability, make diligent prayer to the Lord for me, for in a moment of anger I mistakenly uttered a question, after which, I began to experience a feeling of condemnation, which, though it is not feeling intense, nonetheless is a bother to me, because...

Grace doesn't signify unmerited favor. It means favor, which in some contexts is merited, and in other contexts unmerited.

I'm confused. Are we sealed with the Holy Spirit at the time we believe, or after we believe? If we are sealed with Him after, it appears that this happens after we receive eternal life, because we receive eternal life at the very same moment we exercise faith in Christ.

In another forum, for discussion of creation vs evolution, and of biblical truth vs other views, there is a thread assaying to prove that this prophecy refers to Israel, the prophecy whereof we know it refers to Christ. So I ask you, what argument would be the most profitable for proving it...

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No one becomes obedient to God at the time they believe in Christ, but as Romans says, God credits their faith as righteousness. Else every warning to Christians in scripture, these are of no consequence, as there would be none able make violation of them. Nor, if made obedient to Christ the...

It was my assumption that the post was intended as a word to persuade us of Calvinism, myself erring because I assumed, for which thing now I apologize.

Well, in an honest mind you would have to admit, that the NIV does diminish Christ's Godhood in the flesh, and not just in a single passage only.

I was saying that his post does not support Calvinism, as the poster was simply making a statement which is not an argument.

What does this have to do with Calvinism?

In this context it does.

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That the King James Bible is the Word of God, and that no other English translation is, what is the evidence? I had held that view for a long time, and given a good argument, I would return to it.

There is nothing in those passages saying that a person is saved before they believe, but that faith and salvation occur at the same time.