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I'm sorry not to have dealt with your post #12 before, but I've been struggling to get on the website at all recently. Our differences are over hermeneutics. I believe that the O.T. must be understood though the lens of the N.T., specifically the words of the Lord Jesus Christ when He rebukes...

We appear to be in agreement then. :)

Just so, but obedience is the evidence of regeneration. Just about all the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 were people who went and did something. 'By faith Abraham obeyed....' "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to those in Damascus and...

1 Cor. 2:14 is a given, and if you will kindly arrange for all 'natural men' to have a yellow stripe painted on their backs, I won't preach to them. But until you do, I will preach and witness to all and sundry and plead with them, exhort them, implore them and command them to repent and trust...

Mark 1:15. "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel." To whom is our Lord speaking here? Presumably to everyone within earshot. Suppose a 'natural man' should hear Him. What a terrible thing that would be!

Amen! In the making of the covenant Abram was passive, but that wasn't what @kyredneck asked me. He asked if I thought that he was passive in the covenant. Clearly he was not. I do believe in Reformed covenant theology, but from a baptistic viewpoint. Accepting that Abraham was a member of...

Simple answer then: He was not passive. 'By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called......' Hebrews 11:8. There is a story of a Salvation Army girl in the 19th Century getting on a train and finding herself sitting next to a Church of England bishop in full regalia. This was more than she...

Try 1 Peter 1:3-5.

@Dougcho Here's another one for you. Acts 11:18. 'When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life."' But at the same time, the Bible asks, 'How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not...

What is it about 'By grace through faith' that you don't understand? We are are told, 'Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near' and 'You will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul' and that 'He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek...

Abram was not asleep when he believed in the LORD and it was credited to him as righteousness (Genesis 15:6). 'By grace through faith' (Ephesians 2:8). But I agree with your second point: his faith did not make him righteous.

I don't propose to argue any more on this thread. Here is C.H. Spurgeon on Psalms 2:7. The dispute concerning the eternal filiation of our Lord betrays more of presumptive curiosity than of reverent faith. It is an attempt to explain where it is better to adore. We could give rival...

There is the argument. We are just going round in circles. If you want to tell me how the Lord Jesus can be God the Son without being begotten and how He can be YHWH and still die on the cross, I'm all ears. Otherwise, let's leave it there.

Interesting thoughts. (1) If you look at Genesis 17:23, it appears that some of Abraham's servants were slaves, of the others, I guess they wanted to carry on working for him. I don't see any indication that he preached to them, though of course he may have done. (2) I take your point, but...

And I have replied to all that. See my post #9.

I agree with that. It is what I mean by 'eternally begotten.' But if He was not begotten in some way, then in what way is He the Son? The Lord Jesus is YHWH; He died. So I ask you again, can YHWH die? See Acts of the Apostles 20:28. Well, we shall have to agree to disagree. :) Psalms 2:7...

I don't know either. I can only reply to what you write, not to what you are thinking.

This raises two questions: If the Son is not eternally begotten, in what sense is He a Son? Can YHWH die? Here we do not disagree, save that I think you do not quite understand the term "eternally." These matters a a great mystery and, in a sense, we should remove our shoes for we are treading...

So are there two Abrahamic covenants, one to the physical descendants of Abraham and one to his spiritual seed? No, for as we have seen, Ishmael receives certain promises, and is given the sign of circumcision, but he is not in the covenant. But what then of Gen 17:10ff, which says, “This is My...

It is hard to know how to approach this post; there is a bewildering amount of information on Abraham to be found in both Old and New Testaments. Also, the Abrahamic Covenant is the most controversial of all the covenants, having been very much tied in with the question of baptism. Now it goes...