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  1. Alan Dale Gross

    One baptism?

    Again, to have a 'faith' which is supposed to appropriate the Holy Spirit's Indwelling that would make you 'alive', that initial 'faith' is dead faith, to start with. So, you're actually trying to brag about having dead faith to save your soul. Would you just stop and fast and pray for a few...
  2. Alan Dale Gross

    One baptism?

    I see what you're asking I think, but those realities Peter is speaking about are not a 'picture'. I just call that out for the reason that I hope that's not something you are ever doing elsewhere, i.e., making realities out to be pictures. And then, back to a new 'reality'? Hope not. For...
  3. Alan Dale Gross

    One baptism?

    Nope. There is "one baptism" that as in any other word read under the influence of one of the most fundamental tools of Hermeneutics, "if the plain sense of a word makes sense, then we accept it as expressing that initial plain common sense every time", unless the context dictates otherwise...
  4. Alan Dale Gross

    One baptism?

    So then, why isn't there anything in the Bible about 'Spirit baptism' that is taught anywhere for a saved soul to be able to discern it, Spiritually? You won't be standing eye-to-Eye with Jesus Christ and tell Him that He walked 60 miles to be baptized by the one man who had the Authority from...
  5. Alan Dale Gross

    One baptism?

    The Divine Ordinance Jesus Originated as the means by which He became a member of His Own church He Built took place when He was baptized in water by the man Sent from God to baptize, by His Authority. The Three Divine Members of the Triune Godhead were there Together to witness it. There are...
  6. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    Ephesians 2:8; "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" So, you panic and fall back on your training, to always go with illiteracy anytime you're pressed to believe the most apparent contextual harmony between grace and faith, as there is...
  7. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    "to everyone that believes: not to him that works for life, and in order to obtain a righteousness of his own; nor to the Jew only, but also to the Gentile, even to everyone, be who he will, that has faith in Christ; not that faith is either the matter, cause, or condition of righteousness, but...
  8. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    Romans 5:1; "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2; "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace..." That faith is a gift given by God to those "dead" whom God quickens from the dead, who were ungodly, as Abraham was, "without...
  9. Alan Dale Gross

    Do All Baptists Except IFB's Spiritualize The Bible Prophesies To Israel

    Background Check: You speak of "the church of Jesus Christ", as apparently suggesting that all saved souls in the New Testament could or should be considered as being in some way a part of something called "the church of Jesus Christ". Yet, this is from a Fundamental Baptist church which states...
  10. Alan Dale Gross

    One baptism?

    "Baptism doth now save us in a figure"; In biblical typology, a type is an event, person, or object, which in this case is water baptism that foreshadows a corresponding reality in the New Testament, called the antitype, Who is Jesus the antitype of water baptism in His Eternal Work of...
  11. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    Ephesians 2:1; "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins"; I notice here in this verse that there is an absence of 'life' expressed, when it says those who are saved were previously those "who were dead in trespasses and sins." 2:8,9; "For by grace are ye saved through...
  12. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    Dare I ask what you guys mean by "the indwelling"? Where does that come from?
  13. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    Exactly on point. That is exactly the distinction being made by these two Bible writers. !!!! !!!!!
  14. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    When does Eternal Life begin? The hypothesis of learned Theologians, who have considered when Eternal Life begins in the soul is logically illustrated by answering how a light bulb is turned on in a room using a light switch. When we turn on a light switch, it sure seems like the light...
  15. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    For Total Depravity to be said to not be total, or as the Total Depravity of men is placed on display for all to see, when they try to suggest 'Total Depravity is Not Total Inability', are both downright pure blasphemy, as much as they are both illiterate. BREAKING THE SCRIPTURES/LAW is what...
  16. Alan Dale Gross

    Calvinism Made Me Doubt My Salvation

    You're definitely going to have to give up the misplaced dependence you have established here, where you're thinking "God really is not willing for any to perish" and "God wants all people to be saved and come to know the truth", since the Bible doesn't teach either of those things. If anybody...
  17. Alan Dale Gross

    THE MYSTERY, LOSING HEART, CHRISTS IN YOU

    Everything you talked about is so much closer to the Truth involving the Spiritual Realm than I remember seeing in a long, long, long time, I'm not about to try and add to or take away a word of it. Good job, brother.
  18. Alan Dale Gross

    In the context if the Bible, is the word 'believe' the same as "faith'?

    Like you say, "In the context" has to be examined in each different application of whichever word you are considering, to determine the various nuances that may be expressed in each case, by the way they are used (in context, etc.). I put this article Attached in a file below, or it can be...
  19. Alan Dale Gross

    John 1:12-13 revisited.

    This is correct, if the Bible is allowed to finish this thought, where I cut it off, and give the one answer to WHAT WAS BAPTIZED? Jesus Baptized His first Divinely Originated and ORGANIZED church ASSEMBLY of saved souls there at Jerusalem with The Shekinah Glory. The Lord had placed the...
  20. Alan Dale Gross

    Believing Into Christ based on God crediting your faith as righteousness

    This version is The King James in 1 John 4:3; "And every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming and now is already in the world." "Believing Into Christ based on God crediting your faith as...
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