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Are you thinking there are no Muslim converts to Christ? How about the ones who paid with their lives for believing in Christ?

Before the new birth, you are dead and cannot discern the true Christ. Yes, many believe in a false Christ idol they fabricate from scripture. But only the saved can see the true Christ in scripture and sense Him in their hearts. His Spirit bears witness with their spirit. Does God save a...

Babies never hear the gospel but go to heaven if they die. How does the gospel save us? You must be saved to believe it. But then it saves us from our lifestyle. In Cornielus' case, from Roman culture. A Muslim might be born again but the gospel saves them from Islam. If we have eternal life, we...

I think it was aimed at Jewish converts to Christ. the apostasy of some from the same group has much weight in chapter 6. But it is also of benefit to believers of all time especially today when many want to return to animal sacrifices unknowingly committing an unforgivable sin.

Confessional Basics are an absolute necessity. A Reformed Church I find resourceful is a perfect example. They began drifting away from their position on divorce and remarriage except for one small member from the pews who challenged it. All said and after a lengthy round of debates, they...

We judge fruit, not motive. We condemn ourselves thinking our sin motive would be the same as someone else's if we were to do that.

“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.” Acts 10:34–35 (KJV 1900) Only the Born-Again have these attributes. An example is Cornelius who did Born-...

I don't have any proof of your position.

Judging a person's work or fruit is good. But in judging their motive, you expose your own heart. I think our limited perception is one of the reasons we should not judge one another's motives. Do we reveal our own corruption, assuming the other guy's motives are the same as ours if we were to...

The kingdom came when Daniel said it would. But only the born again can see it, even today. Since they can't see it, they look for the Pharisee's premillennial kingdom in the future. But it is not the kingdom.

Only the born-from above can do works the way Cornelius did. Why witness to Muslims if God, did not, as He did with the Roman Cornelius, bring some to life, to yet hear the gospel? Catholics too. How many of them re-formed Catholicism away from the Antichrist Papacy in the day?

Peter raises questions about your position. “Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.” Acts 10:34–35 (KJV 1900) Of course, only the born-again can...

Wow!!!! The Lord really gifted you. I can't recall the number of botched jobs and amount of wasted money over the years trying to get it right fixing cars. But He gifted me at times giving me skills way beyond my reach to perform the jobs he provided.

In my experience, God sent the Holy Spirit into my heart at a time I wasn't looking for salvation. This caused me to believe in Christ apart from any act of the will. The experience caused me to believe.

Which means they didn't believe but decided to mimic believing. If you believe, you need not decide to believe.

What if you did not ask the Lord to save you? The truth is, you were saved before it came to mind to do that. If you didn't already believe (possess salvation according to Christ) you would not have done that. But your faith was shifted away from Christ back into your actions as being what saved...

But Christ is an experience. And faith is evidence of salvation. I could not believe had Christ not died for me. So limited atonement assures me I'm among the elect. Because I could not discern Christ otherwise. If I save myself, I have nothing but myself to trust in, as is the case in universal...

I always look at the fruit, how it aligns with scripture. I've been in churches before where the fruit consists of not smoking, or dancing, or going to movies, or what have you? But what scripture defines as fruit is missing for the most part. These are fervent believers in their ideas about...

We all stand condemned if we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. Money is always the measure of our failure and sin in this matter. The early church got it right according to what Jesus teaches. “And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions...

I understand it a bit differently. It is Christ's blood and imputed righteousness that save us. Our works can amount to nothing more than wood, hay, and stubble and not pass the test. But we are eternally secure in Christ regardless of our works. Our works must be a labor of love before they...