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@Regulus, I think that your two Calvinist friends and @Zaatar71 are right in suggesting that you speak to your church leaders. None of us here know you, so any advice we give is quite likely to be incorrect. If you don't feel able to speak to your leaders, maybe you are in the wrong church...

I don't think I have separated faith from any covenant. Just to be entirely clear, no one gets into heaven without repenting and putting his trust in Christ for salvation. I am suggesting that both those things are gifts of God. And Abel was not "under" any covenant, but he was a beneficiary...

I'm sorry. Perhaps I did not make myself clear. I meant that I cannot find the word faith in Hebrews 8. Obviously the new covenant is there, and again in Heb. 10.

A few more thoughts while I have a little time. The new covenant is usually regarded as the outworking of the Covenant of Grace (also called the Eternal Covenant, Covenant of Peace or Council of Redemption). It may be helpful to quote from the WCF Larger Catechism: Q.30. Doth God leave all...

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Obviously everyone in the new covenant is trusting in Christ, but the new covenant is not by faith, it is through the blood of Christ (Matt. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor. 11:25. The word 'new' is not in the Critical Text of Matthew or Mark, but it is...

But not only are we to teach and keep these commandments, but we are to do so in a very different way to that of the scribes and Pharisees. Our righteousness is to be greater than theirs. What is the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees? It is an outward obedience to the law, not from...

In order to understand what our Lord is saying in vs. 17-18, it will be helpful to read again the whole of Chapter 5 before proceeding. In v17, He is making a qualification. His teaching up to this point has been absolutely remarkable- speaking of the poor in spirit, the meek, the hungry, the...

The writer to the Hebrews describes the new covenant as a ‘better hope’ (7:19) and a ‘better covenant’ (7:22; 8:6. cf. 9:11). The great Puritan John Owen, in his vast commentary on Hebrews, listed seventeen ways in which the two covenants differ, and in each, the new is superior. I think I can...

4. Disobedience is idolatry. ‘……And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry’ (v.23b). When we consult our own desires and feelings or the spirit of the age instead of God, we are making an idol. Anything that we obey rather than God is an idol, and idolatry, if not repented of, will keep us out...

Luke 6:46. ‘But why do you call Me, “Lord, Lord,” and not do the things that I say?’ John 14:15. “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” Taken from a sermon preached at Scott Drive Church, Exmouth Please read 1 Samuel 15. This is a very important chapter for us to consider, which has crucial...

Free will is alive. :) 'Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power' (Psalm 110:3). Have a blessed Christmas, brother!

I would describe myself more as a Spurgeonic Calvinist. I haven't read much Calvin and he was not the originator of Calvinism. William Tyndale was a Calvinist while Calvin was still in short pants. He opened my heart to believe, as He did Lydia's. I had resisted many attempts to convert me...

That is a species of Hyper-Calvinism. The Bible says, 'Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' But the Bible also says, 'And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men preferred darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.' The gates of...

There is a general call to salvation which men may certainly refuse. Take Mark 1:15. To whom was our Lord speaking? To anyone within earshot. How many obeyed the call? We are not told, but certainly not everyone who heard; probably very few. "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached...

:rolleyes: I'm glad that you appear to have looked up your Beginner's guide to Greek, and discovered that the Present tense does indeed usually indicates continuing action. To add a reductio ad absurdum is less helpful. 'Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust...

First, go and learn some Greek. Secondly, I explained Luke 13:24 to you earlier. Thirdly, "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him you knocks it will be opened" (Luke 11:10). However, the verse is written in the Present Tense which denotes continuity (ring any...

My Greek NT says that the verses are in the Present Tense, which usually signifies continuity: 'As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; There is no one who understands; There is no one who is searching for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless...

I really don't think that matters. The apostasy was well under way even before the apostles died (Acts 20:29; Jude 4 etc.) We certainly will until you learn that one text doesn't cancel out another, but the two must be taken together. We are to preach and call upon all people (and certainly...

The Bible. I am not very interested in the church fathers, and have read next to nothing of Augustine, but I am interested in the Bible. And predestination and effectual (or 'limited' if you prefer) atonement is there in spades, particularly in John and Romans, but elsewhere as well (e.g...

I think maybe this needs to be checked. Looking through Romans very quickly, I came across the following O.T. quotations. Read 1:1-2 first, then 16:25-27, and then these: 1:17; 2:6, 24; 3:4, 10-18; 4:7-8; 17, 18, 22-23 (the whole chapter is referencing Abraham) 5:12-19; 7:7-12 (the whole...