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John 3:3. 'Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.' Not only will he not enter it (v.5), but he cannot even understand it. We need no better example of this that Nicodemus. He hasn't the faintest idea what the Lord Jesus is talking about. "How can a man be born when he...

'Out of the mouths of babes and nursing infants .......' (Psalm 2:8; Matt. 21:16; c.f. 1 Cor. 1:27). But having said that, no, I do not forsee my church engaging this young lady in the near future, or indeed, ever.

Ah, John 1:12-13. What great verses those are for believers in Free Grace! 'But as many as received Him, to them He ave the right to become children of God, to thoswho believe in His name: who were born, 'Not of blood.......' Being born to Christian parents, or into a so-called Christian...

Genesis 50:20. 'But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.' God determines all things, but at the same time He is not the author or approver of evil (Psalm 50:21; 1 John 2:16). If we find it...

Very troubling.

If the prospective member is transferring in from another church, then the first thing to do is to write to that church. If it's a like-minded church and the leaders write back saying that the person has been a member in good standing, that's a very helpful sign. The guy would still have to...

My church is holding an outreach this month. We shall be calling on around 1,000 houses that surround the church and presenting each house with a copy of Luke's Gospel with an evangelistic introduction. Please pray that God will bless our efforts and that many people will come to faith. There...

From an article in a British Christian newspaper, Evangelical Times www.evangelical-times.org The air strikes by Israel and the United States against Iran have shocked the world and sparked brutal retaliation across the Middle East. The bid to weaken or overturn Tehran’s hardline Islamic...

That's a great testimony! Welcome to the B.B. :D

I don't recall saying those words. However, I do commend you to Romans 10:14-17, and also to Esther 4:14. God will save all his elect, but He will do it through the preaching of the Gospel (Mark 13:10; 1 Cor. 9:16). FWIW, I am a Calvinist in the footsteps of Bunyan, Carey, Spurgeon and...

You are correct that anothen is usually translated as 'from above' in the New Testament. The one place where it clearly means 'again.' is in Gal. 4:9. The reason why almost every Bible version translates anothen as 'again' is that Nicodemus understaood our Lord to mean that. "How can a man be...

I'm sorry. I just assumed that you would pick up on Eph. 1:3-6; Thes. 2:13 & Titus 1:2. Obviously not. This is the problem. You set one verse against the other, thereby making one false when both are true. Why do you not embolden verse 39 as well? 'This is the will of Him who sent Me...

Let us consider again the case of the Israelites in Numbers 21:4-8. We are told that Moses made this bronze serpent and whenever anyone was bitten by a snake, if he looked at the serpent, he lived. Now we know that many people refuse to look to the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved, so why might...

Various folk on this board have questioned why anyone who believes in the Doctrines of Free Grace would preach the Gospel. Some years ago, I wrotea series of ten Blog posts on the subject of the New Birth. This is the last of them. All ten may be accessed here: The New Birth – Page 3 – Martin...

Yes. '..... And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name......' (Phil. 2:5-11).

Unfortunately you do not understand the free grace of God, nor the basis of that grace. I have posted this stuff on numerous occasions in the past, but perhaps not since you and @Psalty joined the board, so here it is again. John 6:37. 'All that the Father gives Me will come to Me......' Here...

What do you think God ought to do for evil people? Unfortunately, not only do you not know Arminianism, but you don't know Calvinism either. Calvinists have always preached that 'Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' However, the fact is that people will not turn to the Lord of...

The Bible tells us that God makes His sun rise on the evil as well as on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. He is kind to the unthankful and evil. He has compassion on all that He has made. If you believe that is love, then God does indeed love everybody. But the word...

I don't believe that God will send anyone He loves to hell. You can belive that if you want, but that seems to me to be dreadful theology, and deeply insulting to God. Equally dreadful is to suppose that God is unable to save people He loves. What we need to understand is that, 'there is none...

We need to be clear that no one is forced or persuaded by God to sin. James 1:13-14. 'Let no one say when he is being tempted, "I am tempted by God." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and...