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Thanks so much!

I'm glad if I haven't hurt his feelings but I have no idea what a WV hillbilly is....:):)

That's what I imagined must be the case. Incidentally, I hope you didn't think I was being critical.

Is there a typo in your post, or have I misunderstood it? Your first sentence states: "We are not saved by keeping the law." Your third sentence begins: "We are saved by keeping the law....." :confused: In view of your user name, I can't really believe that you think that anybody is saved by...

I agree. I seem to remember reading that a woman once asked Spurgeon why he didn't preach only to the elect. He replied along these lines (I don't remember the exact words): "Madam, if you go around all the people and lift their coat-tails, and there is a letter "E" marking out the elect...

I agree that caution is needed. However, that doesn't detract from the fact that somebody who has genuinely been saved will show that, albeit far from perfectly, in a changed life.

Sorry, I certainly wasn't being deceptive. Acts 4-5 certainly describes Ananias and his wife lying and saying that they gave the whole of the proceeds from selling land, when in fact they had kept back part for themselves. Peter says that the sin was in the lying: (Act 5:3) But Peter said...

I have noticed that several people have said they would immediately leave the church. It occurs to me that it is strange that the pastor could introduce such a radical notion from the pulpit without first bringing it before his fellow elders, and then before the membership at a church meeting...

Perhaps not the determiner, but the evidence that the one professing to be saved truly is saved. Paul wrote to the Christians at Ephesus that they were saved for good works. In a passage about how they had been saved, he wrote: (Eph 2:10) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus...

Here in the UK, the state requires strict background checks to be made for anybody intending to become involved with children or teens, not only church work with children and teens.

(Replying to my own post, because I am too late to edit it): I meant to type: " the field in which the wheat and the tares are growing in the parable represents the world, not the local church."

Yes, as I understand it, chapters were added in the 13th century, and verses in the 1550s. Chapters and verses certainly facilitate indicating which part of the bible is meant.

But surely the field in which the wheat and the tares are growing in the parable represents the word, not the local church: Mat 13:38 "The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. " Jesus isn't encouraging churches to...

Just wondering - did you perhaps mean the "Chalcedonian Creed?" I haven't heard of a Caledonian Creed.

You seem rather confused with the commandments. The second of the Ten Commandments says: ““You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to...

Surely all Baptists, whether or not they are reformed, believe that baptism is for believers, not little babies.

Their purpose was to point forward to the one perfect sacrifice that actually takes away sins, that of the Lord Jesus Christ. As for your question as to whether, if I were still under the law, I would continue to sacrifice animals, it is not possible for me to put myself i such a hypothetical...

Yes, but the point is that the blood of the sacrificed animal did not actually take away sins, as the Hebrews verse I quoted makes clear.

Why would you expect that? Believers in penal substitutionary atonement don't believe that the sacrifice of animals actually atoned for them. They believe what is written in Hebrews: “For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.” (Heb 10:4 NKJV)

I see salvation as unconditional insofar as we don't have to do things to earn it. For example, we are not told that if we read the bible from cover to cover once year, or spend an hour in prayer every day, or give a certain percentage of our income to missionary causes, we will be saved...