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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...

@Charlie24, I love you dearly, and we agree on a lot of things, but I believe you are missing the point of the Old Testament. I am preaching on John 1:43-51 a week on Sunday, and I'm struck by verse 45. The O.T. is about Jesus. He is the sum and substance of the O.T. and it cannot be...

Israel is now the Church and the Church is Israel. Believing Jew and believing Gentile together. There is only one people of God. The New Covenant is for us (Heb. 10:15ff).

Indeed he does. So do you think that Paul got it wrong? Or do we need to revise our thinking about what a Jew is? Romans 2:28-29. 'For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of...

I'm afraid I still think you are being disingenuous. I wrote before that most of Gottschalk's books were burned by Archbishop HIncmar, so to say they were "lost" is not strictly accurate. I don't know what language you suppose that Gotsschalk would have written in, but Latin was the language...

Ephesians 2:11-22. '...For He [Christ] Himself is our peace, who has made the two [Jew and Gentile] one. .... His purpose was to create in Himself one new man out of the two , thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death...

Wrong. Unscriptural. The Lord Jesus did indeed describe Himself as the gate, but it still does not mean that He has bars and hinges. It must be taken spiritually. He is the way by which His sheep come to heaven, and that is the way of grace effected by faith (Eph. 2:8), both of which are the...

It is the former. At the Lord's Supper, we are to feed upon Christ in our hearts. The Lord Jesus described Himself as a gate, but that does not mean that He is made of wood and has five bars and a hinge. We are to read the Bible with spiritual eyes. It was the Pharisees and others who took...

In Martin Luther's time it was usual for only the priests to partake of bread also. Religious life in England centred around the Mass. It seems that in the early Church, all Christians had taken part in communion regularly. From the 6th Century, however, it became the custom for lay people to...

Among the tariffs orininally imposed were 50% tariffs on the countries of Lesotho and Madagascar. I believe these were later reduced to 15%. Lesotho's imports to the USA were primarily cheap denim jeans. Does the USA really want to make impoverished countries like Lesotho utterly destitute so...

I've been browsing this thread for the first time today, and the subject of attire amused me. Some years ago I attended two Christian conferences, one held at the Metropolitan Tabernacle ('Spurgeon's') and the other an FIEC event. At the Met Tab, all the speakers were elderly and wore dark...

Again, you are counting the number that God says no man can count and finding it insufficient. In other words, you are blaming God. Why not leave the numbers to God and simply obey His word? '"Go to the street corners and inviteto the banquet anyone you find." So the servants went out into...

This is entirely incorrect. Firstly, you cannot prove that any more people will be saved under Arminianism than under Calvinism. Secondly, we are told that on the Last Day there will be a 'great multitude, which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples and tongues, standing before...

The word helkuso, translated 'draw' in John 6:44 & 12:32 is quite a strong word. In Acts 16:19, the NKJV, ESV and NIV translate it as 'drag.' Paul and Silas weren't gently lead or drawn to the market-place; they were seized and dragged. In John 18:10, helkuso is used to describe the drawing of...