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No way on earth or in Heaven. FAITH HAS NO MERIT IN ITSELF. Faith is merely the channel through which God's justifying and sanctifying grace flows into the soul. Faith is no more meritorious than the act of receiving a gift is meritorious. Faith in no way is a substitute for our obedience to...

Amen. "Born." "From Above." Yep, apparently that is what you believe, but Paul never did and still doesn't in Heaven now. Don't know where you come off thinking your statements are always the Mind of God. Nobody said anything like that. Your denial of the Bible teaching of Total Depravity...

John 3:5; "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6; "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7; "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8; "The wind bloweth where it...

The Supernatural Gifts of Instantaneous Miracles? No. Can't go there. There is no situation in Spiritual Reality, or the Bible, where it could be said, "Believers are added to the church," as if "the church" is what the Bible teaches is The Kingdom of God, made up of all saved souls on earth...

"The unbeliever cannot understand or accept the gospel, for it is foolishness to him; How then can he respond to it and believe in Christ as his Savior? "Every intent of his heart is evil, and he seeks not after God; How then can he turn to Christ for salvation and embrace Him as his...

Again, to have a 'faith' which is supposed to appropriate the Holy Spirit's Indwelling that would make you 'alive', that initial 'faith' is dead faith, to start with. So, you're actually trying to brag about having dead faith to save your soul. Would you just stop and fast and pray for a few...

I see what you're asking I think, but those realities Peter is speaking about are not a 'picture'. I just call that out for the reason that I hope that's not something you are ever doing elsewhere, i.e., making realities out to be pictures. And then, back to a new 'reality'? Hope not. For...

Nope. There is "one baptism" that as in any other word read under the influence of one of the most fundamental tools of Hermeneutics, "if the plain sense of a word makes sense, then we accept it as expressing that initial plain common sense every time", unless the context dictates otherwise...

So then, why isn't there anything in the Bible about 'Spirit baptism' that is taught anywhere for a saved soul to be able to discern it, Spiritually? You won't be standing eye-to-Eye with Jesus Christ and tell Him that He walked 60 miles to be baptized by the one man who had the Authority from...

The Divine Ordinance Jesus Originated as the means by which He became a member of His Own church He Built took place when He was baptized in water by the man Sent from God to baptize, by His Authority. The Three Divine Members of the Triune Godhead were there Together to witness it. There are...

Ephesians 2:8; "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" So, you panic and fall back on your training, to always go with illiteracy anytime you're pressed to believe the most apparent contextual harmony between grace and faith, as there is...

"to everyone that believes: not to him that works for life, and in order to obtain a righteousness of his own; nor to the Jew only, but also to the Gentile, even to everyone, be who he will, that has faith in Christ; not that faith is either the matter, cause, or condition of righteousness, but...

Romans 5:1; "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2; "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace..." That faith is a gift given by God to those "dead" whom God quickens from the dead, who were ungodly, as Abraham was, "without...

Background Check: You speak of "the church of Jesus Christ", as apparently suggesting that all saved souls in the New Testament could or should be considered as being in some way a part of something called "the church of Jesus Christ". Yet, this is from a Fundamental Baptist church which states...

"Baptism doth now save us in a figure"; In biblical typology, a type is an event, person, or object, which in this case is water baptism that foreshadows a corresponding reality in the New Testament, called the antitype, Who is Jesus the antitype of water baptism in His Eternal Work of...

Ephesians 2:1; "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins"; I notice here in this verse that there is an absence of 'life' expressed, when it says those who are saved were previously those "who were dead in trespasses and sins." 2:8,9; "For by grace are ye saved through...

Dare I ask what you guys mean by "the indwelling"? Where does that come from?

Exactly on point. That is exactly the distinction being made by these two Bible writers. !!!! !!!!!

When does Eternal Life begin? The hypothesis of learned Theologians, who have considered when Eternal Life begins in the soul is logically illustrated by answering how a light bulb is turned on in a room using a light switch. When we turn on a light switch, it sure seems like the light...

For Total Depravity to be said to not be total, or as the Total Depravity of men is placed on display for all to see, when they try to suggest 'Total Depravity is Not Total Inability', are both downright pure blasphemy, as much as they are both illiterate. BREAKING THE SCRIPTURES/LAW is what...