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Whether it's a conversation-ender is up to you, but I don't think it's false.

If you redeem something (or someone), you pay a price to get it back. Matt. 5:26. "Assuredly, I say to you, you will not get out of there untill you have paid the last penny." That [figuratively] is the price the Lord Jesus paid to get us out of hell. We were under a curse (v.10); Christ...

Of Free Will — The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Psalm 110:3; Jonah 2:9; Rev. 7:10. Take it from someone who was just as big a hooligan as you (except it was beer rather thn whiskey): God saved you. When you walk through the pearly gates, you will se a sign saying, "Whoever will may...

You are correct that "pay" and "cancel" are not the same thing. But on what basis has the "certificate of debt" been cancelled? It has been cancelled because someone else has paid it off in full (Gal. 3:13; Isaiah 53:5).

Exactly! Worship is towards God. It is not primarily for us, though no doubt God blesses us as we do it. Musical instruments are to keep us in time and pitch, not for anything else. We have two wonderful pianists at our church, but woe betide us if we come to church to hear them rather than...

@JD731, I think that perhaps I understand the Abrahamic covenant better than you do. The covenant with Abraham is revealed to us in four stages:- 1. Gen 12:1-3. The covenant Announced. The word ‘covenant’ is not mentioned here but Peter in Acts 3:23 makes it clear that God’s initial...

Bump!

"You" are not the Judge of all the earth. Sinful human beings will sometimes forgive and sometimes not, but God is the righteous Judge and will always judge justly. Let us suppose for a moment a scene in court. Judge: "Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty on the clearest evidence of...

Do you think there might have been a bit of purchasing or redeeming going on (Acts 20:28; 1 Cor. 6:20; 1 Peter 1:18-19)? N.B. Don't feel obliged to answer. I can well understand your desire to stay out of the melee.

One vital point of the atonement is that something was bought and a price was paid. Acts 20:28. "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the Church of God which He purchased with His own blood.' 1 Cor. 6:20, NKJV...

Sorry to be pedantic, but you meant "starting with a vowel," I think. The unique thing about the KJV is that it also puts an "an" before a word beginning with "h" as in 'a just man and an holy.' What an horrible thing to do! :Laugh Actually, it's just what people used to do in the 17th Century.

@Ascetic X, You are quite right. My point is that there seem to be many (in the UK, at any rate) who call themselves evangelicals but believe few or none of these things.

In the USA as in the rest of the world. Romans 15:4; 1 Cor. 10:11; 1 Peter 1:10-12.

Romans 9:23. '.... That He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people who were not My people, and her...

I did not say that my sins were still in me. That is not possible since they were laid upon the Lord Jesus. What I said was that there is still sin in me, the relic of my old earthly self. My job is constantly to be putting that to death (Col. 3:5), but my understanding is that in this life...

But never in the Bble. What you don't appear to understand is that τετέλεσται comes from the word τελεω, which is used in the Bible to indicate a debt paid. Surely, with all your studies in Greek, this is not beyond you? I linked to a blog where the writer says that the word is indeed used to...

Maybe this will help people who stumble onto this thread and find the blindingly obvious difficult. τετέλεσται (tetelestai) Tetelestai comes from the word teleo. The word means "to finish", "to complete" or "to fulfill," but in two verses of the Bible it very clearly means "to pay." Matthew...

OK, but I don't think that invalidates my post #73.

Our sins were transferred to the Lord Jesus. 'The LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.' If my sins have been laid upon Jesus, they are no longer on me. To be sure, there is sin in me, and will be until the day I die or until Christ returns, but there is no sin on me. Christ bore my...

I understand that, but if we summarize the purpose of God in the history of man, what do we come to? Maybe this: to display His grace and to magnify His Son in the creating of Children in His own image and glory. That one purpose had multiple parts, and it was all completed at the cross.