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Would it be acceptable to God if I told Him that I prefer the person He has for me to be that person, but that I pray for Him to bring me whomever He has for me? Also, should I still keep praying for God to bless her, and that she would become born-again and sanctified, regardless of whether she...

Oh, sorry! I'm really not too fussed about when that church started.' Pentecost seems right to me, but I won't get in a fight about it. Our Lord, in Matt. 16:18, says "I will build My church," so I suppose it must have been at some point after that, otherwise He would have said, "I am...

Martin, your description of church life in Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 1 is accurate, but it does not address the question at hand. The issue is not what a church is, but when Christ began building His church. In Matthew 16:18 Christ uses the verb οἰκοδομήσω, which refers to forming and...

The New Testament Church: Always Local When the New Testament speaks of the church, it is always speaking of a local, visible, gathered assembly. The singular term “the church” is used in a generic sense, just as we use singular nouns in everyday speech. I say, I washed the car, but I am not...

Alan, none of what you wrote actually addresses the point I made. You simply restated the Calvinist system, but the question on the table was the Book of Life and the historical record of the early churches. The issue is simple: If the sinner is spiritually dead in the sense of total...

Being "blotted out of the Book of Life" Since, you don't know what a sinner is, by saying the first two at the top on the right could not possibly be seen all through the Bible, through the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Bible is drenched with those teachings. A sinner is one who is...

I think 1 Corinthians 10:13 applies too: (1Co 10:13 NKJV) No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

When God Gives More Than We Can Handle There is a common saying that "God will not give you more than you can handle," but Scripture never teaches that. In fact, the Bible shows the opposite: God repeatedly places His people in situations far beyond their strength so they will learn to rely on...

The language of the scriptures is very precise because the words are the words of God. He is not careless about their use and he makes no mistakes. A soul winner has much more liberty with the words he uses to attempt to persuade a sinner to believe in Jesus and to be saved than the preacher who...

The Biblical Command Against Ecumenism Psalms 1:1-3 says, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law doth he meditate day and night...

This morning I listened, on the radio, to the late John Mac Arthur on the meaning of redemption. I hold a differing view. Like many other confused NT concepts, the confusion arises from the translation, or mistranslation of a Greek word with two related meanings. For example, in Luke 1:68...

That is exactly the point. Salvation was never provided for them. And He does so without respect of persons. There are not any who have been passed by before they were born, which could only not be double predestination in an illogical way. 1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labour and...

God Created Angels who chose to Fall into sin against Him and when He Created Adam, God Made him mutable and Chose not to Confirm him in his State of Sinless Innocence. God Created Angels and they sinned against Him and will Suffer the Consequences. God did not Choose to Provide a Means of...

I do not recommenced anyone get taught the Holy Spirit, tongues, gifts, miracles, prosperity, or anything like that. Whatever your gift it is from the Grace of God and ought to produce fruit and edification in the house of God. If someone has taught you to speak in tongues it is indeed outright...