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Once again Brightfame, you are pulling Gal 5:22 out of its context. Paul is writing to people who have already been saved for awhile in various churches throughout Galatia. He is writing them primarily about not going back under the Law but continuing in THE SANCTIFYING WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT...

Regeneration does not proceed faith. That is not scriptural. You don't become a regenerated, saved person AND THEN have faith. You put your faith in Christ & then are regenerated. You did what I stated before: mixing two different single verse quotes, pulling them out of their contexts & then...

Being "spiritually dead" does not result in total spiritual INABILITY. That man-made tradition is not scriptural. "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Atpollard did well to show Luke 13:24 IN CONTEXT. Yet it says MANY, I...

Proof texts pulled out of their contexts & mixed together to make a pretext is isogesis not exegesis.

We truly need a Savior, Who can ransom us from sin & death, Who can reconcile us back to Himself & give us peace with God, Who can justify us as the Just One & the Justifier, Who can forgive us of all our sins. Who can set us free from the PENALTY of sin & the Second Death, Who can empower us to...

Mark 7:15-23 “All of you, listen to Me & understand: NOTHING that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him...” His disciples inquired about the parable. “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that...

I am continuing again in Genesis on the fall of man & the effects & results of that fall in separating mankind from a 'living' relationship with their Creator. This initial disobedience led to both spiritual death & physical death. In the original creation God made separation to be good. In the...

Thank you, 37818, for your gracious input! I will put that verse in its' context & include other gospel accounts of this incidence for a fuller development of it; or as Paul Harvey used to say, 'And this is the rest of the story.' Matt 18:1-6 At that time the disciples came to Jesus & asked...

Berean Study Bible: The imagery of reaching out suggests a groping or feeling after God, akin to a blind person searching for something in the dark. This reflects the spiritual blindness of humanity due to sin, as described in 2 Cor 4:4. Despite this blindness, God has made Himself known within...

There is SO MUCH to unpack here in Genesis, the book of beginnings! We are prone to be guilty of not taking the time to seek God & CRY OUT for His understanding —to make careful OBSERVATION of what the text actually SAYS—IN CONTEXT—paying attention to the details (who written to, when written...

Thank you Van, for your thoughtful response & taking the time to read a portion of my posts. I had not yet fully answered my question that you quoted, first simply laying down a Scriptural study, starting from Genesis, the book of beginnings, of what is the nature of man as God created Him...

I left my last post with this question: did spiritual & physical death pass on to Adam's descendants & how did that happen? I will seek to show from Scripture how this happened. We have already established the nature of man as being composed of a temporal physical body & of a soul & spirit that...

Jesus repeatedly told people that it was THEIR faith that was the means of their being saved or healed by Him. God saves us by His unmerited grace but He doesn't believe FOR us, we are the ones who believe. He may grant us repentance leading to the acknowledging of the truth, but we are the ones...

Eph 2:8-9 For it is BY grace you have been saved THROUGH faith & this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. THROUGH: Greek: 'dia' (G1223) through, by the instumentality of. Word Origin: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act. When you...

Acts 26:12-23 “In this connection I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. 13At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me. 14And when we had all fallen to the ground, I...

Paul... (continuing Eph 1) An apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God He was 'an' apostle not 'the' apostle. Apostle means 'sent out' one called by another for a specific task. He was one of the apostles that Jesus Christ called into His service & was sent out by the Holy Spirit. Here is...

God warned Adam that there would be consequences of his eating fruit from that particular tree. God said it emphatically in the Hebrew: in the day of your (Adam's) eating of the fruit from that tree, you (Adam) would DIE DIE. The verb in the first instance is an infinitive (-ing ending) absolute...

Gen 3:20 And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother OF ALL THE LIVING. Acts 17:24-26 The God who made the world & everything in it is the Lord of heaven & earth & does not live in temples made by human hands. Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He...

The last posts summarized how God originally created man with a human body, a human soul & a human spirit. The body is mortal & will go to decay & back to dust. The human spirit and soul are incorporeal & continue to exist after one physically dies. God breathed into the body the breath of...

If one is looking at Ephesians Ch. 1, you have picked a difficult one to discuss, since the first 12 verses in the KJV are all one sentence and the last 11 verses are all one sentence. This makes if difficult to follow the main thoughts Paul is seeking to bring out, with all the additional...