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Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and...

A lot of what you say here is merely your opinion. God has always wanted worship from the heart. He condemned the OT believers when their worship was not from the heart. There are many instances in Scripture of God's accepting the worship of OT saints that included singing accompanied by...

Here is what you said in your OP: You speak about "living in the New Testament not the old" and "the Old Canon in the psalms." My point is that limiting your understanding of what NT Christians should do in the churches to only what is mentioned in the NT is faulty theology because the NT...

The book of Psalms is not just about or only for the OT people of God. The book of Psalms reveals that God has commanded the whole world to worship Him with singing and musical instruments--those commands were not Judaism, and they were not just for Jews. The book of Psalms also reveals divine...

This is not a right understanding of the importance of the book of Psalms for NT Christians. The Psalms were not just for believers in Israel, etc. The NT uses the book of Psalms more than any other book of the Bible. The NT itself therefore teaches us that what God revealed in the Psalms is...

The verse shows that Paul gave an apostolic command that set apart the first day of the week as special for a special obligation for all the Corinthians. What's more, Paul stressed that same importance of the first day of the week for not just the Corinthian church but also the churches of...

Actually, no, those two passages are not the only relevant passages. 1 Corinthians 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Paul gave an apostolic command to all the Corinthians for an...

Not true. Just as the Trinity is never once directly stated in Scripture as being the Trinity," but is undeniably true through proper handling of the Scripture, so also Christians worshiping God corporately on His special Day, the Lord's Day, as being on the first day of the week, is undeniably...

What term?

The first day of the week, the day of the week on which God raised His Son from the dead. We call that day Sunday.

On a broader note, the very idea of Satan as having fallen from "grace" does not seem to be supported by any Scripture that I am aware of. Is there any Scripture that says that God's grace is something that applies to angelic beings?

Just because a given text itself does not explicitly distinguish any significance to sequential actions in an account does not mean that there is no such significance. Scripture even telescopes events in one account that in actuality have been or will be fulfilled at separate times in human...

No, I was not referring back to your post #55. I have not stated my position because I do not have a firm position that I believe can be legitimately supported with Scripture. In my opinion, what I have seen from you does not support the view that you hold. More later, D.V.

Saying, "The story makes no distinction, or emphasis on Satan's over Eve's . . .," does not establish that correctly noting that Satan sinned prior to Eve who sinned prior to Adam is of no importance. Romans 5:12 says that death entered into the world through the sin of Adam--Satan's sin did...

I find it unfathomable how believers could think that Satan and his demons are hardly active at all in our day.

This passage is very sobering because it does not give us any indication that Ananias knew anything about what Satan had done to his heart and directed him to do. Nor does it indicate to us that Satan actually possessed Ananias to bring about what Ananias did. Demon possession is not at all...

Scripture explicitly says that idolatry is the worship of demons and warns us about having fellowship with demons: 1 Corinthians 10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils...

I can see your point in regard to demon possession, but we need to keep in mind that demon possession is only one aspect of authentic demonic activity. Scripture shows that one lying spirit was able to work in hundreds of false prophets (2 Chron. 18:5-23) to be a lying spirit in their mouths! We...

Satan deceived Eve before she transgressed and ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan thus sinned against God before there was any human sin. Nonetheless, his doing so did not bring death into the material world. Adam's sin that was subsequent to the sin of Satan...

Yes, combating false doctrine is extremely important. I do not hold to the Gap-Theory in any way. Those comments were made by another person. Romans 5:12 does not apply to Satan and his demons because angelic beings do not die. Genesis 1:31 is certainly true but does it require that...