It’s like God seeing a bird with her both wings cut off and then requires that bird to fly (without giving her a new pair of wings) and shoots her because she did not fly. For God to require people to believe WITHOUT making them born again first and then sends them to hell because...
But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness?” Are we justified by works, yet made righteous by faith without works as Rom 4:5 says, at the same time? No. This would be a contradiction. Now, t...
And the Holy Spirit he has given us is our bridge to this heavenly world. "... who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee." (5:5b) Guarantee of what? This phrase "a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come" (NIV), "as a guarantee" (NRSV), "earnest" (KJV) is arrabōn, "...
Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.Jude 17...
Inside the nation, inside the family revealed in the Scriptures is the single individual. But when the family crumbles, the nation begins to fall. These chapters also reveal the failure of man in this basic relationship, because man tried to be man without God, and the result of course was...
Without it the earth would respond like climate models, predicting a sharp temperature rise as carbon dioxide levels increase. The models are all flawed, since they predict a hot spot in the troposphere over the equator, but there is none. The thunderstorms in the tropical doldrums take care ...
James 2:17Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. But faith without fruit, without works that come from being truly regenerate, is no faith at all. John 15:2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth...
Jesus Christ is the ULTIMATE gift that’s been given to us. He is our Lord and our Savior. He is our Redeemer and Friend. He is the Restorer of our souls. He sent the Holy Spirit, who is our Comforter, our Helper, and our Teacher (1 John 2:27). We are never left without a ...
Furthermore, it seems that the main criterion for being a member of and participant in the life of the Church is not baptism, but national heritage, not faith but ethnicity. One can happily go to church, even work for the Church in the field of administration or education, without being...
Contrast this with the following passage from the New Testament: "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:2, KJV). This passage, like many others, is subject to interpretation. If 'as little children' means naïve or...