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The irony is that the very people who try to smuggle their personal works into Christ's finished work are the exact people Paul is addressing in 1 Thes 3:10. Paul calls the Thessalonians brothers, chosen, & standing fast in the Lord (1 Thess 1:4; 3:8), yet he still says their faith had lacking...

This reads more like a stitched‑together commentary dump than an argument. Let's slow down & deal with the actual categories Hebrews uses. You're actually reinforcing the very distinction I've been making. Hebrews 10:14 doesn't say Christ is perfecting those who might endure long enough. It...

The New Testament leaves no room for a salvation that is partial, fragile, or awaiting human completion, because it repeatedly declares that believers & Christ's saving work are already complete. Paul says we are complete in Christ (Col 2:10), the writer of Hebrews says Christ's single...

Bayesian reasoning is useful when dealing with uncertain data, but Scripture doesn't present the gospel as a probability distribution. Jude says the faith was ""once for all delivered,"" Paul says we are to ""hold fast the pattern of sound words,"" & Peter says Scripture is not open to private...

My argument isn't ""more verses = more truth."" I'm arguing that Scripture interprets Scripture & when a couple passages appear to be in tension, the only responsible approach is to let the full counsel of God define the categories. That's not """volume‑based theology,"" that's basic...

These Warnings Don't Threaten Salvation - They Expose Who Never Had It Every warning passage listed collapse once you keep the New Testament's categories straight: the writers warn people who have been exposed to the gospel, not people who have been regenerated by it. Hebrews never calls these...

OT Abrahamic Covenant Of Circumcision Initiation Was Physical Gen 17:11 The Lord tells Abraham you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin & it shall be a token of the covenant between me &you. (Abram-Gen 17:1–14). A foreshadow of the Spiritual circumcision to come. NT Circumcision...

Eternal life isn't earned or achieved; it's received through the One who gives it. Grace = God's unmerited/unearned/undeserved favor Jn 3:16 God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (NOTE: Believers in...

Why are you doing just that. I made my case & didn't ignore anything. You've offered nothing.

Hum, sounds exactly like what your reply does.

Any doctrine built on one or two verses will always collapse when the rest of Scripture is allowed to speak. Context is the cure for confusion & James 2 is no exception. When the whole counsel of Scripture is allowed to speak, it becomes clear that James is addressing the visibility of faith...

The reason Paul urges Christians to do good works is the same reason James says faith is ""completed"" by works: not because works cause salvation, but because works express & mature the faith that already saved them. You're blending 2 categories the apostles always keep distinct: How we are...

KJV Dictionary Definition: GRACE 9) Eternal life; final salvation. 1 Pet.1.13. - (10.) Favor; mercy; pardon. Also see - https://biblehub.com/topical/g/grace.htm Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is...

Acts 2 Peter is preaching to Israel alone - ""Men of Judea,"" ""all who dwell in Jerusalem,"" ""Men of Israel"" at a Jewish feast, in a Jewish city, fulfilling a Jewish prophecy, under Jewish COVENANT LAWS. Gentiles were never under Israel's purification system, part of John's water baptism or...

Three Misused Water Baptism Texts & the Spirit-Wrought Realities They Actually Describe John 3:1 (KJV): “a ruler of the Jews” Nicodemus wasn't confused about Jewish water purification rituals. He was confused about re-entering the womb (Jn 3:4). Jn 3:5 cannot be about Christian water baptism...