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i did not want to sin. I left the church because my wife kicked me out of my house for another man. And I felt like a failure and judged because I was in a legalistic church where it was forbidden to leave the marraige. they expected me to fight for it.. and I was done. so I left. That is an...

I never assume that an individual Christian's belief in Eternal Security leads them automatically to sin. I have known many who believe OSAS who live holy loving lives before God. I have also known seen many others who really do use OSAS as a license to sin. When I see that I pray they will...

people stop believing in a person when they person continuously lets them down. we do not just trust someone then decide to not trust them A lot of people are deceived into thinking someone else has betrayed them. Even if this is not true they might accept it as fact. I have seen this happen...

When did I ever say "it is all me?"

Yes breaking the seal would mean judgment. What I draw from from that is that, while we must LOVE the King we must also FEAR Him. 12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with FEAR AND...

1 Corinthians 10 is the NT interpretation of what happened under Moses. "Looking upon the snake hanging on the pole" was a single event in Israel's journey. This was not the only time God turned them away from destruction. You have taken this one incident to be the whole journey yet Paul said...

I agree with much of what you are saying as well. I like your attempt to get to the heart of the scriptures

Everlasting-Grace said: so you are unwilling to give it all to christ, you must take a part yourself? Again, They looked once.. They did not have to continue to believe.. A person who believes must continue to believe in Him and walk in dependent faith Does the...

studier said: The voice (not the tense) of the verb shows who is doing the action in relation to the subject. You are right about the Voice being the part of speech that refers to whether the subject is the SOURCE of the action, a RECIPIENT of it or a bit of...

They certainly did have to They did not have to continue to believe.. Strange that you say that when so much of the NT is devoted to COMMANDING, EXHORTING and even WARNING us to ABIDE, REMAIN and CONTINUE in Christ. If we were UNABLE to do anything but ABIDE, REMAIN and CONTINUE in Him such...

Very good word! Repentance can be painful but it "restores the JOY of our salvation" so ultimately it is POSITIVE RATHER THAN NEGATIVE. The change is certainly worth it: 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word. 68You ARE good, and You DO what is good; TEACH ME Your...

I like to say pain is simultaneously my best and most hated tutor. Of course, it is really not really pain that taught me but rather the Holy Spirit who walked through it with me. At one time I lost everything: my marriage, my children my job. After that first wave, by the grace of God I...

It is certainly true that anyone who wants to be saved must LOOK TO JESUS to be saved. The cross the snake was hanging on was a type of the cross that saved us. As a type that is as far as it went. You are trying to extend the type further than Jesus intended by proposing that, for it to be a...

Let me add that there is an initial point when salvation begins. What comes afterward is an abiding walk that is not static but dynamic

A SEAL would not have denoted something unbreakable and permanent to anyone living during the times when they were in use. We get that idea from experience. For instance, we might think about something being welded to something else. The purpose of such welds was to PREVENT TWO THINGS FROM...