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Indeed - very true! No one is worthy apart from Jesus. The way to become worthy is to accept Jesus as Lord (master of one's life) and Savior.

True. The word "faith" or "belief" - in the full sense of the word, means belief combined with putting it to action in one's life. To do otherwise is being a hypocrite and has failed to come to essential repentance.

They come to repentance after hearing the gospel - if they choose to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life. God makes it so they are able to sufficiently understand it - if they're sincere in wanting to understand it. Anyone willfully resisting the gospel, will by their resistance...

But there are many who are just as hypocritical as they were. And if it was only referring to the Pharisees and of no use for teaching us the danger of hypocrisy - it would have been useless to read about it to anyone who was not a Pharisee. But all of the scriptures are of benefit for...

Indeed, the most important thing to understand in the Bible, is the gospel, and it's equally important to live according to it in daily life. Anyone not doing it are hypocrites and not worthy of eternal life in heaven - until or unless they come to repentance.

Well, I've studied history before myself. And know the weather has fluctuated a lot ever since the beginning of the creation of the world, etc.

I don't see that chapter in James as being only directed to stable Christians. To me, it was admonishing believers to remember the importance of sincerely obeying the gospel to the best of one's ability. And to not allow oneself to willingly give into sin, ever, as many professing...

Yes, believing in the gospel (the head knowledge about the gospel) must precede repentance. The process begins with the essential understanding of the gospel. Head knowledge about the gospel isn't enough alone - to save anyone - though it is an essential part necessary in the process...

Yes that's true, none of us are able to be 100% perfectly sinless. Only Jesus was capable of that, and in fact never ever sinned. But as Romans shows - we as humans, can't help but have to struggle against sin. The true Christian will prayerfully struggle against sin in daily life. But...

True - we aren't to judge one another unnecessesarily. As God knows people's hearts better than we are capable of knowing them. Though we can't help question in our minds about whether a person we're addressing - is saved or not. That's understandable, as not all who say they're saved...

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No - I think he was clearly talking about the need of the assent of one's will in order to get saved: Mark 8:34-37 34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow...

It looks like you and I are in agreement on this subject! Those are good Bible verses on the subject. Repentance is a necessary part in the attainment of salvation. And without it, there is no pardon for sins. Judas, the betrayer of Jesus, was described by Jesus and not being clean...

Well, I'd say it a bit differently though similar. I believe there are both absolutely essential truths to believe, and also the kind that are not absolutely essential. The absolutely essential kind are the kind relating to the way of salvation. We can't expect all people to understand...

If all sins were intentional, then all people would go to heaven, regardless of how they lived. But I don't see this as the case. I read the Bible a lot, and you must too, and that's good. But we aren't presently able to agree on this subject according to how we see them as explained in the...

True the modern term of "easy believism' isn't used in the Bible. But it's expressed in other ways. I know many verses on the subject.

I wouldn't trust 100% - theories about the world that aren't mentioned in the Bible. When we get to heaven, we'll understand it all perfectly. I do know the world is said to be 6000 years old and a bit more - according to many Bible theologians. Who use Bible genealogies and events to...

This life isn't perfect - we just have to do the best we have with what we have and know, but always prayerfully.