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I take the 3 occurrences of "retrobate" to be an 'aside' to what Paul is focusing on. (Paul assumes they're saved and have the necessary resource (Jesus Christ in you) to receive "Christ speaking in him", but won't "pronounce" them saved.) A paraphrase might be: Examine yourselves, whether ye...

I don't think "in the faith" means "saved". I think "in the faith" is a mindset that a saved person has to have in order to perceive Christ speaking in Paul. When a saved person is in "debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults", they're out of the faith...

Right. My assurance of my own salvation comes solely from God's promises in His word. Assuring fruit-inspectors of my salvation is an entirely different matter.

I hope the judge & jury don't allow anticipated riots to influence their decisions. That would be Lady Justice peeking out from her blindfold.

wow

We're all "criminally negligent" - we're sinners. Thank God for the police.

Thanks for posting that link.

The guy was disobeying and resisting from the get-go. He wouldn't put his hands on the steering wheel when the police repeatedly told him to. He was doing the "I can't breathe" thing when he was in the police car with no one on top of him. People on drugs can be very dangerous - he needed to...

Sometimes the best defense is a good attack.

The sons of God were human, not angels.

Black Lives Matter = blatant lawlessness

Officer Rolfe should be released and receive reparations. The mayor and the D.A. should be removed from office.

That sounds like a devilish excuse for not loving your neighbor; you'd be loving someone God doesn't.

Here’s the problem with Lordship Salvation, as I see it. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. OK then, I believe – now I’m saved. Having believed and gotten saved, I see that I don’t have enough good works – so I must not be saved. Well then I better get saved. OK then, I...

That's the flesh of Christians you're focusing on; it doesn't have that propensity at all. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing ... Romans 7:18 (KJV) But the new creature does have it. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him...

James is writing to "beloved brethren" (vs.5), who are already saved and eternally secure. The only "saving" (vs.14) faith in the passage is the saving from temporal judgement mentioned in verse 13; not from hell. Respecting the man in vile raiment, flawlessly keeping the whole law, offering...

I don't think your hypothetical person exists. He receives Christ as Savior and then never crosses paths with Him again??? If he receives Christ as Savior he becomes a child of God (John 1:12). When he runs off the path, Father outruns him and diverts his path straight to the woodshed (Heb...

I don't think it "removes" it. I think it tries to better define it. When an unsaved person believes on the Lord Jesus for salvation, they're obeying/following Him in that very act. Once they're saved, they're a new creature whose propensity is nothing but obeying/following Him. Actually the...

How ye turned to God from idols to serve ... It doesn't say they turned to God from idols in order to become saved. They were already saved at this particular point of turning; they became followers of the Lord, having received the word. They received the word (believed and were saved) first...

Right there is the problem with lordship salvation. How does an unsaved person "cease from sin" in order to become saved? The unsaved person hasn't become a new creature yet. In order to 'cease from sin', he must be born of God. Anti-lordship salvation people (such as myself) agree that the...