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it is not the duty of a stranger to do anything. we follow Him because we are His sheep, not in order to become His sheep. if by works, grace is no longer grace, but a wage. what had blinded you from being able to see this?

John 6:29 says that we believe is the work of God.

"boastful works" is an utterly unscriptural, completely human term devised as a clever way to attempt to thwart His grace, an humanist end-run denying the power of God. and unfortunately that's all it seems you've got. friend, there is much more than that. lay down your self, and seek Him

Ephesians 2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. the works we cannot boast of are the ones we have not done at all. for example, the work that only God Himself - not your or i - has done, that He alone accomplished, without our help, in fact, despite what we did and do: Ephesians 1:7 In...

name one thing it is impossible to boast of

that man believed in his heart, and confessed with his mouth. his faith wasn't alone; Christ was with him

the Bible doesn't say salvation is not by "boastful works" the Bible says Salvation is "not by works" John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in Him whom He sent."

@Beckworth in your view can a person who has sinned ever regain their salvation? for example, having spoken falsely, are you now eternally damned, all your works that you believe merit eternal life as a wage made forfeit by your mistake?

Nope. false again. what does scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness. decades before he took Isaac to the mountain.

No, it says "by grace we are saved, not of works, lest any should boast" there is no Biblical distinction between works that are boastful and works that are not. that is a purely human-made imaginary term you're preaching, because you want to boast in your personal definition of non-boastful...

it is after all a question - "who knows?" and the answer to the question is God.

Sound advice if your hand or eye is really the thing preventing you from being saved. you think a man being plainly described as fully conscious and able to speak and think and feel while his body is in the grave is an allegory? an allegory of what?

he is a soul saved from water in an ark, who in time led the children of Israel to salvation through water, with The Angel of The LORD going before them and standing between them and death.

what's the next verse say?

Satans lying argument to Woman seems to me to be that she was not actually created with life, and the only way she can gain it is by sin. it's a tacit accusation against God that He has purposefully withheld goodness from her, not a simple ruse that sin has no consequence. lack of consequence...

why does Christ describe both the beggar Lazarus and the rich man as though it is a plain matter of fact that they still have consciousness while their physical bodies are in the grave? is Jesus being deceitful?

Romans 8:19-23 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected [it] in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of...

how can you quote that and then say this? all animals are living souls. the creation was subjected to frustration not because of its own, but for Adam's sake. a squirrel's spirit is not dust, it is spirit. the body is dust, and it will be resurrected. if it is sown a natural body, it will be...

what in the world makes you think the other living souls can't be with God? they don't even sin, but we do!

not "like" animals. indeed, animals. Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.