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The school my wife and I have been working for the last ten years has been struggling to survive and has been forced to relocate three times in the last ten years, with all the attendant costs and the dislocation of staff and students' families involved. My wife was asking about a fleece she...

You are free to believe that, even if you can't demonstrate that the scripture say that. I don't need to believe that to make following the Lord Jesus Christ worthwhile.

Rom 8:23 and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. Rom 8:24 For in this hope we were saved (ἐσώθημεν, esOthEmen, aorist passive indicative). Now hope that is seen is not...

There's a BS form of everything.

What tenses in the Greek text are the verbs in your citations? namely, "have received" , "believes", "ask", "see", "believe", "eat". The promises following apply to those doing those verbs according to the tense of those verbs. And on that basis, they don't say what you think they are saying.

IF it had been God's plan for Esau to die at the age of 6 weeks, he would have been saved. However, God chooses no one for premature death, so the premise of your question is flawed, making your conclusion flawed. It is also logically flawed to assume that because God allocated Esau and his...

Am I understanding you correctly as saying that genuine faith in Jesus is expressed as good works, and if a person turns away from pursuing a lifestyle of good works, this can only happen if they have abandoned genuine faith in Christ, because faith and good works are two sides of one coin?

Personally, I prefer inductive Bible study. https://research.lifeway.com/2014/01/30/seven-advantages-of-inductive-bible-study/

So, you have no scriptures that say what you believe. You merely have an opinion that you insist is true because someone told you it is true. You are free to base your beliefs on hearsay. But it's a pretty weak foundation to rely on.

You did not answer my questions. We all agree that our initial salvation is achieved independently of any works we have done up to that point. All your citations use the past tense: He saved us. So it is talking about a past event, our initial salvation, not a present event. Do you have any...

We all agree that our initial salvation is achieved independently of any works we have done up to that point. All your citations use the past tense: He saved us. So it is talking about a past event, our initial salvation, not a present event. Do you have any verses that say anything like "He is...

Acceptance is unilateral, and something God chooses to grant, which we have whether we experience it as ours or not. Present salvation is wholeness. It is a healthy experience of communion with God. It is a two way intimate relationship. One can be accepted by God, but not be presently...

My perspective is that God accepts people who reach out to Him with trust as far as they can, in whatever culture and time, but the persons who do so may not have assurance of God's acceptance, except through faith in the cross and the Saviour who bore our sins on it. My perspective is that...

Mouse_Cheeks said: If we're created separated from God due to our sinful human nature, how can we bridge that nature all by ourselves and choose Jesus? Ohh. Okay. you don't believe we're created separated from God due to a sinful nature, and you were posing a question to challenge those who...

That is possible. But it is also possible that Paul is not describing the objective reality, but the Gentiles' subjective experience. Perhaps they had felt alienated from God because of their guilty conscience, and the only religion in their midst that claimed to guarantee God's forgiveness of...

Eph 2:10 For of Him (αὐτοῦ γάρ) we are (ἐσμεν) workmanship (ποίημα: used only one other time of the creation in Rom. 1:20), created (κτισθέντες) in Christ Jesus (ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ) upon good works (ἐπὶ ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς), which (οἷς ) prepares/-ed (προητοίμασεν, aorist indicative active) the God (ὁ...

Invalid without scripture to support your opinion.

Matt. 23 Woe to you scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites. I must say that I heard a better sermon from the Holy Spirit's commentary on the text while the preacher preached, than from what the preacher himself was saying.

There is a saying in politics, "The cover-up is worse than the crime. " This is also true of sin. Sins do not condemn us, since Jesus has born all our sins in Himself on the cross. However, the one sin that is not forgiven while we are still practising it, is deliberately lying in trying to...

What is the reality that applying the blood refers to? What did applying the blood indicate in the exodus? Those who were believing YHWHs warning and were relying on His promise, applied the blood to their lintels and doorposts. Could we surmise that when we believe God's warnings in the gospel...