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I believe that we are not guilty of sin at birth, as a newborn is incapable of sinning. However, due to the Fall, all humanity stands guilty before God. Adam and Eve were initially in a perfect, innocent, and sinless state. They walked in the garden without realizing their nakedness. But after...

Ephesians 2:1-3 says that we are born dead to God, spiritually stillborn. Sin is the essential self-centeredness of humans. If you want to see it illustrated, watch the great movie Amadeus, which I watched last night on my 82nd birthday. It shows two people, Mozart and Salieri, who basically...

How can you say that the devil tempted Eve with what was already hers? The tree of the knowledge of good and evil wasn't already hers. That's why God forbade Eve and Adam to eat of it.

The KJV is the only translation that inserts the word "not" or "no" with joy. All the others say that there is great joy. Isaiah 6:6, of course, gives us the context that a child-Ruler is born, pointing forward to Jesus, the Prince of Peace. The KJV does have a few errors in its translation.

When we can, attend a Bible-preaching church regularly. Join a Bible-discussion small group. These are other tried and true ways. Individualism separates us, but God brings Christians together.

The Bible is God's Word. Therefore, we need to interpret it according to the meanings of the words he inspired in Hebrew and Greek. Get a good concordance and study all the places God inspired the uses of words in their contexts, and you will understand his meanings, not those of our cultures.

Read several times while praying for God's guidance Ephesians 2:1-10.

Faith is never our work. Ephesians 2:8.9 says very clearly, "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." One principle of Bible interpretation is using a clear passage to interpret...

Ah, if we could obey the whole Bible perfectly the way those passages say, God would save us. HOWEVER, we can't because nobody's perfect. Jesus was and is perfect; it was his perfection and his death that saves us. His resurrection enables us to live a life of good works. So, it's all to his...

An excellent summary, "B"!!

And Jesus' resurrection power gives us the resource to make spiritual progress (Colossians 3), though because we still live in these bodies, we don't become perfect until we die.

Take a look at Jesus' condemnation of the Pharisees' giving but his approval of their tithing: Mat_23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you...

It's interesting that you quote Hebrews 10:25. The verses surrounding it say, Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our...

According to Jesus' teachings in the Gospel of John, God is the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit--three Persons in ONE eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, present-everywhere God--who accepts us only because of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. That's God's teaching for us; you can take it...

It's similar to praying fervently for the salvation of our loved ones, while at the same time praying for Jesus' Second Coming to take place soon. Both are biblical prayers, and we need to pray them while letting God decide the answers. In my experiences and in the Bible, God gives four...

The Bible's basic teachings and history are easy to understand, if God has given us the Holy Spirit and rescued us through his gift of faith in Jesus as the only way to the Father's acceptance. However, a lot of the deeper truths are very mysterious, for example, the fact that God is three...

Notice the following passage, in which Jesus tells his followers that Satan fell from heaven already: Luk 10:17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” Luk 10:18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven...

Well, he's wrong, unless he doesn't want to get his beliefs from the Bible (John 14:6), which says that Jesus is the only way to the Father.

In talking to everyone, I always say, "I believe that...." or "It's been my experience that...." They can't disagree, because it's what you believe or have experienced. Therefore, it keeps the conversation loving, when I don't try to say that they have to believe or experience what I have. In...

Jesus says that we must always be ready for his coming, because no one knows the time (Matthew 24).