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That's a good analogy illustrating the salvation of the body. What does the salvation of the soul look like? Doesn't the Bible also speak about character building, wisdom, knowledge in the Lord, trust, faith, honesty, loyalty, and the fruits of the Spirit? Maybe we are first born again and then...

Here is another puzzle piece to consider. In the slogan OSAS (once saved always saved) when is a person "saved"? How we answer this question will color our understanding. Are we saved when we respond to an altar call? Maybe we are saved at our Baptism instead? Or maybe we are saved after the...

Well, to answer your question directly, why do we find such variation of the gospel among good and honest Christians? It's like this: when we first come to belief, someone hands us a box full of puzzle pieces and says, put this puzzle together. The problem is simple, but the effort is daunting...

Good question. The answer is to honestly ask ourselves, what do we fear? When I was a young believer, I feared God's punishment, so I tried to give up lust. Like quicksand, the harder I tried to escape, the deeper I got. I was young, and lust was with me wherever I went. So, I prayed about it...

Sorry, I am late to the party, but consider the following conditions. If salvation is "transactional": I give God something he wants, i.e., faith, and he gives me salvation on his part, then it is possible to fall away. if however, salvation is "relational,", God establishes a relation with...

I always remembered Paul's word to the Philippians, where he writes, When you feel lust coming, fill your mind and thoughts with the things above.

Is this common? What kinds of things do they say?

In Romans 6, Paul asks a significant question, "Why would those who have believed the gospel and have become baptized inti christ continue in sin?