Recent content by Ernest T. Bass

You keep repeating the same things. Again, if you cannot see the difference between obedience to God and works of merit then you will never understand NT salvation. Are you more loyal to false man-made docrtrines than Christ's NT? God's Spirit thru Peter commanded those in Acts 2 to repent...

1) as long as a person refuses to accept the fact there is a difference between obedience to God and works of merit, then that person will never understand NT salvation. 2) it was not the water that healed Naaman but God. It was Naaman's OBEDIENCE to God as to why God healed him. Likewise, it...

Again... -- you cannot show one example from the Bible where a person's obedience to God earned that person anything, where God owes people for their obedience. Your inability to show this is based upon the fact that obedience to God and works of merit are two totally, completely different...

You keep beating the same dead horse with same failed arguments. --NO VERSE teaches the idea of Christ saving sinners UNconditionally. The idea of "sinners saved by grace" is not found in the Bible for it is not sinners who are saved by grace but Christians are the ones saved by grace for it...

2 Jn 1:9-10 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: A...

Truth: "And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD...

Free gifts are many times CONDITIONAL as the gift of salvation is CONDITIONAL upon obedience hence not everyone universally, unconditionally receives this free gift for not everyone will meet the necessary condition of obedience to God's will. Naaman was offered the free gift of being healed...

There is nothing in Philippians 3 that contradicts Paul saying he was under law to Christ. The BIble does not contradict itself. What is in Phil 3:16 is Paul telling Christians to walk by the same rule. The Greek word for rule is kanon like canon of scriptures. The word kanon carries the...

Again...... Paul, a born again Christian, said he was under law to Christ, 1 Cor 9:21. Your argument continues to die right here. The OT law is NOT to be kept by Christians, that would be sinful (Rom 7:1-5) furthermore that OT law of Moses cannot justify (Rom 3; Gal 3). But NT Christians are...

You read things into verses that are simply not in them. The verse in Gal 3 does NOT say Christ did away with obedience, it says He did away with the curse of the law which He did when He died on the cross, He took away that OT law with its curse of sinless, flawless law keeping Jew nor Gentile...

Again, curse of the law refers to the OT law of Moses which required flawless sinless law keeping that neither Jew nor Gentile could do. On the cross Christ did take that OT law out of the way with its curse of perfect law keeping replacing it with His NT law that requires faithful OBDIENCE not...

In Galatians Chapter 3, "the law" refers to the OT law of Moses. Only the Jews were given the OT law of Moses and to be justified by that OT law required the work of sinless, flawless perfect law keeping, something the Jew could not do. Therefore that OT law left the Jew as unjustified as the...

(1) The Bible makes a contrast between the OT (the law) and NT (grace). John 1:17 shows a contrast between the OT and NT: "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." "The law" here is a reference to the law of Moses and 'grace' refers to the NT law of Christ...

Quotes from OSASer Charles Stanley: "Even if a believer for all practical purposes becomes an unbeliever, his salvation is not in jeopardy" Stanley, Eternal Security, 93. "..believers who lose or abandon their faith will retain their salvation" Stanley, Eternal Security, 94. Other OSASers...

Paul was writing to Christians in Corinth warning them about falling, 1 Cor 10. Again the words fall and apostasy mean to move from position to another, to move away from a previous standing, Hence logically falling means to fall from a previous saved standing to a lost. Falling cannot apply...