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James was addressing believers in Christ. That means they were in the Body of Christ. To say that they weren't is typically a hyperdispensationalist claim. In my Dispensationalist years, I always acknowledged that James was addressing members of the Body of Christ. He used Mosaic terminology...

All humans will eventually sin at some point after birth, but no one is born a sinner. We're born in mortal flesh, and it is the fear of death that overwhelms us and tempts us into sin. All die because all sin; not because we're born sinners. [Rom 5:12 NASB95] 12 Therefore, just as through one...

By simply walking by the Spirit in Jesus' commandments. God keeps us as long as we do that, because it is accomplished by the Spirit who empowers us, not by the power of the flesh. [Rom 8:13 NASB95] 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are...

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@ElectedbyHim From what I see in the scriptures, a born-again (regenerate) Christian can return to spiritual death through sin. False doctrine (heresy) can lead regenerate Christians into deception, sin, and a fall from grace. We see this most notably in the regenerate Galatians who fell from...

Read James 2:26 again. Since when does a body create its own spirit? Peter also understood that faith alone was insufficient. Faith needs to be supplemented. [2Pe 1:5-7 NASB95] 5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in [your] moral...

This is exactly the danger that commentaries pose. Hebrews 10:25 has nothing to do with forsaking congregational "worship" service. Worship just means bowing. There is no evidence that took place in the 1st century Church. Hebrews 10:25 is about forsaking the gathering together of the elect...

Faith without works is dead. So can we remain justified if we let our faith die by ceasing from works of obedience? Does dead faith provide access to grace? The answers are NO. I've shown this from Galatians 5:4 already. [Gal 5:4 NASB95] 4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are...

[Pro 1:28-31 NASB95] 28 "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me, 29 Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD. 30 "They would not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof. 31 "So they shall eat of...

The fear of the Lord is a good thing. It's the beginning of wisdom, and it makes your faith strong. Don't shrink back from it. Confront it and speak the truth. Acknowledge what the Spirit says through the scriptures. [Rev 21:8 NASB95] 8 "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and...

Actually, Hebrews 10 was about not caving to the pressure of the Judaizers to revert back to the Law of Moses. Either way, it really doesn't matter. God provides an escape from all sin as I pointed out with 1Corinthians 10:13, but if we do sin, repentance is still available (1John 2:1)...if we...

Not everyone who is born again is of the elect. A born-again believer can fall from grace through disobedience. [Gal 3:2-3 NASB95] 2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having...

[Heb 10:26-27 NKJV] 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. [1Ti 4:16 NKJV] 16 Take heed to yourself and...

No one on this side of heaven has eternal security, not even you.

The Bible does not teach eternal security. It teaches that we must obey Jesus' commandments to remain in Christ. There is no salvation outside of Christ. [Jhn 15:10 NASB95] 10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His...

There was a time element, and it expired in 70 AD. It was fulfilled; mission accomplished! We can still have salvation by obeying Jesus' commandments, but the original gospel has not been preached properly since 70 AD. Every tradition since the church fathers have adulterated the gospel in one...

(TL/DR at the bottom.) We often believe that the gospel has to be taken to the entire global world before Jesus returns, but that's not actually what the Bible says or means. Matt 24:14 tells us that the gospel had to be taken to all of the nations of the oikoumene (G3625), which at the time...

If you have turned away from you sins, believe that Jesus died for our sins, was raised on the third day, and obey his commandment to love one another, according to the scriptures, then you are born again. If you're still lingering in sin, whether you believe in Christ or not, you will not be...

I don't think we should trust them at all. They're the reason Catholic and Orthodox "Apostolic Succession" rose to prominence with all their "doctrinal developments." Irenaeus thought that Jesus died around the age of fifty, and half (or even all) of Ignatius' epistles are commonly understood to...

We don't get to pick and choose what we want to believe. That would be a dishonest faith.