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That erroneously suggests that God creates sinners and thus He would be held accountable for that. When people sin in and of their own choices the judgement resides on them. That is how God holds people accountable and why people are not born sinning. Original sin/born sinning concept is bunk.

That's one for sure. There are more like Revelation 20:4,10-15, Romans 2:2-12, Romans 14:10-12, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 1 Peter 4:17-18, Matthew 25:26-30, and Hebrews 10:26-27. So I am really curious that despite all the arguments and lawyering and theology.... how do you get around the works-based...

Please take a moment and gather yourself and realize the side you're arguing for right now. You're basically arguing that the apostles did not tell people to stop sinning. Hello, sir. Have you ever read the Bible? Ceasing sin activity is a major theme from cover to cover. I'll just take some...

Hmm going to have to disagree. The apostles went all about the Roman empire reminding Christians to basically stop sinning or there will be hell to pay. No pun intended. It's all over the New Testament. People are also not born sinning either. Anyway, how do you account for the final judgement...

One can sin and fall from the grace of God. It's not explicitly stated in those words, but there are enough conditional statements in the Bible that means it's so. Condition: walking in the light Result: purified from all sin 1 John 1 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we...

Good question and I think some of the nuance in the type of love they were referring to gets lost in translation. There are different kinds of love. Sometimes it's more like wishing someone the best, but really having nothing to do with them even if they were in need. Other times it's not only...

Almost got lured completely into Calvinism once. A lot of people do because it sounds religious, sounds good, sounds perfect. Started praying like a Calvinist, acting like a Calvinist, believing like a Calvinist, and every time I did I felt I was sinning. Something was not sitting right in my...

True, but you're only touching the tip of the iceberg about what the early church thought about God, Jesus and who they could become. That may be why "nearly all or all other forums will stop the discussion out right." It's because they may already be keen about where the discussion will...

The only explanation Abraham offered was they ended up where they are due to their bad things and good things they received. While it is not directly stated that they were judged prior to their arrival at their destinations, they must have been sorted due to what they received in life; in other...

Next question. Did God cause to happen the bad things Lazarus received in his life or the good things the rich man received in his?

The Ephesians 2:8 verse you referenced above does not refer to faith as the gift in this context. It refers to grace as the gift with faith being the means through which one receives the gift of grace. That is the grammatically correct way to understand that verse. Not the same context as the...

I would offer you, I don't know if you will accept this, but the "Holy Spirit" that Jesus received at his water baptism came down in the bodily form of a dove, while simultaneously there was a voice from heaven, which was God. The dove was imagery of an anointing of a spirit of holiness and an...

Ok, I'll bite. So Lazarus went to the place of comfort, even though he's a sinner too, because he received bad things in his life? That's literal?

Generally speaking, I agree with most of the points you just made. The Bible is indeed filled with a lot of historical and cultural context that may not make sense from our modern day perspectives and worldviews. We run the risk of misunderstanding something that may have made perfect sense to...

While that may be true, moving from one geographical location to another isn't said to be a provocation for the day of the Lord in Scripture. The DOTL is the day of God's wrath and it could be potentially triggered by a mass exodus from righteous living to an abandonment of the faith and...

While I am not a Calvinist, stripping the Bible of any possible allegory and taking it completely literal results in a lot of interesting things. Is your perspective on the Bible to be literal about it all?

That's one of the interesting things about the Bible. While I believe everything in its proper context has no contradictions, there are a lot of ideas that must be measured out in moderation. For example, Jesus said not to judge others or else one will be judged by that same standard, while on...

The rest of the Bible pretty much echoes what Peter said in regards to Jesus being the Son of God. The Bible is quite consistent about it. I don't believe "Son of God" means someone is God though I can understand why someone would come to that conclusion. This was actually one of the reasons for...

Yes, and by this definition we can conclude that Jesus was himself the first member of God's church and is now the Lord of the church. Colossians 1 18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the...

Not sure when you're referring to, but there are a lot of people, mostly younger, in America nowadays who have never even heard of Jesus or have a concept of God. They are typically not hostile toward the ideas, when presented, either. Jesus and God have been sterilized from being mentioned...