Search results

I like how you call the Gospel a Summons. The 1st Commandment for today is, "Thou Shalt have Jesus Christ as your Lord God and Savior"...

Do you hold to Lordship Salvation? If not, it seems like you would like it... https://www.gty.org/library/articles/A114/an-introduction-to-lordship-salvation

It would be Special Pleading to limit reconciling your dilemma to the Book of John and it's Verses in your OP, and not allowing for the Old Testament verses; Jews may be Lurking. Why not accommodate them?

Saint Paul is simply saying to Believers who didn't believe in Resurrection; comparatively speaking, the result would be Christ couldn’t rise from the dead if that were true. Paul is not saying that if Christ didn't rise for All, Christ isn't Risen...

I don't know what you said. Currently I'm speaking past you to the Lurkers. Right now, I feel as if you don't want your dilemma resolved on purpose. Correct me if I'm wrong. By your rule, I answered your dilemma...

Then my point about your Verses should be accepted as how I reconcile the issue; right? Jesus meant some of the things he said to apply to the Old Covenant, not the New Covenant. This is true of everything he said in John; it's either for the Old or for the New...

Hey @GracePeace . Would you consider this tactic to be like box'ing people in? In one sense, you ask us how we resolve the issue; and we say by thinking outside the box. When we do this, you tell us you only want to solve the problem by box'ing us in... I would think this is like a Jew wanting...

Adopted ~ by ReverendRV * January 7 Ephesians 1:5 KJV; Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, Have you been Adopted by God? Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees who claimed to be children of their Jewish...

Yes; we are Sealed by the Spirit. This shows us that we're Signed, Sealed, delivered... Here's my Gospel Tract about it...

That's right @PGS11 . The problem is when people get to a strict definition of Calvinism's Limited Atonement; IE Definite Numbering... In the Old Testament, the Definite Numbering belonged to Israel Alone...

The issue of immediate Justification at first Belief, or Salvation taking our entire lives by having to Keep the Law of God...

Shadow of Death ~ by ReverendRV * September 22 Psalm 23:4 KJV; Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. After Church was over on a Sunday, a family gathered into their car and started home...

As @ScottA said, welcome @bdavidc ... You are right on; the Fear of the LORD is the beginning of Wisdom. We like to use Friendship Evangelism, but this approach delays a friend's Wisdom 'beginning'. Saint Paul said he became All things in hope to win some; sometimes Friendship Evangelism is...

Are you saying that if All are not raised unto Righteousness, Christ is not raised? Because all are raised to face Judgment. Since All are raised to face Judgment, your objection doesn't apply; right?

Well, that's the answer to your OP... I get that you wouldn't like Covenant Theology, because Calvinists like it. But the Bible makes a whole lot more sense now. Ray Comfort's "The Way of the Master"'s Evangelism method is based on it (you can see my Gospel Tracts are based on this); he uses...

Man of two Covenants ~ by ReverendRV * July 8 Jeremiah 31:31 NLT; "The day is coming," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. Before the days of Jeremiah, the last Covenant God made with Israel was the Davidic Covenant. I researched a Jewish Rabbi...

Ah! Jesus said a lot of things about how to be made right under the Mosaic Covenant of Works, so when Jesus said things like this, he was showing people that they were unable to Keep the Law. Him saying things like this, isn't meant for Us/Church; it's meant for them/Israel... I'll Paste my...

You will have to rub my nose In it; where does Saint John hitch Works to Eternal Life?

Well, I would just leave you with this; I can't think of anyone who will say Saint James is trying to unhitch us from Good Works... Lurkers? What say you?