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441 | god owes us salvation by our works? | Titus 3:5 | Reformer Joe | 67330 | ||
No, we have earned hell by our deeds (Romans 6:23). Salvation is a gift of God (Romans 3:23-24; Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8-9). --Joe! |
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442 | how is Titus relevant to us today | Titus 3:8 | Reformer Joe | 69943 | ||
Considering that it sets out the qualifications and duties of Christian leadership, gives instructions for relationships within God's household, points to God's mercy in saving us and the hope which He has set before us, and exhorts the people of God to honor Him with their works, I would see this short book as being very relevant to 21st-century evangelicalism. --Joe! |
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443 | How can Jesus be tempted if He is God? | Heb 4:15 | Reformer Joe | 4521 | ||
Temptation, despite our modern usage of the term, does not necessarily originate from our own sinfulness. We see that Jesus, for example, was tempted in the wilderness by Satan, as we see in Matthew 4:1. Who was the tempter? Satan. Was Jesus tempted? The rest of chapter 4 is pretty clear on that. Did Jesus sin? By no means! Therefore, the temptation of Matthew 4 has absolutely nothing to do with any moral imperfection that lay within Jesus during the incarnation. Now in James 1, the apostle is obviously referring to those who are not only tempted, but those who SUCCUMB to temptation (as we see in v. 14). For possessors of a sin nature such as we are, we can be tempted by our lusts, as well as by external tempters, or a combination of the two. What James DOES write is that God cannot be tempted (i.e. convinced/coerced into sin), and God is not the one who will tempt (i.e. convince/coerce others to sin). Now he may ALLOW us to be tempted, but but he is not the author of temptation to sin. We see this understanding of temptation also in the Lord's Prayer (or "model prayer," if you prefer). Jesus instructs that we should pray to not be led into temptation, in Matthew 6:13. Now it would be nonsense for someone to pray to the Father not to lead them into actual sin. Therefore, "temptation" here must mean something else. The Spirit (i.e. God) led Jesus into his temptation in the wilderness, but The Spirit did not lead him into sin. Therefore, the author of Hebrews tells us that Jesus our High Priest has been tempted, it refers to his exposure to avenues in which humans could sin in word, thought, or deed. However, as the rest of the verse says, he was "without sin" totally and completely in the face of such enticements. Make sense? --Joe! |
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444 | Is incomplete temptation real temptation | Heb 4:15 | Reformer Joe | 4524 | ||
I hold that the reason for his temptation was to outwardly demosntrate what was inwardly true, i.e. the complete obedience and moral perfection of Jesus Christ. Christ could not successfully be tempted to sin because he is eternal God. However, if he was kept from any opportunity to sin, how could he have truly demonstrated perfect obedience to God and thereby be an acceptable sacrifice for OUR sins? A good point of comparison would be Adam. Adam began in moral perfection, and God's only command to him was not to eat of that tree over there. Now if God had a 20-foot high, barbed-wire fence erected around the tree, how could Adam have demonstrated his obedience? For complete and total obedience to God, the avenue to disobedience must be available in some form. Now, while Adam chose to sin, being morally corruptible, Jesus would not and could not. The Father and the Spirit knew this, of course, but obedience without the opportunity to sin is not really obedience, just existence. In this way, Christ demonstrated both inward and outward obedience at every moment, and it is this obedience which was lived out in order that it could be credited to us once we are regenerated as believers. I would love to hear any feedback on this one! --Joe! |
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445 | Any info on the Human side of Jesus? | Heb 4:15 | Reformer Joe | 34822 | ||
There is lots of info on the human side of Jesus, in the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. However, I think that you may have been misinformed about Jesus experiencing everything we have to go through. Perhaps someone has drawn that conclusion from the verse above, where it says that Jesus has been tempted in every way. However, it is pretty easy to make a list of things that the incarnate Christ did not experience: 1. Being a woman 2. Drowning 3. Being a Gentile 4. The commission of personal sin, etc. Jesus in His human nature can identify with us because He has lived among us as a human, experiencing birth, the need for physical nourishment, maturity, rejection, suffering, etc. However, it is too much of a stretch to say that every tragedy that has befallen a person is something that Christ underwent in His body. As for Him take the verse at face value: it means what it says, and nothing more. Hope this helps! --Joe! |
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446 | : ) Sorry i did not clarify this topic | Heb 4:15 | Reformer Joe | 34840 | ||
No evidence of rape in the Scriptures. Perhaps you should take a different route... | ||||||
447 | Joe, what is Paul and Hebrews 'the Law'? | Heb 6:4 | Reformer Joe | 17915 | ||
Bill: Thoughts? Of course! You should know me better than that by now... :) "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." --Matthew 5:17-19 Whoever teaches the commandments will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. What commandments is Christ speaking of? Have heaven and earth passed away yet? Then why do some try to annul God's moral commands? As far as dismantling the Law, I am supporting no such thing. God's moral requirements both are encapsulated in the decalogue, but also pre-date the law as well. His moral requirements for humanity extend back as far as the garden, long before Moses came down from Sinai. Paul even mentions this in Galatians: "What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise. Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made." --Galatians 3:17 The covenant made with Abraham was pre-Law (in the Mosaic sense). It was not a covenant of works, but rather a covenant demonstrating God's grace. Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. If God's moral requirements only exist in the form of the Mosaic Law, we not only have the question of those who pre-date the Law, but also those who lived afterward but were not under the Law of Moses (i.e. the Gentiles). Paul speaks to them in Romans: "For there is no partiality with God. For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them" --Romans 2:11-14 We can glean several truths from these few verses: 1. Gentiles do not have the Law (of Moses) 2. They do instinctively the things of the Law (Does this mean sacrifices? I doubt it) 3. They have the Law (or law) written on their hearts. Again, is this the system of sacrifices or feasts? It seems that when Paul talks about the Law, he is referring to different aspects of the Law depending on different circumstances. 4. All who have sinned without the Law will perish without the Law. Therefore, only the Jews were "under the Law" in the first place, in the Mosaic sense. However, we are all accountable to the moral law of God, which is seen and expressed clearly in the Law of Moses, but also is eternal. We see God expressing his covenant of works with humanity in Genesis 2:16-17, based on His perfect standard of morality. Our first parents were not under the Mosaic covenant, nor the covenant of Abraham, but still obligated to follow the moral directives of God. Why do you contend that when Christ died and rose again that the moral requirements of God, which did not begin at Sinai, ended at Calvary? Again, I am not arguing that any of us are able to keep the requirements of God's moral law. That is why God established his covenant of grace with Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:15) and later more specifically with Abraham though which all the peoples of the earth would be blessed. God's covenant of grace was fulfilled at Calvary, and all who trust in Christ are part of that covenant. However, all humanity, as descendants of Adam, are part of the covenant of works established by God, which has never been nullified. The reason I am saved is that I am in Christ, who fulfilled the covenant of works for me and all who believe. One other question that would help clear things up on your perspective for me, Bill: what can I do as a Christian to honor God in my daily life that is not expressed in the Law? If the moral law passed away with the Mosaic Law, how am I to please God without obeying the moral commands found in the Pentateuch? --Joe! |
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448 | Whatever happened to John 17:21? | Heb 6:4 | Reformer Joe | 17967 | ||
Well, Bill, if you agree with everything I hold, then we can be one! Are you willing? :) --Joe! |
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449 | How can re-incarnation be disproved, | Heb 9:27 | Reformer Joe | 41083 | ||
Well, since she is the one making the claim that reincarnation is true, what evidence does she have (other then silly people like Shirley MacLaine SAYING they have lived before) that reincarnation is true? You might want to ask her if she believes that animals reincarnate into people and vice versa. You don't have too many Western people who claim that one day they will be a monkey or a rat if they are lucky enough. Try using Scripture, by the way. The Holy Spirit works primarily through the proclamation of His Word. Remember that sharing the truth is more than just an intellectual exercise. She is pre-disposed to believing any and every lie before embracing the truth of the gospel unless God enlightens her mind to the truth. --Joe! |
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450 | Can we worship outside of our community? | Heb 10:25 | Reformer Joe | 29662 | ||
The Bible says only that we ARE to come together to worship, not where. I think that community worship was the norm in the NT, but there weren't automobiles, and there weren't exactly 1700 Christian churches in every major city. There are advantages, I think, to worshiping somewhat close to where one lives, but there appears to be no commandment that you do so. --Joe! |
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451 | Why must I go to church? | Heb 10:25 | Reformer Joe | 51580 | ||
Hello, Hannah. You wrote: "Why is it so important to attend church if my salvation is based on my personal relationship with Christ? I can pray at home. Where is this emphasizied in the scripture?" Here is a few places: "For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching; or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness." --Romans 12:4-8 So we are to minister to one another with the gifts that God has given us (and God intentionally didn't give them to us all). As Christians, we belong to each other, and withdrawing from fellowship is denial of who you are. "And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ." --Ephesians 4:11-13 We are involved in the equipping and building up of one another. In addition, the Holy Spirit has equipped individuals in the church as teachers, and it is in the gathering of the saints that you get that teaching. "And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." TOGETHER we are being built as a spiritual house. Over and over again we see that we are saved as individuals, but we are saved INTO a community of believers, a communion of saints. "So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God." --Colossians 3:12-16 There are so many commands from God such as in the passage above which simply make no sense or are impossible to obey outside the context of the gathering of believers. We are baptized into the church: "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit." --1 Corinthians 12:13 (I would recommend this whole chapter as an answer to your question). The Lord's Supper is perhaps the clearest example of our common bond in Jesus Christ: "Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread." --1 Corinthians 10:17 The plain fact of Scripture is that the ministry of God's people is primarily to be in the context of the body of Christ, and not as a bunch of "lone Christians" roaming the spiritual prarie. The Christian life is a communal life. Spiritual growth occurs in this context, and sanctification is handicapped without it. You have something to gain from fellowship with your brothers and sisters in Christ, and you have been given something to contribute as well. To neglect God's people is to neglect that to which you were called. "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near." --Hebrews 10:23-25 --Joe! |
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452 | Is the consuming fire in Heb. hell fire? | Heb 10:26 | Reformer Joe | 63473 | ||
I do believe that it is referring to what awaits those who have broken covenant with God and shown themselves to not be His people. The situation that the writer of Hebrews was addressing in the entire epistle was the temptation for professing Jewish believers to return to the Law. After chapters of showing both the true role of the Law and the superiority of Jesus to Moses, the author begins in 10:18 to encourage them to hold fast to the confession of faith in Christ, and to encourage the other members of the congregation to do the same. All of them have received the knowledge of the truth by being members of the Christian community. To depart from that and return to the sacrifices is foolish, for apart from Christ there remains no sacrifice for sins, only judgment. To reject Christ is to reject the only intercessor and Great High Priest there is, and what remains is yourself taking upon God's holy and eternal and just wrath. This is a very strong passage supporting the doctrine of the Preservation (Perseverance) of the Saints. Those who truly belong to Christ will by the Spirit's power hold fast to their confession (10:23), will not trample the gospel underfoot and insult the Spirit of grace (10:29), will not throw away their confidence (10:35), will endure (10:36), and will not shrink back (10:39). Those who do were never Christ's in the first place. --Joe! |
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453 | What sort of judgment is this? | Heb 10:26 | Reformer Joe | 63485 | ||
"Now, my question: Is judgment always eternal judgment? And if not, then what sort of judgment is in view here?" All judgment is not eternal judgment, but I think that is what in view in here. The author is addressing people who are shrinking back, leaving the covenant community of God and rejecting Christ. There are several statements which indicate this: "For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES."--Hebrews 10:26-27 The writer speaks here of no sacrifice remaining for these sins. Without a sacrifice for our sins, where do we stand before a just and holy God? "But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul." --Hebrews 10:39 We have two opposite scenarios here: 1. Shrinking back to destruction. 2. Having faith to the preserving of the soul. Since the writer juxtaposes these two scenarios, it is logical to think that those who have faith will not "shrink back" and those who are destroyed do not have their souls preserved. Also, calling attention to physical destruction does not make a lot of sense to me, because it is precisely because of physical harm and destruction that many were being tempted to deny Christ. "Shrinking back" meant in most cases being spared from physical destruction in this life. "Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?" --Hebrews 10:28-29 What we have above is an argument from the lesser to the greater. If violating the Mosaic Covenant called for a merciless death, how much more severe will be the merciless judgment from God? The images here are trampling Jesus underfoot, regarding the blood of Christ to be unclean, and insulting the Holy Spirit (bringing to my mind Mark 3:29). These are things that the unregenerate do, not the genuine children of God. --Joe! |
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454 | RU saying some sanctified aren't saved? | Heb 10:26 | Reformer Joe | 63511 | ||
You wrote: "If you look back at my previous response, I did respond to vs. 39 - destruction does NOT always refer to E. life destruction, and is often used in the NT to refer to temporal destruction, waste, etc." I read that, but I was talking about the juxtaposition between "shrinking back" and "having faith". Those seem to be presented as opposites (i.e. one that falls into one of those categories does not fall into the other), as do "being destroyed" and having one's SOUL preserved. Why would the writer emphasize preservation of the soul if physical destruction is what the Holy Spirit had in view here? "But my question is whether or not you are saying that this passage here does say that these people were sanctified, yet that does NOT mean that they were regenerate!? Are you saying that one can be sanctified but not a Christian?" What I am saying is that one can be OUTWARDLY sanctified (e.g. set apart by baptism, or circumcision in the case of the OT Israelite) and not truly be a Christian. I just wanted to point out that the sanctification referred to in Hebrews 10:29 does not necessarily refer to an inward, spiritual transformation. In fact, I think to give it that meaning would lend credence to an Arminian understanding of the passage. We see outward sanctification throughout the Bible, from the consecration of the tabernacle and its contents, to the Nazirite vow (a special "setting apart"). One could even say that while the Protestant view of baptism and the Lord's Supper do not lend themselves to any kind of supernatural transformation of the the water, the bread, and the cup, that they are sanctified for a holy use. The word "sanctuary" itself comes from the same word, to connote a space set apart for the worship of God. With regard to people, we also see this in the New Testament: "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy." --1 Corinthians 7:14 Here we have unbelievers referred to as "sanctified." Obviously their unbelief means that they are not Christians, but they do have a special status (NOT salvation) as being set apart for the sake of the children of the believer. This is a challenging verse, but one thing is certain: there are unbelievers in the Bible who are referred to as "sanctified," and to me it makes the most sense to consider this outward "sanctification" as the one the writer of Hebrews mentions as well. --Joe! |
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455 | CAIN'S OFERING NOT ACCEPTED | Heb 11:4 | Reformer Joe | 81184 | ||
Obviously God had given Cain and Abel different instructions than he gave the people of Israel. We simply are not given the reason why God didn't accept Cain's offering. It is important to note that the agricultural offerings in Leviticus were not to atone for sins like the animal sacrifices were. In my opinion, this had something to do with the Genesis 4 situation, but ultimately it is just speculation on our part. --Joe! |
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456 | How were ppl saved before Jesus came? | Heb 11:6 | Reformer Joe | 49227 | ||
Nope. Those who came before Jesus' earthly ministry were saved via his substitutionary death on the Cross as well. Now, of course, the means of their justification wasn't as clear to them as is it to us who look back at the event rather than forward to it. However, God did reveal a coming redemption from Genesis 3:15 on. Throughout the Old Testament the coming Redeemer was foreshadowed and prefigured in the prophecies and in the sacrificial system under the Mosaic Covenant. However, faith in God's provision for our sins was the instrument through which the Old Testament saints were saved as well. Paul addresses this in Romans: "What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS." Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.' --Romans 4:1-5 Abraham was saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in God's promised redemption alone, just like we are. The Redeemer has been clearly revealed by God to us, but God's redemption has always been placed before His people. --Joe! |
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457 | How many local churches have you tried? | Heb 11:8 | Reformer Joe | 29347 | ||
I have changed my church of attendance in the last six months, for two reasons. First of all, the theology to which I now have come to embrace is very much at odds with that of the pastor and elders of the church which my wife and I used to attend. They were not issues of utmost importance (i.e. in such a way that it could be said that the members there are not Christians), so it was not a situation which my wife and I were compelled to leave at first. It was only when the direction of the church changed to take on some practices which I consider very contrary to what Scripture reveals that my wife and I decided to move on. Specifically, it was the abandonment of the concept of the church as a place for believers in favor of a "seeker-sensitive" model which dumbed down the sermons and treated the services of the church as a place where the unregenerate could feel right at home. Appeal to the sinful human's felt needs had assumed the place where sound theology and teaching should be. Drama and contemporary music and "how-to" sermons (with the merest smattering of a Scripture passage) were seen as techniques and methods to win people for Christ, rather than the unadulterated proclamation of God's Word. I addressed the situation verbally and in writing to the elders of the church, citing Scripture and including quotes from many authors who had already addressed the theological errors of this movement. I welcomed both dialogue and correction from them from the Bible if I was doctrinally wrong inanything I said. Well, when I met with the elders, they completely missed the point of my 15-page epistle to them. They saw my problems with the church's direction as a matter of personal taste rather than of theological significance. They failed to address even one of the Scripture passages I cited in support of my position. I knew it was time to go when the pastor said in no uncertain terms that he had been a minister for X number of years, and that he has come to the conclusion that simply getting up and preaching the Word of God by itself simply was not going to work with the world today. There are good reasons for finding a new church, and my previous church had just about all of them. I am happy to say that my present congregation has all of the marks of a vibrant, God-honoring, biblically-centered church, and my wife and I are more than elated to be serving God and our fellow saints, learning and growing within this fellowship. As long as we remain where we are and God in his grace grants that the church maintains its high doctrinal standards and practices, this is where we will stay. So there's my story! --Joe! |
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458 | James is contradicting Apostle Paul | James | Reformer Joe | 38463 | ||
Nope. We are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. The true faith in Christ is the foundation for works that please God, but Paul makes it very clear that Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness (Romans 4). In James, we see that Abraham's faith is a true and living faith rather than a dead, empty profession of faith because it resulted in works. Notice that James 2:14 asks the question, "What good is it, my brothers, if someone SAYS he has faith but does not have works?" The whole of James 2 supplements teh importance Jesus places on works as the fruit -- the evidence -- of true saving faith (Matthew 7:15-20). The biblical model is not: faith plus works results in salvation, but rather: faith results in salvation plus works. The works are an inevitable sign and evidence of the saving faith we possess, but our works are not the basis of our salvation. Christ's works are. --Joe! |
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459 | How to find Hope? | James 1:1 | Reformer Joe | 70377 | ||
Here are a few... The end of suffering: "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us." --Romans 5:1-5 And the hope we have: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time." --1 Peter 1:3-5 Actually, I find all of 1 Peter to be a very good study of the reality of suffering and trials, the hope that lies before us, and the glory God gets when we suffer for His sake. --Joe! |
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460 | Moral, Ceremonial, and Civil law | James 2:10 | Reformer Joe | 19221 | ||
Steve: I think it is a situation like the doctrine of the Trinity. There is not one verse that points it out, but taken as a whole, the New Testament reveals it. For example, in Acts 10 and 15 (and in 1 Corinthians and Romans 14), we see that dietary laws are no longer in force. Hebrews makes it clear that sacrifices are no longer to be practiced, since they prefigured the reality which has already come in Christ's atonement. In addition, since Israel as an autonomous nation no longer existed, most of the civil instructions could no longer be followed. Paul and James both approvingly re-iterate the Ten Commandments, however, in their moral instructions to Gentile believers (Ephesians 6:2,3; Romans 13:9; Ephesians 5:5; James 2). Nowhere do the apostles say that the Ten Commandments (moral laws) are not applicable to believers. In fact, they say that loving them and following them is a mark of the true believer. We are not saved by adherence to the law, but by faith; however, true saving faith will produce in us adherence to God's moral law. It is our faith through which we are saved, but that faith results in works which correspond to God's holy and moral standards. The Holy Spirit doesn't move me to slaughter sheep and goats, nor to avoid pork, but rather to love my neighbor as myself and to love the Lord with all my strength, heart, soul, and mind. --Joe! |
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