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421 | Is it Sin or Me? | Rom 5:12 | disciplerami | 75680 | ||
Help me understand. You think Paul was still in the sinful, separated, depraved, hostile, unspiritual condition that he 'inherited' from Adam? Is that what you think? You think that when Paul did the very thing that he didn't want to do that the power of Christ was ineffetual in him? I don't think you can have it both ways. Either you believe that a born again person has a new spirit or you don't. I contend that the Christian and non-christian wrestles with his flesh. Following the things of the Spirit takes daily commitment. Paul had his mind on the things of the Spirit, but the flesh is weak. Romans 7 makes plenty of sense without beleiving in the doctrine of depravity. Complete sense. |
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422 | Should not perish or shall not perish? | John 3:16 | disciplerami | 75679 | ||
Hello. John 3:16 uses the subjunctive 'should not' (not SHALL NOT) because believing alone isn't enough. A person isn't saved by the grace of God until the faith is obedient: repent, confess, be baptized. You are right, there is believing and there is believing. The only kind of believing that saves is the obedient kind of believing. Go ahead and check out John 3:36 and Hebrews 3:18,19. John 12:42 is, no matter how you spin it :), an example of people believing in Jesus, but their fear of men got in the way of them actually confessing Christ. You cannot be saved unless you confess (Romans 10:9,10). Confession is UNTO salvation. |
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423 | How Does Baptism Save? | 1 Pet 3:21 | disciplerami | 75637 | ||
HI CDBJ, I don't think anyone is saying that you get baptized and then you believe. The eunuch had to believe before he could be baptized. But why was he so interested in being baptized? Because it is connected to the new birth. The eunuch came up with the right answer, but it's not the answer you give. He didn't say that he was already saved. You say that a lot of people are trusting in their baptism to help save them. Can you point to one person who trust in baptism to save them? The only one I can think of who trust in baptism to save is one who believes in infant baptism--obviously, the infant has no faith in God. When you bring up hypotheticals, like 'what if he died before he was baptized?', you inadvertantly nullify Jesus' command that we be bapized. Jesus commanded that we be baptized. And the reason He gave is 'for remission of sins.' I hope that helps. Good day. |
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424 | Is sin inherited from father and mother? | Rom 5:12 | disciplerami | 75606 | ||
Sniper, this is the way that death spreads to all men. Paul is obviously NOT talking about physical death, instead he is talking about spiritual death, separation from God. Everyone keeps drawing a line between Adam and us as if the we are not complicit in the sin. That just isn't true. I'm glad you get it. Good day. |
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425 | Is sin inherited from father and mother? | Rom 5:12 | disciplerami | 75605 | ||
I believe that spiritual death occurs when you sin. But spiritual death, the separation from a relationship with God, doesn't keep you from hiding from God in shame, seeing your nakedness. I certainly believe that the person knows his condition. This is what the Gospel can do when preached to lost sinners, it can prick and cause them to seek God's forgiveness. The Ephesians were spiritually dead in their own trespasses and sins. Their disobedience is what made a separation between them and God. Cause and effect. Contrary to what one person said, sin is something you do, NOT a state of being. In other words, you cannot be a sinner, unless you first sin. Good day. |
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426 | Is sin inherited from father and mother? | Rom 5:12 | disciplerami | 75602 | ||
Hi Tim, 'brought forth in iniquity' can be referring the sin all about him, his mother, the world. If David is talking about himself, then he has to be exaggerating for emphasis to his sinfulness, as in psalm 58:3 |
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427 | If you are saved can you lose it | Heb 6:6 | disciplerami | 75600 | ||
First let me say that my knowledge is growing as I study the word of God; 'do not be ignorant, but understand what is the will of the Lord.' That said, the only thing I can test the spirits with is against the Word of God. The Word of God, the Canon Scripture, is the rule of faith, 'able to make thee wise unto salvation' and 'equip a man for every good work.' You write: "That being the case, do you suppose it’s possible that there are some people out there that have had something revealed to them, from God, that hasn’t been revealed to you?" In a word, NO. Apparently you do, so let's see if you believe it. It just so happens that God spoke to me last night and told me that doctrines of 'total depravity' and 'perseverance of the saints' are wrong. Now how can you argue with that? Hopefully you will test anyone who makes such a claim against the Word of God! God has taken into account that some people will fall away. "There is no sin, that in a time of weakness". There are two kinds of sin: 'sin unto death' and 'sin that is not unto death.' Some people sin while trying to hit the target. Others sin with a clenched fist to God. The second is not fogiveable without repentance. "How good is good enough?" We are never good enough to deserve eternal life. Salvation is a gift for people who put their faith in Him. The person who is saved and then turns back to the world, has fallen away. See Hebrews 6:4-6 again. It is very clear. Good day. |
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428 | If you are saved can you lose it | Heb 6:6 | disciplerami | 75593 | ||
Dear 'searcher', I assure you that I do not intend to divide, except if it is between the wheat and the chaff. Thanks so much for the encouragement. Let's keep up the search. I believe this is a valuable study. My only fear is that some will try to 'suppress the truth in unrighteousness.' You know what I mean? Good day. |
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429 | If you are saved can you lose it | Heb 6:6 | disciplerami | 75590 | ||
Let's take this one step at a time: "I find that when professing Christians make quick comments such as this the warning flags go up for me." i'M SORRY, BUT I'M CONFIDENT. Why can I not rest upon the Words of the Lord Jesus in which he speaks of giving eternal life? In fact as Peter said, "to whom shall we go for thou hast the words of eternal life?"(John 6:68) [YOU CAN] The life which Christ gives to the guilty sinner is not temporary or dependent on the works or faithfulness of the person who needs a Savior. [NOT DEPENDENT ON FAITHFULNESS? YOU SHOULD THINK MORE ABOUT THIS ONE. IF ONE IS NOT FAITHFUL TO GOD HE CANNOT BE PLEASING TO GOD.] The reason we need such a savior is that we are condemned already, we are without strength and we cannot earn or keep our salvation. [ACCORDING TO CALVIN, EVERYBODY IS CONDEMNED ALREADY AT CONCEPTION. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? IF SO, DO YOU ALSO BELIEVE THAT GOD ONLY GIVES FAITH TO SOME PEOPLE AND THE REST HAVE NO HOPE?] God's salvation rests upon the finished work of Christ on the cross who "offered one sacrifice for sins for ever..."(Heb. 10:12) [I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THIS] Eternal or everlasting life becomes the possession of those who rest where God has rested in the work and worth of the sacrifice of Christ. [I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THIS] According to Eph. 2:1 we "who were dead in tresspasses and sins" have been quickened or made alive in Christ. [YES, EPHESIANS 1:5,6 SAYS THEY WERE DEAD, BUT GOD MADE THEM ALIVE AND RAISED THEM UP AND SEATED THEM WITH CHRIST. COLOSSIANS, A PARALLEL VERSE, SHOWS WHEN: 'BURIED WITH HIM IN BAPTISM, IN WHICH YOU WERE RRAAIISSEEDD BY FAITH IN THE WORKING OF GOD WHO RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD." In John 1:13 speaking of those who received [THANK YOU, THE RIGHT TO BECOME SONS OF GOD IS CONTINGENT UPON RECEIVING HIM: IT'S A CHOICE] him and believed on his name "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" This is reinforced by the Lord Jesus who taught Nicodemus that "we must be born from above" (John 3:3,5,7) [BEING BORN AGAIN IS THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT DONE WHEN A PERSON IS IMMERSED INTO CHRIST. 'YOU ARE SONS OF GOD BY FAITH, FOR ALL OF YOU WHO WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE CLOTHED YOURSELVES WITH CHRIST' - GALATIANS 3:26,27] "For by grace are ye saved (we are saved), through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God not of works lest any should boast" Eph. 2:8-9 ]NOT A PROBLEM] God wants us to have eternal life and he wants us to know for sure that we have it. One verse which comes to mind is "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that you have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God" [GOOD VERSE, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH IT] How can we suggest eternal security is false in the face of the words of Jesus himself "Whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." [HOW? BECAUSE THE STATEMENT DOESN'T SAY SHALL NOT, IT SAYS SHOULD NOT. THE SUBJUNCTIVE INDICATES A DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY. HENCE, IF A PERSON TRULY BELIEVES IN JESUS CHRIST, HE SHOULDN'T BE LOST. HOWEVER, SOME PEOPLE HAVE BELIEVED BUT WERE LOST BECAUSE THEY LET OTHER INTERESTS GET IN THE WAY, JN 12:42 IS AN EXAMPLE] On Christ salvation rests secure The rock of ages must endure Nor can the faith be overthrown Which rests upon the living Stone. [I GUESS, I BELIEVE THIS SAYS IT BETTER, "Rom 8:35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Rom 8:36 Just as it is written, "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED." Rom 8:37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. Rom 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, Rom 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." HOWEVER, IT DOESN'T SAY YOU CAN'T SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM GOD] good day. |
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430 | If you are saved can you lose it | Heb 6:6 | disciplerami | 75588 | ||
Try this one then, "the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ." Warning flags? | ||||||
431 | disciplerami, Are we sinful by nature? | Rom 5:12 | disciplerami | 75575 | ||
YES, SIN IS LEARNED. "I did not know sin until the law said, thou shalt not covet." I imagine that Paul learned what sin was at an age approaching manhood--12, or so. Yes, you have to learn to sin. The little baby-and I've had five-doesn't know the difference between touching the rattle and touching the glass nick-nack. It is learning, growing. It is learning to verbalize, to walk, to explore. The things it does during this learning phase is not sin. If I spank the hand that touches the VCR, the child does not immediately learn not to touch the VCR. The learning curve dictates that the lesson will need to be reinforced once or twice before the lesson 'sinks' in. But if a parent is consistent, the child learns to do right--from a very early age. Conversely, if the parent is inconsistent, the child doesn't learn a valuable lesson. The child is seeking stimulus. The buttons look fun, the cookies taste good, etc. "I'll stick my hand in the cookie jar and eat another", it says. The child isn't sinning, it is learning: to do right or to do wrong. A parent is responsible for not watching and teaching: not the child. That is, until the child reaches an age where it SHOULD know. We call that age, the age of accountability. But as an infant and toddler and small child, it tests the waters all around it. The baby LEARNS to do wrong without correction. The first time my child said a dirty word, it did not sin. But when I corrected the child and said we don't say that kind of thing, then the child didn't do it again. The child learns to go right and the child learns to go wrong. Little brats become that way because parents don't parent, not because they are tainted by Adam's sin. They are of the same nature as Adam, but they have years to learn before they can be held to the standard that God holds adults to. Adam was a different situation in that he was full-grown when he started out. He already had adult skills. God could say to him, 'eat anything you want, except from that tree over there.' Adam, being good, without the excuse of a sin nature, chose to sin. He knew right and wrong, and he chose the wrong. That's what life is about. God knew Adam would sin. That's why God put the tree there, that's why God permitted the serpent to tempt, that's why Jesus' atoning blood was thought of before the foundation of the world. God knew man, with FREE WILL, would sin. But God provided the way of salvation too. God created man in his image, having certain capacities that made us unique from all other creatures. Man is ultimately responsible for his sin if he has free will. With reference to Psalm 51, yes, David is confessing his sin. But he is not confessing that he was born sinful. That is not possible. |
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432 | disciplerami, Is being born, iniquity? | Rom 5:12 | disciplerami | 75574 | ||
Yes, you have to learn to sin. The little baby-and I've had five-doesn't know the difference between touching the rattle and touching the glass nick-nack. It is learning, growing. It is learning to verbalize, to walk, to explore. The things it does during this learning phase is not sin. If I spank the hand that touches the VCR, the child does not immediately learn not to touch the VCR. The learning curve dictates that the lesson will need to be reinforced once or twice before the lesson 'sinks' in. But if a parent is consistent, the child learns to do right--from a very early age. Conversely, if the parent is inconsistent, the child doesn't learn a valuable lesson. The child is seeking stimulus. The buttons look fun, the cookies taste good, etc. "I'll stick my hand in the cookie jar and eat another", it says. The child isn't sinning, it is learning: to do right or to do wrong. A parent is responsible for not watching and teaching: not the child. That is, until the child reaches an age where it SHOULD know. We call that age, the age of accountability. But as an infant and toddler and small child, it tests the waters all around it. The baby LEARNS to do wrong without correction. The first time my child said a dirty word, it did not sin. But when I corrected the child and said we don't say that kind of thing, then the child didn't do it again. The child learns to go right and the child learns to go wrong. Little brats become that way because parents don't parent, not because they are tainted by Adam's sin. They are of the same nature as Adam, but they have years to learn before they can be held to the standard that God holds adults to. Adam was a different situation in that he was full-grown when he started out. He already had adult skills. God could say to him, 'eat anything you want, except from that tree over there.' Adam, being good, without the excuse of a sin nature, chose to sin. He knew right and wrong, and he chose the wrong. That's what life is about. God knew Adam would sin. That's why God put the tree there, that's why God permitted the serpent to tempt, that's why Jesus' atoning blood was thought of before the foundation of the world. God knew man, with FREE WILL, would sin. But God provided the way of salvation too. God created man in his image, having certain capacities that made us unique from all other creatures. Man is ultimately responsible for his sin if he has free will. With reference to Psalm 51, yes, David is confessing his sin. But he is not confessing that he was born sinful. That is not possible. |
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433 | Is sin inherited from father and mother? | Rom 5:12 | disciplerami | 75571 | ||
Accuracy matters and it says a lot about you that you care. I will try harder to check MY work before posting. Good day. |
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434 | Is sin inherited from father and mother? | Rom 5:12 | disciplerami | 75570 | ||
Hi Hank, Thanks. | ||||||
435 | How Does Baptism Save? | 1 Pet 3:21 | disciplerami | 75568 | ||
Hi Middleton, Thanks for making the very good point. I believe, as you do, that water baptism is the place where God forgives. It isn't my work, it isn't the water, it isn't the baptizer, but "I'm raised by my faith in the working of God who raised Him (Jesus) from the dead" (Col. 2:12). You concur, right? dan.mayfieldzcharter.net replace z with the AT sign. |
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436 | If you are saved can you lose it | Heb 6:6 | disciplerami | 75564 | ||
Not if you have no free will. If you have free will, then yes you can lose it. Hebrews 6:6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." I know that most people don't believe this because they've slipped down the slippery slope of 'total depravity', but the doctrine of eternal security is false. A Christian is not perfect and as long as he keeps the faith, walks in the light, carries the cross daily, then the blood of God's Son cleanses him continually (1 John 1). But if he steps out of the light, tantamount to turning away from and shaking a fist at God, then the grace stops. James 5:19,20. Good day. |
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437 | What about the thief on the cross? | 1 Pet 3:21 | disciplerami | 75525 | ||
Right on, my friend. You are exactly right. That 'what about the thief on the cross' excuse is old and tired and should be put to rest for good. Good day. |
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438 | What about the thief on the cross? | 1 Pet 3:21 | disciplerami | 75524 | ||
Greetings Jim, Sounds like a few of us are on the same page. Keep the faith. :) |
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439 | Do you have to be baptized to be saved? | 1 Pet 3:21 | disciplerami | 75523 | ||
Hello Tater man, Are you from Akron Ohio? Just curious. I'm planning on a trip to Ohio next summer with all of the family. Sounds like we are on the same page in doctrinal matters. |
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440 | Do you have to be baptized to be saved? | 1 Pet 3:21 | disciplerami | 75522 | ||
Right on! You've got it! Glad to see your post. Good day. |
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