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1	can a baby sin	Bible general Archive 2	JonCohen	123172
	Matthew 18:14. "In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost." Whether it is their humbleness (verse 4), or their love (10), our Lord especially rejoices in the saving of a child (13).
2	Can you loose your salvation?	NT general Archive 1	JonCohen	123118
	Angel, I agree with everything you say here, except for your description of Luke 9:49-50. Maybe I am misreading your reply, but there Jesus did not forbid the driving out of demons in his name. There must have been something else going on in Mat 7:22-23. It don't think it is specified, other than that there was something un-Christlike as seen in the fruit of their work. The fact that Jesus never knew them suggests that they did not address Him in prayer. This is all very refreshing to me in light of conversation I saw on another website of how a certain Episcipal bishop is refusing to acknowledge that the only way to salvation is through Christ. I am also disturbed by some commentaries elsewhere that say that their interpretation of the Biblical warnings about salvation are guided by what is comforting. As I read the Bible, it is intended to be anything but comforting. Certainly people can go to God's Word to be comforted, but afterwards we need to get back to work in strengthening our faith and spreading the Gospel.
3	Can you loose your salvation?	NT general Archive 1	JonCohen	123051
	What Hebrews 6:4-6 makes clear to me is that one can taste the gifts of God and yet still not have a saving faith. The people that Jesus is speaking of in Matthew 7 are those who claim to have cast out demons and performed miracles in the name of the Lord. I think the main idea of a miracle is that they are performed by God for his purpose, not by us in His name. So I think the people in verses 21-23 are the same as the false prophets from verse 15. These are people who profess to be saved and yet are not acting with humble faith and obedience.
4	when, where and why did lucifer fall	Is 14:12	JonCohen	121811
	There's an interesting theory here: http://www.ontoblogical.com/katajohn/archives/2004_05.html#000713 He says that Lucifer fell as he was speaking to Eve.
5	defiant step child	Prov 22:6	JonCohen	121809
	BeccaG, Is your stepson a believer? If not, then the scipture you should seek should be for you to set an example for his later growth. 2 Tim 4:2-8.
6	how should u worship the Lord	Ps 33:2	JonCohen	121414
	I assume you are referring to the Westminster Confession, where it says "singing of psalms with grace in the heart." According to the dictionary, psalms are sacred songs, and even the word psalm derives from the Latin word for harp.
7	Can you explain this phenomenon?	Prov 1:29	JonCohen	120705
	In Romans 8:19-21 Paul provides an explanation that makes it easier to accept difficulties in life: "The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God." To me that means that our creation is not yet over, that we the living are in an intermediate stage of development, and that we are being prepared for an eternal life by seeing both God's love and wrath. The verse also aludes to a greater kind of freedom, a glorious freedom, that the saved will be granted in heaven in place of the limited freedom we have now. Scripture and experience informs us that none of us are worthy of the gift that is promised, and even the element of our calling to faith is predestined (see Romans 8:30). My own experience with the Holy Spirit is that I am not free to will my own faith, but that it is provided to me. Perhaps it could ease troubled people to understand that they do not have to develop that faith on their own, but that they only have to look for God and he will provide it to them.
8	Who is included in the promise?	Rom 4:16	JonCohen	119821
	Verse 14 is translated in NIV as "For if those who live by law are heirs, faith has no value and the promise is worthless." In that translation there is no contradiction because living by law, rather than faith, is different from being of the law. What other phrase do you see versus 16 contradicting? It does not, for example, contradict "...there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith." (Rom 3:30). The promises that God made to the Jews and to believers in Jesus were quite different, but not contradictory.

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