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101 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64206 | ||
First of all I don't believe in private interpretation (1 Peter 1:20, 21). I believe that God has a purpose behind His word and that it is unique and singular. If you do not accept Acts as a God inspired writing do you also exclude Luke? Acts is a crucial book of the bible for it reveals to us the establishment and growth of the church. I know the books of the bible are not arranged in chronological order. I would have to check but it is possible that Acts was written before the gospels. If this is true how could it be a transition between gospels and epistles? | ||||||
102 | What is your understanding of the H.S.? | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64201 | ||
If I was in an objective discussion, possibly. I accept the male gender being applied to the Holy Trinity but it wasn't necessary to do so in my earlier post. Would you please substantiate your list of Holy Spirit attributes with some scripture? | ||||||
103 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64198 | ||
It may take me some time to study these John. Please be patient with me. | ||||||
104 | What do Catholics teach about salvation? | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64197 | ||
Thank you Emmaus. | ||||||
105 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64195 | ||
You must look at God's word as a whole. Excluding all of the teaching on baptism is a grave error. John the baptist would not have had to prepare the way if baptism wasn't necessary. Even his baptism was null and void after Jesus died. Read Acts 19:1-5. Why did these men need to be baptized into Christ if they had already been baptized into "John's baptism". They evidently had already believed. Read the examples of conversion in Acts, the 3000 on Pentecost, the Philippian jailor, the Ethiopian eunuch, Cornelius and his household, Lydia, Saul of Tarsus! How many examples are necessary to prove what God's word says is true? | ||||||
106 | What is your understanding of the H.S.? | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64188 | ||
Being a "spirit" I doubt that it possesses any gender. I understand the Holy Trinity. As for the rest of your note, could you please put it in layman's terms? I believe I understand this "catechism" to say that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Heb 11:1). | ||||||
107 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64187 | ||
And then I would ask, "How does a person know they are saved?" In Acts 2:37-38, the sequence of events are 1)they heard the word (vs 37), 2)they believed which is evidenced by the question, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?", 3)Peter's response, "Repent, AND BE BAPTIZED, for the remission of sins. It wasn't until after this was accomplished that they "received the gift of the Holy Spirit", or salvation. | ||||||
108 | What do Catholics teach about salvation? | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64184 | ||
I appreciate your input but the reason I asked Emmaus was to get an answer from a Catholic perspective. In regard to your response though, how do you explain 1 Peter 3:21? A person is not saved until they have been baptized, not before. Look up all the passages that deal with baptism. If you do you will see that it is an integral part of salvation. Even the demons believe (James 2:19). Are they saved? | ||||||
109 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64178 | ||
But didn't these people BELIEVE they were saved? | ||||||
110 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64169 | ||
Let me ask you this. In the passage from Titus, what is "the washing of regeneration" and "renewing by the Holy Spirit"? | ||||||
111 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64164 | ||
Don't take that comment the wrong way. I appreciate God's grace as much as anyone but the bible teaches that it comes with conditions. | ||||||
112 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64162 | ||
Please read your bible. Start at Acts 4:32 and read through to 5:11. Ananias and Sapphira definitely were included in the "multitude of those who believed". Acts 2:41 says that "those who gladly received his(Peter's) word were baptized" and in vs 44 "Now all who believed were together..." and then chapter 4:32. Scripture, in this case, is definitive. | ||||||
113 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64161 | ||
Is not hearing the word of God doing something? (Luke 6:46, 47) Is not believing doing something? (Mark 16:16, John 3:16, 36) Is not Confessing and repenting doing something? (Romans 10:9) And finally, isn't being baptized doing something? People today are hung up on God's grace and are convinced that we need not do anything but speak the words "Jesus, I accept you as my Lord and Savior. Come into my heart..." and expect to be saved. These people are also the ones that do not read and understand the bible for what it says. How many conversions in Acts show salvation by sinners prayer? None. Not all of the examples in Acts reveal baptism, but there are enough there, and baptism is spoken of elsewhere in the bible enough to know that it is necessary for salvation. It is not a "work" it is an act of obedience. God's grace has provided the ultimate sacrifice in Jesus Christ and this grace is available to all, provided the obedience is there. | ||||||
114 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64137 | ||
Whoever wrote this has never read Matthew 7:13-14, 21-23 | ||||||
115 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64135 | ||
What does it say in Philippians 2:12? "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always OBEYED,...,WORK out your own salvation with fear and trembling" The person that believes God just hands out a free pass to heaven without requiring some respect is in for a surprise come judgement day! All a person really needs to do is three things. One, love the Lord God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul. Two, love your neighbor as yourself. (Mark 12:30, 31) Three, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, confess your sins, repent of them by changing your life, and be baptized for the remission of these sins. Ok, that is a few more than three and there is a fourth. Continue to live a life worthy of our Creator God. Live every minute as though it was your last and give Him the glory. | ||||||
116 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64134 | ||
I am sorry but you are looking at it from the wrong perspective. God is our only hope of salvation! He has provided the means by which we can be redeemed. Faith is more than just believing in something. YOU MUST LIVE IT! If you stop living the way a Christian ought to live, do you still deserve the rewards? | ||||||
117 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64133 | ||
The primary purpose of the word of God is to address things of spiritual nature. This applies here also. However, I believe you can make secular application also but it would be secondary in importance. The implication here is that "once saved always saved" is error. "...God is light and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." (1 Jn 1:5) Here John is addressing Christians(John's audience).He tells them that if they say they have fellowship with Jesus, but walk in darkness, they are liars. Walking in darkness implies sin, lying about it is sin. Can God overlook sin? No way. If a saved person sins after having received salvation through baptism and remains in this state of sin until death, God's word says he will be judged for this sin. | ||||||
118 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64132 | ||
Do you not think that Ananias and Sapphira could have been amongst the 3000 souls saved on Pentecost in Acts 1 and 2? Acts 4:32 says, "Now the multitude of those who believed wer of one heart and one soul..." The story of Ananias and Sapphira tells us they were among the believers here and I feel certain they were Christians. God took their lives in an instant. How can you say that a person cannot go to hell, believer or not, if there is sin in their lives? After we are saved we still sin. But, "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness..." (1 Jn 1:9) This epistle was written to Christians was it not? | ||||||
119 | "ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED"!!! | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64131 | ||
Salvation is not as simple as repenting and accepting the gift of Jesus Christ. Read Acts chapter 2. Those that heard Peter's sermon were "pricked in their hearts" and asked, "Men and brethren what shall we do?", vs 37. Peter replies, "Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins..." Too many people today believe they can pray a "sinners prayer" and accept Jesus as their Savior. There is not one example of this method in the bible. Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, Acts 22:16 are just three examples of baptism being a command and it is necessary, not as a work, but as an act of obedience for salvation. | ||||||
120 | Jesus couldn't of gone up to heaven. | Luke 23:43 | FTimA | 64082 | ||
I disagree that Jesus "preached" in Hades(paradise). Hebrews 9:27 says, "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgement..." This tells me that those souls that are in paradise either died in obedience to the old law or died in obedience to the new law. Since Jesus had just died we can't imagine that many of the converts of John the Baptist were in paradise although there may have been some. We can imagine that there were no Christians there yet because Jesus had yet to raise from the dead, ascend into heaven, and send the H.S. as a guide for the apostles, after which the first believers were converted to Christianity in Acts chapter two. Having said all of this my question would be, "What benefit would the souls in paradise realize if all they could look forward to was judgement?" Can a soul in paradise, already saved, hence the reason they are in paradise in the first place, be saved again? Jesus, I believe, bore the sins of mankind. Since God cannot tolerate sin wouldn't you think that Jesus may have spent some time on the other side of the chasm? | ||||||
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