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8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast....
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All of the old testament saints went to paradise in the earth. After Christ they were taken to the third heaven. Now, when we die as believers we go directly...
Jesus said the greatest commandment is to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your...
Is this a form of pride? Or something else?
Luke 16:3
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Actually secularism is their religion. They would say not, but it is their religion. Christianity is the only one that is not a religion. Every other belief...
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Did Jesus really exist? Is there any historical evidence of Jesus Christ?
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Why is 'You shall not covet' in the Ten Commandments?
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Susan, thanks for your comment. Scripture is explicit regarding the number of lashes that Paul received (2 Cor 11:24) but there is no single record in the...
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It was the customary lashing per Roman law at the time. Paul himself received the 40 minus 1 on five different occasions according to 2 Corinthians 11:24....
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There are two salvations in the bible. One is for salvation by grace to go to heaven. The other is salvation from this wicked generation to save yourself...
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Mischelle, a better question is: is there a scripture that says suicide determines a person's final destination? I can answer that one: No. Someone made that...
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Ken and Kim, No one has ever surprised God. Our days are numbered whether we take our own lives or die at the hands of something or someone else. Your number...
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What is the Christian view of psychics?
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I love that verse Ephesians 2:8-9. but what do the false teachers say. If you have no works you were not saved. Liars. That is adding works to grace. If you...
Before I go any further, must make clear the fact that there is no saving power in the Ten Commandments (TC). There is no justifying or cleansing grace in...
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In my opinion, I would start with reading Genesis, which gives a new Christian the basis of our faith and why there was a plane in God's mind, and a need,...
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Lordship salvation can lead people to believe they are saved by works. One of Satan's lies. We can only be saved by grace. Romans 11:6. Following Jesus does...
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Is Harold Camping and Family Radio a cult?
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There are many professors but not all are saved. Only those that by simple faith believe the gospel. First Corinthians 15:1-4.That all our sins are paid for,...
The Bible say that everyone will be judged - both righteous and wicked: "I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time...
The Scriptures explain there are two final judgements. One for the Christian or Saved or Born Again persons called the Judgement Seat of Christ or the Bema...
There is only one God, who is therefore the God of every person on earth, regardless of ethnicity or earthly religion. As such, all people will be...
"The apple of God's eye" is a figure of speech referring (as it also does with humans) to the pupil of the eye, which is the most critical part of the eye...
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My opinion is that the people of Israel, the Israelites, were given the Law as a guidebook for the do's & don't' to live by God's standards.
In what way was Israel the apple of his eye? (Deuteronomy 32:10) 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, ...
Deuteronomy 32:10
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As a nation the Jews rejected Jesus as the Messiah. In doing so God opened up salvation to the gentiles by grace. The church age is a different dispensation...
As I see it, it prepares the path to Jesus and the cross so we understand that we can not save ourselves by our works but by his grace and love. There is no...
God's divine word is the instruction manual for all of us. It helps to build us up, gives us information on how we should live our lives. The Ten...
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Yes. We are in the dispensation of grace for salvation. The Church age. That started in the book of Acts, and continues until the rapture of the church...
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Can you even imagine what life would be like without the Ten Commandments? These ten little rules are the basis for almost every countriy’s laws. The first...
Does this apply to everyone, or just non-Christians, just Christians, or just people who have never heard of Christ?
Romans 14:12
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Just curious. Are you saying that in order for a child to come to Christ he/she has to experience bad things, such as repetitive rape? Does God deliberately...
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l never thought of it that way but when I googled (rather, binged it), this is what I, too, found: The fig served as a basic food, possessing a high...
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That word repentance for salvation means to change your mind from what you were trusting in, our works, to trusting in Jesus finished work to save us. It is...
Luke 4:18; The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to...
As one who lived as you did I can say that once forgiven God remembers your sins no longer. You are a sinner and will always fight that sin nature within...
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, why do we give the enemy of our soul so much power and leeway in our lives? Either God's Word is the Truth and all men...
I would say that, regardless of a person's past behavior, if that person has now recognized those actions as wrong and repented of them, and has resolved...
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The doctrines of this movement are quite similar in some way to the New Apostolic Reformation, a modernist cultic movement which John MacArthur rightly...
The laws that God gave to Israel in the Ten Commandments were not foreign to the nature of man in general. As Paul noted in Romans 2:14-15, "When Gentiles...
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What happened at Mars Hill in the Bible?
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One of the reasons we all die is because of sin in the flesh. Our flesh is not made righteous. Only our soul/spirit. We were given His righteousness when we...
My understanding of the expression "flowing with milk and honey" is that it was intended to evoke in the minds of the Israelites (in the context of their...
Christ deliberately cleansed the Great Temple in Yerushalayim at the beginning (Mt 21:13; Jo 2:11-12) and at the end of His earthly ministry (Mt 21: 17-23)...
"Spirit Guides" do not exist on any level. There is only one "spirit" and that is God in the person of the Holy Spirit. Paul talks of people inspired by evil...
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Brian Ansell, feelings are what they are, however we can choose the way we feel (under “normal” circumstances ) at any given time of the day when we are sick...
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