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All I see is that someone has a poor understand of eternal salvation. Eternal salvation says that those who are in Christ can never be removed from Him. Those who are in Christ would necessarily repent for any sin that they commit.

I am going to read this when I have time, so I can do your response just, however I don't think 'oti is in that verse at all, actually, I am completely certain that it is not. I merely used 'oti as an example of a word that has been translated as different English words. It was just my attempt...

Mounce is a hard textbook to go on! PM me and I would be more than happy to give you some advice as to where to start and help you understand anything that is confusing to you.

I am curious what you all think of the following scenario. When you translate the Greek (be it a manuscript or one of the Koine Greek New Testaments) you come upon various problems. The one that I am going to focus on is the problem with Greek words having multiple meanings. For example...

I do not see the issue here. Eternal security goes hand in hand with repentance. We repent daily, always striving to prove ourselves set apart from the world, for God has set us apart from the world. But we do fall, the life of a Christian is cyclical. You experience states of great...

Thank you for summarizing my post! Although I do not wish to be attached to the very post-modern concept of "less of two evils". Evil is evil and should be avoided always. It doesn't matter if it is "less" than another evil, is one sin "less" than another in God's eyes? Surely not! Sin is sin...

Small churches I prefer. They are more personal and you tend to feel more welcomed. That being said, and speaking as both an attendee of a smaller church and as a future pastor, it is much more difficult to preach the gospel truth in a small church. When you approach certain topics, pornography...

The Romans did the physical act of nailing, though it was not the Romans who sentenced Him to death. The Jews sentenced Him to death and the Romans, in fear of an uprising, allowed the Jewish sentence to carry through. Clearly the Romans should not have allowed the execution to happen, Jesus was...

Jason, no clue, no doubt I probably disagree with them on it lol! Ask me again in November once my theology class gets to that. Thanks everyone.

I've been there. I once hated my testimony. It freaked me out that some people had these wonderful testimonies that could bring you to tears and all I had was "I bought a Bible and then Jesus got a hold of me". I'd like to talk to you about the testimony thing, shoot me a PM and we can figure...

A direct copy and paste from my assignment in class which required me to write my testimony out. I have always believed in some higher power. In fact, I have always believed in a singular, supreme, all-awesome being who took at least a mild interest in the affairs of the world. As a child I...

Oh man! Not new but, back! I will try to stay back this time. My life took a turn for the awesome this summer and I just had to put my computer usage on the back burner. But now that I am in school, without work, I feel like this is a great place to come back to! A little catch up! My name is...

Hey guys! Well, I am off to college now. A few weeks ago I sat next to this girl in class and we hit it off. A week later I asked for her number and she gave it to me. We began to hang out, silly stuff really like playing Manhunt and getting lunch or dinner. Last week I stepped up our...

I don't know your heart, only God does, but let me just turn this around for a moment, so that any fear and resent can hopefully be removed and so that you can view this a little more objectively. Imagine that you had been married before and had six children before your then husband decided...

Let's assume that you are a perfectly normal person (as I do believe you are) and are not interested in any of the odd and perverse forms of pleasure some people enjoy (painful such stuff). Now, be truly honest, as I am sure you will quickly see where I am going with this. I also ask that, for...