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I believe justification is a process, not a one time event, and I think the example of Abraham proves this view. No one will deny he was justified (declared/made righteous) in Gen. 15:6 when he "believed God...". But I believe he was justified in Gen. 12 also, which proves justification is a...

I think there was a lot of good stuff on the other thread, before it was closed. Let's try again. Here is the old OP. Let's try to be civil to one another and learn from each other. Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? 21 Was not Abraham our father...

James 2 And OSAS Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, 23 and the...

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, 23 and the scripture was...

There have been many theories about the "Good Thief" and when he repented. I've heard that he was possibly a follower who fell away, or that he heard about Jesus in jail and came to believe either then or on the way to his death. Following is a good (and short) article that gives Biblical proof...

This is a discussion of James 2:14-25. I will give a brief exegesis of the verses and I look forward to many comments. 14 What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? (James (RSV) 2) You will immediately notice that what James is...

The Calvinist view of the sovereignty of God has always seemed inconsistent with their view of the Church. On the one hand, God creates a man and saves him. Since God is all-powerful and sovereign, there is nothing the man can do to lose that salvation. The man will not fall into apostasy...

This is a continuation from another thread. The first post is from Mysteryman:

Hey all, I have had a blackberry for a while now and have found that more and more sites are going mobile. I don't usually surf non-mobile sites because its really slow and clunky getting around. This forum really isn't bad at all compared to others, but the copy/paste functions are unusable...

My contention is that atheism has certain doctrines attached to it, and that these doctrines shape a certain worldview. Some atheists disagree and claim that atheism's only doctrine is "lack of belief in god/gods". I submit many atheists subscribe to certain doctrines above and beyond that...

What did the NT church look like? I'm sure we would all agree that the NT era started with Christ, but when did the NT church age end? After the last Apostle died? Around 300 AD? To answer these questions, do we look at Scripture only or do we look at other historical documents of the first few...

Blessed new year, all. To start out the new year, I would like to make a few statements concerning the word "works", the OT connotation and how it's used by Paul in relation to Faith. 1) Traditional Judaism teaches that God gave man the Law and rewards him according to how well he upholds...