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Author: CDBJ ordered by Date
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Does GOD answer all prayers? |
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Bible general |
CDBJ |
Sun 09/5/10, 10:12pm |
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Greetings and welcome to the forum.
Psalm 66:18
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
One must be in fellowship before the Lord answers prayer.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
CDBJ
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When, what and who are included? |
Note |
Rev 7:14 |
CDBJ |
Fri 09/3/10, 10:52am |
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Greetings,
I know that verse and it’s that very verse that stimulated my question to you in the first place.
I ask again, what is the believer in Christ holding to the pretribulation point of view supposed to do if the rapture takes place before the tribulation. Aside from believing in Jesus what is it that one needs to be doing to be ready, or putting it another way; what would you suggest aside from total trust in the saving work of Christ?
Then on the other hand “if” the rapture doesn’t take place before the tribulation what is it that Christians need to prepare for?
Luke 18:1-8
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 6And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. 7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
2 Thes. 2:3-9
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Could it be that we are being deceived and many won’t be ready for that which is going to take place on earth “before” Christ returns?
Matthew 24:48
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
Scripture never suggest that the Lord’s return will come sooner then expected, it’s always later, suggesting that the faith of many will be shattered.
1 Thes. 5:9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
The “tribulation period”is the wrath of Satan’s man during his final days.
The wrath of God doesn’t take place until “after” believers are delivered from these most horrible days.
CDBJ
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When, what and who are included? |
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Rev 7:14 |
CDBJ |
Thu 09/2/10, 9:11pm |
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Hi BMyers,
If one is a believer in Jesus Christ and believes in the pretrib position, just what is it that they need to do to be ready?
CDBJ
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did Christ reveal to the disciples |
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NT general |
CDBJ |
Mon 08/30/10, 3:54pm |
224174 |
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Hi Tim,
Good point but a bad translation of the truth that was easily missed by the translators when written in the English. If one would consider the word wrapped, ENTULISSO, in the Koine it will get one started in the right direction.
John 20:7
And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
I did an extensive study on this verse years ago and the fact of the matter is; the Jews learned the technique of the burial from the Egyptians in part.
Here is what I found:
The napkin that was used only around the head was of a much thicker material then that used to wrap the rest of the body and as a result it held more of the spices that were used to cover the victim.
John 19:39
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
The napkin material was of a narrower material then those used for the rest of the body but there was more of it used, causing the layers to be thicker after the head was fully wrapped. They would crisscross back and forth around the face and under the chin and around the neck and over the top of the head, with many layers, until everything was covered then the spices were applied. This would form a mass that was self supporting much the same way if you would take a balloon and covering it with paper-mache. This inner twinning of the material formed a round shape that included the neck on the side and none of this was directly connected to the body wrap.
The body was placed on a narrow stone slab of those that were wealthy where the decomposition process accrued quite slowly.
What was seen, upon careful examination, was the fact that the head cover was still intact, as a ball, but the head was removed without disturbing the original shape of the napkin. It was lying by itself still crisscross wrapped, but because it was not connected or held to the body wrap it had rolled off of the slab and was laying by itself still in a ball shape.
That would be the same as wrapping a balloon with paper-mache then popping the balloon with a pin after the paper-mache had dried.
It would be an utter impossibility for Jesus to remove His Head without destroying the wrapped shape and due to this fact John now believed the first resurrection in history had taken place.
John 20:8
Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
It wasn’t that John finally believed in Jesus, it was that he believed in the resurrection due to the fact that the head of Christ went through the napkin without unwrapping it.
CDBJ
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did Christ reveal to the disciples |
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NT general |
CDBJ |
Sun 08/29/10, 9:47pm |
224154 |
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Greetings and welcome to the forum.
If one doesn’t believe that Jesus had a glorified body from the grave how did he get outside of the grave wrappings?
They weren’t unwrapped, he went through them!
CDBJ
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Can a believer lose their salvation? |
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Bible general |
CDBJ |
Sun 08/29/10, 9:40pm |
224152 |
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Greetings Mary and welcome to the forum.
Since this is a Bible study, point out with Scripture where it shows that Judas believed in Jesus Christ for his salvation.
I hope you enjoy the forum, CDBJ
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is "dup question" my answer? |
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Bible general |
CDBJ |
Sun 08/22/10, 10:27pm |
224015 |
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Greetings,
My question to you would be; how is it that you know you are truly saved?
This must be answered before anyone can tell you why the Lord doesn't answer your prayers.
CDBJ |
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is water-baptism needed for salvation? |
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Eph 2:8 |
CDBJ |
Tue 08/17/10, 10:25pm |
223899 |
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Well taken!
God's plan of salvation even as God himself hasn't changed since man first walked this earth. The Old Testament believers trusted in the work of the promised Messiah that was to come. We have the privilege of knowing who that Messiah is, Jesus Christ the righteous.
God’s plan, for those who will inherit eternal life, is for those whom He foreknew to place the entirety of their hope of living with and in the presence of God for all eternity solely in the work that God would accomplish on the cross in the God Man Jesus the Christ.
There was no baptism for those that trusted and believed God in the Old Testament that had anything thing at all to do with their salvation, and as such water baptism has noting to do with ones salvation in the New Testament!
Malachi 3:6 (A)
For I am the LORD, I change not;
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Trust in Christ “only for eternal life” or “try and add” to His finished work and miss out on the eternal blessings that God has for those that put “all” of their hope for the future in Jesus God’ unique Son!
1 John 5:10-13
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
CDBJ
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is water-baptism needed for salvation? |
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Eph 2:8 |
CDBJ |
Sun 08/15/10, 5:11am |
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When was the thief on the cross baptized after he believed: he wasn’t, yet he was in fact saved and God is no respecter of persons!
(Adam Clark Commentary)
Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness—Those who were foolish, disobedient, and deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, could not possibly have works of righteousness to plead; therefore, if saved at all, they must be saved by mercy. See the note on Ephesians 2:8; and see a discourse entitled, Salvation by Faith proved, 8vo., 1816, in which I have examined every system invented by man for his restoration to the Divine favor and image: and have demonstrated, by mere reason, their utter insufficiency to answer the end for which they have been invented; and have proved that the doctrine of salvation by faith is the only rational way of salvation.
By the washing of regeneration. Undoubtedly the apostle here means baptism, the rite by which persons were admitted into the Church, and the visible sign of the cleansing, purifying influences of the Holy Spirit, which the apostle immediately subjoins. Baptism is only a sign, and therefore should never be separated from the thing signified; but it is a rite commanded by God himself, and therefore the thing signified should never be expected without it.
By the renewing of the Holy Ghost we are to understand, not only the profession of being bound to live a new life, but the grace that renews the heart, and enables us thus to live; so the renewing influences are here intended. Baptism changes nothing; the grace signified by it cleanses and purifies. They who think baptism to be regeneration, neither know the Scriptures nor the power of God; therefore they do greatly err.
If the apostle John knew that (water) baptism was a needed part of salvation he would have included it in his gospel message stated in John 20:30-31
And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
CDBJ
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is water-baptism needed for salvation? |
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Eph 2:8 |
CDBJ |
Fri 08/13/10, 11:02pm |
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Greetings,
Many are deluded by trying to add to what Jesus finished on the cross.
Scripture boiled down to its simplest truth is that ones salvation
Is by grace through faith and anything added to faith or taken from faith destroys the pure function of faith there by neutralizing faith and its object, Jesus Christ. Faith plus anything lessons saving faith and as a result some are depending on something they assume they must do and there by grace is not applied to that individual. Paul demonstrated this in, Acts 16:29-31
Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 30And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
If baptism was part of the salvation it would have been expressed as such by Paul.
John goes so far as to tell us the meaning for his gospel in the following verses.
John 20:30-31
And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Anyone depending on their works by being baptized by water for salvation has actually destroyed their hope for salvation.
Faith for salvation must be an “undivided trust” in what God did for mankind in the person of His Son Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (AMP)
8 For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]
CDBJ
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24) Name the 3 types of Hebrew poetry fo |
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Bible general |
CDBJ |
Thu 08/12/10, 9:51pm |
223812 |
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Greetings and welcome to the forum.
Your question; is this some kind of a final exam, are you seeking the answer to a test or are you testing the members of the forum?
CDBJ
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Crusifixtion a sacrafice? John 3:16 |
Note |
Bible general |
CDBJ |
Thu 08/5/10, 12:26pm |
223617 |
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When Christ was on the cross He in fact said “my God, my God why have you forsaken me”. We must remember that the New Testament was written in the Koine Greek and the word for death or, THANATOS, actually means separation. There are seven different types of death mentioned in Scripture and the one for sin is separation from God.
Romans 6:23 (A)
For the wages of sin is death;
John chapter 19 tells us something that is often not notice by casual observation.
John 19:30
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
The word for finished in the Koine Greek come to us from the word, TETLESTAI.
The etymology of this word is said to have originated in the slave market; signifying that the price agreed for a particular slave had been paid in full and the gavel was struck completing the transaction. The one holding the sale would holler out “TETLESTAI” there by sealing the transaction and showing the completion of that sale was over and finished.
The price for sin, demanded by God, and paid for by God’s appointed one, Jesus the Christ had been totally paid for in full and nothing more is ever required! Now God can offer salvation to mankind as a free gift to man, paid for by the God Man Himself, Jesus.
John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
The fact is that Jesus made this exclamation while He was “still alive in the flesh”, signifying that the total price for sin was paid, i.e. separation from God. It was “just after this” that He bowed His head and His soul separated from His body and He died physically: so one could say theoretically that He actually died twice while on the cross, spiritually and physically.
Have a great day, CDBJ
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Infant forgiveness of sin |
Answer |
Bible general |
CDBJ |
Thu 08/5/10, 11:32am |
223615 |
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To “my knowledge” there isn’t any verse to back this up and it is the policy of the forum, seeing that it is a Bible study forum, that one back up obscure statements with a chapter and verse from Scripture.
CDBJ
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When was the war in heaven? |
Note |
Bible general |
CDBJ |
Mon 07/5/10, 11:48am |
223151 |
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I read your User Info and shouldn’t the word you used, “prophet” instead be prophetess since your name is Rene?
CDBJ
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Can people be hristian and stay at home |
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Heb 10:25 |
CDBJ |
Sun 07/4/10, 11:03pm |
223137 |
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Greetings and welcome to the forum.
I would like to hear your rendition of exactly what is a Christian, if you would be so kind?
I hope you enjoy the forum!
x Have a great day, CDBJ
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SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH |
Answer |
Matt 5:17 |
CDBJ |
Sun 07/4/10, 1:18pm |
223129 |
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Greetings,
The Ten Commandments could be likened in this day and age to one who has just fallen out of an air plane and since he is blind he doesn’t know what his problem is. The Commandments are screaming in his ear that he headed for the ground and there is nothing anyone can do to save him, with the exception of God and he better start calling for Him to help before it’s too late. When one finally realizes that God sent Jesus to be our help in time of need, i.e. the one who paid our price and He can provide a soft landing, “IF” we will call on and depend on Him; then the Commandments have done what the were intended to accomplish.
Romans 7:7-25
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET." 8But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. 9And I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died; 10and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11for sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. 12So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. 14For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15For that which I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16But if I do the very thing I do not wish to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that it is good. 17So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which indwells me. 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish. 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wishes to do good. 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
The object of the Commandments is to show us “we are helpless” and to bring us to Jesus for salvation; the Commandments were the law that is to direct us to Christ.
Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Notice it’s only the end for those that fully trust in Jesus Christ, God’s appointed one!
CDBJ
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Becoming a christian |
Answer |
John 6:37 |
CDBJ |
Tue 06/15/10, 2:49pm |
222899 |
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Well for starters;
If Water baptism has anything to do with ones salvation then the apostle John has misinformed all those that read his gospel.
John 20:30-31
And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
No mention of water baptism and the totality for John writing the book was to inform us how to have eternal life, not to mention the following.
John 3:18
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Again not baptism!
John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Either John was very forgetful, disobedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit when penning the Word, or it isn’t a must within the confines of Salvation in Jesus.
He made the same mistake again when he wrote his first epistle;
Tongue in cheek!
1 John 5:10-13
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Paul must have been consumed by the same malady, the neglect of water baptism.
Ephes. 1:12-14
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 13In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Ephes. 2:8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast.
There again the neglect of baptism.
Any one who tries to add his own personal efforts, which “includes water baptism” along with the numerous other things that people include “for salvation”, are nullifying the function of total faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross and the plan of God.
Therefore they are not saved by grace through faith ALONE in “Christ alone” seeing they are having faith in their baptism in addition to what God has done for them in Jesus:
Thus canceling the fundamental of true faith and their eternal life in Christ!
Being baptized in water for salvation makes about as much sense as having a free ride on a jet plane going 600 MPH; then stepping out the door of the plane at 35000 feet to try and help speed it up by pushing.
Jesus did it all!
John 19:30
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Matthew 7:13-14
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Matthew 7:21-23
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Is there any work that man can do to please God when it comes to salvation?
This is it:
John 6:28-29
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
CDBJ
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Becoming a christian |
Answer |
John 6:37 |
CDBJ |
Tue 06/15/10, 11:32am |
222889 |
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Greetings,
According to Scripture one is already a Christian before they can even be baptized, other wise it “isn’t a meaningful” baptism.
Acts 8:35-38
Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. 36And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water;
(When should one be baptized)
what doth hinder me to be baptized?
(Answer, i.e. condition)
37And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.
(Believe what; that Jesus is God’s appointed one even the very Son of God Himself)
And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
(Result)
38And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Baptism is the first thing one can do in obedience to the Father as a new born child of the family of God.
Have a great day, CDBJ
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chould a preacher question peoples chris |
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2 Cor 13:5 |
CDBJ |
Sun 06/13/10, 1:15pm |
222855 |
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Greetings,
To be sure, the crux of my post is pointed toward the nearly seven thousand people that are known to read or examine this forum during the course of a week. From past experience I have talked with individuals who actually believe they were saved because the took the initiative to go forward in a service of one kind or another; according to Scripture that has never saved anyone to this day!
It almost runs hand in hand with asking Jesus to come into your heart.
Christ doesn’t come into a sewer as it were.
Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
Then there are those that say in order to be saved all one needs to do is confess their sins and ask the Lord to forgive them which, with regards to salvation, is more unbiblical garbage.
Lest I forget the ones that push, “Make Jesus the Lord of your life.” We can’t make Jesus Lord of anything, He is what He is and He is the Lord God of everything and we can’t make Him Lord of anything.
Why everyone feels the need to deviate from the truth of God’s Word in beyond me, unless it is the work of the adversary?
(This is Truth)
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
The big problem resides within the confines of the word believe.
In the English language the emphasis in believing leans toward just giving “mental assent to something”, and that won’t save anyone.
James 2:19
You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe--and tremble!
The Koine Greek of the New Testament i.e. PISTIS or PISTEUO means to fully trust in, have faith in and rely on and object, and the object for salvation “must be TOTALLY” in the person of God’s Son, Jesus Christ the Lord and the work that He “finished” on the cross. Anything that we “try to do for salvation” in addition to what God has already done for us only nullifies God’ plan salvation for our lives!!
Matthew 7:21-23
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' 23And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
Brother, this was by no means pointed at you; I just saw a great opportunity to expatiate on a point of doctrine that many don’t understand and it could cost them their eternal future!
Have a great day, CDBJ
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chould a preacher question peoples chris |
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2 Cor 13:5 |
CDBJ |
Sat 06/12/10, 9:00pm |
222852 |
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Greetings Lightedsteps,
At what point does one become saved during an alter call; while in their seat, while walking down the aisle, or when they perform some kind of work when they are confronted by the pastor and jump through his psychological hoop?
Acts 16:31
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
CDBJ
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