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2 Peter 3:15–16 “And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the...

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Are people sent to hell because of their sins, or unbelief in the living God?

Let me see if I understand what you have written. Are you saying if a person starts off being saved by grace through faith in the risen Christ, that they may sin and again be lost, but if they repent of that sin then they are once more saved? That eternal life can be viewed as depending on us...

I’ seem to be hearing a broken record.

I think what we have here is a misunderstanding. If you do not understand the concept of being “filled” vs being “indwelt or baptized “ by the Holy Spirit, then it will be a difficult discussion.

Do you not see that Scripture distinguishes between being filled with the Spirit, and baptized with the Spirit?

It is best to consult the whole council of God. Everything in Scripture is true, but not everything applies to us today. We are told to “Study,” not simply take a verse and make it fit what we think.

That is my point, after the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, so are we. The water is used to identify us as one of His, and to proclaim to our community and the world that we have been raised from death to life. John the Baptist says, “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one...

Did Jesus get baptized to get saved?

The phrase “greet one another with a holy kiss” appears multiple times in the New Testament (e.g., Romans 16:16, 1 Corinthians 16:20, 2 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:26), and once in a similar form in 1 Peter 5:14 as “greet one another with a kiss of love.” What it Means: 1. A cultural...

So, you take the word of a corrupted text written many hundreds of years after the Bible to try and correct what is plainly written in the Scriptures?

I am not sure why many who apparently consider themselves Bible teachers cannot reconcile seemingly contradicting statements in Scripture. In some early sources (especially Acts and early Christian missionary contexts), baptism is described as being done “in the name of Jesus Christ.” However...

Didache (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) – c. 50–120 A.D. 📜 Didache 7:1 (Greek): Περὶ δὲ τοῦ βαπτίσματος, οὕτως βαπτίσατε· ταῦτα πάντα προειπόντες, βαπτίσατε εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἐν ὕδατι ζῶντι. Translation: “Now concerning baptism...