Recent content by Chester

Nowhere in the New Testament is the believer told to seek the baptism of the Spirit. There is no New Testament command to be baptized with the Spirit. The believer is baptized with the Spirit (simultaneously) upon being born again. Indeed, it is not possible be to a believer without being...

I, like you, have met people who use tongues as a sign/symbol of extra holiness and superiority. On the other hand, in the community I live in, some of the most spirtually alive and real people come from the Charismatic and Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

To be more correct, I think it is the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us from sin: though this occurs at the same time as we are baptized with the Holy Spirit.

If "believing correctly" is "sound doctrine" and that is all -- then this will not get you saved. An unbeliever can give mental assent to a list of doctrines just as well as a true believer can. Sound doctrine is very important and is necessary - yet if you read the Sermon on the Mount it is...

Wow! I think my view of prophecy is almost identical to yours. I agree with everything you wrote above almost exactly. I am not dogmatic on a pretrib rapture, but that is what makes the most sense to me based on what Scripture says.

I am not sure there is proof there will not be "believers" who will take the mark. Of course, as soon as they take it, they have identified their side and are eternally lost.

Matthew 7:6 KJV Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you

Matthew 7:5 KJV Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Correct - a doctrine should not be built on one verse . . . Yet every verse needs to be understood and interpreted correctly: that is = do not avoid verses and not teach them because they "seem" to be difficult or inflammatory or contradictory. Every verse is truth and is profitable for doctrine.

The Scriptures are clear for the reading: I agree with you.

I guess it depends what is meant by "daily service"? And I guess it depends how you define salvation. To me, salvation is being saved from sin - and to me it seems that thus daily living in victory over sin is very much a part of and directly connected to being saved. If I would be daily...

The reason and purpose of intercessory prayer is an important topic: consider carefully the following points: (1) God gave Adam dominion of the world - that is - he was ruler of the Earth (2) Adam sinned and is so doing gave the "kingdom" over to Satan (3) Jesus came to Earth as a man and...

Interesting thought - but jumping off the ship would have been suicide - or at least attempted suicide . . . Not sure that answers the question completely, but that might enter into the issues involved.

Well said - in defining "eternal life" one should start with the noun - life - What is life? OSAS starts with the adjective "eternal" and lets the definition of "eternal" define the noun.

I base my definition of a "different gospel" upon what Paul writes in Galations 1:6,7: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another (heteros) gospel: 7 Which is not another (allos); but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the...