Recent content by GWH

On the contrary, on the Hermeneutics thread we are conducting a systematic study of the doctrine of election with the expressed purpose of including and harmonizing all relevant Scripture supporting both sides, which is lacking here, so if you would like to participate there, please join us. I...

TOP #141: A person reaps what he or she sows. [Gal. 6:7-10] This truth (cf. TOP #137 & 139) serves as a warning against what is called “cheap grace” or viewing God’s forgiveness as a license to sin. This TOP is akin to Eph. 2:10. Thus, genuine Christians will “do good to all people”, especially...

It has recently been revealed that modern weaponry possessed by enemies of the makes it problematic that the USA could survive an attack, which is why President Trump has proposed protecting the country with what he calls a Golden Dome. Although our ultimate protection/salvation is guaranteed...

Not everyone is as stubborn as you were, Magenta. As I have stated before, some of us were raised by Christian parents and have believed in Jesus and the words of God all of our lives. In my case, as a shy nine year old I just needed to build up enough courage to walk down the aisle during a...

The broadcast of President Trump's meeting with the President of South Africa on RAV this morning was interesting, especially when a video was shown of some black opposition leaders in SA advocating for killing of white farmers and confiscating their land. The representative of workers unions...

I agree except that we need to remember Paul was a model Pharisee who realized he had missed the mark. Lot was very wide of the mark!

Whether there are one or two baptisms doesn’t matter to me because I have both, but I still prefer harmonizing them by viewing WB as signifying SB.

Yes the HS = GW. This is why GW is silent regarding the salvation of infants.

I missed my cue, but better late than never: The normative way of stating how to be saved (the kerygma/GRFS) in the NT is “Accept Christ Jesus as Lord” (as in 2Cor. 4:5 & Col. 2:6). The main points of Christian orthodoxy implicit in this statement can be explained or elaborated as follows...

Agree with your post, but would like to tidy up that last statement if I may: Salvation can be willfully rejected (which is called the sin of apostasy described in Heb. 6:4-6 and logically seems to be equivalent to the unforgivable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit), but a saved sinner...

Human nature was created good but not perfect, and moral perfection should be every Christian’s goal (Philippians 3:12-15). However, all humans sin (except Jesus who had a human nature that was perfected during his earthly life per Hebrews 5:8-9), and every sinner has the opportunity to...

The SBS of election on the Hermeneutics thread yielded the following insight regarding GRFS: Human nature was created good but not perfect, and Jesus had a human nature that was perfected during his earthly life (Hebrews 5:8-9), which moral perfection should be every Christian’s goal...

Now let us take a different tack and apply this understanding as we analyze the OP on the UGE thread, which begins: 1. “Man is doubly incapable of believing in Jesus and the Gospel” This statement is patently false, because the entire Bible is the story of those who had saving faith, which...

Couplet #4 John 10:27-29 – “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s...

Well, in the OT punishment was viewed in temporal terms such as poverty and physical death, and the effects of sin are indeed often generational in those ways, but the NT revelation was that each soul is judged fairly/individually, and justice is meted out in the afterlife.