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And with you, Johhn :giggle: Welcome to CChat! We're glad that you found us and joined in the discussions with us too :) God bless you!! ~Deuteronomy (David) 1 Thessalonians 5 23 May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be...

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Hello @Samantha3313, welcome to CChat! I'm glad that you found us and joined in the discussions with us too :) God bless you!! ~Deuteronomy (David) 1 Thessalonians 5 23 May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved...

Hello @Burn1986, perhaps Jonah didn't have the courage to do so himself, or it may be that the men, who "knew" that they were helping him run away from God (Jonah 1:10), needed to do so (or felt that they did) to appease "the Lord God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land". What we know...

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Helloooo @Slazenger94, welcome to CChat! I'm glad that you found us and joined in the discussions with us :) God bless you!! ~Deuteronomy 1 Thessalonians 5 23 May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the...

Hello Cheryl (@Cbarber), welcome to CChat! I'm glad that you found us and joined in the discussions with us :) God bless you!! ~Deuteronomy 1 Thessalonians 5 23 May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete...

The formatting of Morris' commentary above, which looked perfect in the "Preview", did not hold when I posted it :confused: Sorry about that. The principal part of his commentary (in regard to the topic at hand) are the two paragraphs that are enclosed by the tildes (~~), just FYI. ~Deuteronomy

Hello @jamessb, et al, unlike we find in many other verses (like John 3:18), v36 uses a different verb to tell us why unbelievers will not see (eternal) life/why God's wrath remains upon them (and there are several different translations of that verb that are used by our various translations and...

Hello @Eli1, I know that both the RCC and the EOC continually claim to be "God's one, true church", but I believe that the EOC may be somewhat closer to being correct about that because they seem to hold far more closely to their ancient "traditions" than the RCC does (which claims their...

To be fair, the Catholic apologists (e.g. see the link below) who I've encountered over the years would not agree with the assessment above in post #7 (IOW, "in context = Protestant/out of context = Catholic") though I think that if they were truly being honest, I don't know how they could avoid...

Here's an interesting opinion from a RC poster on another forum about taking Scripture both in and out of context (with a bit of a twist ;)). In many ways, I believe that a big part of what he says is a correct (and a surprisingly honest) assessment of the matter (when speaking of how...

Hello @MerSee, the Apostle Paul says no, and he explains why. Here, for instance, is his description of a "natural man" or unbeliever (see v14 below) in comparison to a "spiritual" man/believer (see v's 12-13, 15-16 below). 1 Corinthains 2 12 We have received, not the spirit of...

Hello @Chaplain_Sam456, welcome to CChat! I'm glad that you found us and joined in the discussions with us :) God bless you!! ~Deuteronomy 1 Thessalonians 5 23 May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete...

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Hello Zeph (@ImperfectlySpoken), welcome to CChat! I'm glad that you found us and joined in the discussions with us :) God bless you!! ~Deuteronomy Numbers 6 24 The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; 26...

Hi @Maura, and welcome to CChat :) God bless you!! ~Deuteronomy 1 Thessalonians 5 23 May the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24...

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So, the answer to both of your questions in the OP is, "it depends" (on the particular beliefs that a church or denomination holds to, as you can clearly see from the examples in my last post).

Hello @Komentaja, the RCC insists that water baptism is required to be saved, except in certain, special cases. See below. VI. THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM 1257 The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation.60 He also commands his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to all nations...