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A person becomes a child of God through the ' new birth ' .

John 7 37¶In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly SHALL flow rivers of living water. 39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they...

I think we have an entirely different message when we try use Acts 2.38 for today.

A lot of Christians no longer know what the Gosepl is . They are caught up in self management/ Lordship / Faith plus something else salvation . The good news is now rule keeping and protecting statements of faith, confessions and being an avatar of an ideology / paradigm .

1 John 2:2 “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”

That verse is before the cross. OT

Yes ,but it doesn't say we become Israel

Yes, thats called ' the greek game ', its very popular today . A certain theology which you follow is built on syllogism rather than what the bible actually says . When we're told not to love the world ,clearly this does not include our own children , wifes and family. Or in the sense of loving...

Because of your calvinism its very difficult to follow your points .

Does he give everyone the faith to believe?

Acts is descriptive of what happened. What happened took time and inertia. There's no reaching Gentiles until After Acts 7 . There's no apostle to the gentiles until Acts 9 . There's confusion over circumcision. Most things don't get ironed out until after Acts .

Which part of acts ? No gentiles are being reached until After Acts 7 .

//You are teaaching people not to rely on the Word as preserved by the Father, and this is wickedness.// What are you talking about? The bible warns us to watch out for false teaching. 'Lordship salvation ' as taught by calvinistic proponents is false teaching. It leads people to look to thier...

The writers of the bible are aware of false teachings of their day and so such we be . If you don't know about them ,how will you avoid them ?

Even in Acts there not perfect in understanding. We shouldn't want to try to get back to the time of Acts either .

To do something with the salvation we already have was the point .To do something with 'eternal security '. 'To do something with what we have that cannot be lost ect ect .

John Macarthur is famous for writing a book on this ( In defense of it ) Just type it in and get with the programme . Type in 'Lordship salvation 'and Ray comfort ' , Get with the programme . Type 'Lordship salvation Calvinism works salvation ' get with the programme . Have you been in a cave...

I agree ' Once saved ,stay saved '

Yes its unfortunate that Anderson was represented here .

I think we should look at the early Church as being like toddlers . They are still not quite maturing into understanding yet . Its early and they say say good and bad things. The main issue is when we assume ,because they were ' closer ' that this means they must have been more correct and as...