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Exactly. Good works didn't enter into the equation. He believed that Christ was the Son of God and was saved as a result.

So you subscribe to faith and works? How do you think the thief on the cross will be judged?

As I asked in my previous post, please explain the contradiction between God choosing who is saved and who is to perish by His own decree, and yet every person is to be judged on their own choice of believing or rejecting the Gospel. How can a person be judged and condemned at the judgement if...

Seeing that at the judgement every person will be judged according to their choice of whether they received Christ as Saviour or not, and yet those who were not predestined to salvation will be condemned to hell, explain how people are predestined to salvation or hell by God's decree, which...

The link between predestination and free choice is a mystery that has not been fully revealed to us in the Scripture. God doesn't have to reveal every single thing to us concerning how He goes about saving some and allowing others to progress down on the road to hell. What do we know from...

Mary is dead and her body is in the grave. Her spirit is with the other godly spirits in Paradis awaiting for the second coming of Christ. Therefore the worship of Mary as the Queen of Heaven is idolatry. In fact, any visual representation of any god, including Jesus Himself is idolatry...

A particular pastor or elder may have gifts and abilities that may set him head and shoulders above others, and it is not wrong to recognize him as such. But his gifting does not give him overall authority over the others. Regards of his maturity, experience and gifting, he still has only one...

It is the residual influence of the RCC as a continuation of its hierarchical structure. The ministry of pastor is one of the five fold ministries to the church. It was never meant to be a role of authority over the local church. It was when the formalized established church instituted...

Luke says that Simon believed when Philip preached the Gospel to the Samaritans. No mention of the Holy Spirit being poured out on him. When Peter and John came to Samaria and started laying hands on folk to receive the Holy Spirit, Simon offered them money for the gift, but Peter turned him...

This depends on the brand of Pentecostalism. Not all Pentecostals are of the same brand as you have described. I was part of Pentecostal churches for 12 years and found Christ glorified, people's faith confirmed in Christ, and the preaching solidly founded in Scripture. Also the singing was...

I remember during the time of the Riwanda genocide where tens of thousands of innocent people were massacred, an African Christian remarked, "I don't know about a future great tribulation, but we are having ours right now!:

I guess a few people in Salem heard voices in their heads certain women were witches, and as a result, many innocent women were burned at the stake.

There is the story of a mugger who attacked an old woman on the street. She was a committed Christian and quite assertive, As the mugger ran at her, she shouted "Acts 2:38!" Abruptly, the mugger turned and ran for his life. Later on, when the police caught up with him and arrested him...

In actual fact, believers speaking in tongues is still the sign for unbelievers that there is a judgment to come for them. Believers don't need any external signs to confirm their faith. They have the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Pentecostal churches becoming less Pentecostal is just history repeating itself just as many churches were leaving their first love by the end of the First Century, and some almost taken over by false doctrine, as demonstrated by Jesus' message to the seven churches late in the First Century...

Now that's interesting! Here's what Pentecostals teach: 1. God created the world in six days. 2. Mankind is sinful because of Adam's disobedience. 3. Jesus came to show the true nature of God. 4. He died on the cross to take our sin upon Himself. 5. An unbeliever must be born again of the...

Our church in New Zealand used to get the magazine put out by the Oral Roberts organisation. He became Methodist in 1970 or thereabouts. I don't remember what his reasons were. I remember that many ardent Pentecostals thought he had deserted the ship and gone back into compromise. It was...

I am not Foursquare. I am Presbyterian with a sound Puritan Reformed theology along with a sound belief in the continuation of the Spiritual gifts. I believe that the Oneness doctrine is a heresy, but with all churches that contain error, there are genuine Christian converts who have their...

It's actually not the Pentecostal truth of the continuation of the gifts that was the problem there. It was the effectiveness of the chapel services pointing people to Christ and confirming people's faith in Him, that became a threat to the devil, so he stepped in and started to corrupt it and...

Most of the opposition to Pentecostalism comes out of sheer jealousy - that Pentecostal churches and missions are winning more souls to Christ and achieving church growth that non-Pentecostal churches are unable to achieve. It comes from the attitude: "If we can't achieve soulwinning success...