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Funny how we say 'major and minor' for prophets There is nothing 'minor' about what Ezra and Nehemiah did! :) I suppose we say it to put the books to memory.

No christian would appose ALL the gifts of the Spirit. Faith, hope and love remain for most people who believe the gifts fulfilled there purpose. And faith hope and love are gifts of the Holy Spirit. There are also partial cessationists who have only the sign gifts ceasing. They still...

Yes judging them.. but removing the individual salvation from them? Ezra...Israel is continually getting caught up in sins. They rebuild the temple but then it is revealed that they are intermingling with other people. Ezra.. astonied.. frustrated.. grieving.. what is God doing...

The context of who is talking to whom is key here. If Jesus is talking to or about Pharisees do you then apply it to already saved believers? Also.. how is speaking against Jesus forgiven but not the Holy Spirit? Unless blaspheming the Holy Spirit is rejecting salvation as the Pharisees...

Yes, they are accountable, as the church at Corinth was. Discipline, rebuke, admonishing..not removal of the Holy Spirit from a person's spirit.

It doesn't, but the removal of the Holy Spirit from a church as a whole is different from personal indwelling. From the whole is not soul indwelling, but 'in the midst' presence.

When an entire church is being spewed out of the mouth of God.. is that every single member of that church losing eternal life? If my church lost the presence of the Holy Spirit because it went off beam.. the members wouldn't lose the Holy Spirit's indwelling. My church would no longer be one...

Yes, it isn't as if there is no consequences for sin for a saved person. The Holy Spirit works on our spirit to cleanse us from being in sin. If church leaders are doing their job, they will address our sin issues thru a process like Matthew 18. Jesus may end our life to stop us if it's...

In Hebrews 10.. if we sin willfully, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. The sacrifice all through this chapter is mainly of animals. The Hebrew believer, can't go back to their system of offering of animals if they sin willfully, but can expect fiery discipline from Jesus...

Yes..after water baptism . . Having believed earlier. On belief.. each individual indwelled by the Holy Spirit. Although they may not have known that this is what happens at belief. Then water baptism.. then receiving the Holy Spirit as a group.. different from indwelling. The Holy...

Key questions.. In the passage you are looking at.. Is the baptism of a whole group? Are the people baptized already believers? Is the baptism.. involving the Holy Spirit.. or is it water baptism? This relates back to first question. How many verses have eternal salvation mentioned that...

He couldn't do it I would think. Nature is such he is forever doomed. Same with demons. They know who Jesus is... they do not follow Him though.

Think of it like a family biological connection. Once born into it (although this part isn't by the persons choice) ... They then can't have that undone. When a person is born again into God's Family by belief in Jesus as God and Saviour, they have a deeper bond than a family one..not...

No because if the Holy Spirit is actually in somebody's soul after receiving Christ, then it's up to Him whether He leaves or not.. not us. We don't have the kind of power to force the Holy Spirit out of us. If He gives eternal life, it is eternal. The consequences for sin are rebuke...

Every Christian will have some kind of sin issue.. none are perfect. Osas is about Jesus. All about His sacrifice and giving of eternal life. If it is eternal life He gives, it means eternal. All the people I know personally that believe OSAS are actually the most faithful.. because they...

I'm not 'hypergrace' That is what I understand to Jesus saving everyone regardless of their belief in Him. No consequences of hell for believer or non believer. But maybe that's universalism. Anyway.. there is discipline, rebuke and admonishing for a believer so there is consequences for...

Hebrews 10.. no longer a sacrifice for sin.. The context thru the chapter is animal sacrifice.. of bulls and goats. The Hebrew believer in this is trying to mix there old ways in after having believed in Jesus. So they want to keep their system of sacrifices. The writer of Hebrews says this...

Saved in the context of Matthew 24 isn't eternal salvation aka John 3:16.. but deliverance and rescue meaning. The chapter is about overcoming trials and tribulations.. this isn't about eternal salvation. Salvation can be about eternal salvation or daily deliverance or deliverance from trials...

This is a big issue if you believe salvation can be undone, is that if you lose salvation how do you get it back? If it is thru some kind of work of effort then that is against scripture regarding Jesus one time sacrifice and the nailing of works of the law to the cross. If they have to get...

Neither. Salvation after belief.. that isn't calvinism. Eternal life given at belief.. that isn't arminianism. Although armeniast may say they get eternal life but can undo it.. which is illogical.