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Talking of the body of believers. In Romans Paul is referring to the local body of believers at Rome. So this ref wouldn't be about eternal salvation. All through the letter he is addressing the church at Rome. Then when it comes to the body of Christ.. its suddenly every believer? Its gotta...

Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my church.. Jesus was referring to Himself as the builder. Word for Jesus... 'mass' of rock. Word for Peter.. 'little' rock. Petros vs Petra. Or the other way of looking at it is Jesus being the builder with Peter being among the disciples He...

Have you read of the churches in the valley of piedemont? Read of the Paulicians? Its true that in amongst the ana Baptist groups there were some weird beliefs, but there were also Christian churches that hung on tenaciously to biblical teaching. Remember also that the record of a lot of...

I've always thought of the sin cycle of habitual sin to be akin to.. Sin.. feel bad about it after.. then go to the same sin to alleviate the bad feeling. For example.. a drug that gives a high.. afterward the user feels bad.. low.. and because the drug is an upper.. they go to the upper to...

There is immersion in water baptism. Its believers baptism. For the individual. A representation of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. It doesn't eternally save someone but is an act of obedience. Then there is Holy Spirit baptism. This is the Holy Spirit empowering a group of...

Yeah.. faith and hope come out of God's love/charity. Also tied with charity is unconditional grace. And this is at the cross of Jesus

Yes, another great passage for pursuing Jesus and not strife: (Gal 5:19) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (Gal 5:20) Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, (Gal...

God has been a trinity being always. Father, Son and Holy Spirit co-eternally existing since before creation. 'Let US make man in our image' in Genesis 'All things were created through Him, and without Him nothing was made' . . This is about Jesus There are a lot of other verses showing...

There is 2 kinds of deliverance coming from God. One is when someone is saved eternally, the other is daily deliverance by relying on God thru it all. Daily deliverance is in the likes of James 2..'faith without works is dead' Eternal deliverance is in the likes of John 3:16 and 5:24 Once...

Yeah there are things in nature that can help explain the trinity. The help to understand but cant explain it fully. A human being has a body mind and soul Water can be ice, steam and liquid Light, when put thru a prism has many shades of three base colours They are limited, but do...

Thank you for the reply. I usually always use the KJV bible. I haven't looked well into the line of bibles most closely matching the original manuscripts. I've heard a lot but not read a lot myself about it. I have read that King James ordered the Puritans translation of assembly and...

Yeah.. people should know Jesus is God and that He died for our sins so that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.. before praying to be saved by Jesus. I used to do a lot of initative evangelism.. on a university campus, at the beach, at parks. Most of the time I...

We can 'sin less' but never until in heaven be 'sinless' Even to think about sinning to God is the same as doing it. He does want us to follow Him, and take up our cross. But that doesn't mean we won't sin again. G R A C E

The main thing I have seen with the likes of Hillsong music is treating the Holy Spirit as something to draw power from like a force. Like 'give me, give me, give me' Rather than thankyou for what you have given. There are some Hillsongs that do have this thankfulness .. but not enough

Is it the KJV only position that the copies of the original manuscripts have been preserved only thru the KJV ? That God has preserved His Word through the KJV and no other copy?

Thanks for the reply, It's when I look at Acts 18 with Apollos, and what he was doing, who is disciples were.. and then look at Acts 19, that leads me to think the disciples in Acts 19 had believed in Jesus Christ and were saved by grace. But yeah, I am keen to get back into looking at my...

Yah. .. John 3:16 has no baptism in it. Romans 10 doesn't have baptism. John 5:24 no baptism. Classic case is the thief on the cross-- believing in Jesus..no baptism. But you do see baptism by immersion quickly happening after eternal salvation is given in the New Testament. Most cases I...

Oh I see.. yeah Walmart is pretty huge there. The Warehouse here wouldn't sell as much stuff. No pharmacy stuff at the Warehouse. Cheers

You know, here in New Zealand, during lockdown, the only places open are supermarkets, petrol stations, corner dairies and businesses supplying essential items to supermarkets. No hardware stores open, no mechanics open, no department stores, no clothing stores etc.. So i'm surprised Walmart is...

The original church? That would be the first NT assembly of Jesus and His disciples. Catholicism comes much later. Also consider the history of churches that were nick named 'ana baptists' meaning 're-baptises' . Their history goes back before Catholicism