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I wasn't opposing anything. I was simply asking if you were moving the goal post.

Yes. For instance, this question reveals quite a bit about your thoughts and approach.

I was asking you whether you were moving the goal posts. Let's look at the first verse you quoted. This can be a placeholder for the other ones as they all present the same concept. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been...

In 1 John we see the whole man First you quote verses that speak clearly of those who have been born again not sinning, being righteous just as Jesus is righteous, etc. Then you throw in caveats that are clearly absent from those Scriptures. And it appears that the caveats defeat your original...

Are you moving the goal posts to make it easier to qualify?

It is more likely that the Galatian Christians were not Jewish converts. Their practices were not Jewish and many of the commands in Galatians are directed at not being converted to Judaism. I generally agree with this. But I think a more precise characterizatoin would be to construe “law” in...

Why would anyone argue against trusting what God teaches us?

I guess you're right. I picked this one because of the survey question. It has devolved into a discussion of baptism, which I generally avoid.

Water baptism is not a necesity. The thief on the cross is one prime example. Cornelius is another example. The Ethiopian eunuch is another. And there are plenty more. And if God had established water Baptism as being necessary for Him to forgive people's sins, then He would not have left out...

The basic concept of Christianity is that God laid on Jesus the iniquities of us all (Isa 53:6), that He took those sins with Him to the cross (Mk 15:34), that by the Spirit He offered His own blood in Heaven to the Father as an acceptable sacrifice for our sins (Heb 9:14), and that believing...

What happens when a passage of Scripture is misunderstood and people teach others that they must submit to the false interpretation in order to be saved?

Those who accept Scripture don't look to baptism as the means to forgiveness. They look to Jesus. Because Jesus said so. And the Father said so. And the Spirit said so. And John the Baptist said so. And the prophets said so. And the apostles said so.

So, it is a metaphor for sins being forgiven. Sins can't be washed away. But you guys take it literally to mean that baptismal waters literally wash away sins. And the metaphor is an accurate metaphor only if a person who was saved by faith in Christ beforehand is later baptized (like...

Acts 22:16 Be baptized (βαπτισαι [baptisai]). First aorist middle (causative), not passive, Get thyself baptized (Robertson, Grammar, p. 808). Cf. 1 Cor. 10:2. Submit yourself to baptism. So as to ἀπολουσαι [apolousai], Get washed off as in 1 Cor. 6:11. It is possible, as in 2:38, to take these...

22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. 23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than...

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. (Jn 3:17)

You guys like to say sins need to be washed away. But that is just a picture of the reality. If our sins are not to be counted against us, they must be forgiven. Sins earn us death. And God is the Judge, Jury, and Executioner. He decides who gets punished for their sins and who He saves from His...

You are still fighting the obvious. No one can forgive sins but God alone. And He doesn't need a ceremony to accomplish it.

I gave you the definitive answer. But you reject it. Why do you refuse to believe the Bible?

I think Robertson got it right and you got it wrong. And since you disagree with me and Robertson, you are disagreeing with the Bible. See, I can say the same thing on every post.