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It looks like we agree pretty much the same as each other on this subject. I don't exactly in what ways we don't quite agree, as all I noticed is what we agree on, and I can't see anything I didn't agree on - of what you said. As you say, it isn't abiding by Moses' laws that saves us, as...

Here is an example of unintentional sins, that God forgives whenever Christians sincerely repent of them: Paul here - is describing the regular struggle a Christian has against unintentional sins in their lives: Rom 7:20-25 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin...

No. Some sins are of the accidental kind. While others are not accidental - but are instead willful sins. People are judged for all willful sins against God. It isn't possible to be 100% sinlessly perfect - only Jesus was capable of that. Here is a passage that demonstrates the...

God requires us to "sacrifice" ourselves to God, and without doing that - we can't be acceptable to Him! This means to wholeheartedly serve Him and to not try to keep back any of the sacrifice! Hypocritical "sacrifices" unto God, aren't acceptable to Him! He demands sincerity! And if...

Are you a "couch potato" (spiritually speaking) - and wishing to be put on an automatic process, so that it will require no effort on your part - to be pleasing to God in daily life? It's true that no works for God are possible, without your first having accepted Jesus as your Savior and Lord...

Indeed - very true! No one is worthy apart from Jesus. The way to become worthy is to accept Jesus as Lord (master of one's life) and Savior.

True. The word "faith" or "belief" - in the full sense of the word, means belief combined with putting it to action in one's life. To do otherwise is being a hypocrite and has failed to come to essential repentance.

They come to repentance after hearing the gospel - if they choose to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life. God makes it so they are able to sufficiently understand it - if they're sincere in wanting to understand it. Anyone willfully resisting the gospel, will by their resistance...

But there are many who are just as hypocritical as they were. And if it was only referring to the Pharisees and of no use for teaching us the danger of hypocrisy - it would have been useless to read about it to anyone who was not a Pharisee. But all of the scriptures are of benefit for...

Indeed, the most important thing to understand in the Bible, is the gospel, and it's equally important to live according to it in daily life. Anyone not doing it are hypocrites and not worthy of eternal life in heaven - until or unless they come to repentance.

Well, I've studied history before myself. And know the weather has fluctuated a lot ever since the beginning of the creation of the world, etc.

I don't see that chapter in James as being only directed to stable Christians. To me, it was admonishing believers to remember the importance of sincerely obeying the gospel to the best of one's ability. And to not allow oneself to willingly give into sin, ever, as many professing...

Yes, believing in the gospel (the head knowledge about the gospel) must precede repentance. The process begins with the essential understanding of the gospel. Head knowledge about the gospel isn't enough alone - to save anyone - though it is an essential part necessary in the process...

Yes that's true, none of us are able to be 100% perfectly sinless. Only Jesus was capable of that, and in fact never ever sinned. But as Romans shows - we as humans, can't help but have to struggle against sin. The true Christian will prayerfully struggle against sin in daily life. But...

True - we aren't to judge one another unnecessesarily. As God knows people's hearts better than we are capable of knowing them. Though we can't help question in our minds about whether a person we're addressing - is saved or not. That's understandable, as not all who say they're saved...

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No - I think he was clearly talking about the need of the assent of one's will in order to get saved: Mark 8:34-37 34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow...