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You are watching your tomatoes ... good luck with them. I can see in the Scriptures that not only branches can be cut, but whole trees: Matt 7:19 Every tree not producing fine fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Really, then, by their fruits you will recognize those men. The whole...

I don't need to interpret the ilustrations in a different way, cause I can understand that the branches are cut because they didn't produce fruits, and the seeds didn't grow as a plant because of the soil and circunstances where they felt. A branch won't stay on the vine without fruits, no way...

Maybe we can understand better Mark 4:3-8 if we go to the explanation Jesus gave about that ilustration: Mark 4:14 “The sower sows the word. 15 These, then, are the ones alongside the road where the word is sown; but as soon as they have heard [it] Satan comes and takes away the word that was...

Maybe it is a question of "words" ... They want to call them "fruits" ... fruits are works. They want to think they are automatic ... automatic in the sense that the person is being learning from the law and is trying to do what is right, maybe that way is automatic; when we have been learning...

I already talked about that ... I think I'd been doing that in all my posts about this matter. Have you read my comments in their entirety? I don't like to be responding to questions and accusations that have no basis.

Maybe it is not me who does not believe in Jesus: John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. 2 He takes away every branch in me not bearing fruit, and he cleans every one bearing fruit, so that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word that I have...

It is not about trying to follow "the law". The law is good because it shows what is wrong or right and that's it. Now we don't need the law just to know what is everything about, like Paul said: Rom 7:7 What, then, shall we say? Is the Law sin? Never may that become so! Really I would not have...

You are trying to say that no person can do good works by himself. I don't think so. Their works may not save them cause everyone is "sinner" no matter how many good works he does ... but that does not mean that people can not do good works by themselves. Maybe this passage can help you to...

Matt 7:21-23 is interpreted the wrong way by some. They say those "christians" were having "works" or getting proud of certain "works" they did. That is not the case. Jesus called them "workers of lawlessness" and that means what it means. Maybe they were doing certain "works" ... but not...

Consider this passage: 1 Pet 1:13 So brace up your minds for activity; keep your senses completely; set your hope on the undeserved kindness that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, stop being molded by the desires you formerly had in your...

Please do not chop my comments when you quote me. Thank you.

What about the thief? Jesus can forgive sins as he was doing a lot. Those persons he healed before, if they didn't follow him after that, they were not christians just because they were healed and their sins forgiven. In the resurrection they will answer about their works, like the thief. The...

There it is. This passage explain that very well: Heb 3:7 For this reason, just as the holy spirit says: “Today if YOU people listen to his own voice, 8 do not harden YOUR hearts as on the occasion of causing bitter anger, as in the day of making the test in the wilderness, 9 in which YOUR...

Heb 5:9 And after he had been made perfect, he became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those obeying him No person has "everlasting salvation" since we are still waiting for the Judgement Day. Rev.20:12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and...

Thank you for answering. I agree; it is a very good comparison.

Can you, please, elaborate on this point for me to understand what you mean with these words?

Very true. We must do our part, though.

I don't think so. They were doing a lot of things on the name of Jesus ... That means they had a lot of faith on him. The last words Jesus said specified where the problem was: ‘I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!’ . It was not faith what they lack, it was works.

It is true: I am runnig from something, but it is not from you but from conflicts ... Expressions like "the Chopped up Handy Dandy Undiscerning Believer's Bulletin' aka 'The Awkard Bible" tell me that I must not stay on that kind of dialog to avoid the same vocabulary, it is a "weird" vocabulary...

You may be a disciple of the one with the "noisy vocabulary" ... I just gave my opinion based on what I know from the Scriptures. My words have nothing to do with you or anybody else ... I don't focus on people here, and I won't generate or entertain conflicts about persons. Luk 2:14 “Glory in...