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Thank you! I am doing well - just extremely busy - pastoring, teaching, and other work.

Believing in Jesus is the only way to eternal life. If a person dies without belief in Jesus, I do not see any way they would have eternal life.

I think I would agree with everything you wrote here, except I would say the last line something like this: I have been forgiven, and because I believe in Jesus, I continue to find forgiveness moment by moment in his blood payment.

I grew up thinking that "confession" was saying the right words. But the word for "confess" here is homologeo which means literally "to say the same thing as" or to agree with. The person who says words like "I am sorry," but in his heart does not agree with God about the sin is not really...

This whole business of salvation, eternal security, Calvinism, and Arminianism, can get quite complex and argumentive. There is one thing I know from Scripture: (1) Only those who believe in Jesus will get to heaven (2) Those who do not believe in Jesus will not get to heaven

I John 1:7 says that for those who are walking in the light (believers), the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses (Greek present tense = ongoingly, continually) them from all sin (sin is actually singular here in the Greek = each and every sin). I grew up thinking that I needed to verbally confess...

Part of what is going on here is the core differences between God and man. One must first understand who God is: if you are arguing from different beginning points on a view of God, you will get different results.

John 1:1 does not give the entire picture of the Trinity: It just tells us clearly that Jesus (the Word) was in the beginning and was God.

The absence of the Greek article is not equivalent to the English word "a." Sorry!

John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God

The entrance into heaven is not based firstly and only on one's actions. It is based on whether one has faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ And of course one's faith will have implications in the actions and deeds of the person. When a person has faith in Jesus Christ, his...

Very informative and helpful post!

The question on the inclusion of Matthew 12:47 needs to be approached from the standpoint of: what that verse in the original manuscript that Matthew wrote? You are seeming to argue that it should be included because leaving it out give incomplete thought and interpretation. I am not here...

I don't think this verse addresses whether these people are "believers" or "unbelievers." What it does say is that the person who only talks and says he has Jesus as his master, but does not actually live it out, will not enter the kingdom of heaven. It is only the one who actually and really...

Matthew 8:23 KJV And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.

It says Armageddon - I think it is the literal place. Yes, it is possible for places to have figurative significance. In Revelation 17,18 the term Babylon seems to me to likely be figurative.

Perhaps you are right that no where is Scripture is it explicitly said that a person receives the Spirit the moment they believe. But what we do know is that as Romans 8:9 says, "now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his."

My best sarcasm!! ;)

Why should a sinner worry about coming to Jesus? It won't do him any good anyway! What he does has absolutely nothing to do with his being saved! Those that are elect are saved from the foundation of the world - God and God alone determines eternal destiny, and his choice is sovereign and...

You said: Some believe this was between His death and HIs resurrection. Some believe the "spirits in prison" were fallen angels mentioned in 2 Peter 2:4, Jude 6 Yes, that is what I believe. It is the theory that I think the most sense of the texts - and I admit it is just that - a theory...