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Awesome scripture, God-fearing! "Is. 53:3 He is despised H959  and rejected H2310  of men” - Men were the one’s despising Him, not God. "a man H376  of sorrows, H4341  and acquainted H3045  with grief” - He truly deeply and consciously suffered real sorrows and real grief. "and we hid H4564 ...

You have an unbiblical definition of the will. You can make the Bible teach whatever suits you, if you take the liberty to redefine the Bible’s vocabulary I really don’t see anything in Romans 7 by which to conclude that Paul "was able to perform each of the Ten Commandments except one.” I see...

The idea that Jesus was punished in our place, called Penal substitutionary atonement, is a rather modern concept proposed by reformation lawyers who became preachers. They read scripture through their legal training lens. However, I don’t think scripture teaches that Jesus needed to suffer the...

I know I AM saved, because I am loving the brothers and sisters. That does not mean I am saved because I love the siblings? I do not know whether, if I died LATER TODAY I would go to heaven, because I do not know if I will be loving the brothers and sisters later today, nor do I know if I will...

You are free to believe that, if you want. Paul says in Romans 7 that he was free to want to please God, but found himself before receiving Christ to be sometimes(?) often (?) not free to act in accordance with that wanting.

You said - "Well, I am speaking to 21st-century people. Therefore, if I want to be understood, I need to use 21st-century word meanings." You also said - If no one can force you to love, hate, or want a drink of water, how are your wants not free, i.e. self-impelled ? It is in your power...

But the apostles were speaking to First Century Greek speakers who had their understanding of ‘thelO” as want or desire, not to 20th Century English speakers who think thelO means the ability to make decisions and choices. Substituting a twentieth Century sense of "to will" for the first century...

Biblically, free will is not free decisions, i.e. free choices. You are committing an anachronistic fallacy, imposing modern meaning of “will” onto a First Century word translated in the 17th Century as will. Biblically, in the first century, free will was free desire. You “wanted” to obey...

We are free to choose whether to want to sin or not. We often do not have the ability to fulfil that freely chosen desire not to sin. External circumstances that conspire against our will, or the order of priority we give to various aspects of our personality, such as our instincts (the flesh)...

Biblically, in the first century AD, the Greek word thelO meant I desire/I want. The word free means unrestrained. NaaDaB means he impels. The Hithpa’el form is reflexive, in Ezra 2:68 HiThNaDBU means they impelled themselves (into the house of the Lord.) Mat 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the...

I do my best to follow Him with His grace and help.

Yes. The Son created all things. Jhn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Jhn 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. Jhn 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. The only entities who are...

One single leader: Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Mosaic Law was easier to keep than the Sermon on the Mount. 1. Don’t have even husband or wife or children before God. 2. Don’t imagine and promote any false methods of saving yourself. 3. Don’t rely on and participate in those false strategies. 4. Always do and say what will make the...

Jesus Christ our Lord is the Way, the Truth and the Life. If we are in Him, we are in/on the Way, in the Truth and in the Life. If we abide in Him, we have Life. Every time we disconnect from Him, we will be in need of rescuing by the Good Shepherd from our wandering.

The New Testament does not seem to designate any particular day of the week for “worship”.

I don’t agree that en morphE in v.7 means more than "in outward visible appearance". Something can have a visible appearance of being a cat, and also be a cat, or it can have the morphE of a cat but be some clothing or a rock that looks like a cat. The Ph’p 2 text makes sense when we consider...

I agree with you that the articular einai is the verbal noun, “being" And I am OK with your interpretation of harpagmos. I am OK with reading the text as - [Christ Jesus] who, while actually being (huparchOn) in visible appearance (en morphEi) divine (theou), did not consider (EgEsat0) being...

Secondly, Strong’s disagrees with you over your dismissal of harpagmos meaning "a clutching to oneself of something to retain it. ἁρπαγμός, -οῦ, ὁ, (ἁρπάζω); 1. the act of seizing, robbery, (so Plutarch, de lib. educ. c. 15 (others 14, 37), vol. 2:12 a., the only instance of its use noted in...

There are so many assertions in your response that are unfounded, it’s hard to know where to start. Please validate your claims with evidence. I’ll deal with them one at at a time. Firstly, you claim regarding morphE - "μορφῇ θεοῦ (morphē theou) does not mean “divine form that He let go of”...