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Justification & Sanctification Explained Again Justification is God's once‑for‑all judicial verdict declaring a sinner righteous on the basis of Christ's sin‑atoning death & resurrection. When a person calls on the Lord Jesus for forgiveness & believes in His finished work, God who alone knows...

GWH, your AI is uninformed. Jesus defines the will of the Father for salvation in John 6:40: believe in the Son. Everything else, repentance, obedience, love, endurance. Are the fruit of salvation, not the requirement for it. Matthew 7 condemns false believers (I never knew you), not believers...

Jesus said in Matthew 7:21 that only those who do the will of My Father enter the kingdom. The question is: What is the will of the Father? In John 6:40 Jesus answers that Himself, plainly & without ambiguity: This is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son & believes in Him...

You keep avoiding the actual text. John 10:3 alone destroys your entire ""group‑only, non‑personal pronoun"" argument: He calls His own sheep BY NAME & leads them out. That is as individual as language gets. Jesus doesn't call a category by name. He calls people by name. The pronouns in...

Christ's resurrection is God the Father's PAID IN FULL receipt for the sin‑redemption transaction Jesus accomplished at Calvary. Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words Redeem, Redemption [ A-1,Verb,G1805, exagorazo ] “to purchase out of the marketplace” Used in Rev 5:9; 14:3–4 (AV...

I never claimed Jesus said METAPHORICAL. I said Jesus' Bread of Life Discourse is METAPHORICAL. I gave examples: Jesus said, I am the door (Jn 10:9). I am the vine (Jn 15:1). He's not a literal door, vine or a loaf of bread. I gave examples where Jesus defines the metaphor: Jn 6:53 I am the...

Your rule would mean no Christian today can claim any biblical promise unless their personal name appears in the verse. That's not how language works. When Jesus says ""My sheep... I give them eternal life... they shall never perish,"" He is speaking of every individual who belongs to Him...

Everything here is what Jesus said. Jesus regularly uses identity metaphors to reveal spiritual truth: I am the door (Jn 10:9). I am the vine (Jn 15:1). I am the light of the world (Jn 8:12). I am the good shepherd (Jn 10:11). None of these are literal. None are parables. All are metaphorical...

Really? You may want to revisit Posts #54, 62, 64, 65 More help for the mentally frail & spiritually blind: Jesus regularly uses identity metaphors to reveal spiritual truth: I am the door (Jn 10:9). I am the vine (Jn 15:1). I am the light of the world (Jn 8:12). I am the good shepherd (Jn...

If you come on a discussion forum & promote it you should be able to defend it. Your answer proved my point. You've make it clear you don't like scripture, your loss. Jn 6:35 explains Jn 6:53 Jn 6: 35Jesus replied to them, “I am the Bread of Life. The one who comes to Me will never be...

I knew you couldn't provide scripture to defend your transubstantiation position & when a man mocks Scripture instead of answering it, the debate is already over

You're trying to dodge the force of Jesus' words in John 10 by turning His personal promises into vague group statements, but the text won't let you. Jesus doesn't say ""the group of sheep hears My voice,"" He says MY SHEEP hear MY voice, I KNOW THEM & THEY follow Me, & I GIVE THEM eternal life...

Help for the scripturally ignorant: From the very beginning of the biblical pattern, the elements remain BREAD & WINE & NOT literal flesh & blood. Melchizedek the priestly prototype of Christ brought out BREAD & WINE in his priestly ministry (Gen 14:18) & Jesus, the fulfillment of the...

I prefer: Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words: [ A-1,Noun,G1347, dikaiosis ] - JUSTIFICATION: denotes the act of pronouncing righteous, justification, acquittal;" "to justify" it is used twice in the Ep. to the Romans, and there alone in the NT, signifying the establishment of a...

These definitions are open for debate-because Scripture defines them. Justification is when a Sovereign God judicially declares you righteous based on faith placed in Jesus once‑for‑all sin atoning payment & resurrection, an eternal life declaration. Rom 5:1 Having BEEN justified by faith, we...

What you've written sounds devotional, but it collapses the very categories Scripture keeps distinct. You said: Justification = A state of being in Christ, where we are seen as just like Christ. Justification IS NOT a state of being. Justification is when a Sovereign God judicially declares...

^^^^^2 Peter 2:16^^^^^

What's being promoted here is not the New Covenant, not apostolic teaching & not the gospel of Jesus Christ Paul preached. It's a system that tries to drag the Sinai covenant into the New Covenant & then insists that the tablets of stone must remain the structure of salvation. Scripture won't...

I disagree Sin absolutely carries consequences in a believers life. Broken relationships, sickness, loss of joy, protection hedges removed etc. But none of those consequences include the loss of salvation. Scripture is clear that the only unforgivable sin is lifelong unbelief, dying without...

Wattie, let me restate what I already laid out, because Scripture is very clear on how eternal life is received. In the post I said: Jn 3:36 He that believeth on the Son "hath" everlasting life & he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him (NOTE...