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Once saved always saved leaves out the work of transformation or sanctification which is necessary for heaven as Matthew 7 clearly shows those still working iniquity/sinning will be told to depart because they did not allow Christ His rightful place upon the throne of their heart to circumcise it, or cut the sin out which is the transformation we need to enter heaven for Revelation says those who keep the commandments (they are transformed from law breaker to law keeper ) they will enter in.

Joan, I'm so sorry for your loss! I asked for prayers of comfort for you. Please have solace in the fact that you 2 will be together again soon! God bless you!

Hardening his heart is defined in the commentary. It reads as follows:

-Hardness of heart denotes that state of mind upon which neither threatenings nor promise, neither judgements nor mercies, make any abiding impression. The conscience being stupified, and the heart filled with pride and presumption, they persist in unbelief and disobedience.

Why would God make Pharaoh harden his heart to disobey him?

Upon reading the comments it is for 2 reasons.

1. Test Moses faith to do as God commanded unto Pharaoh

2. To show the people his power

Day 19 of Bible in a year

The old testament was written for those under the law. Now we are under grace. I believe all scripture is for edification yet since we are under grace, as an example, if we then are under grace we will not be stoned for committing sin. In the old testament before Jesus became sin for us we could have been stoned for many sins even if we repented, or said , forgive me. The laws were absolute before Jesus died for us. So today any physical imperfection is not an indication of anything having to do with salvation.

I think king Saul went to heaven. Did I understand the scripture correctly

Does principalities mean government as well as spirits

If you honor the Son you honor the father , if you do not honor the Son you do not honor the father .

If you make the Son to be more or less than the testimony of the father and the Son .

Then they are dishonored , because their testimony is not believed .

You can be one with your wife too , but there still is two of you .

To say Jesus and God are one is beyond ridiculous , they are two . Yes Jesus is one in spirit and is as God is . Totally a different thing .

Jesus prayed that his followers would be one as he and the father are in gospel of John , so does that expand the trinity ? Ridiculous.

As Christians we do believe in the triune God, throughout the NT Jesus and the apostles explain this, these are only a few bible verses to confirm this.

Luke 1:35 "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."

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

John 15:26 "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:"

1 John 5:7 "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."

1 John 5:8 "And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."

1 John 5:10 "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son."

1 John 5:11 "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son."

At Leviticus 22 v 32 - what is God's name?

Lord - is a title very much like Mr and Master and Dr and Sir. These are Titles. Why is that the following Bible's have God's name in the verse and other Bible's omit The Almighty's name.

This in itself is absolutely wrong!

Omitting the Almighty God's name and replacing it with a Title is wrong in every single sense.

Dear Gihuka,

Are you a parent? If not, imagine you have kids and you can either force them to say they love you, or give them the choice in what they say. If they chose to say that to you, would you feel that might seem more real, genuine, and better than forcing them into obedience? If you agree, then maybe you understand why God gives us free will. He could have created robots, but he didn't. He loves us enough to let us choose for ourselves, whether we will follow Him or not, whether we will choose good, or evil. Some choose good, but many choose evil. That is one of the realities of our world. Because there is freewill, we will see injustice, suffering, and consequences of people choosing sin. No one gets away with it though.

We are all imperfect and struggle with this in our own sinful nature, but if we choose to follow Jesus and submit our lives to Him through obedience then our sins are washed clean by grace. God lets satan tempt people too, and our character is being tested while here on Earth. Jesus gave many parables saying how narrow is the way that leads to eternal life in heaven and wide is the gate leading to hell, where most people will go. Imagine if he led just everyone in heaven, then it probably wouldn't be heaven, and if God forced everyone to be robots, then that wouldn't seem authentic. God loves you enough to allow you to choose for yourself.

Amen, well said Suzanne.

Hello brother,

If I may ask one question. Yes Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I hope people reading the Bible know this as that is what Christ denotes Himself as. Also being one with the Father. The Father being in Him and He in the Father. As God is Spirit.

Do you believe we should honor the Son even as we honor the Father? Thank you.

God Bless.

who is ruths mother

Since God is soverign, omnipotent, omniscience, He can resist to let not sin enter into the world. He foreknow before anything begins. Then, why evil? Despite God can let everything was good.

How you get 9.5 parts when it says 10.5 parts are gone?

For they sleep not,except they have done mischief,and their sleep is taken away,unless they cause some to fall.

Alex You may want to carefully go over the treads of other peoples comments, you and Chrs agreed water baptism doesn't saves, I thought he made that clear and did an excellent job communicating as usual.

Time started in the beginning gen.1:1

Our current days of week came from roman empire.

Thats in relationship to peoples actions or what man thinks says or does.

CCorrect once you are born again it cannot be undone it is spiritual, that doesn't mean that when your born again you immediately do Gods word that requires study working it changing your thinking.

It is spiritual light notice sun and stars and moon didn't come till later verses, neat isnt it.

Surprisingly, I have never heard of this book, why was it omitted from the Holy Bible?

Sin is disobedience to Gods word first occurrence Adam and eve perpetrator serpent better known as satan.

I love the lord and I won't take it back

The answer is two fold God almighty all powerful and all knowing gives us freedom of will along with his created angels and He also knows who is going to be born again, incredible God and he never makes anybody do anything or else you would not have free will either to do his word or not. Even his only begotten son had freedom of will he had to make up his mind to believe who the scriptures said he was, which is why he kept saying have ye not read, and on the road to emmmaus expounded all scripture concerning himself. that would have been a dynamite teaching to hear.

3 = 3 not 1

1= 1 not 3

If this does not work for you perhaps a prayer may help .

The devil is the author of confusion .

God is in the light and clearly to be understood especially about Jesus there can be no confusion . He is Gods Son . Nothing confusing about that .

Thank you for the response.

You mentioned that we need to be fully clear & fully convinced in our hearts in what we believe. So what do you mean (or can you explain) the idea of "in our heart". I do not know what "Heart" means in terms of how the bible describes. I only really understand the heart as the physical muscle in the body. Otherwise the terminology of the heart is vague to me in the same sense that love and other words are just that...words but without a truly defined meaning. So would gladly appreciate what this means. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

You can make a trinity out of any three things .

But the trinity doctrine is foreign to the Bible .

God is one God according to James .

We who are born again of Gods spirit i.e. christians will be saved from the wrath or tribulation to come because Christ will come back to gather Us His body the born again believers.