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Not only is God is the sole source of salvation, but every saved person is kept by the power of God. Peter writes, in 1 Peter 1:5, that believers are, "The ones who are being kept in the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

Paul writes on the same subject, in Galatians 5:17, "For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposing to one another; in order that you should not do what you want." These scriptures show that believers cannot be taken away from Christ by the flesh, because the Spirit of God is dwelling within to prevent that from happening.

Jesus Himself said, in John 6:37, "All that the Father gives to me will come to me; and the one coming to me I will never cast out." He goes on to say in John 6:39, "And this is the will of the Father who has sent me, in order that of all which he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day."

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Once I was drawn to Christ by the Father and surrendered my life to Him, His Spirit came into my spirit and sealed me unto the day of redemption.

I belong to Christ. He purchased me, meaning he owns me. Paul said in Romans 8:9, "Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this one is not of Him." In Romans 8:14, he wrote, "For as many as are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God."

In 2 Corinthians 13:5, Paul challenged the church at Corinth: "Examine yourselves, if you are in the faith; prove your own selves, or do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except you are reprobates?" John, supported the same understanding in 1 John 3:24, and 1 John 4:13. Salvation happens only when God's Spirit enters and remains in a person's spirit, thereby causing spiritual birth. Nothing in the Bible teaches that salvation is accomplished by the repetition of the Sinner's Prayer or through the performance of any other kind of human formula.

Angela, people's salvation is the most important to me. Please let me share with you where I stand on salvation. I will have to break this up in order to explain my position. I am one of those that strongly believe that salvation cannot be lost. Emphasis on the ability to save has been shifted in recent years from God to man. As a result, the permanency of salvation has been called into question quite frequently. Many believe you can lose it, and many believe you can't.

For me, I have to ask myself who am I trusting? Am I trusting in myself to keep myself saved, or am I trusting God's promise to keep me saved? My salvation is based solely on God's Spirit coming into my spirit, causing me to become a new creation, a new person. My experience of regeneration by the Holy Spirit is an act of God, not of myself. I would have never came to Christ if God the Father did not first draw me to Him. The salvation process begins with God the Father ( John 6:44).

Hi David, I'm sure you know that if you go to a Christian Bible website and claim that everything evolved rather than was designed and created by God that you will find most people disagree with you and will have plenty of Bible verses and evidence to back it up. I'm not sure what your goal is.

The assumption that humans are 99% the same as an ape has flawed logic.

The same metal from cars can be found in buildings, so does that mean cars evolved into buildings?

Your DNA is 60% similar to a banana. Does that automatically mean you came from a banana?

Your DNA is 84% similar to a dog. So you're part dog?

Your DNA: 90% similar to a cat

Your DNA: 90%-96%: monkeys, apes

Your DNA: 99.9% similar to other people

The reality is that God made all DNA a similar structure for all living things, so DNA is evidence of an intelligent designer- God. Atheist scientists are sometimes caught manipulating data to achieve specific pre-desired outcomes, so that kind of 'science' is closer to a cult religion that pushes propaganda.

Some argue once saved always saved and eternal security of the believer. Some use this grace as an excuse to sin.

I just know that the Bible says this:

Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not BLOT blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

One can argue over the interpretation of who gets blotted out of the book of life. It is a scary thought to consider some names in the book of life could be blotted out. Who will these be? pray over it and ask.

I am not sure either.

Churches use the Latin word Rapture, (that word is not in the Bible) when they are talking about the resurrection.

John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Think Rei was making quite an interesting point.

Why should little children be raped and murdered? How is that suddenly OK because the criminal will be punished in the afterlife. Sounds all very convenient. Its how the churches and politicians have been able to not punish their own kind who have widely abused so many innocents. Sin now, pay later?

I want to know if God is/was asleep, does not care, or is just too busy? Who can explain? Please don't tell me about 'choice'... the little children did not choose. But if God really can see everything, and if he was not asleep, did he simply CHOOSE to stand back and do nothing? And if everything is HIS WILL, then is the rape of little children HIS WILL also?

Getting angry is not a sensible grown up answer. Its what adolescents do when they cannot get their way. Please think about my question and come back when you really believe you have an honest answer. But no shouting please.

Thankyou for giving this some thought.

David

A simple DNA test will tell you exactly where you came from. They are about $100 now and well worth taking. You came from two people who had sex together, ie your natural your parents, and they from their parents. You carry the genes of your ancestors and we are 99% the same as an ape. That 1% has evolved in a milisecond of time compared to the billions of years that the earth has been formed.

There are still monkeys and apes because they are evolutionary rabbit holes. Its why there are multiple lines of hominids that died out. Human Biology, medicine, anthropology are truly exciting subjects taught at schools and colleges... thats where we can learn these things about our wonderful world.

In my home town there are so many foxes living from domestic refuse containers that foxes have evolved long necks. And hedgehogs have longer legs today than 50 years ago because of cars! And you shoudl see our butterflies. Evolutionary miracles in front of our very eyes!

Be well

David

Wondering if missing out on a basic education is going to help your son, or hold him back in life.

What do you think?

Thanks for sharing such a great article and enlightening us on this crucial topic. The end time is upon us and the second coming of our Lord "Jesus Christ" is coming. Still, many people don't believe it even after seeing situations like Coronavirus all around the world. I suggest you guys read a book on bible prophecies about end-time if you don't want to read the Holy Bible. I personally start with the book "Nation at a Crossroad" and that gives me the motivation to read the Holy Bible and understand God Almighty. So, you can prepare for that time. Thanks again. I love reading your article.

So where did the people from the land of nod come from that Cain knew his wife? Is this the 6th day creation? Then on the 8 th day GOD make the farmer which is Adam in which the blood line of Jesus would come?

Hi Charles,

One of the things I saw at my Christian School we can notice is that some gay men who have not 'come out of the closet' have very strong views about sex.

Have you noticed this?

David

Hi Charles,

You sound very angry with feminism. Like its got the world upside down.

I am guessing in the most part we have single mothers because the men got their kicks then ran away? And the women stayed.

How does that qualify men to be more able to teach??

May be men being in charge is upside down?

What do you think?

David

If Paul said that he suffers not for women to teach then he obviously never imagined my mother, or sister, or daughter. They are all much smarter than me and they have all taught me a great deal.

How did Paul get it so wrong?

I am not saying that Rome corrupted the bible. I am saying that the early Church was purposefully COMPILED under the stewardship of the Roman Empire out of fragmented factions from all around the Mediterannean, including what is now Turkey. So, the Roman Empire LED the compiling of the bible that is the KJV Bible today. They did this to create a single Church which would support the legitimacy and continued rule of the Roman Empire. And they killed a lot of people who wanted to preserve the many testaments they chose to exclude. The KJV bible we read today is the product of the political leadership of the Roman Empire. That is generally how religions are formed. By political leaders who need populations to submit to their rule. We can learn from this and ask ourselves questions about how we lead our lives, and how we treat each other, which is what I think Jesus was prompting us to do.

What is the rapture

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Could a believer lose their salvation?

There were many religions and variations on Christianity at that time. The Roman Empire needed an overarching religion that could integrate non-Roman people under a single creed. Christianity is the religion THEY selected. But Christianity had multiple variants and to be credible as a single creed, it needed to be 'streamlined'. That is why PEOPLE from multiple parts of the empire were selected and assembled to sift through and agree which parts of which texts would form the basis of the Christianity. IE, the Roman Empire organised the crafting of the bible deciding which texts were to be included for its own purpose. With much argument and debate, and repression of opposing points of view, the killing by the Church of many who were guardians of texts that had not been included. The KJV Bible is a translation of the documents carefully selected by that same Church under the political leadership of the Roman Empire. This is well-established by historians who do not dispute this.

I agree with you Kyle and I have been trying to inform others about this and some believe it and of course, others don't and then they are those who say they believe to your face & then laugh at you and call you awful names behind your back but I still believe it and I am not and will not give up because I feel that it is our place to say it and hope for the best and Remember that GOD is in control and someday soon we will be with him in glorious Heaven where we will spend eternity. What A Wonderful Day That Is Going To Be Kyle. GOD Bless You All And GOD IS And Always Will Be Here With Us And He WILL NOT Make Us Fight This Battle Alone. Let's Not Focus On The Battle, Just Remember That It's Already Been Won And Someday Soon We Shall Receive Our "Reward"... Eternal Life With Our Awesome Lord And Savior.

Open your heart! Don't put limits on wisdom or knowledge nor should we limit the simple teachings of the Savior. We, including Jesus, are all spirit children of God the Farther. He is our brother of whom, given the agency to choose, is now reveling in His Devine inheritance! We all are capable by birth right to inherit Kingdom's beyond our comprehension. The Atonement, the beautiful gift of repentance, and our own choices and honored covenants, will determine the degree of glory, We choose our own inheritance, by works recorded in the Lambs Book is Life. The scripture is plain! Believe! James 1:5 will help.

Explain matthew 5:5 blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.

Did the early church worship daily, and take Communion daily?

Mishael I dont think that you were preaching I think that you are a great Christian and that you have a strong faith and I look up to people like you. And dont apologize because you have done nothing wrong. Thank you for help out and I will be looking at those verses. So thank you so much. :)

My Jesus you are so Special to me. My Jesus you are the one that will fight for me. Hold my hand today as l start another day. Help me stay with what you want me to be. In your Father's Heavenly Kingdom you will lead me some day. You will be next to me helping me in everyway. Have l suffered enough in this world alone. For now you are here for me, leading me to the Throne. And here l will be- in your Glorious home. No more sorrow there will be, only comfort for me. For the Love of your Light will be surrounding me!!!

Take me home sweet Jesus to your Father-- for this world of Evilness is no more for me.... Take me home........

The 7th day was blessed before Adam was created; only the races had been created (6th day). So it wasn't for the Jews but for mankind. On March 7, 321 Roman Emperor Constantine I issued a civil decree making Sunday a day of rest from labor, stating: All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun. Constantine chose Sunday to be the day for Christian worship as it already enjoyed special status in the Roman week. Named after the Pagan Sun God Invictus, Sunday had become the day when wages were paid to workers, leading it to be seen as a day of celebration and thanks. In corresponding the Christian Sabbath with an already established day of rest, Constantine ensured that his decree would be accepted swiftly and harmoniously.

Council of Laodicea - 364 AD is where the catholic church made worshiping on the sabbath illegal and required it to be on the first, which was the day of Sun worship. Think GOD likes being worshiped on pagan holiday.

Is there a sunch thing as being haunted and so how do u know

Yes & Amen

Is awesomes Salm 91 thank you lord for you love .u have put this precios work together that way you can gue our life .and give you all the Honor,glory and praise ,Ask for gue each Day lord protect and bless my family and every one .

(Continuing comment). So if he was 'deceived' by all this, then the whole Gospel account is false, i.e. Christ didn't die for our sins, didn't arise, didn't ascend, didn't send us His Spirit & He isn't at God's RH interceding for us. All false teaching based on NOT Paul's deception/perception, but on Satan's lies & deception to the world to keep them in darkness & hid from the Truth. Please also read 1 Jn 5, partic. noting v13: we may be certain of eternal life.