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My American Evangelical Tradition is full of what I will call decision theology. By that I mean, we present the gospel by preaching/testimony to someone and ask them to believe, repent, call on the name of the Lord, be born again, trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior, ask Jesus into their heart...

You have to remember that the state was persecuted anyone who wasn't part of the "state religion". Before the Reformation the church and state were joint powers that held each other up. The church would bring charges and convict someone of heresy and the state would execute punishment...

I attended at least two VBS's every summer from pre-k to around the 6th Grade. One was in my home church which was a rural Southern Baptist Church and one was in a United Methodist Church that was not far from my house. I have many memories of singing, learning Bible stories, memorizing...

I was raised in a Southern Baptist Church and was active until around 8 years ago. I left to join a non-denominational church that is theologically reformed baptist. It wasn't an easy decision to make.

Our friend DanielL has his own personal theology based on his own personal beliefs about who God should be in his own eyes. That is why he refuses to recognized the Scriptures that all of God's people have recognized and refuses to submit to the clear teachings of those same scriptures. It...

It wasn't about the money, it is about the refusal to follow Jesus. The rich young ruler trusted in his own rightouesness and desired his money more than he trusted in Christ and desired to be with Christ. The reason it is hard for a rich person to enter into heaven is because they don't...

1 Peter 4:8 is about our love for each other. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 1 Peter 4:8‭-‬9 ESV I read this verse in four different translations and none of them use the word "atone"...

We aren't talking about 2 Maccabees. We are talking about if "almsgiving purges sin" as Tobit says. Just because the Jews in Maccabees are following the law doesn't mean that Tobit is right when it says "almsgiving purges sin". 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with...

Exodus 30 isn't about almsgiving. It is about a census tax that was given during the census. 11 The Lord said to Moses, 12 “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you...

Daniel isn't talking about forgiveness of sins but of "lengthening of your prosperity". This is in the context of Daniel interpreting his dream. It isn't about Nebuchadnezzar having his sins forgiven, it is about him having his time as king last longer. In other words, Daniel is telling...

Because no where in the law does it say that "our sins are purged" by almsgiving. That is not taught in the Law, the Prophets, or in the New Testament. Sacrifice is always associated with forgiveness of sins in the Mosaic Law (see Lev 4). Whoever wrote Tobit was not advocating keeping...

I disagree that the works of the Law are only talking about ceremonial laws. The Mosaic Law also contains Moral Laws that must be followed, including the 10 Commandments, Loving God, Loving your neighbor, and various "good works" including treating people well. For example, the works of the...

There are people who think all kinds of things are Satanic. Rock Music is Satanic, The Lord of the Rings is Satanic, Proctor and Gamble is Satanic (those of you who lived in the 80s' know what I'm talking about). I know of Churches who preach that Contemporary Christian Music is Satanic. I...

For those of us who come from a tradition that is credo-baptist the idea that Baptism is the cause of the Holy Spirit indwelling a person is foreign to us. The normative experience is that we preach the gospel, a person responds to the Gospel in faith (which is a result of the Holy Spirit at...

So what do you do with people who have come to faith and have not yet been baptized? Would you tell someone who has professed faith that they are "regenerate" or "Saved" even though, for whatever reason, (maybe a class for new Christians or to plan for family to be at the baptism) they have not...

Were you ever ungodly? If so, how were you justified?

At baptism? 38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38 When we believe/come to faith? 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the...

This is correct. Christian appropriated the word Pascha and changed it from a Passover to remember the Deliverance for Egypt to a special time of remembrance for the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. The word Pascha meant different things to Christians than it did to Jews. In a very real...

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 6 then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; Isaiah 35:5-6 I don't know about yours, but my...

Then how do you explain Romans 3:20