I noticed today my gym will be remodeled starting Thursday of this week, so it will be closed for 9 days while they remodel. I guess I will be running outside. I'm looking forward to what they do to improve things.
So your saying that God didn't know that he would eventually betray Jesus and fall away? Yet, Jesus told Judas at the last supper what he would do and it wasn't a surprise to him
there's a joke that a man died and his brother told the preacher "If you say something nice about him I will give a big donation to the church."
So, the day of the funeral the preacher gets up and says to the congregation.
"I want you to know that the man who lies here was a cheat and a swindler...
Well, it's possible then that I was never really around people who were truly Calvinistic. But, I do remember people stressing importance of what they would call the preservation of the saints meaning that if a person is truly saved then they will remain saved and if they do falter then they...
I've spent most of my Christian faith in the Baptist church and they normally teach "once saved, always saved" and I would say that your characterization of this doctrine as saying that faith is irrelevant is wrong. Faith is always relevant because without faith it is impossible to please God.
To be honest, it felt a little like that during the first ten days or so of getting use to it. I have a lot of allergies, so I had to go with the full mask that covers both nose and mouth and it was hard to get use to
One commentary I read says something similiar to what you have said here. Except that it says that the false prophets were misleading a small group of people who had heard the gospel and were a part of the community of faith, but had been mislead by these false prophets. So, their state now...
So he's bringing up a hypothetical that couldn't actually happen. What would be the point of that? The 1 Cor 15:16 verse is clearly demonstrating the importance of the resurrection. What would be the point of a hypothetical in 2 Peter 2:20-22?
20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to...
there is a place in Ohio (I think they actually have three locations) that we simply called White House chicken. Usually I got a plate of chicken, spanish rice and a big serving of fries.