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@Him, I like your name; it's very easy to type. :) Look at the ESV word-for-word translation of Romans 3:21-25 from the Greek. Which version are you using? Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—...

@Can't think of a name, as I explain in my post, "knowledge of the truth" never equates with genuine salvation (we need to know God personally); therefore, such wandering doesn't involve losing faith or salvation, which the person never had in the first place.

@jswauto, where in the Bible do you find such a separation of the two kinds? I think that they are one; a whole unrepentant life leads to eternal sins into the future. I completely agree with your last sentence!

@SetFree, Paul also taught in 1 Corinthians 15 that our resurrection bodies will be our bodies miraculously made perfect, glorious with God's glory, and spiritual, which in Paul's meaning completely filled with and controlled by the Holy SPIRIT. Jesus showed his resurrection body with his...

There are no fence-straddlers in life, @Holy999, in other words, no "middle." But the wicked people's chance is only in this life, not after death.

In verse 26, what does having "knowledge of the truth" mean? Does it really mean, as many people assume, that those people are saved but have become unsaved? No, many people have "knowledge of the truth," perhaps because they were raised going to church; but they don't know God--the Father...

Do you mean that Russians are crusading to try to train people to become atheists in Muslim nations, @Holy999?

What do you mean by "random child creation," @Holy999?

What "entity," @Holy999?

@jswauto, I once witnessed the sermon of a Christian evangelist in a Pentecostal service, when the crowd's "speaking in tongues" drowned out him out. At the end of that chaos, he invited people to come forward for healing. He prayed over a blind person that the devil would come out of her in...

I don't think he knows our hearts, but he tests the faith of professing believers, sometimes severely with God's permission as he did with Job. The point of that book is that true faith perseveres: Job 1:8 And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like...

No, @MrE, I'm just adding the other side of the divine picture about the balance between God's love and his justice. Both are true.

@Can't think of a name, I know that there is a ministry in London for a church that is new where you can get re-baptized, if that's important to you, and where they preach and teach the Bible well. I don't know how you can find out about them except through the Internet. You might have travel a...

God gave me his white garments four years after my immersion and 66 years before my next immersion. I have soiled those garments with inner and outer sins. But he has always cleaned them up by his grace and love.

Yes, Edward429451, we need to pray and obey the many commands in both the Old and New Testaments, but God provides all the motivation and strength for such actions. It's not a passive thing when we work out our salvation, but all the credit goes to God, who is working in us to accomplish any and...

@MrE, and God is equally full of grace and love, when he punished his own unique Son, Jesus, on the cross and transferred Jesus' not-guilty verdict to us who trust in Jesus' death and resurrection as our way to our Father the Judge's approval.

Loving our neighbor means that we must defend ourselves when our neighbor attacks. Such justified self-defense happened when the United States was attacked in WWII. Our love for ourselves as required in the second commandment allows for self-defense, Holy999. Jesus says, Mar 12:30 And you...

@Can't think of a name, I'm curious. Why don't you attend a Reformed church or independent church that's close to the Scriptures near you? I was a Christian Reformed pastor until I discovered that the congregation I attended in retirement wasn't really interested in outreach to the community...

Then, I say that I will research your question to give you an answer, @MoreCoffee.

@Holy999, yes, in Genesis 2, husband and wife become "one flesh," but when one of them dies, they are no longer "one flesh." As a result, our souls begin worshiping and loving God alone. Then, with our resurrection, God becomes our only focus in our resurrection bodies, just as it is with the...