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  1. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    I see, but that is actually misrepresenting what response to God's work is. Faith, though enabled by God, is needed from us. Faith is not the work this misrepresentation shows that it is. Faith is contrasted with works in the Bible. And God does tell us, and people generally, to choose. That is...
  2. FredVB

    Why I'm Pro-Life

    First of all, I am pro-life in my approach. I still would say that what is really needed for any change being possible for more protection to life, before and after birth, is a number of systems in place, for more care of children universally and for adoption made much more possible, for those...
  3. FredVB

    The Apocrypha: Does it belong in the Bible?

    Certainly we are free to choose what we prefer. I wouldn't take that away from you, or anyone. But for argument about which is preferable, to others, I would state that I disagree that the Masoretic text is inferior as a creation of nonchristian Jews who were post-Apostolic. The writers, who...
  4. FredVB

    What is the time of Jacob’s trouble?

    Do you really not yet see yet how contagious the pandemic is, and that people die from it and there is no cure? It is not just a cold, if it reaches me, which I really try to avoid, it would surely kill me. Not all people have the same constitution, but you should not want to be contagious with...
  5. FredVB

    What is God's role in salvation?

    God's role is everything except for our response of truly repentant faith, that necessarily must come from us, that Jesus Christ is our Lord, who we listen to, and follow obediently. Those of us who respond like this are sealed and have security of everlasting life, in Christ, being restored to God.
  6. FredVB

    Sitting long hours is an issue?

    With the current issue so pervasive out there now, people with serious vulnerability, as I with the diagnosed issue I have to my lungs, should avoid being in places where we would be exposed to the spreading contagion. Places of work would really be jeopardizing the health and very possibly the...
  7. FredVB

    What is one theology you feel is counterproductive?

    Some debate of theology can easily be wasteful, of effort or time, or helpfulness. But there are surely serious issues for which right doctrine is important and should be discussed among those who disagree on it. I can think some theologies that are held among certain others would be...
  8. FredVB

    How has church changed for you since this pandemic started?

    It changed things for me, with no in person services for the last few Sundays. My church was a Baptist church when I started there, it has more recently taken a new name and dropped all reference to being Baptist. There are other issues with churches. Even though there are online services, I...
  9. FredVB

    Did Abraham conjure up his own faith...

    If one IS saved, one IS always saved, and always will be. Otherwise being saved doesn't mean anything at all. Being saved is being secure in Christ, no one can grasp us out of God's hand, we are assured of eternal life already, the eternal life is an existing thing, it never stops existing, so...
  10. FredVB

    Red Letter Christians

    Jesus is the Word of God, so, Jesus is the Authority of God. All the Bible scriptures are inspired by God, they were written by the chosen men who were inspired to communicate what was truly from God, those as written are not then in error, though minor error has been found in copies made, and...
  11. FredVB

    Did Abraham conjure up his own faith...

    You have said it according to what I saw for myself. Eternal security is being always saved when already once saved. They are the same thing, to say otherwise is meaningless distinction for it. You use the term Law like have not seen others use it. 2 Peter 3:9 shows Yahweh God is not willing...
  12. FredVB

    God still chooses.

    God is good, and because God is good, God is just, God is loving, God is caring, God is merciful, and God is gracious. All that God is, is without limit. God is never unfair. But what you believe is not fair. God has basis, and God says in revelation what is needed from us..
  13. FredVB

    Christian web directory

    It is still an English language site, right? I hope that will have success for Christian believers to have communication in fellowship there. I use Christian sites I have started, and a group I have started, for such communication, it is not easy to have them grow for that.
  14. FredVB

    God still chooses.

    If there was nothing but arbitrary whims for basis of who God chooses, letting others perish in eternity, God would not be good, but God is good.
  15. FredVB

    God still chooses.

    Does God choose without basis? Is there not basis God does have for who God chooses? And why does God require of us that we choose? Does God require something that is meaningless? God does want all to be saved, God is not willing that any perish but that all come to repentance, that they will...
  16. FredVB

    God still chooses.

    Throughout the life of any believer who is in Christ, there are necessarily the times that forgiveness is asked for, and this is with repentance, which is needed. But with really being such believer who is in Christ, there is repentance at the start in coming to Christ from life of sin, which...
  17. FredVB

    Sitting long hours is an issue?

    My issues that affect me are why I just do what I can at home. So it is that I am a writer, and do all my writing from here. I go out for some things, that cannot be avoided, but I will avoid what is certain to make me really worse. I am thankful to God to know what things I can do for being...
  18. FredVB

    Sitting long hours is an issue?

    I had back pain, and found out about the scoliosis I have. I still had work since then that involved lifting and carrying fairly heavy things. I still wore a back brace safety belt, and I was thinking I would be alright. But now I feel the effect on my back much more, this much later in life. I...
  19. FredVB

    Sitting long hours is an issue?

    I can see how work that almost all of us find does not seem made well for human beings to do. Many of us have chores or needed postures that are really damaging to our health and wellbeing. Carrying things kind of heavy at some work I had would not have been good for my crooked spine...
  20. FredVB

    God still chooses.

    Right, I do mean repentance this way. Still, repentance is not a one time event, such that there are those thinking that believers can fall away from faith and so would lose salvation, while really believers do remain forgiven. Real repentance which God means in the Bible is a change itself, to...
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