Debating with a passion

Wanna bet? Oops. Can't do that, we're Baptists.


Pro 25:9 Debate your case with your neighbor, And do not disclose the secret to another;


Act 15:39 Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another.



OUCH!

 

Ok, fine.

I'll start:

My case is better than your case...

 

You have no case.


I win!

 

I think we need a new thread. Just in case.

This one has been hijacked far enough. What say you, TinyT?

 

Aw, now you've gone and done it. I'll just sit in the corner and eat worms from now on. That'll teach you!

love ya, mean it

Sopranette

 

I read threads on this board almost every day. My post count shows that I post sparingly. This is normal for me in most situations. I usually listen more than I talk; it's just my nature--except when I am delivering a sermon.

I generally don't post more because I simply don't have time to get heavily involved. Since I can't jump in a thread and stick with it, I just don't jump in. Occasionally a topic will come up and I just can't resist.

I stay of the KJVOnly topics. I should stay off the C/A topics; occasionally jumping in and usually wishing I had not. I post most regularly on the NASCAR threads where debates could go on and on, but the subject really doesn't matter.

My main reason for staying out of the debates is Paul's words to Timothy: "The servant of God must not quarrel, but be gentle to all men...."

 

rbell, are you responding to my post?

 

Hope the blank is not the dispensational gospel that Paul says Christ Jesus gave to him.

 

Today Through the faith of Jesus Christ we can be saved. We believe (people in the Old Testament could not) on the name of Jesus, the Christ, for our salvation as we live.

 

Okay, I admit I don't have an MDiv, but I don't get this. Didn't Abraham believe, and it was counted to him as righteousness?

 

You're right on the first try.:applause: But you could put your name in the blank...

 

OK, you've lost me now.... Clarify, please?

 

Wonder who He could be talking about? Surely not you, or me. Jesus said He only came for His own (if we can believe Jesus), and no Gentile was ever included, unless one came into the "Kingdom that was at hand" as a proselyte.

I find in His Word we are not justified while we live as was Moses, David, or those before the two just mentioned, and not as was John the Baptist. I lean more to the side of Paul than the earthly Apostles before and at Pentecost. I cannot dismiss what is found in Acts 15, Galatians 2, and the latter part of II Peter, chapter three.

 

Don't forget to add Paul to your list.

 

Some posts are not clear to whom they are answering.

Enjoy reading yours to whomever.

 

Hello nunatak. I'm with you concerning a Degree in Theology, which I believe helps us tremendously. Studying, and sticking with the Bible is not theology, but in His Word He actually tells us of Himself, making known His purpose. He lets us in on what He hid from man, but not until after Damascus Road.

We know you are correct that Abraham did believe what God told him as he lived, and when one does this, it counted to that one as righteousness. But the Grace of God in that day, as well as in Moses' day required "works". Works of man has always been required, after God made covering for Adam, and his wife. We know this is true, and the work had to be as God instructed. Abel believed what God told him, and we know only one man on the other side of the deluge believed God, and God put him to "work" in order to "save his life and his family. The first thing we find Noah doing on dry land is performing works that satisfied God, viz. building an alter and making "sacrifice".

In the above we see what God required of man. Does He require this of we today? A man was sent to do our work for us, and for all those before, and after us. It is only after Damascus Road that Christ Jesus revealed to His only heavenly appointed Apostle Paul, what He (Christ Jesus) had hidden from man. Oh the Joy and Peace we can find when we are allowed to see the "dispensational gospel" Christ Jesus bestowed on Paul -- Galatians after my signature, then to Ephesians Chapter 3, "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2. If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward" then on to further revelation.

I believe what God told Abraham, and I believe what He tells me. Neither Abraham, nor any of the others could just believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They didn't know His name, and His blood was not available to them as they lived.