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How Does Someone Receive the Gift of Faith That Saves? (part three)
Part One Part Two Saving Grace Appearing to All Men Paul writes to Titus in a letter, an epistle, a Gentile man converted through evangelism in the Gentile region of Crete, a pagan island in the Mediterranean Sea, in Titus 2:11: For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. […]
The Gospel, If It Was a Product, Is the Greatest One on Earth
Tesla Template Elon Musk apparently does not have an advertising or marketing budget for Tesla. Tesla does not pay for endorsements. Instead, Tesla uses its money to make its product great. It assumes that customers, who buy Tesla cars, will champion the brand and promote the vehicles. The electrical vehicles of Tesla are nothing compared […]
Crucial to a Gospel Presentation: Explain Belief (part five)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Explaining Belief In my experience, which includes a very large sample size over several decades now, people can understand a biblical explanation of belief. I say to a person, “Jesus did everything that needed to be done for you to be saved, but how […]
What Is the “False Doctrine” of Only One Text of the Bible? (Part Two)
Part One The average non-church going person and even church goers see the glut of English Bibles and often say, “There are different Bibles.” I’ve heard it dozens of times through the years. Is that true? Is there really more than one Bible? The answer is “no.” God inspired only one Bible, certain exact words, […]
Baptismal Regeneration: Acts 22:16
Requiring Baptism for Salvation Definition and Denominations “Baptismal Regeneration” in its definition at Wikipedia says: Baptismal regeneration is the name given to doctrines held by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican churches, and other Protestant denominations which maintain that salvation is intimately linked to the act of baptism, without necessarily holding that salvation […]
Men Seek Signs and Wisdom, But God Saves by the Foolishness of Preaching the Gospel
1 Corinthians 1:18-32: The Foolishness of Preaching In 1 Corinthians 1, Paul said God uses the foolishness of preaching to save. God saves people through the foolishness of preaching. Paul started out this section in verse 18 by saying that “the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.” It’s not that the […]
The Gospel Is the Power of God Unto Salvation, pt. 4
Part One Part Two Part Three Scripture evinces a tendency to distrust the gospel. This reveals itself in trying other means than the gospel for salvations or increased numbers of conversions. When Paul writes, “the gospel is the power of God unto salvation,” he says that it is only the gospel that is […]
Are Worldly Pleasures A Necessary Sacrifice For or Unto Salvation?
The Lord Jesus Christ told stories, called “parables.” In one of a later of those in Matthew 22, Jesus uses the story of a certain king and the marriage of his son. The “certain king” is God the Father and “his son” is God the Son, Jesus. The point of the story revolves around those […]
“They Will Reverence My Son”
In a story told by the Lord Jesus Christ during His earthly ministry, He said in Mark 12:6: Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. In the story, obviously this son is a representation of Jesus Christ Himself and so communicates the […]
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