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Here is another interesting view about the Matthew 25:31-46 passage from the website: https://evidenceunseen.com/new-testament/matthew/difficulties/does-this-passage-teach-salvation-through-good-works I believe the evidence is overwhelming that salvation is by faith alone. Therefore, good...

Salvation is by faith in Christ alone. Nothing else is required to be saved: Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus...

God's plan does not always align with our plans. It is simply not God's will for every child to reach adulthood. It's not God's will for every young adult to reach old age. But it is God's will for everyone to be saved so they can live the perfect life when this earthly journey is over.

Anyone can pull verses out of context and build a false doctrine around it...like working your way into Heaven. The whole Bible needs to be considered when building a doctrine. Your insistence that someone can do enough good works to enter Heaven, despite clear teaching that it is impossible, is...

^^^^ this above is the key^^^^

Sure. Believers should be helping people. How can a person call him/herself a Christian and not help others? But helping others won’t get anyone into Heaven. I don’t know how many times I need to explain this to you. I have presented multiple verses to show you that salvation comes only by...

Kids Sunday school teaches the basics. Adult Sunday school gets into practical living. I love delving below the surface and mining out golden Biblical truths to help believers mature. I love sharing deep truths I learned in seminary. For an example, the history of the church can be learned in...

This is why Sunday school is so important. There are also discipleship classes that many churches offer. It is in these informal settings where the Bible can be better explained. Our Wednesday night service is an informal meeting where questions can be asked and experiences shared. Many churches...

And what is the will of the Father? It is for all people to be saved: 1 Timothy 2:3-4 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some...

Not at all. Works are our fruit. Sinful fruit indicates the tree is sinful. Righteous fruit suggests a righteous tree. If someone is living in sin and are not ashamed their fruit will reveal that fact. Therefore there is good reason to believe that person is not right with God. Good works are...

I have been a student of the Bible for well over 25 years, and I am still making new discoveries. There are passages that stump me. Rather than concentrate on the difficult parts of the Bible, I focus on what I do understand. If we could comprehend everything about God, He would cease to be God...

There are multiple gods today. Whatever a person worships is his/her god. Some people worship money, some power, while others worship pleasure. Many people have made themselves their god. In the OT, there were several gods people worshipped...Baal, Ashtoroth, Moloch and Dagon to name a few...

No they don’t. Look at them again. They say don't harm others. Now that is great to do no harm to others, but it is not the same as doing good toward other people. Look at the parable of the Good Samaritan. The Priest and Levite did not do any harm to the beaten man, but the Samaritan actually...

Doing good and helping others is different than not hurting people. I could live my whole life and not harm a single person but that is not following the Golden Rule. When I help people and do good toward them, then I am following Jesus’ teaching. Other religions don’t teach that.

Here is what Jesus said that we commonly call the Golden Rule: Matt.7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. There is a huge difference in what Jesus said and other religious teach as the Golden Rule...

Please present these different religious versions and I will compare them to the Christian version.

We do background checks on all people who are working with youth and children. We always have two adults working together so no adult is left alone with kids.

The Catholic Church may consider the deuterocanonical books as inspired, but Hebrew scholars did not. I would side with actual Jewish scholars over Catholics when it comes to Jewish writings. Notice also that none of the deuterocanonical books were written after John’s Revelation. So I stand by...

The Catholic Church includes what is known as the Apocrypha. The original KJV of 1611 also included the Apocrypha. Both Catholic and Protestants considered the Apocrypha valuable but not inspired by God. Protestant Bibles begin omitting the Apocrypha in the early 1800's while Catholic Bibles...

2 Tim.3:16 is absolutely correct. All scripture is God breathed, including all scripture written after 2 Timothy. The books that were omitted from the canon were examined early church fathers and were not considered inspired by God for various reasons. Some contained blatant errors and others...