Discerning Believer wrote:
If the ancient church, the ones founded by Paul and the apostles, didn't need creeds and confessions of faith, but only had the Word of God, not even complete, then why is it necessary today?

Mr. J wrote:
You don't happen to know a character by the name of Icon O'Clast do you?

Michael Hranek wrote:
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And for that matter it should motivate us to pray for them that they might be saved. And if we are not moitivated to pray for the lost if we are not motivated to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with them so that they might be saved there is something seriously amiss with us and it just might be our theology.

JD wrote:
Regeneration is the result of believing...

John Piper (Sermon 17/02/2008) wrote:
God’s Begetting Causes Our Believing
John says this plainly in 1 John 5:1. This is the clearest text in the New Testament on the relationship between faith and the new birth. Watch the verbs closely as I read 1 John 5:1, “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God.” Here is what John Stott says on this verse, and I agree totally:

The combination of present tense (believes) and perfect tense [has been born] is important. It shows clearly that believing is the consequence, not the cause, of the new birth. Our present, continuing activity of believing is the result, and therefore, the evidence, of our past experience of new birth by which we became and remain God’s children. (The Letters of John, 175)

JD wrote:
My answer is none of the above.
I subscribe to the 1611 KJV and every word in it.

To state that you subscribe to a specific edition of an English translation of the scriptures doesn't explain anything about what you believe the Bible teaches.

israeltheou wrote:
...When the resurrected Jesus tells the disciples that he has flesh and bones, Luke 24:39, he merely is assuring them that they are not hallucinating. But the fact of resurrection means that the "flesh" and "bones" of Jesus are not chemical in nature, nor are subject to death and decay. The resurrected Christ is able to appear and vanish, to move unhindered through physical barriers such as doors, to rise, unassisted, above the earth and ascend into the heavens.

israeltheou's Christ "is able to appear and vanish, to move unhindered through physical barriers such as doors, [and] to rise, unassisted..."

Michael Hranek wrote:
Mr. J
And seeing the future God knew before hand of the inexcusable evil Esau would do.
And hopefully humbling for us is that God seeing the future could see that it is only through His Son Jesus Christ that we can live holy and pleasing to Him and may His grace to us in Christ overwhelm us with gratitude that we may serve Him with joy for the abundance of all things.

kevin wrote:
Where can I find in Yahweh's Word, that I need to submit to a church system "confession of faith" to be saved?
It seems to me that those "confessions of faith" splits the "ek-kelsia" and establishes the Church system of today.
You can keep those "confessions of faith", I'll keep the Words of Yahweh!
After all, His Words sets me free, not some silly church system "confessions of faith"
Kevin

The serpent said, "Ye shall not surely die" (Gen 3:4)

The serpent's statement is contrary to God's statement.

God spoke, speaks and will every speak truth. Ergo, the serpent lied. QED.