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Punctuation was added later thus giving a second way of looking at it which became the official narratve
If, as in this case, he put another ahead of self while the other dude was only concerned about saving himself
I like you mate. Do not believe nothing anyone say unless they can prove it out of the scripture. They should use more than one witness as well because that's what the Bible said. Now let's take a look at what Grace is
Romans 5: 8 defines "Grace": which has become the "get out of jail for free" card
still not saying what grace is, Jesus the eternal word is our salvation!
Being born again is not specific to the New Covenant. Nicodemus (also before the New Covenant), in John 3, was told that you (plural) must be born again. He was also told that he should have known about it, being the teacher of Israel, and they used the Old Testament, so the teaching is from there.
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It's likely that "paradise" was the compartment in Hades for the righteous dead, and that he was only taken to heaven when Jesus emptied that compartment; however, it's true that the penitent thief was taken to paradise on the day that they died.
Jesus' body was in the tomb for three days, not his Spirit.
God looks at the heart. Mute people can be saved.
The thief clearly did repent and overcome. Being killed by slow torture definitely counts as a trial! There was no opportunity for baptism, which is not necessary to be saved (it's a command to be obeyed after one is saved).
Yes; it comes no other way; although, the build-up can take years.
We do not need to make any of those assumptions. The ten "virgins" represent those who profess to belong to God, but the inner reality is different between the two sets of five.
Five are real, five not...
Foolish "virgins" are those who profess to be Christians, but do not have the oil of the Holy Spirit (they have not been saved).
The penitent thief had faith in Jesus, that was his obedience.
You can hang gifts on a dead tree, but only a living tree bears fruit.
Yes
Salvation is by grace through faith, not of works lest anyone should boast.
Faith is given to one in an instant (along with repentance and love for the Lord), when God gives a new heart/spirit.
That's not what grace is. Grace is undeserved favour. Salvation from sin and hell, because of the shed blood and broken body of the Lord, on the cross, and his bodily resurrection from the dead, is a wonderful example of God's grace, but it is not what the word means.
Nicodemus misunderstood the Lord, thinking that he was speaking about a second physical birth; but, Jesus was speaking about an inner, spiritual birth, when he said that we must be born again.
Humans are flesh, soul and spirit. Our spirit is that which is born again.
It is our physical body that will be resurrected, just as Jesus' was bodily resurrected. Genuine Christians have already been born again in spirit.
So it is when God saves someone: the Holy Spirit "blows" where he wills and makes the person born again in spirit. You cannot predict it and it is not under human control.
If one is not born again, then he has not been saved. Christians are new creations in Christ Jesus.
I am very familiar with Paul and his "doctrine" of grace,, I also study what John has written.
this is for David, some how I send to the wrong person too often
The Bible never says that we will be in the Garden of Eden. There will be a new heavens and a new earth.
I was referring to the meaning of the Greek word translated "grace", not to examples of the application of God's grace.
So you keep saying.
Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again. That, too, was before His death and resurrection. But Jesus didn't say, "You must be born again, but not yet; you'll have to wait until after My crucifixion and resurrection."
David I will stay with the Words of the ONE who Made man, Jesus Christ.
Our resurrected bodies will be like Jesus' body; you know, the resurrected, physical body in which he visited his disciples, allowed Thomas to put his hand in his wounds, etc. His resurrected, physical body had abilities that our unresurrected bodies do not have, so we can assume that ours will also have such abilities.
Indeed it is hard to misunderstand; but, you appear to have managed it anyway. Jesus was talking to Nicodemus about the distinction between natural, physical birth, and being born again (which is when God gives us a new heart/spirit (Ez. 36:26,27)). The resurrection was not in view here.
That's exactly what grace is however many people don't realize that you can go back to jail by breaking the commandments.
