The Narrow Path Ministries

jriccitelli wrote:Paidion, do you have some other verse besides Titus 2:1, or something that indicates that 'grace' is some kind of power, or a thing other than just an a quality, or a 'noun'?

In this verse, Paul equates grace with strength and power.

I point out again that UR is a refusal to believe that we will die, and be destroyed forever if we refuse Him ... And those who hold to UR would say that traditionalists or annihilationists refuse to believe that God is determined enough to create a scenario in which His chiefest desire comes to pa...

Good observation Doug. I tend to think the same thing. But I do think there's a flaw in Calvinist reasoning even if the following verse should be interpreted in the context of soteriology. John 17 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and n...

Matt, I like your approach. No need to commit to particulars—especially if fulfillment is still future. Interestingly, I just responded to a question about this from a guy in Mexico, who emailed me asking about the passage. Here is what I wrote back to him: The "man of lawlessness" may be the same ...

Rich I told you it does not make sense, unless it means; to treat all men equal (as the context alludes to) because God is potentially their savior, if they believe. The word "potentially" is not in the verse. God is said to be the Savior of all people, not the "potential" Savior of all people. Thi...

I think the point is being missed. 1 Timothy 4:10 10. For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe. At the very moment Paul wrote those words Jesus was the Saviour, in some sense, of all persons ...

I'm also not a disciple of Moses, but I would have taken his advice authoritatively if I was in the generation that was rescued from Egypt. But Paidion's point is that the revelation of God wasn't complete at the time of Moses. I would still submit to Moses because he was God's messenger at that tim...

psa 31:9 isaiah 10:18 matthew 10:28 These are the only times the phrase "soul and body" are used in the whole Bible. Interestingly, Isaiah was prophesying about a judgment to come upon Assyria in 701 BC where The Lord sent a plague and a fire ( isa 10:16 ) to destroy their "soul and body"(fulfillme...

Amen to that preacher! I'm stealing this, "I'm not a pacifist, I'm a peacemaker". Beautiful!

paidion, 2 thess 2:5 This is why the parousia (at least in this passage) cannot be referring to a futurist view of the physical return of Christ. Paul explained the second coming to the Thessalonians previously. If he explained the parousia to them, and it was the parousia of the futurist, then ther...