Recent content by Doug Brents

Yes, there are not, and cannot be, Jews or Gentiles in the Church, because those terms lose all meaning in the Church. It does not matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, if you are a Male or a Female, if you are a slave or free, if you are a native or a foreigner, etc. None of that matters in the...

The point Peter is making is similar to the statements Paul makes about Passover, that the Flood was a shadow, a symbol, of the real event which is baptism. Just as the 8 were saved in the Ark through the Flood, we today are saved in Christ through baptism. Baptism is not the power that saves...

Dan, the word baptism has nothing, in itself, to do with water; it means "immersion" and it could be immersion into anything. I responded to 1 Cor 10:2 by explaining to you in that last comment of mine that baptism (immersion) into the cloud is like immersion into a book or a language (immersion...

Dan, we have been over this many times. "Baptized" itself has nothing to do with "water". The word means "immersed". The people were immersed into the cloud, and into the sea, the same way you can be immersed into a book, or immersed into someone's teaching, or immersed into a new language...

There cannot be a Jew or a Gentile in the Church, because those terms have no meaning to those in the Church. The Church transcends all physical, biological, Earthly distinctions. OSAS is a figment of human imagination. Nothing can ever take our salvation from us, but we can abandon it.

I am not sure what version/translation of the Bible you are reading, but NEITHER does not mean "can never happen". The word is, "used before the first of two (or occasionally more) alternatives that are being specified (the others being introduced by “nor”) to indicate that they are each untrue...

Col 3:11 says nothing about "CANNOT". It says there "IS NOT" any distinction any more. Gal 3:28 means that within the Body of Christ (aka: Bride of Christ), there is no distinction, no separation, no difference between Jew and Gentile, slave and free, etc.; all are equal and on the same...

No, I would contend that Peter was righteous in his response, but God then told him that He was changing the rules; the unclean of the Law of Moses was no longer unclean, but was now clean and acceptable (both food and Gentiles). This is the same as King Ahab did in 1 Kings 22. The prophets were...

Peter's resistance was righteous at the time. We are told in the OT to test messengers who claim to be from God, and if their message is not consistent with other messages we already have from God, to reject the message and stone the messenger. So when God's new command contradicted a message...

We should obey God when He speaks from whatever source at all times. We certainly don't always do so, meaning that we continue to sin all through our life, like stumbling while walking a path through the woods, but God has told us that as long as we are walking in the Light, even though we...

Faith is not just confidence and certainty. It is confidence to the point of action, thus evidence of what is hoped for. It is certainty to the point of obedience, thus substance of what cannot be seen. Without action there is no faith, because there is no substance/evidence. The actions...

The Bible is not "Lord", that is only God (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), but the Bible is God's words written by inspiration by His instruments. And as such, it should be followed as if God were speaking directly to us through it. Godly sorrow is not a substitute for obedience, that is...

And what is the Bible but His Word? The Bible came from Jesus, just as Jesus came from the Father. Just as Cornelius was saved through the words spoken to him by Peter, so we are saved through the words written by the inspired writers of God's Word. There is no such thing as "salvation by...

Faith means the same before one is saved as it does after one is saved. There is not one faith that saves and then a different faith that one has after receiving salvation. These passages do not negate or cancel out Rom 10:9-10, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Rom 6:1-7, Col 2:11-14, 1 Pet 3:21, and all...

Faith without works is not real faith; it is dead and worthless. That is exactly the point. Without taking action none of them would have received the blessings at stake. Just saying "I believe" is not faith, and it does not result in the receiving of the blessing. Faith includes doing what is...