The devil believes, but his testimony and evidences don't manifest Jesus' work on earth. Just saying one believes is not enough for salvation. Life must illustrate that belief. You are correct that faith is not enough for salvation. Faith without works is similar to the faith of devils. Faith with ...

True. I got them confused. It's Pember, not Larkin.
Apologies.

Do you really beleive that someone with no evidence of "having been saved" will be saved ? I don't. Isn't believing on the Lord Jesus Christ enough? Acts 16:31 New King James Version So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 1st John 5:1a New K...

Hill Top wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:25 pm

Well that is what I am saying...his POV isn't provable with scripture.

True. Larkin's view is not provable with scripture.

Hill Top wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:18 pm

Don't you think that the evidence and testimony are imperatives ?

Depends upon whether or not you mean by "imperitive" that it is a requirement in order to be saved.
If yes, then no.

Hill Top wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:26 pm

Why give any credence at all to an unbiblical POV ?

How does one know whether or not something is unbiblical without testing it in the light of the Scriptures?

Baseball was as close a simile as I could think of. Cornelius, and his bunch, received the gifts of the Holy Ghost and tongues before their baptisms. So the order isn't imperative to salvation. What if neither one is imperitive to salvation? What if both are simply evidences of salvation or testimo...

Only a true repentance from sin will "seal the deal" of the initial baptism. Then, God will forgive. Like in baseball, you can't score till you touch all the bases. Repentance is one of the "bases" to be touched for forgiveness of sins. Interesting. Yet, in baseball, the bases have to be touched in...

I don't think that baptism can be invalidated by later sins. The sin would certainly show a lack of faith in what is accomplished at baptism besides the remission of past sins. That being, the death of the "flesh", (Rom 6:6), our death with Jesus, (Rom 6:3-4), and the resurrection with Christ of a ...

Just read this tonight and thought it might be of some interest. Not a Bible verse of course. “We seem, therefore, to be driven upon the supposition that excessive love bent him to her entreaties, and made him determine to share her fate. And herein we see his unfitness to receive such a gift from ...