One is "saved" through regeneration (born-again) - Spirit giving birth to spirit. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. The Word is preached, the Word is heard. The Father draws, the Spirit convicts, Jesus saves through His shed blood for the sins of the world. "Saved" is "Justified" - "Just as if you have never sinned"
Being "filled with the Holy Spirit" is to then allow the Spirit to Sanctify you wholely, yielding self to God's will for your life found written in the Holy Scriptures. Be ye filled with the Holy Spirit is a command to those who have been Justified by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
God Bless!
Sin- Transgression of the Law of God.
All sin is abomination. But God sent us a Savior to pay the penalty of sin, Jesus! All who believe in Him will not be condemned. Praise God! For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
God Bless!
The powers that be are ordained of God. Could be God feels this country needs another four years of Obama.
Public schools teach the religion of Evolution.
We've seen my avitar attacked here on this site. Why did I choose this avitar? This classic hymn says it all.....
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.
O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.
In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.
To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I’ll share.
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.
George Bennard 1913
This board and many like it are begun for marketing tools. Draw in a large number of people and then target them with advertising that fits into their likes according to their rhetoric or answers in this case. I am not tech savey, but someone who is could build a site for robust debate and draw tens of thousands to the itching advertisers!
I have been on Christian boards, but they do not allow non-Christians. I know this site is not about debate, they are just looking for each others opinion or knowledge and frown upon debate. If there isn't any, and it is hard to believe that there isn't, someone oughta start one.
Colleen,
Those who own this site certainly have the right to make any rules they choose.
Revelation 13:18