1/22 James 2 says WORD WORKS, never you!

[jashbagabaldo]

This is what you call proper exegesis.

[brainouty]

@jashbagabaldo Do you think the Colonel would have liked it? I tried to follow his methodology from the James 4 series. :)

[rpavich]

Brainouty,

I have a comment or two about this vid.

#1 I'm a reformed believer and I'm not sure what issue anyone would have with your points...are people saying we need works?

Also, to add "pistew" is NEVER a verb...always a noun, it's not something we DO as you rightly pointed out....just an observation.

Our faith, in fact every facet of salvation comes from God....we claim none of it.

good vid...

[brainouty]

rpavich, I never said that pisteuw is never a verb. It is a verb. Pistis is the noun, as the video shows in the lexicons.

And, we get the faculty of belief as part and parcel of the soul GOD ALONE creates at physical birth, pattern of Genesis 2:7.

So you must BELIEVE in Christ to be saved.

So faith is nonmeritorious, per BIBLE. But Augustine screwed up everything by treating faith as having merit, which both Arminians and Calvinists follow.

BIBLE's definition, refutes them.

[rpavich]

brainouty,

my mistake, pistis sorry. I was just agreeing that faith is a gift not a "work" sorry for the confusion.

For the record; I don't know of any Calvinists (myself included) that believe that faith as a "merit" or a work or any of that, in fact being that Calvinists are strict Monergists...how could any of them believe that faith is a work or something you do that merits a reward?

Anywhoo....I was just agreeing with you but didn't word it correctly...sorry..

[brainouty]

rpavich, that faith is a gift no one sane disputes.

However, Calvinists maintain that God must give you the faith AFTER He elects you to be saved, misreading the gender and singular of houtos in Ephesians 2:8-9. Weird thing is, Calvin himself made that mistake, though he read the verse correctly, as I show from his own writings in my Calve Islam 5 (four-parts) videos.

So that accounts for the mixup in Calvinism, ever since. Maybe one day someone will correct it. :)

[brainouty]

In short, the Calvinists mistake WHEN and TO WHOM the gift of faith is given. It is given to EVERYONE at physical birth, so anyone, elected or not, can be saved. Those who will use the faith God gave, are elected.

In short, there are TWO elections: one to create the human being, which God personally does at birth; and anyone who will use the God-given faith at that birth is ELECTED to have the second birth, since the election is conditioned on CHRIST, not on us. :)

Very simple to fix. :)

[rpavich]

Brain,

I understand what you're saying now...thanks for clarifying.

bob

[edwardpf123]

Thank you for posting!

[brainouty]

@edwardpf123 Same post, because you didn't understand the video. Pretender!

[piszczeck]

Good deal, brainouty!

[brainouty]

@piszczeck You wouldn't know if it was good or not, since you can't read the Greek, either. Another KJVO pretender.

[piszczeck]

@brainouty How interesting that you found it necessary to be so nasty. I believe in looking up the Greek & Hebrew word definitions & verb tenses, & I do that several times per week.

[brainouty]

@piszczeck Aha, so you now lie like edwardpf123. That's fine. You say one thing here, and talk quite differently elsewhere. Enjoy being a hypocrite. And you needn't send me PMs saying the same thing as you say in your comments. But you do need to watch what you say to others, so you won't get caught. BYE.