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  1. That is a very good article you have posted by EW Bullinger on the meanings of sheol, hades, and hell. For many years I accepted the “traditional” view taught on hell as a place of eternal conscious torment in fire for the unsaved who rejected Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Yet I never really studied the Hebrew and Greek words behind our English word hell because I was led to believe that our Lord summed up its meaning in (Matt 5:22-30 & Luke 16:19-24) But I now I know the context of our Lords words in those and other scriptures and never again will I listen to people telling me otherwise !

  2. SALVATION WITHOUT FORGIVENESS

    Is it possible to be saved without having your sins forgiven? Was Saul saved by faith alone before his sins were forgiven?

    If Saul was saved on the road to Damascus, then he was saved without having his sins forgiven.

    Saul believed in Jesus on the road Damascus, but his sins were forgiven three days later in Damascus
    Act 9:1-19……9 And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank….

    Saul sins were forgiven in Damascus, three days later, not on the road to Damascus.
    Acts 22:1-16…..10 And I said, ‘What shall I do Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.’…….16 Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins,calling on His name!

    Saul was not saved by faith only. Saul was saved by believing and being baptized in water.

    Jesus did not establish faith only salvation on the road to Damascus. Jesus confirmed what He already had said “He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved”… (Mark 16:16)

    You cannot be saved unless your sins have been forgiven.

    In order to support the doctrine of faith only men have offered many reasons why the Scriptures cannot be trusted.
    REASONS.
    1. The Bible is not the inerrant word of God, it has many errors and contradictions.
    2. You have to be a Greek scholar to understand the Bible. If you understand the original Greek language, then you would know water baptism is not essential for forgiveness of sins.
    3. You need to use extra-Biblical writings to understand the plan of salvation.
    4. The Bible has been mistranslated, therefore men are saved by faith only and not the way it is presented in the Bible.

    If God is not smart enough to give men an accurate translation of His plan for salvation and Christian living, then why would anyone trust in Him for salvation or for anything else.

    God has given us His plan of salvation in many translations, in different languages. You do not have to know Greek.You do not have to have a Greek dictionary. You do have to be Greek. If men had to be able to read and understand original Greek to understand the Bible, then all Bibles would be in Greek.

    GOD IS INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO GUIDE MEN TO GIVE A TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE IN THE LANGUAGE THAT YOU READ! JUST READ IT AND BELIEVE IT.

    Men are not saved by faith only and there is no verse of Scripture that states men are saved by faith only. Men are saved by faith, but not by faith only.

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    • Dear Steve,
      For me, Acts 2:36-38 really says it all:
      “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God made this same Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.
      And hearing this, they were stabbed in the heart, and said to Peter and to the other apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?
      Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

      Blessings in Christ,
      Angus

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