Believing in Vain 1 Co 15:2

steko View Post
What does Paul mean in 1 Co 15:2 "unless you have believed in vain"?

Many people think they're Christians but they're not.

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1 Co 15:2 J. Vernon McGee  

steko View Post
Thank you and I agree but your link goes to 1 Co 5:2, not 15:2.

I knew one who claimed Ps 103:12 but still lived a depraved life.

steko View Post
Is it enough to simply 'believe in Jesus' or are there certain things that we must 'believe about Jesus' to be saved?

One must believe in the Jesus of scripture (2 Pe 2:1).

Prayer to Baby Jesus ~ Talladega Nights

theophilus View Post
My little sister "believes" in Jesus.  Her life has not changed.  Her heart has not changed.  Her "belief" is an intellectual assent.  She has no faith.  She believes in vain...like she has some sort of divine fire insurance."

Praying for her and for you (skin cancer).

john w View Post
You should get saved, and delete that embarrassing Granny Moses pic.

Are you speaking about theophilus' home page? 1 Sa 16:7

john w View Post
[To theophilus] ...[Y]ou devil dike...

Christians would be banned for this (Ro 14:4, Ps 105:15). You won't be (2 Pe 2:1).

As a reminder john w is number 58 on Satan, Inc. (TOL Heretics list) in "The 'Jesus is not God' people (Non-trinitarians) category.

Like posts #44, #47, you wicked Roman Catholic, flaming hypocrite?

Ad hominem (Eph 4:14).

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Lordship

False accusation...

Let the reader decide (Eph 4:14).

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Lordship
john w View Post
[Are you speaking about theophilus' home page? 1 Sa 16:7] Do you have a need to know?



It's a yes or no question (Eph 4:14).

[Christians would be banned] Typical Catholic response...

Eph 4:14

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Catholicism

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Lordship

...[Y]our daddy devil is the accuser of the brethren. We smell your sulfur, child of the devil.

You're projecting again (Eph 4:14).

As a reminder john w is number 58 on Satan, Inc. (TOL Heretics list) in "The 'Jesus is not God' people (Non-trinitarians) category.

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[1 Sa 16:7] See your favorite #, Damian: 666...



Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails (1 Co 13:1–8).

[2 Thess 1:7-9]

II. PAUL’S PROMISE TO THE CHURCH AT THESSALONICA (1:5–10): The apostle says their trials will be used to accomplish a twofold purpose.
A. What (1:5–6)
1. Concerning the persecuted (1:5): Their hardships will be used to prepare believers for the Kingdom of God.
2. Concerning the persecutors (1:6): God is already preparing judgment and punishment for those who harm believers.
B. When (1:7–10): Both purposes will be accomplished at Christ’s second coming. Willmington, H. L. (1999). The Outline Bible (2 Th 1:4–10). Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

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turbosixx View Post
1 Cor. 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain If they don't hold it fast it was for nothing.

Men can and do walk away.

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Apostasy & Eternal Security

Believing in Vain 1 Co 15:2