What saith the Scripture

1 Timothy 1:15-16  (King James Version 1611):  " This is  a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief (first, beginning Strong's Concordance # 4413).  Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him for life everlasting. The "Church" didn't start with Peter and his presentation of Acts 2:38.  The "Church" started when Paul was on the Damascus Road.  Then it took numerous years in the desert for Paul to come to the understanding of "Faith plus nothing" (Les Feldick).  We are saved by grace through faith, who's faith (Romans 1:17)? "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,  If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation (Galatians 1:11-12) he ma...

Genesis 2:17  Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)   " But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 3:4  Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)   " And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: " God saith one thing in verse 2:17 and Satan appears to oppose what God has said in 3:4; is there another alternative?   What saith the scripture?   This is where "rightly dividing the word of truth" 2 Timothy 2:15c comes into play.   This is not a new concept, or a apostle Paul's understanding but has been through out time.   Isaiah wrote "For precept  must be  upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little,  and  there a little:"   Isaiah 28:10.   God could have given man a more pre or less clandestine verbiage but did as is.   We are to   " Stud...

2 Corinthians 5:1-8  Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)   " For we know that if our earthly house of  this  tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.   For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:   if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.   For we that are in  this  tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing  is  God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore  we are  always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:  (f or we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident,  I say , and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be...

John 15  Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV):   “ I am the vine, ye  are  the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: f or without me ye can do nothing .” “ For without me [Jesus the Christ, the Son, part of the triune God head] you can do nothing .”   We need to believe and understand that me, you, us, the world can do nothing unless God gives the strength, ability for one to do.   “Who [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:   for by him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether  they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him [the Son], and for him [again the Son]:    and he [Christ] is before all things, and by him [the true God] all things consist.    And he [Christ] is the head of the bo...