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You don't "expect" something that has already come to pass. If I've already had my breakfast, I'm not in some kind of expectation that I will get to have breakfast today. I don't need to have "confidence" that breakfast will happen when it has already happened. "Promises" are about something...

Our salvation is not achieved yet either: 1 Thessalonians 5:8 KJV — But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 1 Corinthians 15:19 KJV — If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most...

I typed that wrong, or my phone corrected it wrong. My intent was to keep the conversation about the past, to deal with what you were saying. So when you said that grace added to law equals law, aren't you saying the Jews of James' time were saved by the law?

Why is that in conflict with what I said you were saying? James was writing to Jews, according to you. James was writing to those following the "kingdom gospel", according to you. James was not writing in the past with respect to the kingdom gospel Jews, since he was a kingdom gospel Jew...

You think the Jews are saved by the law, since James talked about grace being added to the law, right?

True. So why do you think James would be preaching a false gospel?

As far as we know, Lazarus died again after Jesus raised him from the dead.

You would agree, though, that if the Holy Spirit transforms us by the renewing of our minds, it's a supernatural event, right? Indeed, anything the Spirit does is supernatural, isn't it?

I've been to places like that.

Hey Gary, good to hear from you. Sorry about the laptop. Please don't feel bad about being passionate for your view of something, just turn that passion into rational arguments, and follow up with scripture. I don't remember where we were with the Jesus/Judas conversation. If you can find it...

I agree with both of you...the miracle topic is interesting, and it should be a different thread.