Please explain the thirty minute silence in Heaven of Revelation 8:1.
What is the difference between sin and iniquity?
Describe how people were saved in the Old Testament after the law was given?
1 Samuel 15:22 - What kind of sacrifice pleases God? What does He reject?
From a hermeneutical and grammatical exegesis of Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. It would be required to believe that works were necessary for salvation; and now they are not. Also, note the companion verse Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; If it is no more of works and now you get righteousness without the law, then isn't it clear that it used to be of works and used to be by the law?
