NOT  BUILD  YOU  UP    PSALM 33:4  for the word of  THE  LORD  is right ---and all  HIS  works are done in truth--- PSALM 92:5  O LORD  how great are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep --92:6-- a brutish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this  PSALM 145:17  THE  LORD  is righteous in all  HIS  ways and holy in all  HIS  works    PSALM 28:5  BECAUSE  THEY  REGARD  NOT  THE  WORKS  OF  THE  LORD  NOR  THE  OPERATION  OF  HIS  HANDS  HE  SHALL  DESTROY  THEM  AND  NOT  BUILD  THEM  UP    PSALM 106:35  but were mingled among the heathen and learned their works  PSALM 106:39  thus were they defiled ---with their own works--- and went a whoring with their own inventions    EPHESIANS 2:8  for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of  GOD  --2:9--  not of works lest any man should boast   *******PSALM 94:4  HOW  LONG  SHALL  THEY  UTTER  AND  SPEAK  THINGS  AND  ALL  THE  WORKERS  OF  INIQUITY  BOAST  THEMSELVES*******   ACTS 20:32  and now brethren I commend you to  GOD  ---and to the word of  HIS  grace --- which is able to  --BUILD  YOU  UP--  and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified   TITUS 2:11  for the grace of  GOD  that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men --2:12--  --teaching us--  that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly -- righteously -- and godly --  in this present world    2 CORINTHIANS 10:5  casting down ---IMAGINATIONS  AND  EVERY  HIGH  THING--- that exalteth itself against the knowledge of  GOD  and bringing into captivity --EVERY  THOUGHT  TO  THE  OBEDIENCE OF  CHRIST--   JOHN 3:35  THE  FATHER  LOVETH  THE  SON  and  --hath  given  all  things-- into his hand  JOHN 5:32  for  THE  FATHER  LOVETH  THE  SON   and showeth  HIM  all things that himself doeth and he will show  ---HIM  GREATER  WORKS  THAN  THESE  THAT  YOU  MAY  MARVEL---   PSALM 28:5  BECAUSE  THEY  REGARD  NOT  THE  WORKS  OF  THE  LORD  NOR  THE  OPERATION  OF  HIS  HANDS  HE  SHALL  DESTROY  THEM  AND  NOT  BUILD  THEM  UP   ECCLESIASTES  8:11  BECAUSE  SENTENCE  AGAINST  AN  EVIL  WORK  IS  NOT  EXECUTED  SPEEDILY  ---THEREFORE  THE  HEART  OF  THE  SONS  OF  MEN  IS  FULLY  SET  IN  THEM  TO  DO  EVIL---   PROVERBS 10:8  the wise in heart will receive commandments ---BUT  A  PRATING  FOOL  SHALL  FALL---   LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST  

I still don't know anyone who didn't want to be baptized. When Jesus told us to do so how can anyone justify not doing so.

I'm actually curious about this one. I've heard of the concept before but it's not one I've looked into very deeply. Is this something you'd be able to elaborate on in another thread maybe?

Not "dying" on certain hills reminds me a lot of when Paul told us not to quarrel over disputable matters like whether or not to eat meat and regarding certain days more highly than others. There's a whole lot that can be discussed but isn't really worth arguing about.

Retrobyter, Col 2:12  Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. Oh yes, we truly have been raised with Christ as the word of God (Col 2:12) says. It’s a matter of faith in the operations of God.  Co 2:9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.  1Co 2:10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.  1Co 2:11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.  1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.  1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  1Co 2:15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.  1Co 2:16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. The natural man can not understand the things of God who sees things as they spiritually and truly are. Rom 4:17  (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things (summons) which be not as though they were (truly are). 1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:  1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;  1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: