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sheep cannot become goats any more than a leopard can change his spots..... :)

Jesus said Joh 17:24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Jesus always prays according to the will of the Father... Jesus prays that all those who...

I am not sure who you are speaking of, I have watched Kennedy's show "Truths That Transform" numerous times, and there has never been a lady with purple hair with him... you must be thinking of someone else.....

I'm not sure... but that seems like a good idea... as it is, however, I just reported numerous posts as spam....

well thank you.... good to see you too!

actually the Bible that early Calvinists used was the Geneva Bible, not the King James... http://www.reformedreader.org/gbn/igb.htm http://www.reformed.org/documents/geneva/Geneva.html the original notes are at http://www.reformedreader.org/gbn/en.htm "John Calvin, John Knox, Miles...

BallRm, you said no Baptists have a "conception of the Regulative Principle"... well I am a Reformed or Sovereign Grace Baptist, and I have a conception of the Regulative Principle... so I must be ok then ehhh?? :) As you probably know, however, not even all Presbyterians adhere to the...

blessedbe... you can find many many awesome Reformed sources on the internet, in fact, someone recommended AW Pink's The Sovereignty of God, and I would agree, thats a great book to start... and best of all, you can read it for free at...

hi to all my Reformed brothers and sisters!! ... Reformed Baptist here as well..... as far as eschatalogy... I know about what I do not believe more solidly then what I do believe... I am defintely not a classic dispensationalist, or even a "progressive" one, though I went to a Univ. that taught...

come on... its painfully obvious to everyone that Jay is doing FAR MORE than innocently asking questions....

As far as the OP goes, I have heard this line of thought (succession etc) most especially from groups like Landmark Baptists, "Only Scriptural Baptist churches can make a legitimate claim to an unbroken succession back to the time of Christ and the apostles. Christ only built one kind of...

well said.....

couple of questions... is English your second language? are you here to bash Baptists?

being a part of the Sovereign Grace Baptist Association ( I am a Reformed Baptist) I can assure you that this idea (thinking that we are the only true church etc) is something I have never personally seen or heard....

1 Reformed!! 2 Pietism Fundamentalism 3 Pietism Moderate 4 Luthren 5 EO 6 Pietism Liberal 7 RC .... think it pegged me pretty well

sad to say... a whole bunch....

Quote: it says that we were created simply for God's pleasure. I know I am. At any rate, this is a perfect example of you doing more then simply questioning the "what" of calvinistic belief, and moving to the "I disagree" stage... as the following "expositions" of yours apparently seek to...

No, does not follow. (see above for requiring God to fit into the 1 Cor. 13 model) Where does the Bible say that God must have mercy on us all equally? Where does Paul say that 1 Cor. 13 must apply to God just as it applies to humans? We cannot possibly take into account all the factors that...

Q, you said Here are my thoughts, for what they are worth (I hesitate to say 2 cents at this point as I am not sure if they will be worth even that much ).... Firstly, taking any one aspect of God's nature, or His moral attributes, and trying to say that it is central or prior in any way to...

I can think of no better answer to this than John Piper's Intro to Desiring God: "4. The next insight came again from C. S. Lewis, but this time from his Reflections on the Psalms. Chapter nine of this book bears the modest title "A Word about Praise." In my experience it has been the word...