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I was arguing for a non-Calvinistic view and was just using Calvinist language. I wasn't very clear, sorry.

But, God still made him sin. Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us [the Elect] in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love If God chose the Elect before the foundation of the world in the way the Calvinist system says, then He didn't sit back...

If you're asking and are wanting Christ as much as you seem to, then I really think you are saved. Our Lord is alive right now. Just remember He's there for you, man.

Yelling at someone to show them the truth is a horrible way to do it. Edit: I'm referring to both sides, but the Christian group did start by yelling at their face and not talking to them reasonably. Edit: Been editing while I've been watching, but seriously cops, no arrests for rocks and...

I've never spoken in tongues, but I'm thinking it can be two ways (when speaking to other people). Acts 2:4 says, "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." Pretty sure this text means that they were speaking other...

Honestly, I think the first thing you're going to do is stand there stunned by Glory lol. I don't even think I will be able to think about anything else other than taking in pure Beauty. We'll just have to wait and see. :thumbsup:

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Long-story-short, I think a good friend of mine is doing drugs and I have to kick him out of my apartment because my roommates don't like him. It's going to be really hard because I feel betrayed since he and I have been good friends since highschool. Though I walk through the valley...

I am not claiming to know the mind of God, but I'll answer in a way similar in which I heard Dr. Ravi Zacharias answer the question of how a benevolent God can allow suffering. We live in a world of post-modernism where there are no absolutes (except of course that one); morals are whatever you...

Whatever the case, netchaplain, the only thing I ask you to consider/accept is that the Son took on our nature, my flesh and your flesh, and brought it under subjection. He mastered what we could not. Faithful unto death, our Lord was and is innocent.

Is there any significance of Luke mentioning Jesus' age of 12 other than a simple history dating? I was thinking that maybe since it was one year before the modern Bar Mitzvah (son of commandment -- one to whom the Law now applies. And if I got the meaning of Bar Mitzvah wrong, please correct...

"The devil, and the whole train of the ungodly, are in all direction, held in by the hand of God as with a bridle, so that they can neither conceive any mischief, nor plan what they have conceived, nor how muchsoever they may have planned, move a single finger to perpetrate, unless in so far as...

I firmly believe you are not a Docetist. Psalm 51:5, with the translation you quoted, does not directly imply that we now have a sinful human nature as a result of the Fall; however, the NIV translation would argue other wise. Yet, the NASB, KJV, NKJV, and Young's Literal can be read to imply...

God writes our sins; we act them out.

Super Kal's thoughts are mine as well. Quotes from John Calvin: "Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed." Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 16, Paragraph 3. "We hold that God is the...

God bless you, too, brother. I think I have a suitable answer. 1 Corinthians 15:39: "All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish." Christians definitely say Christ is human, a man. If Christ did...

First off, let me say, and I do not do say angrily, that you are going against about 1600 years of Christian Doctrine. The Creed of the Council of Constantinople 381 A.D. says this: We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen...

that wasnt meant to be a quote of Jesus. sorry. what i mean was for the hyphen to be like an "a.k.a." i didn't mean it that way :doh: my bad.

The Son of God died in His human nature upon the Cross. In His divine nature He cannot suffer/is impassible while the human can and did. The human nature in the Son is God attributively not essentially. The human nature is not God in itself but is said to be God as it is in the Son. That...

Skala, you say: In this statement you set forth a pre-lapsarian position where God elected those whom He would save from condemnation. Ephesians 1:3-4 backs up this position and at the same time refutes a post-lapsarian view. If God actively elected some to salvation then He actively...