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Recent content by Arete

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    Reformed Church Thats Not Calvinist?

    So, you were rude and condescending. And that pretty much means that I won't really be interested in discussion that is only less than subtle jabs at my reading comprehension. You did not answer my questions, which were asked in good will and without malice. You merely degraded me for asking...
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    Reformed Church Thats Not Calvinist?

    Y'all correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the SBC started as an essentially Doctrines of Grace denomination and it was Arminian theology that was the "invaders" to borrow from the quoted post. I have colleagues within the SBC that claim the Calvinistic resurgence is the denomination...
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    describe heaven with one word

    Christ "If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me." - Thomas Goodwin
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    Strange Fire

    I encourage you to listen again. MacArthur did not say that in any of the sessions I have heard or books I have read. I may be wrong and you right. If so, let me know where to hear or read that. If he is wrong, he needs to be confronted with what he has said and taught, not how people feel...
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    Paul taught unlimited atonement

    Free2Grace I think your tone in the various threads has broadcast the futility of engaging you in any meaningful way. Feel free to eviscerate me for not answering the questions. But I cannot see anyway in which any believer will be edified by the furious exchange of the same old arguments and...
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    relatives going to a "foursquare" school, should i be worried?

    Wish I could be a help with an answer to that. We had a foursquare in the town I grew up in, but that town was 70K or so and I don't recall even knowing someone that attended, let alone any particulars. If its the same group, foursquare(dot)org has a beliefs section and in that section speaks...
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    relatives going to a "foursquare" school, should i be worried?

    I'm not sure this is the thread for this. If the OP is okay with it, but we are hijacking this a bit. Baptists like myself do believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but not as a separate event from salvation. We believe we are baptized into the family of God. I am writing a bit off...
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    relatives going to a "foursquare" school, should i be worried?

    I'm sorry, but where do you get the idea that Baptists do not believe in the Holy Spirit? A disagreement on the so-called sign gifts is not proof that Baptists do not believe in the person of the Holy Spirit.
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    relatives going to a "foursquare" school, should i be worried?

    I was saved in a charismatic church. I believed what I was told for a time. Then I matured and studied for myself. I came away Reformed and Baptist. Don't feel too bad for folks like me. We still believe that the Holy Spirit gives gifts. I believe that I have been called and gifted to be a...
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    relatives going to a "foursquare" school, should i be worried?

    I might respond with the question, "Don't you know what forum you're in?" But by itself, that might come off snarky. This being a Baptist forum, the dominant belief will be contrary to many Pentecostal/Charismatic views concerning speaking in tongues or getting slain in the spirit. So likely...
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    Got Questions?

    I have had several exchanges with the owner of the site. He has always been a decent and reasonable person. Perhaps you might contact him through the site and point out the discrepancies. All of the articles are written by volunteers and he might welcome some amil articles written from that...
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    Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism

    This may be too much nitpicking. If so, please forgive me. Calvinism is summed up in 5 points. So to be a Calvinist is to affirm those 5 points. I just don't buy those who want to redefine this ancient and biblical doctrine by calling themselves "moderate Calvinists" or 3, 3 1/2, or 4...
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    Twelve myths about Arminianism

    How much of that writing is held by the average Arminian? I know we should not judge an entire theological system based on inconsistencies of its proponents. I also know folks who identify as Arminian that by word or by life embody one or more of these myths. So, perhaps we might say these...
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    Mormons

    You have my sympathies. I have been there. It was so hard to not unleash everything I thought on my friend after reading just the first few chapters. I will pray for your friend as I continue to pray for mine. Four years later, and we are still friends and still talk, but he has no real...
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    Mormons

    Since you started this, yes I would like an even number of posts. For my edits, I am posting from my nexus. My edits have not been updated as fast as I thought. Trying to think through a response in this interface is weird to me. I am sorry you have interpreted my edits in this manner. By...