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    What is the purpose of Salvation?

    God's purpose in salvation is to glorify Himself as the gloriously gracious Savior.
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    Towards an Official List of all SR members

    Hey, I'm kind of new around here, but I'd like to become a member. I hold to the Westminister Standards.
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    What I'm Reading -- How About You?

    Guess what... John Murray is my great uncle. My mom's sister married his son. Crazy huh?
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    Tool

    Tool's music is amazing, definitely my favorite band. However I am disturbed that someone at a Christian forum would say "tool > God." Nobody and nothing is greater than the Sovereign Creator of the Universe. Glory to God Alone!
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    Is Tool a Satanic Band? Are They Religious?

    Tool's music is not satanic. Maynard's older lyrics were anti hypocrytical religion, but some of their newer music has lyrics with strong Christian themes. For example, the song quoted in the original post, Jambi, says "the devil and his had me down, in love with the dark side I'd found...
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    PCUSA v PCA

    I'm a member of the OPC myself-we tell people it stands for Orthodox Presbyterian Church, but it really means Only Perfect Church...:) Just kidding, but it is a good conservative, reformed, Presbyterian denomination.
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    John Piper

    I'm a Piper fan (if you couldn't tell by my forum name), he is definitely gifted by God and I love how he ties reformed theology into life application, rather than either just one without the other.
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    KNOW You are saved.

    I don't know for sure, but I think there are some things that can encourage and help assure Christians of their faith. For example, if you feel a desire for God and for your salvation to be real, or if any sins in your life are truly experienced as struggles and are confessed to God, even if...
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    Saved!

    Technically, if someone 100% obeyed God's law and glorified and honored Him perfectly, then they would go to heaven and not need to be saved. However, this is impossible, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Thus, Christ's atonement for your sin is absolutely necessary for...
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