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Recent content by Jonnas

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    A Calvinist perspective on the Parable of the Sower (Matt 13)

    Good day Bill, I couldn't find an analyse from D. A. Carson, but here is what Matthew Henry had to say about the stony soil: no root means no union by faith to Christ our root. Such people are pleased by the word of God, and it makes some effects in them, but it doesn't rule or transform them...
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    Our language with the homosexual “marriage”

    That's your own subjective opinion, it looks like. Everyone can have his own subjective opinions about anything, but it is only the objective truth as revealed in the Bible that matters in the discussion.
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    Our language with the homosexual “marriage”

    If you think that discussing about the definition of marriage is straining a gnat, then you must have swallowed some camels!
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    Limited Atonement and 2 Peter 2

    Good day, Bill I almost read half of 2 Peter 2:1 and Universal Redemption - Alpha and Omega Ministries, until I came to these words: Then if the Calvinist argument is based on some finenesses about the meaning of a Greek word, then I am not able to make any judgement. I am not qualified for...
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    Walk By The Spirit

    But God didn't just give the Bible for the edification of his Church, he also gave teachers according to Ephesians 4:11-16, also for the reason that you implied, that we may be "no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine". So we shouldn't think of either...
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    Our language with the homosexual “marriage”

    That's a very strange statement: how could it be not allowed in a Christian forum to discuss about what God said about marriage? What do you mean by not officially married? In Mark 6:17 it is said about Herode concerning Herodias that "he had married her". So there is no question left whether...
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    Discouraged about waiting until marriage

    I think that in the older time where the parents where often arranging the marriage of their children (often knowing very well who could match), when society were generally supportive of marriage, and people were less individualist but more aware of duties, there was not such problems. Now this...
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    Our language with the homosexual “marriage”

    They have created a big confusion; it's another proof that homosexual relationships are not of God, because "God is not the author of confusion" (1. Cor. 14:33)
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    Our language with the homosexual “marriage”

    The paradox is, that in a homosexual relationship there is usually one playing the role of a man and the other playing the role of a woman.
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    Ethics on lies and how to tell other Christians that they are supporting liars.

    It still amaze me what level of tolerance concerning lying I often discovered in Christians, and how readily they are to sweep it under the carpet when it is called out, and how lightly they consider such serious warnings from the Bible.
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    Calvinism of today versus puritanical Calvinism

    Before I will come to a conclusion whether this man is an heretic or not, I will apply the same advice you suggested me and not assume that the assertion of someone in a matter is true, unless I see the evidence. I was challenging the part of your statement that I might have "misunderstood...
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    Calvinism of today versus puritanical Calvinism

    It looks like moderate Calvinism to me. Do you see a difference between moderate Calvinism and High-Calvinism? If I remember correctly, Spurgeon reported interactions with Calvinists that fit your description for Hyper-Calvinism but he named them High-Calvinists or people higher on doctrine. Has...
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    Protestors disrupt Minnesota worship service

    You cited Matthew 5:40: "If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also." This doesn't look like stealing to me, but making a claim whithin legality to take someone else's tunic. It looks like that at that time there were people with such a status, that they...
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    Protestors disrupt Minnesota worship service

    I think as well that the biblical context didn't involve breaking the law, and even that some people could be sometimes enjoying a lawful privilege to do something detrimental to you, such as taking some of your goods.
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    Protestors disrupt Minnesota worship service

    I don't know why you think that I am lecturing people, as I simply expressed my wonder that there were people here that don't like to read Bible verses, but still be there reading these posts that contain them. Hans Blaster gave me afterwards an explication that satisfied me, as for his reasons...