Recent content by MagnusEmboden

Oye, Rejecting the truth can never be because the alternative is correct. But that being said, Calvinists don't always do themselves a lot of favors in presenting themselves to the larger Christian public so what many reject is not so much Calvinism qua Calvinism but Calvinism as it has been...

This is a pretty intricate matter and you guys seem to be talking past each other a little bit. Calvin and Augustine and most Calvinists have always believed that even the reprobate had a duty of "Gospel Obedience" as to a "New Law" and that in this regard the Gospel was not only to be offered...

It is interesting that you quote Spurgeon in your signature. I learned this from him. Please see Iain Murray's treatment of the Hyper-Calvinist Controversy in the 19th Century English Baptist churches. In Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism Murray argues that the very issue that was dividing Calvinist...

It was my understanding that Calvinism teaches that the Gospel is not only "offered" to everyone, even to those who will not believe, but that even these, the reprobate, have a duty to believe even though they will not; this obstinacy in fact being the basis for their condemnation. As a...

Funny... My wife was ELCA and I was a conservative Presbyterian. We ended up in the LCMS. She loves it. I wish it was more Lutheran, well, our congregation anyway...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!^_^ Just goes to show, my Daddy was right: Cheaters never prosper.

Sin is sin...it is not a matter of eventualities but of our nature. We sin because we are sinners, therefore it doesn't matter if we were born gay or straight, an alcoholic or not, a person who struggles with inappropriate contentography or one who struggles with an addiction to gambling. Plenty of studies...

I SEE YOU THERE, BL! And I'm telling everyone!!!! lol But they'll probably say I belong here too....

The reference is probably to Osiris who is, I believe a god who died and came back to life. There are numerous such myths strewn about the ancient world. I have never heard that Moses was a copy of an Egyptian original but the Bible does tell us that he was Egyptian at least by adoption...most...

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Isn't infant communion the doorway through which most Lutherans have gone into the Eastern Orthodox church? Isn't it kind of a joke that it's the last thing to fall before the Pastor begins styling himself "Father" and growing his beard out?

I am just saying that originally the word "Evangelical" was synonymous with "Lutheran". It has since come to mean a whole lot more than that and quite a lot that has nothing to do with what the Reformation was about.

Well, we all know what the Incarnation is, right? It's a pretty old term. It wasn't made up in this last generation. The wedding of it in an adjectival form ("Incarnational") is pretty reasonable at least denotatively. And if we're going to harp on the pouring of new or extended meanings into...

I don't think EO's believe Mary to have been conceived without stain of original sin as Catholics do.

I know of some pretty conservative ELCA congregations, ones I would have no difficulty joining as they stand. What concerns me is that any bishop of that church who decides to make that congregation a "diversity project" can change it in a fairly short period of time. Also, even the best ELCA...