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    what defines idolatry?

    "Idolatry etymologically denotes Divine worship given to an image, but its signification has been extended to all Divine worship given to anyone or anything but the true God." http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=6029 Hope this helps, OP. A good question to ask would also be...
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    I see how it is; My comments were deleted for "goading/flaming" for calling an opinion outside of Orthodoxy "heretical" or "hetrodox". Well, the opinion that you can't walk away from Salvation is NOT taught by orthodox christianity(Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism in...
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    *sigh* By "Can you refute John 10 or not" you mean the heretical and false interpretation of the verse that isn't orthodoxy?
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    The same Holy Spirit which guards The Church and The Bible is the same Spirit which enables The Church to interpret this passage of Scripture. The same Bible you quote from is a catholic book. The Catholic Church is the only authority on interpreting the Bible; It is the Holy Spirit that guards...
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    No one can remove or snatch you you, but you are welcome to walk away. That is the orthodox, Nicene Christian interpretation with how the Church that Jesus founded--the Catholic Church---interprets that verse. The Calvinist stance crumbles under the truth of Orthodoxy.
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    This narrative can be applied the same way towards Calvinists: "There are people who are trying to deceive you by teaching you the heresies of Calvin. This supports their contention saved people cannot apostize or throw away their gift of salvation and misunderstand how grace works. They teach...
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    Well, He did say no sin could pluck a christian from Jesus' hand nor do do anything that could cause a him or her to lose salvation, so....
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    Is executing a murder against another innocent human being not an example of living according to the flesh in you view? How about cheating on your spouse? Is that not an example of living according to the flesh? What length of time do you consider as sufficient for "living according to the flesh?"
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    I notice you didn't put "brethren(christians)....if you live according to the flesh you will die" in the bold. This falls in line with Ezekiel 18:20 "the soul that sins shall die" and the second death in Revelation 21:8; 22:15 and Paul warning christians that they won't inherit the kingdom of...
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    You don't think rejecting Christ as saviour is a sin against God Almighty?
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    The tract will handle a lot of what I'm trying to communicate here, so for now, I'm going to bow out. If you want to follow up on what I'm saying or are interested, please click the link: http://www.catholic.com/tracts/grace-what-it-is-and-what-it-does
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    Please read this: http://www.catholic.com/tracts/grace-what-it-is-and-what-it-does
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    Is there a Biblical example you can point to us the phrase or word "Triune God" and "Trinity" in The Bible? Jesus used worldly illustrations to convey spiritual truths, which know to be parables. They too demonstrated that faith without works is dead.
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    You're not actually going to tell me I earn righteousness by obeying Jesus through keeping his command to love others and avoiding the consequences of sexual immorality and thievery, are you? Because obedience and loving others is not this black-and-white reality where being obedient means you...
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    Jesus says no one can pluck/snatch us out of His & The Father's hand. Does that include yourself?

    If I'm travelling 80 miles per hour in a burning car, no man can pluck me out of the car but I'm still able to depart from the car out of my own free will. The reality and possibility of being able to apostasize or for a jewish christian to fall from grace by going back to judaism does not...