Recent content by mike buckman

Amen. I would like to add that for many of us, when we see false doctrines in the church it troubles us. It is not that we desire to suffer the tribulation, it is that we would not have Gods word perverted and the evil one given a foothold to deceive anyone, especially not the babes in Christ...

I would also like to point out something when it comes to prophecy and studying prophecy, and it ties into something slightly disconnected with our main discussion, but still is an element of it. Jewish scholars in Jesus's day believed that the messiah was going to be the physical king of...

Yes, the KJV does say "That you be counted worthy to escape all these things." Yet it is a moot point because both versions infer a similar thing which lines up really well with the rest of the Bible. Specifically I am thinking of the beginning of Rev 9 and 16, where believers are spared the...

I dont know what to tell you if you cant see how your conclusions that those scriptures elude to a pretribulation rapture are conjecture and speculation. The one taken out of the way is not the church as you claim, nor can you biblically uphold that without speculating and using conjecture. It...

You are missing certain elements in your question. You are committing yourself to a narrow view that inst based in reality in order to ask those questions, and ultimately to spring the "You have contradicted yourself" card. BTW there is no contradiction if free will and predestination are true...

Light has come into the world, but men did not come into the light because their deeds were evil.... This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world but men would not receive the light for fear that their deeds be exposed. -Bottom line, they died in their sins. Christs Crucifixion...

I only know what God has revealed to me. I dont know of these things in a doctrinal controversy sense, nor did I know that there were names for each doctrine. I actually dont even believe that there is anything called "Calvanism" in reality. It is not an "ism." I see that these discussions...

Remember now, it is the "First Ressurection" and the "Second Death" The First Resurrection is THE resurrection. "The rest of the Dead did not come to life for a thousand years." Those after the thousand years are part of the "Second Death."

Anyone who has seriously looked into the doctrine of pre tribulation rapture and the scriptures used to justify the conjecture already knows. Pre Tribulation rapture is a bandwagon and unspiritual doctrine of men. Any scripture you use to try and justify the opposite of what the Bible actually...

it isnt forced salvation. It is salvation by Grace. We humans dont know what we dont know. God reveals himself to mankind and blesses them with salvation. Anyone who has stood before God and understood that he is now saved and will receive eternal life, knows that he was dead in sin and would...

That is exactly why salvation is not, nor can it be a choice. There are many reasons behind it. One is "So that no man may boast." Ultimately, God is sovereign. He has created us for the praise of his glorious grace and we are merely working out our salvation here on earth as babes, learning.

One way to look at Salvation as far as Calvanism goes (in order to understand it) is this: Your Salvation is already complete and it already was before you were born. While you were on this earth, your spirit was simultaneously in Glory. It never really departed. You were created by God in the...

your logic is based in the worldly and the only information that you have. God interacts with man. This interaction is for our benefit and in ways that we can understand. He interacts differently to different people as well, based on their level of knowledge, but he has a baseline interaction...

Dont you see how you are using speculation and conjecture? Johns Vision, the door opened was not symbolic of any rapture. You are speculating that. I couldnt even read your full post because every line was speculation and conjecture up until where I quit. Let me just tell you that when the...