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    What was accomplished for man's salvation, in the Incarnation of Christ?

    Not sure exactly what you are getting at, but to me the most obvious change was that GOD took on mortal flesh. That had never happened before. It is one thing to know about your creatures inside and out as creator, but it was another thing to experience what it was like to be the creature. Of...
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    What was accomplished for man's salvation, in the Incarnation of Christ?

    The world was filled with darkness. Jesus came as the Light of the world, which was and is Life. The world was in bondage to sin and death, under the dominion of 'the ruler of this world'. Jesus came to cast out demons, and destroy the works of the devil, and redeem us out of bondage, that...
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    A Verse That Disproves Rapture

    I presume that you don't eat pork, is that right? In Christ, Russ
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    A Verse That Disproves Rapture

    As I stated in my earlier post, the Bible dictionaries that I looked at do not list 'departure' as a meaning of apostasia even if that might be what the meanings of the individual root and prefix imply. A departure can be either spatial or non-spatial. Apostasia as used in the N.T. and LXX...
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    A Verse That Disproves Rapture

    I have to disagree with your picking out 3 events in 2 Thess. 2:1-3. In the NAS the verses you quoted read as follows: 2:1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming (Gk. parousia) of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him, 2:2 that you may not be quickly shaken...
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    A Verse That Disproves Rapture

    Benefactor, I think you are missing my point. My point is that the term, RAPTURE, has come to be used eschatologically by dispensationalists to be an event distinct and separate from what has historically been termed the 2nd coming of Christ. That use of the term is what I find biblically...
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    A Verse That Disproves Rapture

    I'm not sure I follow what you are saying. In vs. 16-17, it reads, "...the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air..." In vs. 15, it says that we who are alive shall not precede those who...
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    A Verse That Disproves Rapture

    It's hard to seperate the semantical issue from the doctrinal issue. The word 'rapture' comes from the Latin word which means 'to catch up', which is what 1 Thess. 4:17 says will happen to the believers who are still living when Jesus comes again. (As an aside, note that the dead believers are...
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    For Whom did Christ die?

    I voted a); however, I would phrase it differently: Christ died for the sins of the whole world, and those who repent, turn to God, and perform deeds in accordance with their repentance have their sins forgiven. In Christ, Russ
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    Why Federalism is self-contradictory

    JAL, Did Jesus also receive a portion of Adam's sin stained soul? If yes, then He was not innocent. If no, then He was innocent, yet He still suffered. If He suffered even though innocent, then by your reckoning, God is unjust. The problem is your concept of 'justice'. Temporal suffering...
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    Why Federalism is self-contradictory

    JAL, You said, The bottom line is this. Justice entails, "The one who sins shall die" (Ezek 18). You suffer because of what Adam did. Since God is just, this implies that you are Adam. That's the origin of my view. The only reasonable way to explain this, it seems to me, is the idea of a...
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    Why Federalism is self-contradictory

    JAL, I am getting into this discussion somewhat late, but I view God's justice through a different paradigm than what I've read in the posts on this thread. According to Kelly in his book, Early Christian Doctrines, the Old Latin version mistranslated Rom. 5:12, which in the Greek reads...
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    Classic Family Holiday Arguement at Parents House

    Hi Crotalus, God is far beyond our attempts at understanding and predicting how He will or will not act. Never the less, we do have quite a record of His dealings with humankind down through the ages, and as such we can make some basic predictions of how He might act. If God knows all, sees...
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    Looks like

    Hi Jim, I tried to post a reply last night, but somehow it didn't get posted, so I'll try again this morning. I did some reading on Wikipedia concerning Arminianism, Calvinism, etc. as well as look in the online Mennonite Encyclopedia. I copied the following from the Mennonite Encyclopedia...
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    Looks like

    Jim, Sorry to take so long to respond to your post, but things have been a bit busy here on the farm. I have done some reading concerning Arminianism, Calvinism, and Semipelagianism on Wikipedia, and also did some searching in the Mennonite Encyclopedia. I think the following from the...
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