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God is not Mr. Rogers. God is just. And to Whom was He most "mean?" Himself, on the Cross. And by that, we have life, forgiveness, salvation, heaven, hope, strength, meaning, courage, love. .

Predestination/Election Some Scriptures: Ephesians 1:3-7 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and...

Yup. Exactly. True, there has been a Convention Resolution in the LCMS that denounces classic evolution. However, there is NOTHING in the Lutheran Confessions about this.... and LCMS folks are not required to agree. Indeed, as an LCMS person myself, I can assure you LOTS of LCMS hold to...

I hope it's not a rule violation to simply reply to a sincere question..... www.christianityhaven.com The site is undergoing some updates and is down at this moment but that shouldn't last long. Purely FYI, a lot of former CF's (including former staff) are now there, and there are several...

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Sola Scriptura The Definition: Sola Scriptura is the practice of embracing God's Scripture as the rule ("straight edge") - canon ("measuring stick") - norma normans ("the norm that norms") as it is called in epistemology, as we examine and evaluate the positions (especially disputed doctrines)...

Nothing. Nowhere in the Bible or the Lutheran Confessions state that God created life ONLY on Earth. .

There is no such thing as "prima Scriptura." Sola Scriptura ("The Rule of Scripture in Norming") is ... The Definition of Sola Scriptura... The Rule of Scripture is the practice of embracing Scripture as the rule ("straight edge") - canon ("measuring stick") - norma normans (the norm that...

. Sola Scriptura: The Definition The Rule of Scripture is the practice of embracing Scripture as the rule ("straight edge") - canon ("measuring stick") - norma normans (the norm that norms) as it is called in epistemology, as we examine and evaluate the positions (especially doctrines)...

Quote me saying that. This has NOTHING whatsoever to do with Christians coming to agreement on dogma. Or what objective and universally embraced rule/canon/norm is best in the arbitration of correctness. Thus, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Sola Scriptura, which the title of the...

IF so, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the issue of Sola Scriptura. Nothing. If there's 5 heretics sitting around a table - all with contradictory views on a dogma - and all five are "100% certain" their their own unique view is right, that has nothing.... absolutely nothing...

JAL Okay.... I "get" your point about an individual person feeling "CONFIDENT" and "CERTAIN" about some dogma. Here's what you seem to be ENTIRELY missing (and why you have yet to even approach the issue of this thread). What if 5 Christians persons, churches and/or denoninations are...

So, which is it? EVERY Christian who disagrees with another on some dogma have accepted this idea of yours that each is to look into themselves for what God thinks God says OR that "Evangelicals" do? So, there are Reformed Baptist "Evangelicals." There are "Particular Baptist"...

Or any other single church/denomination/person who simply exempts self from accountability, who simply (and egotistically) SHOUTS, "I'm right cuz I'm right so I'm right when I say I'm right so there." Frankly, I don't care if that one is Joseph Smith or Pope Francis or Billy Graham or the...

It would help you enormously if you would actually read post 204. You are presenting your own strawman.... While presenting no alterantive, nothing MORE objectively, universally knowable and unchangable than Scripture as the rule in norming disputed dogmas, nothing all parties will accept as...

See post 204. .

I have a hunch you think "church" means one specific voice (the RCC perhaps?) - which just means you think the best Rule for resolving dispute over dogma is for each party to simply declare "I can't be wrong so I can't be wrong when I myself declare I can't be wrong so I can't be wrong." Of...

See post 204. Yes, I agree, any person, church, denomination that simply appoints SELF as the infallible one, the authoritative one, the reliable one - is very likely one to avoid. See post 204 especially sections "Why Scripture"? and "Why Some Reject this Rule?" I agree. Scripture is...

...and thus you are noting the irrelevant; that has NOTHING - absolutely nothing whatsoever - to do with Sola Scriptura. Again..... yet again.... Sola Scriptura: The Definition: The Rule of Scripture is the practice of embracing Scripture as the rule ("straight edge") - canon...

No. That's your position. Then Joseph Smith is as correct as you. Then Arius is just as correct as you. Then truth is whatever anyone happens to individually happen to feel it is at this moment, and "truth" is going have 7.7 billion variations to go with the 7.7 billion people on the...