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Hey all. It's been a while (a few years in fact) since I logged in here. I hope to be able to do so more often going forward. Anyway, I see some familiar handles and some not so familiar ones. I just wanted to drop a line and say "hey" before jumping back in to discussions. :)

Well, thought I should post my intentions concerning this new epiphany from Erw.in. I probably will check into to CF for the next couple of days (reading this thread mostly) and moving on graceforums.com and occasionally checking in at CARM.org. Pretty sad that even wiki failed miserably in...

Sorry if this has been discussed before. OK, I'm kind of new to this dispute but I've been reading through the PCA responses that denounce this teaching. Two things I'm interested in: 1) Does anyone have a link or information that states what the Federal Vision claims to teach that is...

Hi all, I was looking at purchasing the Reformation Study Bible (ESV) The editors are Sproul and Mathison which excites me as I think highly of both of these men. Anyone ever use this? Opinions? Thought I would check here before I purchased. Thanks...:)

"Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven." – C. H. Spurgeon "A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world." - C. H. Spurgeon Savvy?

Curious to know how you all view George Barna and his ideas on church growth. My PCA church attempted to watch an old seminar concerning church growth but it was abandoned pretty quickly. The contradictions seemed to role from beginning to end . For instance, he presented a study that...

I wanted to thank all of you for your encouragement and information on finding a new church home. My wife and I visited a PCA-Reformed Church this morning and were blown away. It was the first time either of us had ever attended a Reformed church and we loved the teaching from the message. It...

My wife and I are heading to a PCA church in our area this week, as we are continuing our search for a home church. The question is, "what is the appropriate attire?" My background is from churches where khakis and jeans are acceptable and women can dress casually as well. But I didn't know...

As a Reformed believer, one of the major objections to my faith is that it necessitates that God not only predestines people to heaven but to hell. This doctrine is protested with great force with the most expressed reason being "God is love and a loving God would not do that." However, I am...

Just curious..... Has anyone here ever had a discussion with an Arminian who, at the end of the conversation, was at least inclined toward the Reformed theology? The reason I ask is that a friend of mine and I had a brief discussion about this topic and we agreed to continue to the discussion...

In the Apostle's Creed, it is acknowledged that Jesus descended into hell. Yet in Luke 23:43 Jesus tells the thief "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise." This is something I have wondered about for sometime, how do these things fit together? I figured my Reformed friends...

As I have read through most of John Owen's book Death of Death in the Death of Christ (almost done :thumbsup: )I have come upon his explanation of how all very seldom if ever means "each and every" but "all sorts". I know that we can infer from other scripture that when Christ paid for all the...

and keep finding that any argument against reformed theology is posed by those who don't hold the Bible to be the infallible Word of God. I usually argue to the point where that is disclosed and I lose all interest. How can we discuss anything further when we don't hold to the same authority...

Ok, if you all remember about 2 weeks ago I wrote in stating that I was leaving our (at the time) current church mostly due to the lack of doctrine. This has been the right decision in hindsight as some things have come to the surface that we did not know about. That being said, I want to move...

I wanted to share this with you all as I have been pretty much down in the dumps the last week. My wife and I have decided that we have to leave our church. It has everything to do with doctrine - not that we're reformed and they aren't; but that we have an understanding of theology and they...

Hey all, this just came up in another thread and the reading I've done hasn't lead me to much in the way of an answer. Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God," I understand that to mean that faith is a gift from God...

Help me out here, what is/are the theological difference(s) between Baptists and Presbyterians? I don't necessarily need proofs or anything like that at this time, just need the differences theologically. As a bonus - do they differ in worship styles?

Hey all, has anyone else noticed the complete denial of hell by other people on CF? I thought it was only a few but it seems like as soon as hell is mentioned, people come out of the wordwork to claim all sorts of things like "Hell doesn't really exist"; "Hell (or the lake of fire) is only...

Howdy all! I'm new here - just wanted to say hi. :wave: