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So some people are saying its about reminding them of Christ being crucified, and others that its a symbol of the Trinity. So which is it? There's nothing worse than a mixed symbol.

"they are bombastic in speech, flattering people to their own advantage." Bombastic in attacking Christians who believe in freewill and morality, but flattering to anyone of any false religion. Like James White in other words, who treats non-Calvinist Christians like garbage in debating them...

Well he tells us in the opening that he is James' brother. So.... Same as when James says "o foolish man do you want me to show you that faith without works is dead?" these verses are probably directed towards some who took the Pauline doctrine of justification by faith to an extreme. Toward...

Why do you say "reformed" for catholicism-lite which is what Calvinism is? The anabaptists are more reformed; they don't baptize babies. Nor do they worship Augustine, a Catholic theologian. Stop with this "reformed" nonsense and call it by its proper name.

Everything that supports fatalism is just a translation mistake. Amazingly the NIV which normally gets accused of being biased in favor of Calvinism actually gets this one right: "The Lord works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster." (Proverbs 16.4 NIV) So...

Aside from KJVOs one of the biggest banes of trying to have a discussion on translation is dealing with both testaments at once. A discussion on translation needs to focus on one or the other (after all, two completely different ancient languages are involved). And KJVOs really exacerbate that...

But they make them clear I think. Dispensationalism is pure fiction, creating splits where they don't exist, except for those who believe in only two or three dispensations, i.e. Patriarchal, Old Testament, New Testament. Once you start claiming there's more than that, especially breaking the...

And here I always thought it was a dream a guy exiled on the Isle of Patmos had. Who knew its actually a brief filed by a lawyer? Mind = blown.

The Old Testament isn't "full of references to predestination", so if you convince me that the New Testament really is, then you'll just convert me to Judaism. But I think all your precious references to "predestination" in the New Testament really only refer to foreordaining a plan of...

I know how familiar I am with it, so...

What generalization? 40% maybe. But on the Calvinist side even that 40% is tainted by a darkness of their dark view that makes God out to be as evil as Satan.

Probably Calvinists decide what is controversial and what is not. If a Calvinists head would spin around like a demon possessed person in the exorcist movie if you mentioned something to them, it probably should go here. Including this statement.

Fatalism is pure evil. Anyone who denies freewill is worse than an atheist.

Kids these days and their drug habits. Its shameful.

You just made that rule up, or Hal Lindsey did. Because antichrist is only mentioned in 1st and 2nd John, and it certainly don't say that.

So does that mean Sneerson who is being hailed by Chabad Lubavichters as messiah is not a false christ because he didn't claim to be Jesus specifically? But Sneerson already died though, so why are you still looking for an antichrist? He came and you missed him.

There's not much real difference in claiming to be the messiah or claiming to be Jesus returned, because in either case the claim is to be the messiah. Well that was clearly Bar Kokhba being referred to there.

"Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?" Don't try to be all perfect on ceremonial matters. "Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?" Don't be immoral.

If you take the first view I outlined, then clearly its all about him, as that paragraph shows: If you take the position that the messiah in Daniel 9 is Jesus, the 7 years would be the 3 years of his ministry and first 3 or 4 years of the church, and the "he" who is the subject of the...

Only John uses the term, and he doesn't use it that way. Rather, the concept of a false Christ is just called that, like when Jesus says in Matthew 24:25 "For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray" -- notice how many will coming claiming to be...