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Ok. Your right.

Just two things. I know that you disagree with me. That is why the debate. You asked a question I gave You my answer. In my last post I merely ask it was possible to understand what I said, even though you disagree? I ask this because you keep responding by accusing me of saying things I did not...

it is kind of a tightrope walk as are many things in the Bible. Doesn't make it impossible to figure out. We think like humans because we are human. God is not and does not His ways are higher than ours. A simple but true way to undo double predestination is this. We are all headed deservedly to...

I can't beat post #3 in explaining the answers to your questions. I have never read a more precise yet clear and accurate explanation. I know this thread started a year ago but if you are still looking for resources: What Is Reformed Theology by R.C.Sproul Doctrines That Divide by Erwin Lutzer...

even in these scriptures the meaning I have you is the same. Good works accompany our salvation. They are the FRUIT of our salvation. But the works themselves do not save us. It is our faith that saved us. I don't know why you insist on not understanding what I am saying. It is possible for you...

dead as used in James means non existent. He is saying if no works are produced then faith doesn't exist in that person. That if someone claims to have faith yet there is no evidence of a life that is yielded to Christ the claim of faith is false. And I am talking about saving faith as is...

Here is an idea! Maybe we should stop trying to explain God and all that He does s though He were a created being. As though He is human like us.

The only examples of absolute free will are Adam and Eve. And that may only apply to the will to o be or disobey God's command. And of course Jesus because as God incarnate, born of a virgin as son of man (human) He was not born with our sin nature. As th whether He could have sinned that is...

This unfortunately is probably true. There are many people who believe if they don't belong to some other religiin, are not atheist or agnostic, then they are Christian. Or are Christian because they go to church and they don't hear anything in that church that changes that opinion. No gospel or...

A mission statement like you suggest would not solve the problem. What needs changed is the hearts and priorities and focus of pastors, and yes, Christians. A church mission statement should clearly define the beliefs of that church. Few churches even have mission statements or follow definitive...

Genuine saving faith PRODUCES works

Reformed Theology teaches that Jesus's sacrifice on the cross was for a specific purpose, to pay for the sins of His people, who were His by His choice, and from all nations and peoples, not just Israel, and that Jesus accomplished His purpose, completely. God's elect still had to have their...

Guess I misunderstood What you were asking. Thought it was a different question.:grinning:

In the free will argument Christ died for everyone but actual redemption is only given to those who CHOOSE Him. So potentially propitiation that Jesus suffered and died for could be a complete failure. To counter that argument they go back to their interpretation of foreknown and say that God...

Everything sounds just fine until you get to the part where you say God intentionally made man in a fallen state. He did not. He made Adam with a free will and Adam chose wrong. Did God know ADam would fall. Yes. It is God's plam, God's world and truthfully, it is about God's glory, not about us...

Going back to the difference Reformed Theology makes as compared to the predominant interpretations of Scripture in the churches today, and my saying it doesn't matter. I only mean I believe it may not matter in salvation because it is what we believe about Jesus that determines salvation. That...

because of everything God has revealed about Himself. His character and attributes. Because of who He is, it is impossible for Him to be arbitrary or without a reason in anything. Otherwise He wouldn't be God.

Also, Christianity isn't a religion. It is God revealing Himself in a saving way. It is truth.

I am going to tell you a story. I am a person who felt there must be such a thing as actual truth about our existence, an after life or not, how we got here, why we are here. I looked at many many possibilities. Somewhere in my early thirties I realized that even if I found truth, I wouldn't...

You are making a lot of assumptions.