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The man you describe sounds like he might have a mental illness. If I were to describe to you a man who believed in his heart that a red-colored stove element was hot and who had a distinct aversion to pain and who fully understood that placing his hand on said red-colored stove element would...

Perfect obedience is not necessary for salvation. Attempting anything less, however, puts the lie to your faith. I am just as guilty of not trying my hardest one hundred percent of the time as anyone else, but that's because not trying my hardest is one of many sins Christ is trying to curb me...

Matthew 7:15-20 And if anyone gives you lip, just refer them to James 2:18. Philo

Cougan, I was going to argue with you. But I decided not to. <3<3<3, Philo

Just wanted to tell you your name is really funny to me. That's all. :sorry: Philo

Ahem, eachers-pre, iles-fe, ine ig-pe atin-le. ;) Philo

Dangit! All you Southern Hemospheric brethren are coming up on Spring, not Fall! Shoot! Not that it's important. It is -still- that time of year, thank you very much. What time of year? Yeah, I guess I should have made that a little clearer in the original post. It's time to discuss...

It's that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the months are very close to ending in "ber," and it's raining outside. What could this mean? Well, only one thing of course! It's time for a good old fashioned discussion! Okay, so maybe discussion is too genteel word for what will...

It's still going? Wow! I'm really surprised, since there is one obvious and incontrivertable answer to this question that should be glaringly obvious from reading the Scriptures... Isn't there? ;) Postconservative Postrestorationist Zealot, Philo

Well, if you want to read a good-sized novel on the subject, I can refer you to "Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation" somewhere a little down the list of topics. 1500+ posts and still going strong!

That's the silliest thing I've heard in a while. I think the newspaper was a fictional periodical, also written by monks.

And on another note, post #1464 is almost completely scripture, and seems to set up a pretty natural progression when it comes to determining who is in Christ. <3<3<3, Philo

I think the lurkers know we have Bibles too, Cougan. What the Bible says isn't the issue here... We obviously think the Bible says things that you don't think it says. The issue is why you think the Bible says one thing and why we think it says something else. That's the meat of the issue...

I'm inclined to say that the way Christ paid for our sins was more literary than metamechanical. Through His demonstration of the Love of God, we were allowed the only glimpse of what God actually means: Love as self-sacrifice.

God owes nobody. If you do everything right, by your way of thinking, God is obligated to reciprocate. You have earned. It is not free, then. It is no longer grace, but another simpler Law (this time, communicated in the pages of Paul and others rather than on stone tablets, but the idea...

When Jesus was made a little lower than the angels, He worshipped God like any man should. He had faith like any man should. He provided us an example. But, in the end (just as in the beginning) He returned to Heaven in Glory. The Trinity is not all that hard to understand. Just imagine a...

Your question is too rediculous to answer. <3<3<3, Philo

Man, I just had something written out about all the times throughout the NT where "remission of sins" wasn't associated with baptism, but my computer went on the fritz... Maybe I'll rewrite it later. But in the meantime, another thought. If faith is the only requirement for salvation, and...

That passage from John 6 is consistantly taken out of context to "prove" that faith is a work. Consider the circumstances. The people there didn't believe Jesus' claim to be the messiah. They had come because they were hungry and wanted bread (v. 26). They then ask what they do to do the...

And, for the last time, faith is not a work. Not, not, not a work. It is impossible for faith to be a work and still be faith. If you are reading a passage that seems to suggest faith is a work, you are misreading it... One, because they are several clear dichotomies set up between faith and...