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Nothing going on here. It seems that the Semper Reformanda forum has less of a pulse than the average Reformed church. . . 
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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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Nothing going on here. It seems that the Semper Reformanda forum has less of a pulse than the average Reformed church. . .
Well…..I guess there is nothing stopping you from kicking the hornets nest?
Go on….you know you want to
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True. Very true. I just wonder if there are enough hornets in the nest to make it interesting.
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Why don't non-Calvinistic people take issue
I would love any: rational, thoughtful, polite, biblical, on-topic conversation/debate.
Not being one to stir a pile of dung of coursebut I would be willing to stir up a conversation concerning the law. Is anyone interested?
I would love any: rational, thoughtful, polite, biblical, on-topic conversation/debate.
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Expand on that and see where it goes. If I disagree with you, I will do so respectfully and with a biblical chapter and verse and not a section of a confession, promise.
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The traditional Reformed view, according to both confessions, is that believers are still under the Moral Law as a rule of life. That would mean that the law still holds us in bondage. Christ has freed us from the bondage of the law. We are not bound to the law in any way or to any extent. Those who believe that we are able to keep the law in any sense, obedience or through sanctification, has no real understanding of the absolute purity or righteousness of the law. The law is high and holy and we cannot reach its heights in any way. To say that we keep the law in any sense is to destroy the highness of the law and to lower it to a standard that we can reach. The Lord Jesus Christ is all our righteousness and all our holiness and His righteousness and holiness is enough for God and enough for us.
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Do you think that living by faith in Christ, and His finished work, that you walk in fulfillment of the moral law?
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You could always start a different thread so as to start the revival.Nothing going on here. It seems that the Semper Reformanda forum has less of a pulse than the average Reformed church. . .
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I saw that when I first joined and added "AdBlock" to my browser. I don't see one ad.
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I agree with you.
There is a real issue with thinking that God accepts our (Christians) imperfect works. I had a pastor who came from Piper's church who constantly said this, and it was always a source of disagreement between us. God accepts perfection only, which is why we need not only forgiveness of sins through the death of Christ, but perfect righteousness given to us in the perfect life Christ lived.
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Yup.
Could not be further from the truth, though. I actually hold the law in higher regard that those who accuse me of such.
I want to live and walk in the fulfillment of God's law, but I can't do that by looking to/at the law. I must look to Christ, and then I can do the impossible. I can then, and only then, "walk on water".
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You can't do anything to get to heaven except believe. Your works mean nothing
Ephesians 2:8-9
BTW, God does not expect perfection - Galatians 3:3
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Not being one to stir a pile of dung of course
Seeing as you have raised the matter of "dung"…..isn't that exactly what the apostle Paul considered his righteousness to be (in regards to) according to the law?
A retrospective view concerning himself (Saul)….but made in the "Light" of his concurrent state in Christ?
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