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[McWilliams]

The bible teaches that from eternity God foreloved certain people, and that He therefore sent His Son to die for them. As we have seen Jesus actually did die for them. He did not just pretend to take away their sins. He did not theoretically go to hell for them. He actualy did bear their sins and take their guilt away. It is either-or. Either Jesus saved them or He did not. Either He was and actual substitute or He was not. The Bible teaches He was.
Edwin H. Palmer

 

[Hackett]

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

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[McWilliams]

We should labor to agree mutually in love, for that wherein any Christian differs from another is but in petty things. Grace knows no difference. The worm knows no difference. The day of judgment knows no difference. In the worst things we are all alike base, and in the best things we are all alike happy. Only in this world God will have distinctions for the sake of order, but otherwise there is no difference. Richard Sibbes

 

[inchristalone221]

A communist is one who reads Marx and Lenin. An anti-communist is one who understands Marx and Lenin.
- Ronald Reagan

Pure gold!

 

[Hackett]

We should labor to agree mutually in love, for that wherein any Christian differs from another is but in petty things. Grace knows no difference. The worm knows no difference. The day of judgment knows no difference. In the worst things we are all alike base, and in the best things we are all alike happy. Only in this world God will have distinctions for the sake of order, but otherwise there is no difference. Richard Sibbes

someday soon I may be able to give you a rep....

 

[edie19]

A communist is one who reads Marx and Lenin. An anti-communist is one who understands Marx and Lenin.
- Ronald Reagan

Pure gold!

Brilliant

 

[Hackett]

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32996.htmlhttp://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=32996http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32996.html#email

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

 

[edie19]

Incomprehensible and immutable is the love of God. For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.
Augustine

 

[JimfromOhio]

God's timing is infallible. He takes every factor and contingency into account. We often want to pluck unripe fruit, but He will not be pressured into premature action. If He in His wisdom delays the answer to our prayer, that delay will in the long run prove to be for our good (Hebrews 12:10). It will be either because He has some better thing for us, or because there is something He desires to achieve in our lives that can be effected in no other way. J.Oswald Sanders, Guidelines for Disciples, pg 126

 

[StJohnCalvin]

I love the Trinity. Does that sound strange to you? For most people, it should sound strange. Think about it: when was the last time you heard anyone say such a thing? We often hear "I love Jesus" or "I love God," but how often does anyone say, "I love the Trinity"? You even hear "I love the cross" or "I love the Bible," but you don't hear "I love the Trinity." Why not? Someone might say, "Well, the Trinity is a doctrine, and you don't love doctrines." But in fact we do. "I love justification" or "I love the second coming of Christ" would make perfect sense... So why don't we talk about loving the Trinity? Most Christians do not understand what the term means and have only a vague idea of the reality it represents...we confess how little we understand about the Trinity by how little we talk about it and how little emotion it evokes in our hearts.

James R. White, The Forgotten Trinity (Bethany House Publishers, 1998). pp. 13-14

 

[HiredGoon]

"Justification by Faith means that salvation depends not on sacraments, not on what is done or not done by any priest or presbyter, but on the simple response of the believing heart to the Word of God in Jesus Christ. Observe what this really means; it is not just theological figment. At one stroke it cuts at the root of the whole vast system of sacerdotalism, with its associated doctrine of works - penance, pilgrimage, fasting, purgatory, and all the rest. The Church is no longer a hierarchy of clergy performing indispensable rites for its members; no longer a caste of priests endued with mysterious, not to say magical powers at the word of a bishop; but the priesthood of all believing men, and a ministry authorised by the call of the Holy Spirit, by due examination of life and doctrine, and by the consent of the people concerned. Here you have the beginning of Scottish democracy, here and nowhere else. Accept this doctrine of Justification by Faith and the layman, the common man, John the Commonweal, at one stride comes into the centre." -T.M Taylor, The Heritage of the Reformation, an address before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1960.

 

[cygnusx1]

"I suppose there are some persons whose minds naturally incline towards the doctrine of free-will. I can only say that mine inclines as naturally towards the doctrines of sovereign grace. Sometimes, when I see some of the worst characters in the street, I feel as if my heart must burst forth in tears of gratitude that God has never let me act as they have done! I have thought, if God had left me alone, and had not touched me by His grace, what a great sinner I should have been! I should have run to the utmost lengths of sin, dived into the very depths of evil, nor should I have stopped at any vice or folly, if God had not restrained me. I feel that I should have been a very king of sinners, if God had let me alone. I cannot understand the reason why I am saved, except upon the ground that God would have it so. I cannot, if I look ever so earnestly, discover any kind of reason in myself why I should be a partaker of Divine grace. If I am not at this moment without Christ, it is only because Christ Jesus would have His will with me, and that will was that I should be with Him where He is, and should share His glory. I can put the crown nowhere but upon the head of Him whose mighty grace has saved me from going down into the pit. Looking back on my past life, I can see that the dawning of it all was of God; of God effectively. I took no torch with which to light the sun, but the sun enlightened me. I did not commence my spiritual life—no, I rather kicked, and struggled against the things of the Spirit: when He drew me, for a time I did not run after Him: there was a natural hatred in my soul of everything holy and good. Wooings were lost upon me—warnings were cast to the wind—thunders were despised; and as for the whispers of His love, they were rejected as being less than nothing and vanity. But, sure I am, I can say now, speaking on behalf of myself, "He only is my salvation." It was He who turned my heart, and brought me down on my knees before Him. I can in very deed, say with Doddridge and Toplady—

"Grace taught my soul to pray,
And made my eyes o'erflow;"
and coming to this moment, I can add—

[SIZE=+1]"'Tis grace has kept me to this day,
And will not let me go."[/SIZE]
chs

 

[cubanito]

Cretans are all liars... Eupeminedes, a Cretan philosopher quoted by Paul in Titus 1:12

This thought was developed further until, in 1930, Kurt Godell destroyed the foundation of all self-sufficient human logic with it, bringing us the philosophical foundation of post-modernism, for which a transcendant personal God is the ONLY cure.
JR

 

[Hackett]

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.”

John Bunyan

 

[cygnusx1]

"If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do. "

William Tyndale , speaking to the corrupt clergy

 

[McWilliams]

"For though what you think and write about 'free-will' is wrong. I owe you no small debt of thanks for making me far surer of my own view; as I have been since I saw the case for 'free-will' argued with all the resources that your brilliant gifts afford you---and to such little purpose that it is now in a worse state than before. That in itself is clear proof that 'free-will' is an utter fallacy. It is like the woman in the Gospel; the more the doctors treat the case, the worse it gets."
Martin Luthers response to Erasmus in The Bondage of the Will

 

[McWilliams]

Go on in your worldliness; fling yourselves headlong into
the torrent of earth's vanities; but know that the end of
these things is death! "Do not love the world or the things
that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love
for the Father is not in him." (1 John 2:15) "You adulterers!
Don't you realize that friendship with this world makes you
an enemy of God? I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy
this world, you can't be a friend of God." (James 4:4)

The point is settled. The Christian cannot take part with
the world in its follies, and gaieties, and sins! What! A Christian and yet a worldling--singing its
idle songs, hurrying through its mazy dance, partaking
in its mirth and revelry! Impossible!We have ceased to be citizens of earth's polluted cities;
we are citizens of heaven! We have a home--but not in
the palaces or haunts of the world. We have a house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens!

"But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await
a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ!" (Phil. 3:20)

 

[Hackett]

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
--Robert Schuller

 

[McWilliams]

"This calling is an act of the grace of God in Christ by which he calls men dead in sin and lost in Adam through the preaching of the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit, to union with Christ and to salvation obtained in him." - Francis Turretin[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Book Antiqua, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
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[McWilliams]

The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as His proper lasting abode; and to influence their hearts, as a principle of new nature, or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
1 Cor3:16, 2 Cor 6:16, John 14: 16,17.
And He is represented as being there so united to the faculties of the soul that He becomes there a principle or spring of a new nature and life!
Jonathan Edwards(The Religious Affections, pg,128)