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Lon, you just repeated your position. You quoted again the exact same verse and restated your exact same interpretation of it (and yes, it is your INTERPRETATION of it) as though my post didn't even exist at all! Do you understand how insulting that is? How you're not on my ignore list is a...

If he believes, yes! That's the gospel, Derf! You are not saved based on whether you do anything good bad or indifferent. Romans 4:4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. 5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is...

On the contrary. A believing Jew who had come to faith in Christ while the previous dispensation was still in effect, and who attempted to apply his teaching directly would shipwreck his faith in a most disastrous way, even possibly to the point of losing his salvation altogether! In James'...

Silly nonsense. Calvinism is Reformed Augustinian theology. Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk and there's not a dime's worth of difference between what Luther taught and what Calvin codified in his "Institutes" and which became what we call "Calvinism". These men were not arbitrary in their...

Nonsense. There is no such thing as "the elect" in the way you are meaning it here. If it did exist, God would be unjust. If God is unjust then He doesn't even actually exist and this is all academic. Psalm 41:9 "Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his...

Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Who's reading their doctrine into the text again? No one is redefining anything. That is what death is. That's what it has always been as I fully...

He was giving believing Jews a way of examining theirs. James was not written to you. When you are reading it, you are reading someone else's mail. Attempting to apply it directly will end in legalism and works that are destined for the burn pile.

You're wasting my time. You can repeat your position as though I've said nothing at all until you're blue in the face with someone else.

No, it absolutely does not claim any such thing, Lon! It makes the claim that God is able to predict the future but that is NOT the same thing as saying that God has perfect knowledge of every event that will ever happen. It just does not teach that and if you think it does, it is you who are...

From Chat GPT.... Prompt: "Ignore other English translations and simply translated 2 Thes. 2:3 based solely on the Greek itself." Certainly! Here's a direct translation of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 based solely on the Greek text: "Let no one deceive you in any way, because unless the apostasy comes...

It's a wonder that it still surprises me when people so consistently regurgitate the same hand full of proof-texts in order to support doctrines that the texts themselves simply do not teach! Don't over react to my saying this so bluntly but those three passages are not the reason you believe...

"The AI Critical New Testament (AICNT) is a translation that utilizes AI technology to render the New Testament into English. Unlike the KJV and NKJV, which are based on the Textus Receptus, the AICNT aligns with modern translations like the NIV by relying on critical editions of the Greek text...

Why do you believe that?

Go ahead, Bladerunner, and make one more statement like that and then hide and watch to see whether you end up on my ignore list.

So it's an AI redo of the NIV basically. Not completely useless but if someone does it again using the Textus Receptus then I'd be more into it.

Double predestination is just logically consistent Calvinistic (Augustinian) predestination. It is hideous blasphemy. Judas was in no way predestined to do the things he did. God knew his heart and was using him to "fulfill" (i.e. parallel) certain passages in the Old Testament but there isn't...

Then make the argument. This was said in response to my explicit statement to the contrary. If you are attempting to intentionally waste my time, we will stop getting along very quickly. Yes. The book of Hebrews is teaching doctrine to people from the previous dispensation which required good...

What does that have to do with anything? Incidentally, I believe strongly that homosexuality and adultery should be recriminalized and that those convicted should be publicly and painfully executed and it isn't just 1st Corinthians that supports that!

To be clear, it is very possible that I am reacting to a false impression. It is curious, however, that we've gone this long and I'm still not convinced that's the case. It is still possible though. We'll see. The phrase "lordship salvation" refers to any doctrine or belief that implies a...

There is no such thing as God's "decretive will". And no, you are not a Calvinist in any sense of the word. The title you're looking for is Augustinian. Calvinism is reformed Augustinian doctrine.