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Everything was going so well and then those last two sentences!!!! You want to avoid theological pretzels by turning off your mind. Blow your brains out to prevent swallowing poison. That is the opposite of a solution! If you're going to appeal to mystery then why drop Calvinism? There's no...

I really wish you would stop just making totally unsupported statements as though something must me taken as true because you bothered to show up and post a single sentence. I am not going spend time researching your claims and I couldn't care less about your personal opinions. Stop wasting...

That's very interesting! I wonder which texts they chose to translate from?

I just had the following conversation with Chat GPT..... I said: Without referencing any existing English translation of the bible and going strictly by the Greek itself, translate I Thessalonians 4:15-18 into English. ChatGPT said: Here is a direct translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:15–18 from...

So, the Calvinistic understanding of the word 'elect' isn't supported by the text of scripture itself. They basically read their doctrine into the text. Going strictly by what the text itself says, "the elect" generally refers to groups of people that have been selected for a particular purpose...

If you say so. :cool:

(y) No, I do not see that at all. I don't see how such an idea can even be possible. Who's teaching you this stuff. It makes no sense! Universalism is the literally insane notion that every single person will be saved. It teaches that even the likes of Pharoah (i.e. the Exodus Pharoah), Judas...

It seems that talking much about the statistics surrounding covid is almost a fruitless endeavor. That disease was so politicized that I doubt that any statistics concerning it can be trusted hardly at all. They changed so many long standing practices, (not the least of which was to start...

In English, the word "faith" can mean different things, including both "belief and trust" and "allegiance to duty". As in any language, the context determines the meaning and I know of now examples where the meaning of "faith" is unclear. On the subject of being saved by the faith of Christ...

Well, that's the first time I've ever heard that! I can't imagine being part of something that just so flagrantly makes stuff up out of whole clothe like that. Their defense for it can't be any more substantive than "because I said so". How are they any different than Scientology or Branch...

Very frustrating! See what I mean about ignoring what I say? I specifically stated otherwise and you quote it immediately after making that false accusation! What is that if not intellectual dishonesty? I don't follow. Was this a threat coming from you or are you trying to mock something I...

Because we let the text mean what it says and you find "nuanced" ways to make it conform to whatever doctrine you need it to conform to.

So, after writing a rather lengthy response to this post, I hit some weird combination of keys and accidentally wiped the entire thing out. What follows is, believe it or not, an abbreviated version.... First of all I do not disparage you for the sake of disparagement, nor do I do it because...

Those videos are pretty amazing! I wonder how any covenant theologian or anyone at all who wasn't a Mid-Acts dispensationalists would answer the points they make? I've asked people for years to explain to me why would there have been any need for a thirteenth Apostle and no one has offered a...

I appreciate the kind words but I can't take credit for having changed. I have all the insufferably stupid people on ignore. I've always been as patient as can be with anyone who posts actual arguments. Nice analogy! I understand precisely what you mean. Most theological disagreements of any...

That flat out is NOT what the passage says! Sin is not the curse, sin is the cause of the curse! A curse, by the way, which has been undone! Romans 5:15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of...

Well, I have no idea whether you'll see this post or not but the single thing that I would leave you with is this... First of all, you've taken an important first step in your rejection of Calvinism. It is flagrantly irrational, not to mention unbiblical. I would however caution you against...

In Calvinist theology, the doctrine of election asserts that, before the creation of the world, God sovereignly and unconditionally chose certain individuals for salvation. This selection is not based on any foreseen merit, faith, or action on the part of the chosen, but solely on God's mercy...

The word is not there but the concept certainly is. Genesis 2:17 - God warns Adam, "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." This death refers to a spiritual separation from God, as Adam and Eve did not...

Saying it doesn't make it so. First of all I have NEVER said that one doesn't have to have faith in Christ to be saved. Quite the opposite, in fact. You, however, don't get to define what the word faith means. I, on the other hand, have presented what is at the very least biblical evidence if...