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For the record, no one on this board believes they do anything on their own merit to earn salvation.

 

No, but what some believe about faith actually does. You don't have to state it to argue for it. If your position actually necessitates something else, guess what, you believe it.

 

Since when is the receiving of a gift also considered part of the giving?

 

What are you talking about...

 

Apparently God hasn't chosen you to understand that question. When He does let me know.

 

And the trolling continues.

 

Fundamentalists should be sitting pretty in this debate because they already have long ago decided what the fundamentals are. It looks as if belief in the fundamentals as outlined by the Fundamentalists would be the determining factor of what Christian beliefs are.

Of course, my church, where the average income per family is well over 6 figures is still trying to decide who to throw out on the basis of what they say about the Nephilim.

 

As @Reformed said, I can no with certainty say that there is at least one member here who argues against justification by faith.

 

Name him! And since this is the Baptist only section of the forum, he has to be a Baptist.

Just the type of thing I expect to be said from a Calvinist. You're following well in the footsteps of John Calvin.

 

The Bible and Secondary Documents

 

Old joke about what is heresy.

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

 

I don't agree with you on this. For by grace are you saved through faith... and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God not of works, lest any man should boast. The Holy Spirit draws the individual, the individual accepts that drawing and believes unto salvation. God does not force anyone to be saved. God wants all to come to repentance, none to perish. Christ died for the sin of the world, not just a certain few. Can't buy into Calvinism, it is a false teaching in my opinion. When I get to heaven, God will let me know if I was right or not. Or maybe it will not be important enough to even be told.

 

Agreed

Agreed

God gives some to salvation and all that are given are received.

There is not a single verse that says Christ died for the sin of every person. World does not necessitate every individual. If I am watching a baseball game and the announcer says the whole world is watching that moment, does that literally mean every individual? Absolutely not. So why do you try to force that interpretation onto the Bible when context does not permit it.

 

I see a straw man in this, why can't we just be truthful about the other side and defend our position from that point? To throw the OT out is to remove many teaching points and illustrations. We do not live by the OT law, everyone knows that. To infer that is what's happening is your "straw man", so maybe you just want to move away from that. This is the dispensation of Grace not Law. But the OT is still good to learn from, just not to live by.

 

Have you ever read 1 John 2:2? "And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." That would be a good one for you, since you state that there is not one single verse that says that.

 

What strawman? The problem is that Fundamentalists went to all the trouble to define the fundamentals over a hundred years ago and then don't bother to list the fundamentals as what you have to believe in order to be a Christian. They just say that one has to believe the Holy Bible. That is the most cumbersome definition that anyone could create and I don't understand Fundamentalists at all but then I freely admit that I am not a Fundamentalist and if the SBC does not do something about people like Albert Mohler (who needs to step down from Louisville), and J.D. Greear who thinks that Allah and Jesus are the same and probably will be re-elected, and Russell Moore who is another cultural Marxist and the SBC needs to close down the God-forsaken Ethics, Religion and Liberty Commission as a waste of money, the SBC needs to find ask conservatives to leave. No, I am just disappointed at the failure of the Fundamentalists to use the fundamentals as the definition of a Christian, but the
American educational system is one of the worst in the industrialized world so we probably have a lot of people in the pews who are uneducated and who are past the normal age to learn anything new.