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Greetings again, Dave. I pray that your week is a blessed one. Thank you for your friendly and thoughtful post. you had written in your OP... I disagreed that God is constrained by His attributes in a post to you... and then you replied... I provided the verses you presented as prof text...

Greetings my brother in Christ, Brightfame52. Grace and hope to you. In my quote above I asked a question that I felt I needed answered to reveal your intent on what you are saying. You replied to me with what seems to me to be a vague response. You replied... This doesn't really answer the...

Greetings brother on this blessed Sunday. Either I didn't make my point clear in my post or I don't understand your point. Let me ask this... Is God responsible for mankind's sin? That is, is he blameworthy for it? If you say He is...well, I'm not sure that's properly considered Christian...

Greetings my brother in Christ. I hope you are doing well since last we spoke. I think if one is going to use the logic of Aristotle or Aquinas after him regarding first causes. It would be necessary to include Thomas Aquinas' formulation that even though God is the first cause of the...

Greetings Dave. Peace and love to you and your faimily. I agree, the more God shows me the more I see that I don't know. It seems to me that you have presented a number of topics in this one OP. I thought I might comment on a couple. This sounds like the the theological subcategory of God's...

Greetings Jesus Fan. Hope your week was a great one. I'd think about leaving I'd be uncomfortable and want to leave. I would in fact leave. I'd see where it went. Peace to you brother

Is Open Theism heresy? No. At least not in my estimation. Do they claim God can do all things doable? Do they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God? That mankind needed a Savior? Do they believe He came to die for sins, did so die and then rose from the dead on the third day? Ascended...

Greetings atpollard. Grace and hope to you and yours. I usually like most of what you write. Within this thread, it is the same. Although there are minor disagreements, I do have one more major disagreement however. I hope to gain some insight and explore this disagreement. I would first...

Greetings on this glorious Tuesday that God has made, Brightfame52. Thank you for clearing up your OP. So it is clear to all what I was trying to point out, the error in the OP was... The two errors I am pointing out in the OP are: (1) no man has the ability to come to Christ, (2) the myth...

Greetings to you brother. I see you have been busy in your studies, as have I. I, myself, would like to be a little more precise here so I don't drift off into an unwarranted and unbiblical position. 1. "No man can come to me" (John 6:44). Now if we just leave it at that one might conclude...

Good morning Ben Glad you got a lot done the last day of our conversation. I, myself, was stuck at Walmart with an uncooperative truck. Had it towed. Thank God for tow trucks. Let me be a little more precise here. The two categories of (a) sheep, and (b) goats don't seem to equate to "lost...

Greetings to you Ben. I hope your week has been a good one. Since I have been away for a bit, I'm not clear as to the point you are driving toward. To add to what atpollard has presented... 1. Matthew 25:31-46: talks about sheep and goats. 2. Matthew 18:11-14: equates the term "lost"...

Greetings and blessings to all my brothers from differing views. May the glory and honor of our Lord Jesus Christ ring throughout the world. I have constructed an outline of a Un/Limited View of the Atonement as a precursor to an essay that I will be writing. I invite any and all to give...

Greetings and blessings to all my brothers in Christ Jesus. The Bible tells us that “boasting is excluded because the law requires faith” (Rom 3:27). So then it would follow that faith is not works, for boasting is absent when talking about faith. In other words, there is no proclamation of...

Greetings I would agree if it were the case that we all knew and agreed upon 'how' 'who' and 'why' God chose to offer. Then yes, we all might be accused of judging God's good pleasure in that case. I underlined the word 'might' because I believe the very structure of this world is a...

This, above. So you would hold that God does offer salvation to all and that offer is a bona fide offer. The next step is discussing what makes an offer 'bona fide' and what makes an offer 'not bona fide? That's sad. :) But I find its not uncommon. The very foundation of the Reformed...

Greetings Brightfame, I hope you are doing well. Yea, I call myself a compatiblist or just a "I don't ignore large groupings of verse for a binary view". Others might call me a fence rider. I've been called a Calvinist by Arminians and a Arminian by Calvinists. Just going the direction the...

Greetings to you canadyjd. I hope you and your family are well. It would seem that this OP is experiencing a reoccurring problem with those that are lumping Salvation in with the Gospel offer. Maybe I need to inquire into your position a little more before I proceed. (a) Do you hold to the...

Greetings Wesley. Thank you for providing your wisdom on the issue of the bona fide offer. I previously wrote Wesley replied... I need to ask a couple of question, if you would allow, to understand if you are missing the purpose of the OP or if you hold certain views that are contrary to...

Greetings canadyjd. Peace and hope to you and yours. I tend to agree that God knows everything before it occurs. Unlike some of my fellow brothers, I do not think this negates a bona fide offer. Yes, I would think that it is a component. Today, I am reminded of the wedding parable. (Mat...