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Actually, no. It will be helpful if you read my posts before replying. No. Christians are sons of Abraham because he is the father of the faithful (Romans 4:11-12) and they are sons just as much as are believing Jews. 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, , there...

Really? You didn't expect Reformed Baptists on a Baptist forum? Particular or Reformed Baptists go back at least to the first part of the 17th Century, and include perhaps the two most famous Baptists - John Bunyan and Charles Spurgeon. They also include two of the earliest foreign...

Please do not confuse @Van's writings with Reformed theology. They are the polar opposite, as he himself will agree. Your post rather suggests that you don't know what Reformed theology is, and that you are mixing Calvin up with his nutty younger brother Hypercalvin. Most of the greatest...

Acts of the Apostles 8:31-32. 'So Philip ran to him and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" And he said, How can I unless someone guides me."' Proverbs 11:14. 'Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors...

Right on, @DaveXR650 :) Anyone who wants to grow as a Christian should pull his big boy pants on and read the Puritans. Owen is hard to read, but Banner of Truth have many of his writings in simplified, slightly abridged, English. Try 'Searching our Hearts in Difficult Times' or 'Gospel Life.'...

First of all, I notice that you have not addressed my post in any detail at all, nor the various texts I quoted. But secondly, you seem to be making the Bible all about Israel, but it's not - it's about the Lord Jesus. As He says to the Jewish leaders: "You search the Scriptures for in them you...

Proverbs 21:30. 'There is no wisdom or understanding or counsel against the LORD.'

I will try. There are two seeds of Abraham with two different promises. Firstly, there is a physical seed to whom are given physical promises- a great nation and a physical land for it to dwell in. These promises were received by Israel in full (Joshua 21:43-45). This seed ‘after the flesh’...

I think you will find that the Jerusalem mentioned Jer. 3 is not the Jerusalem below, which is in bondage with her children, but the Jerusalem above, which is free and is the mother of us all (cf. Galatians 4:24-27).

Tel Aviv is already a centre for homosexual activity. https://www.reddit.com/r/telaviv/comments/17lz5nu/whats_gay_life_like_in_israel/?captcha=1

Just so. I suspect that the literal throne of David was taken off to Babylon and melted down.

I have used the NKJV for all my private study and reading for many years. I think it is the best available. If you prefer the Critical text, then I know the older NASB is good, but I haven't read the new one. The ESV is okay. My church uses the 1984 version of the NIV which I preach from...

Is this the "from our point of view" dodge that you were talking about in the other thread? Our being called into the kingdom is based on the righteousness, suffering and death of the Lord Jesus Christ. 'And it shall come to pass that whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved'...

Yes. The important question is why this is so, but you haven't asked that so I won't answer it. Yes. The election is corporate in that it is the great crowd of Revelation 7:9, but each one of that crowd is, of course, an individual. Yes. What does scripture say? 1 Corinthians 12:3 and...

A propitiation is a sacrifice that turns away wrath. We know that God is satisfied with the propitiation provided by Christ because it was He who set Him forth as a propitiation (Romans 3:25). Therefore God is propitiated in respect of all those for whom Christ died (Romans 8:1).

When you were a child, perhaps you played "join the dots" and made a picture. Well here is a Bible version: follow the dots and see if you come up with a picture. Ephesians 2:2. 'We ...... were by nature children of wrath just as the others.' Who are 'the others'? Surely the rest of...

"Whoever else" is excluded. No indeed. The Lord Jesus says, "The one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out." But immediately before that, He says, "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me." When people come freely to Christ in repentance and faith, it is because God the Father has...

Yes. And....? But tell me: Do you think that all this came as a complete surprise and shock to Almighty God?

Your problem is that, like the Sadducees, you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God (Mark 12:24). The Scriptures plainly teach that God ordains all things (e.g. Matthew 10:29-31) and that He has endued Man with free will.(e.g. Deuteronomy 3:19; Matthew 17:12; James 1:14). Until you...