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What are you talking about? I don't understand.

It is neither scriptural nor historical. You try desperately to twist the words of the ECF and read your meanings into their writings to support a theory that was non-existent at the time. And you do the same with scripture. Neither the Eastern nor Western branches of the church believed PSA...

And lots of different people can have the same or similar views. If anyone is suggesting that I am this 'Mur' individual, I am not. I do now remember reading some of his/her posts right after I joined and started posting. I take it that this person was banned? Oh, and that reminds me of a...

I know. The person I was referring to is not you.

My post was made in response to the fanatical PSA adherent who claimed that all opponents of PSA were doctrinally unsound in other areas.

The other four points of Calvinism.

I have uncertainties about many things, but I am absolutely certain, without a shadow of a doubt, that PSA did not exist prior to Calvin and Luther. It is unscriptural, and unhistorical for the first 1500 years A.D.

I am suspicious of individuals or groups holding PSA, as their views in other areas are also unsound. See how that works?

I don't. If true, Jesus won't be talking with us when we get to heaven.

What does this post mean?

I want to address spiritual knowledge, or how we know spiritual truths. I contend that the way we know what is true spiritually is by first-hand experience. The early Quakers were fond of stating something like this: "You say, 'Paul said this', or 'John said that', or 'Peter said', but what can...

I don't hold to universalism, but I am very doubtful about eternal hell. I do believe in eternal free will. What that means for the afterlife, I don't know, and I don't believe anybody else knows. I also believe that God is loving, merciful, and just, and infinitely so, more-so than any human is...

Thank you for your heartfelt post. It touched me and helped me.

I am undecided about my current position.

I am a Christian, a disciple of Jesus Christ. I was raised by devoutly Christian parents. I cannot remember a time when I didn't believe. In 1985, at age 30, in a very dark hour, God communicated with me in an experience that lifted me out of that darkness. It's been 40 years, and I long for...

You absolutely have no clue about my spiritual condition or my relationship with God. Do not dare to think you do.

I pray every day, aloud and in silence. I pray, I beg, I Iisten, but... nothing.

I hate to say this, but it's true. If I didn't have a good basis for some of the things I believe, some of the strongest reasons for rejecting Christianity as it is taught by many come from within Christianity itself. If the God that many Christians present is not more merciful and just than I...

I'm not so sure about that. The concept of an eternal soul in Christianity comes more from the influence of Greek philosophy than from Judaism.

That has yet to be determined.