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First of all - Christ taught us how to pray - to the FATHER. He never stated that this was the "only" type of prayer. The lesson He was teaching was about how to approach the FATHER. Secondly - we don't pray to "dead" saints. They are MORE alive that YOU are because they have been made...

That's not true. Just look at Israel. They were chosen by God and sealed in the covenant with Him - yet they became unfaithful. I keep bringing up Christ's lament over Jerusalem as proof: Matt. 23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to...

First of all - I don't "disagree" with Paul. I fully agree with him but I also understand the Church's 2000 year-old teachings on God's boundless omnipresence. Your problem, as with most Protestant is that you attempt to divorce Paul's Epistles from the rest of Scripture. They must be read in...

This is where we differ. I believe as Scripture teaches and as the Church has taught for 2000 years - that our salvation requires our cooperation with God's grace. This is why Paul refers to us as "sunergos" (co-workers) with God (1 Cor. 3:9, 2 Cor. 6:1). To think otherwise is silly and...

Realizing that James and Matthew are written more directly toward the Jews - the "rules", if you will, aren't different for Jews and Gentiles in Christ. We are ALL in this together. The initial approach may differ slightly, but the same rules apply to ALL of us. Additionally - Paul was...

James differentiates between the belief of the demons and faith in James 2:19. He explains over the next several verses that belief is NOT faith - but merely a component of it, along with works. He solidifies this idea in verse 21 when he writes: James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified...

Good works are an essential component of faith - without which there is NO salvation (James 2:14-26, Gal. 5:6, Matt. 7:21). Faith itself is totally worthless without LOVE (1 Cor. 1-13) - and Baptism is how a person of faith is regenerated (John 3:5, Acts 2:38, Col. 2:11-12, Tit. 3:4-8, 1 Pet...

Your misunderstanding of these verses comes from the SAME perversions of John Calvin. He simply didn't understand that God is OUTSIDE of time. We are told in 2 Pet. 3:8 that, ". . . with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." This means that God is at every...

God gives everybody the grace to be saved - EVERYBODY - and wills that ALL people be saved (John 3:16, 2 Tim 2:3-4). Some choose to accept it - and most reject it. God knows from the beginning who will accept or reject him. He doesn't coerce or control it. That is how God "chooses" us. YOU are...

That's the entire point of Scripture: God is ALWAYS faithful - Man is NOT. I also see that you couldn't address the "Epignosis" in those passages . . . God allows US to choose Him. If He coerced our every action and emotion - we would be nothing but automatons - robots. God didn't create...

WRONG again. This chapter starts out talking about false prophets and warns the FAITHFUL not to fall into their trap. The word "Epignosis" tells us this much because it means that they have a FULL, experiential and relational knowledge of Christ. This is about being seduced away from the...

Wrong. First of all - what you posted PROVES my point that we CAN walk away from God's grace - even though YOU have claimed that we can't. By your own admission above in RED, you are saying that we can walk away and return to a life of works - which, by the way is NOT what the Catholic Church...

I think that they leave it up to the churches to make these kinds of prudent and self-monitoring decisions. Our diocese issued a statement that anybody who is in a high-risk category (chronic illness, elderly, immuno-compromised) should consider staying home for the next 3 weeks or so until we...

This is an illustration of Final Purgation (Purgatory). The person suffers loss but is eventually SAVED. This CAN'T be Heaven because the person suffers. This CAN'T be Hell because the person is eventually saved. This is describing a THIRD state - a state of final purification of our own will...

Nice try - but I HAVE read the context of these passages. What I haven't seen is a solid refutation of the explanations I posted below each passage. I even isolated TWO of the passages in a previous post - and NOBODY was able to refute them Here they are again for your review: Hebrews 10:26-27...

And YOU and every other Protestant on the planet has YET to show me that chapter and verse where this claim is made in Scripture. Your buddy Luther had to ADD it to Rom. 3:28 in his German translation of the Bible . . .

Obedience is a component of faith - not an "after-effect". The Scriptures show us over and over that TRUE faith = Belief + Obedience (surrender/Works). They ALSO show us that even the DEMONS believe in the truths about God - but are not saved (James 2:19). That's why James goes onto describe...

AMEN.

And it's equally sad to see such arrogance among Christians who actually believe that they can do whatever they want after being "saved" and NEVER lose their security - even when the Word of God tells them they CAN. I fear for such people . . .