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Father (tucking his 10-year-old daughter into bed): Remember, sweetheart, Jesus loves you. Daughter: I know, Daddy. He loves all children……..Daddy? Father: Yes, daughter? Daughter: Does Jesus love all people, no matter how old? Father: Yes, daughter. For God so loved the world……. Daughter...

Dave Gilbert: I greatly appreciate your valiant effort explaining, in the clearest of terms, scriptural truth. Though those to whom our responses were directed refuse to ‘hear,’ our Lord promises His Word will not return void, but will accomplish all that He pleases. I am certain many who...

Obviously Rockson is a modern-day Pelagian who willingly turns a blind eye to orthodoxy by denying the doctrine of original sin which pervades all humanity, rendering them the enemy of holiness, godliness and the true God. Rockson declares man’s will free to choose Christ, though the perfect...

Rather than keep us in suspense, please enlighten us as to your personal beliefs. I think it rather presumptuous of you to declare 'no one believes this.' Do you presume to be the spokesperson for all our detractors?

Rockson wrote, “Sorry you're off with your understanding of what LOVE is. Not saying you're not sincere but sincerely off. LOVE doesn't use force of compulsion over riding people's resistance to be in relationship with himself. You don't force a spouse to marry you, at least I'd hope you...

The love of the Father and love of the Son are coterminous. The Father and Son love the same persons, as will be proven shortly. Both Father and Son are one in purpose and will (John 10:30). They purposed to save those they love (Ephesians 2:4; Rev. 1:5). The Father sent the Son to effect...

Am I the only one on this Forum who notices Benjamin has not one Scriptural authority on which to prove his case? In every argument of mine I will assert my position using Scripture as my final authority. Sadly, Benjamin is relying on his own wisdom as the final authority to which we are all...

Two Worlds For God so loved the world……….(John 3:16). Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15). God the Father loves the world, yet we are not to love the world. How can this be? Are we not to...

Dave, you and I are in sync. Having read most of your posts, I consider you a rarity among those who post on Christian boards. Your arguments are biblically and theologically sound. Furthermore, you discern the gravity of the many errors expressed just as much as I do. My concern is primarily...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Benjamin. I am well aware of your firm theological position through the years on this forum. However, I do not believe you have considered the fact that God's love cannot fail to save those He purposes to save. Failure is not a word in God's vocabulary. Mercy...

In re-reading this post I realize I made an unintentional error in my argument which I wish to correct at this time. It should read: "I realize I will be introducing ideas and concepts in my posts which are readily embraced by much of historic Christianity. These ideas and concepts are readily...

John 3:16, Part 2 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...

Hi Rob: I appreciate the thoughts shared. What may not be apparent to the professing Christian is the cascading effect of error. One error leads to another which, in turn, leads to another, until it now becomes another Gospel: one which originates in the corrupt minds of sinful men. If man is...

John 3:16 Examined No professing Christian doubts an essential attribute of God is ‘love.’ However, God’s ‘love’ is too often given a breadth and depth which has no biblical foundation. For example, a vast number of professing Christians earnestly contend for a universal definition of the...

A recent post asked the question, “Are Arminianism & Calvinism issues to split over?” One need only read another post, “How can Jesus make this claim……,” to discern the great gulf fixed between the two. It should be quite apparent to the unbiased observer that two disparate rule books are in...

You wouldn’t know a straw man if you wore ruby slippers, hung with dwarfs and consulted wizards. Warning: Your yellow brick road does not lead you where you think it does.

Rockson wrote: “Yes Dave but still falls far short of answering why he was surprised and marveled at their unbelief. There would be no surprise of that whatsoever if he had a Calvinists view that they couldn't believe anyway unless God put it in them.” Yes, Rockson, if it were possible to prove...

Darryl expends much valuable time and energy to defend the indefensible: Old Testament saints were unregenerate. Darryl wrote: “The reason they believe men were regenerated in the Old Testament is not because they have a Biblical basis for this view...but because their church fathers told them...

In 1588, Protestant Reformer William Whitaker, Regius Professor of Divinity and Master of St. John’s College in the University of Cambridge, finished the task of answering the anti-scriptural assertions of the Jesuits Thomas Stapleton and Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, infamous defenders of the...

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master...