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More excellent than many might suppose....So, my children memorize from A-beka curriculums (KJV)... And then they get to Sunday School and the sweet semi-clueless teacher hands them a NLT to memorize the same verses from. :Thumbsdown It grates on my nerves. I just have my kids memorize in...

Congratulations to all you Brits out there! The thought of maintaining your national identity and some sovereignty over your own affairs should be encouraging to you all. Happy Brexodus indeed!

Icon.....I'm not a Calvinist. I do not need you to "caution" me about not accepting the unbiblical theological presuppositions Calvinist philosophy imports into their reading of the text. I believe what the Bible teaches about the fall. That is contained in the Genesis narrative. Paul was not...

Jesus came via a virgin as a sign according to Scripture. That is the only thing I then assert about it. The sign of the Messiah is that a virgin would conceive. That is enough for me.

"Sin-natured" is Theo-philosophical mythology. Libertine freedom is possessed by mankind because God made him that way.

I believe it as well. I also do not read verses of Scripture as though they were independent thought units containing complete Scriptural truths divorced from the surrounding context and the intent of the author. Romans 3:23 is a clause embedded in a letter to a specific people, not an...

Why can't he be? It's certainly isn't a self-contradictory statement in and of itself. In my home....I am "Sovereign". If I told the wife that the chicken casserole she plans to make for dinner is not acceptable and told her to make spaghetti instead, she would do it. I next to never do such...

I am saying Genesis lists precisely what happened during the fall. I am also saying Genesis says nothing about mankind becoming constitutionally altered at the core of his being. Those are Theologically-driven assumptions. It is enough for me that all men are obviously inclined towards sin, and...

I am aware that "have" is not in the Greek, but is supplied by translators as they sometimes need to do. They weren't foolish to do so. I am also fully aware that it is in the aorist as well. This does not mean that we have to read into this the notion that all of humanity at the same point in...

It says all have sinned....there you're correct. The rest of your assertion, which I'll quote: (at one point in time, that is the fall.)...is not in that passage, but is an extrabiblical assertion required by the Theological system you hold. Romans does not say that... Genesis does not say...

Given what I suggested above: Jesus was a Man. REALLY a man. The second person of the trinity came to earth as a real man........(not a man with a special non-man "nature") And he lived without sinning. The Holy Spirit was always key in his life....read the gospels closely. No Docetism...

lol....no...you didn't....they're alive and well :p

Here's the thing...... All humans sin. Period. All people will sin....full stop. But, where is the Biblical justification for speaking of man possessing some "sin-nature" which he inherited as a result of the fall? That is an assumption that I am uncomfortable with, and is not, IMO Biblical...

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Let's take this one question at a time: But how can there be alternate endings even possible? Theoretically, all non-contradictory endings are "possible" and exist in a possible world (or possible state of affairs). since the Lord either determines and causes or permits all that actually ever...

Yes. Fascinatingly, many Calvinists and non-Calvinists alike understand the explanatory power of Middle-knowledge. One mustn't belong to any "camp" to incorporate it into your database.... Classically, people of both Calvinistic and non-Calvinistic persuasions have used it to construct...

Yes, he changes his mind. Certainly, he remains Omniscient, but he can purpose to do one thing and then intend otherwise in response to intercessory prayer, conditional responses repentance etc. Just as with Ninevah, with his response to Moses' intercessory prayer in Exodus 32 as Steven rightly...

I'm pretty sure that's what they're arguing. Ever since Augustine at least that is the common trope. M.R. DeHaan's book The chemistry of the Blood argues that very thing in the Modern age. A common Protestant view is that the "sin-nature" is passed through human fathers and the virgin-birth...

The Bible is not a Lexicon which habitually redefines words in common usage. If the Scriptures use the word "foreknow" or proginosko in this instance, it means by it what anyone meant by it at the time. Proginosko did not mean "forelove". It meant "foreknow". It is bad hermeneutic to treat...

I do not think certainty implies necessity, no. If God decrees something, sure....that he foreknows something is different.