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I am aware of that, and I prefer that to formal debate. That's great, but do we not agree that Hank should resist the urge to discuss the peanut butter and jelly sandwich he had for lunch in this particular thread was regarding a matter other than that? There are rules here, and being on...

In large part, one is very free to speak critically of Christ and Christianity in public, and there is a similar situation in discussion forums such as BB. One may insult President Trump with no fear of repercussions on many online forums, but is there a double standard? Is equal criticism of...

While Christian Smith might have something to offer in his criticism of American Evangelicalism, Enns just seems bent on the destruction of the Church, and he offers nothing that 19-20th century Protestant Liberalism hasn't already given us.

The reason I posted the piece was simply that I had just come across it that day, and I thought it did a good job of addressing what I consider to be a massive problem in much of Evangelicalism today. I thought that it would make for interesting discussion and provide something different from...

Would you say that all of your sin was future sin to God?

Did God know that you would have "future" sins when He elected you?

Call me old fashioned but I still insist that if you are going to argue against me (the OP, in this case) you should at least hear my assertion. Fools speak before listening. Contemptible fools brag about speaking before listening.

Read your post??? I don't think anyone but you and I even read the OP.

There seems to be no genuine, rigorous debate on BB.

At least 100,000,000 would disagree with you on that point — if they hadn't been starved, tortured or shot, that is.

When this debt is forgiven is it permanently forgiven?

Would you mind defining "initial salvation"? Is there some other "salvation" in which good works do play a role?

I think that we may have gotten our wires crossed. I wanted to know how you define mercy.

Of course I read it, and you seem to have missed the point of the piece. Check the title.

Yes. It has. I don't know anyone who admits to being a Marxist, but I do know the ideology when I see it, and it is all over the 6 o clock news. It is on every college campus, and it is seldom absent from Hollywood movies. It's in the air we breath.

I didn't know that, and I would disagree with him on that point. I may be wrong, but when I use the term, Anabaptist, I am referring to Brethren, Mennonites, and Amish (off the top of my head). Yup. It's not Rome. It's the Church, and the teaching of the Apostles. We should not ignore or...

That was well said, my friend. That was very well said.

Have you read the article?

Do you feel deemed, Tom? Can you point to the offending post, if so? I will try to set the offending party straight, if you let me know who it was.

John, Firstly, welcome to BB and thanks for your post. You have put a fine point on this, and done so brilliantly. There is a vast difference between asking JESUS into you life, and asking Jesus into YOUR life.