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He DOES "work for them".....PERIOD. Here's the reality........THEY......and not HE, cough up the cash-flow to keep him employed......"GOD" doesn't pay his salary....THEY DO. That's brass-tacks. And if "GOD" all of a sudden decides that those insufferable individuals are no longer the...

I second this as well.......Any objective reader of this board knows un-equivocally that I am (and only come across to others as) the very personification and definition of humility....... Poor Convicted......I publically pray before all that you might one day reach the level of humilty and...

Hi Darrell: That's a circularity though........I think if you read your post closely, you might see that. Arms (I say "Arminians" for brevities sake) don't deny that "assurance" is POSSIBLE. Indeed, we believe it is. But it isn't sufficient when the question is this......and I repeat for...

This is a fair and reasonable statement....The argument isn't whether a Calvinist can't have confidence....They can. I don't think anyone is suggesting that the average Calvinist is in a constant state of fear about their election. I DO NOT DOUBT!!! that the average Godly honest Calvinist...

For those who have honest reasons that they believe in the truth of tithing I think it is often because of the confusion about the "teaching" that tithing is thought to do for people. They percieve the tithes PURPOSE as being to teach people to put God first, trust him financially and blah...

Precisely....no Doctora Theologiae. He was a highly educated..........Lawyer. So, you can try to pretend that my question was answered by listing his Juris Doctorate............or you could have said: "He didn't have one." :wavey: But that would have ACTUALLY answered the question I DID...

Precisely....he is saying that in order to have assurance, he lists a bunch of....................dum dum dum..... WORKS. Just as you said. NO, Piper didn't exactly say "good works" will give you assurance. He doesn't have to, and he knows he can't. But what he will do is list a bunch of...

One cannot, by definition, "freely give" a tithe as taught by it's proponents. The doctrine of the 10% monetary tithe does not leave room for "cheerful giving". It is taught as a command, and yes, according to that doctrine, even if one WANTED to put the money elsewhere, than God Absolutely...

You still.....seriously simply do not appear to know what a "straw-man" is. You misuse that term over and over. It doesn't help your argument to continuously misuse that term.

As Dr. James clearly predicted: His prediction proven correct but a few posts later Also....What James says is rather more than that they "can't" know....but rather that they have to appeal to works as the proof, and this is demonstrated on this board over and over again.

Where did John Calvin's Doctorate in Theology come from?

I can appreciate a lot about your position Evangelist....but this floors me: The long hair issue (I assume you mean for a man) is very SPECIFICALLY and in DETAIL spoken against in the New Testament. I do not see how the un-scriptural injunctions against all use of alcohol, dancing, all...

I suppose I should read again more closely, but as far as I can tell.......Rice believes in "tithing" but he's merely arguing that it isn't necessary that it go to the local Church. I agree with him, sorta........I don't know if he is teaching against "tithing" or simply the "storehouse" part...

Well, gotta be done, as I am a lover of "truth" as I see it....and I have to respond to James since he rejoindered me...You, Icon, know without question, that I am no "Calvinist"....but using the moniker of "Calvinism" to defeat an entire theological system is without warrant. I shall rejoinder...

In a way JB....it isn't.........if debated CORRECTLY, and within the confines of reasoned logical debate. I will suggest why.. Because the premise you would wish to assume, and I will quote you Well...hate to break it to you...but, such a being simply does NOT even EXIST. There is no...

Therein lies the crux of the argument Luke, and I agree with you. What is being asked is NOT "Biblical" though, as much as each side would like to claim it were. You are asking something to the effect of: WHY? does one "will" one thing and not another. Unfortunately, the answer is...