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First, I said "most if not all," I didn't say everyone. Second, to be "self-taught" with the help of the HS while reading and studying on one's own without a present living teacher isn't typically equated to "snuffing scholarship." You mean like saying things about God that bring reproach upon...

P4T, your faith has saved you, go in peace.

Oh, I agree, but a politician can stretch the answer and twist it in order to go on talking about any hot button issue he wants. I like your idea, I just think they should have to reserve some time for other questions so that no one is excused from answering something that may need an answer.

Your faith has saved you, go in peace.

P4T, your faith has saved you, go in peace. :)

So was Jesus mistaken when he said, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace." ??? Or were the apostles wrong when the people asked, "How can we be saved?" and they replied saying, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household." ??? Should they both have said...

There is no context in which that statement is correct. Enough said. I'm done with this merry-go-round. Blessings.

But you said faith has NOTHING to do with your salvation. How can that be when salvation requires faith? So you still affirm that faith has nothing to do with salvation???:confused:

So when you said "faith has NOTHING to do with my salvation" you meant that grace is accessed through faith but it is only the grace that saves. Got it. Enough said. I'd just avoid using the phrase "faith has nothing to do with salvation" in the future because that seems very different than...

Retract the statement that calls it unbiblical for someone to claim that faith has nothing to do with salvation? I don't think so. It would be unchristian to allow such a statement to go without correction. Even you acknowledge now that grace is "accessed through faith," so why don't you...

Let me ask you a very simple question P4T: Can one be saved without faith? Yes or no?

what do you leave out with those three dots? "through faith." That is the scripture. You can't leave out the faith. Before you said, "Faith has nothing to do with salvation" Now you say, "We may have access to it [grace] by faith." Which is it? I affirm your latter statement but take...

It's actually grace applied through faith. Even Calvinists affirm this very basic doctrinal truth brother.

Or how about "Abraham believed and it was credited to him as righteousness."

It's been explained many times. We believe that we are saved by grace which is applied through faith, so it would not be inaccurate to save that on is saved by/through faith because that the means through which saving grace is applied. I don't think I can explain that any more clearly. This...

Actually it appears you dismiss "sola fide" (i.e. faith has nothing to do with my salvation) because of your misunderstanding of "sola gratia."

If you really meant what you said when you said faith had nothing to do with your salvation, then I cannot retract my statement. That view is completely unbiblical. Faith is essential to one's salvation, even Calvinists affirm this. Maybe you just misspoke or could offer more clarity to your...

The problem to me would be that he could use up all his time on "soft ball" questions and not have to answer the difficult questions later in the debate. I want them to have to answer the hard questions.

My issue is how can someone claim that man is so dead that a "life-giving" gospel wrought by God himself is not sufficient for all who hear it? How is it that a message sent by God for the purpose of brining reconciliation to his enemies can't be received by his enemies? How is it that a...

Can you reconcile your statement above with Paul's statement in Rom 5:2: "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." Thank you.