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Does your faith come from man or from God?

But if one can walk away from it - and in the Arminian schema one can - then it is a partially works-based salvation, the 'work' being "not walking away from it" (if nothing else).

But your example does give the proof of the difference between the two: Arminians would say that he once was saved but chose through his free will to walk away from that; Calvinists would say that God's irresistible grace - which for them is the only vehicle of regeneration - was never extended...

I don't think the Arminian concept of 'forfeiting' one's salvation is that removed from the Catholic concept of a 'mortal sin', when you scratch the surface of what both groups of Christians mean by those terms. Both in practice amount to a 'repudiatory breach' of one's relationship with God...

...is, I submit, not between Catholicism and evangelicalism/Protestantism but within Protestantism itself, between Calvinists and Arminians. Only the Reformed can correctly say that they believe that salvation is sola gratia, by grace alone, with no human co-operation; both Arminians and...

All very well and good, but none of those verses cited even approach a proof-text for "apostolic and charismatic gifts ceased when the canon was completed". Your best bet, I suppose, is I Cor 13: 8-13, but you whole argument there hinges on what Paul meant would have to be 'complete'. One can...

And how did that Canon come about? How and by whom was it decided what was 'in' and what was 'out'? I think you're adding to Scripture; nowhere does it say that the signs and wonders will cease when the NT is completed. You're breaking your own sola Scriptura rule...

Actually it's the Church's doing, but good point about Paul's 'missing letter' nevertheless.

This thread isn't about whether or how religion should be taught in school; it's about whether pupils should be allowed to witness to other pupils about their faith and - perhaps critically in this case, although the full facts are not yet known - the limits as to how that might be done. For...

The point is, therefore, that to be 'in Christ', to be saved, is to be in the Church. [ETA - a friend of mine put it very well once. I was in one of my many bouts of depression and complained, "It's all very well having faith in Christ, but I can't see Him, can't feel Him, can't touch Him. He...

Then that rather casts doubt on all the NT written after the Incarnation - a sizeable chunk including...er...Hebrews. So, how much do you want us to rip out?

And you aren't?

I'd second that recommendation

Perhaps not presented in that rather brutal way, no. I remember being told similar by the Catholic priests who educated me at the same sort of age and it scared the living daylights out of me and gave me nightmare

Story here On the one hand, I'm concerned about what appears to be yet another sign that Christians, particularly those of an evangelical stripe, seem to be increasingly the whipping boys or at least poor religious relations of secular employers, particularly those in the public sector. On...

Trail of Blood is bad history, extremely biased and inaccurate and is the product of the ecclesial equivalent of the tin-foil-hat brigade. By all means read it, but with a large dose of salt; if nothing else, it will show you that you can do a darn sight worse than Lutheranism...

The Tradition of the Undivided Church

None of which helps with regard to the New Testament, which has nothing to do with the Jews, their scribes or scholars.

None of which deals with the problem of lack of canonisation prior to the late 4th century to which I alluded in my last post

If by that you mean the Bible, the answer is clearly "no" - I'm afraid the historical evidence is against you. The Rule of Faith was around long before the NT was canonised.