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1 Cor. 15:22. 'For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.'

I had decided not to get involved with these fruitless posts on the Cal/Arm forum which go over and over the same ground and never seem to persuade anybody. However, I do have something to say on 2 Peter 2:1. I shall not get involved in any further discussions on the subject. 2 Peter 2:1. ‘But...

I know you do, brother. I was only teasing you!

What!!!! You can't possibly do that!!!! If you do you might have to believe that Ephesins 2:1 is true and people really are dead in sin! And if you believe that you might have to believe that Ephesians 2:5 is true, and it's God who makes us alive! Then where shall we be?

Thanks to Conan for posting this. Some years ago I wrote a blog post on this subject: Critical Text or Traditional Text? It may be of interest to some.

OK, I'm sure you're right. And Tom was right as well. Calvinism does not need Calvin (though he was not the ogre that some make him out to be). But Calvinism long preceeded Calvin; it is nothing else but Biblical salvation.

The reason that the exercise of faith is not a work is that it is the gift of God (Phil. 1:29 etc.). Jonah 2:9. 'Salvation is of the LORD.' Matt. 16:17. "..... For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but My Father who is in heaven.' Acts 16:14. 'The Lord opened her heart to heed the...

He certainly was that, but I thought he described himself as being an IBF - but my memory may be playing me false.

Wasn't the late lamented Tom Cassidy an IBF? He was certainly Calvinistic, or at least, he believed in particular redemption.

1 John 2:19. 'They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that it might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.' If people depart permanently from Christ, they were never His (Matt. 7:23). The Good...

I have no idea. I have only once attended such a church. But until recently, the Free Church of Scotland only sang unaccompanied metrical Psalms, and some of the smaller Presbyterian churches carry that on to this day. But you are aware, I suppose that King David laid down the musical...

Indeed. The Met Tab also donated organs (musical ones, that is!) to smaller churches, but never had one while Spurgeon was pastor. It has one now.

The rational behind a capella singing in churches is that New Testament worship is different from the worship in the Temple. THere is no mention of any musical instruments at all in the N.T. and therefore, it is claimed, we should not have instruments in churches. There is a tiny number of...

It brought a tear to my eye. God bless you, EWF, and be the God of all comfort to you.

It is not true preterism, and certainly not Biblical. What a tendetious post! As if Abraham, Isaac and Jacob turned into apes or elephants when they died! Mankind is both spiritual and physical (Eccl. 12:7). The risen Lord Jesus was also both spiritual and physical (Luke 24:39-43). When He...

I looked at your link and I didn't see this. I personsally favour 'only begotten' as the translation of monogenes. I'm glad I didn't buy myself a new ESV recently.

You are correct about his split with Rome over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, but he never ceased being a Catholic; he just ceased being a Roman Catholic.

I don't want to defend the present shocking state of many Anglican churches, or its hierarchy (I once heard the present Archbishop of Canterbury speak. Not good!). However, the idea that Henry VIII was any sort of Protestant, or that he sparked the Reformation in England is simply not so...

I believe that one can find born-again believers in most churches, even if their teaching leaves much to be desired. The Free Church is in fact baptistic (ex-Brethren), but somewhat doctrine-lite. I know little about the Anglican one. It has a new young Vicar, but reading his monthly...

1 How pleased and blest was I, To hear the people cry, "Come, let us seek our God to-day!" Yes, with a cheerful zeal, We haste to Zion's hill, And there our vows and honors pay. 2 Zion--thrice happy place-- Adorned with wondrous grace, While walls of strength embrace thee round: In thee our...