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Yes, obviously there are numrous Messianic prophecies that have been fulfilled. The point about preterism is that it sees AD 70 as the focal point for most Biblical prophecies. That is not a view I agree with but so long as preterists hold to a physical Return of Christ in the future, I regard...

It's not Preterism, it's Hyper-preterism. I make it a point never to fall out with anyone over eschatology, unless he denies the physical return of Christ in glory at the end of the age (Rev. 1:7 etc.).

The Bible doesn't say that God reached out to Lydia in the sense that she could take it or leave it. The Bible says that He opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul, which were , no doubt, the word of God. 'The preaching of the word of God is the word of God' (H. Bullinger). God's...

You seem for some reason to believe that my two comments which you quoted are contradictory. I wonder why you would believe that. They are actually complimentary. I referenced Acts 13:48. 'Now when the Gentiles heard this [that salvation through Christ is for all peoples], they were glad and...

:Roflmao:Roflmao:Roflmao You are not interested in what I believe. You are only interested in your own prejudices and in telling me what other people believe. Instead of reading Boettner (when have I ever mentioned him before now?), why don't you read Bunyan, Spurgeon or Lloyd-Jones?

You are missing the point. I quoted Psalm 110:3 earlier. People are made willing to receive Christ when God opens their hearts to do so (Acts 13:48; 16:14). But if you want an example of someone who hated Jesus Christ and did all he could to oppose him. you need look no further than Saul of...

I don't know whether you have ever read the book Treasure Island, but Long John Silver had a talking parrot called Cap'n Flint, who could say, amongst other things, "Dead men don't bite." The parrot was right. Dead men don't bite; nor do they believe. In Ephesians 2, Paul tells the Ephesian...

I understand that your theology, like @Silverhair's, requires you to believe that 'dead in trespasses' really means 'alive to God.' But praise God, although sinners are indeed dead in trespasses and sins, Romans 9:16 also teaches the precise opposite of what you are suggesting it means. 'So...

So again you prove that you don't know what Calvinism is. You accuse me of inconsistency because I don't fit your caricature. Read the sermons or other works of Calvinists like Keach, Bunyan, Spurgeon and others. Read what Carey preached to the Indians. Read Calvin's sermons, come to that...

You certainly can't do that. In other words, God doesn't love anyone enough to save them. He has left it up to you to persuade them with your dazzling eloquence (No hope there!) or by their own wisdom. Then we both teach the same thing! What are we arguing about? We are all sinners so what...

So by your own words you reveal that you don't know what Calvinism is. Have you never read Spurgeon's sermons, or Whitefield's (much easier to read than Wesley's)? Have you never read Come and Welcome to the Lord Jesus Christ by John Bunyan? Most of the preachers most used by God in the...

Acts 14:22. 'We must, through many tribulations, enter the kingdom of God.' Pilgrim's path led him through Bypath Meadow into Doubting Castle and giant Despair. He also had to pass the blandishments of Vanity Fair. The Christian, by God's grace, will persevere, but it is also necessary that...

Ezekiel 37:3-10. Lazarus is dead. He has been in the tomb for four days. You might try telling him to wake up; that it's really not a good look being dead; that it's much nicer being alive, and that his friends and his sisters miss him. All these things are perfectly true, but it's not going...

Do you know anyone who has been up to heaven, had a quick look at the Book of Life and found his name missing there? No? Nor have I. So I tell anyone who will hear that if they will repent and trust in Christ, they will be saved. And they will (Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21; Romans 9:13). What do...

Right! So 'dead in sin' really means 'alive in sin.' Too bad you didn't tell God in time for Him to change the Bible.

John 6:44. The word translated 'draw' in that verse may equally be translated 'drag.'

Maybe so, but you certainly haven't proved it. Really? It's not me you're disagreeing with; actually it's God. :) Yes. Both those things. 1 Cor. 1:21. For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God, through the message of the message preached, to...

Note that the poster asks questions but does not answer the ones that I put to him. All sorts of people seek the narrow door and don't find it. The Pharisee in Luke 18 is one (see Matthew 5:20); Paul, according to Phil. 3:4-6 is another. And don't we all know people who are New Age freaks...

So being dead in trespasses and sins actually means being still alive in trespasses and sins; just a bit poorly. Romans 5:12. 'Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned......' (Rom. 5:12. See the rest...

Another verse suddenly came into my mind as I was reading the O.P.. Zech. 9:11. 'As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.' Who sets the prisoners free? God does. Why does He do it? Because of the shed blood of the New...