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What you've posted is Van's opinion! I've studied the Scripture all my life and I don't understand the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and neither do you! It was never explained to us. It seems you've taken it upon yourself to determine what man must believe to be...

How did childlike faith become so complicated?

When did the Lord make understanding the Trinity a requirement for salvation? I think I missed that somewhere in the Scripture.

Israel is nothing special in this world, but what they represent in their calling and the promises made to their forefathers, the lord will turn this world upside down to save all of them. He does exactly that during the GT to bring them back to what intended for them to be. The Lord has said...

You may not care for this example, but I thought it was interesting. An evangelist came to our church years ago with an unusual sermon, it involved a short video. The sermon was on the sin nature/ born sinners. In the sermon he showed a short video of 2 toddlers in a play pen with one given a...

We were born sinners. David said in sin did my mother conceive me. We sin because we are born sinners. Adam was never born, he was created and when he fell we all fell with him, born in sin.

On that we agree!

LOL, what is the purpose in a call to repentance when God hasn't chosen them for repentance? This is just more of the Calvinist Handbook of reasoning something they can't exlpain. It's insanity!

So what does all mean in, "God has called all men everywhere to repent." Obviously in Calvinism God has not called all men everywhere to repent, only those of His choice.

SG, I'm wondering if you have ever read the context of Phil 4:13? Paul is speaking of abasement, to rejoice in the Lord "both to be full and to be hungry." He is saying he can be happy in the Lord when times are good and when times are not so good. His strength is coming from the Lord not his...

Whatever you want to believe, God will honor that, but we must pay the price of what we believe. It will not be overlooked.

Well the Scripture must not be true that God desires for all to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. But wait, I forgot that "all" doesn't mean all of mankind, it's just you fortunate folks. It's just the matter of the absolute sovereign will of God no matter how it looks on Him...

There is no fairness in Calvinism, and you can ignore me, but you can't ignore Him when you face Him with that accusation.

Well, I know you lean strongly toward Calvinism because you have ignored everything I've said on the slander toward God. But that's the Calvinist way, they reason their way out of it, or in your case they just simply ignore it. I've been quietly following your conversation with @Silverhair...

I see the first part of that verse "by your words you will be justified" as in what Paul taught us, for with the heart man believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made into salvation. So the words of justification is our confession of faith in Christ. The last part "by...

Bear in mind that when we answer these questions, we are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners.

Just to make it interesting, let's ask a similar question. Is it man's sin that sends him to Hell, or his rejection of Christ?

That's a good point. From that we could ask the question, does man send himself to Hell or does God do it according to the Gospel? What say ye, JF?

I'm not sure of your purpose for Heb. 8:12, maybe you can further explain. But concerning Heb. 8:12, it was said on the promise of a New Covenant for Israel. 8:8.

LOL, it's pretty messed up if you ask me.