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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...

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...