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I'm very much opposed to a severely-redacted version of the Gospel, the Gospel-in-thirty-seconds type stuff so often promoted in North American evangelical churches. I read once of a lady who was a missionary to the Philippines in the early 1950s, who settled in a village where fierce and...

Many centuries before Christ's sacrifice at Calvary? See my last response to this idea in this thread. You've left out a very important clarifying bit of the passage: Galatians 4:21-29 (NASB) 21 Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that...

I've never said anything about a "holding cell." In any case, my view makes better sense to me biblically than the Calvinist alternative. I've offered some reason as to why, which you've not addressed.

Did these OT people observe the Mosaic laws of sacrifice? If so, why? Why didn't God simply say to them, "In due time, many centuries from now, I'm going to make an atonement for all of your sin through my son. If you'll just believe me, and trust that he will do as I say he will do, then the...

This is, I'm afraid, mere Calvinist propaganda/dogma rather than the plain declaration of Scripture. But it's certainly convenient for the Calvinist to assert this sort of thing, groundless though the assertion largely is. In point of fact, there was no "born-again" person prior to the atoning...

This is just more flat contradiction, not reasoned argument. It is what children who don't know how to reason well resort to in disagreement with other children. Here's the verse you've quoted above in its immediate context: Psalm 110:1-7 (NASB) 1 The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at My right...

I strongly suspect that most of it is actually demonically-fomented, the natural sensuality of human beings inflamed to an obscene degree by the demonic and called a "movement of the Holy Spirit." As you say, very alarming.

No. Please read again what I wrote. Your question suggests a Strawman of what I actually indicated. But I didn't call you a legalist. I spoke to a kind of thinking that came close to legalism, it seemed to me, but I haven't gone so far as to declare, "JoJ, you are a legalist!" As you've...

Throughout the Bible, men who were not spiritually-regenerate, who were not born-again, were given high praise: Job 1:1 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil. How could this be? Wasn't Job, being...

Well, obviously, I disagree. I think Man is given by God the libertarian (albeit in a soft degree) freedom to choose salvation. You don't say... Simply asserting this in response to my post does nothing to defeat what I pointed out. All you've done is contradict, which is the stuff of...

I don't have to know you personally to recognize when a kind of thinking approaches legalism any more than I have to know personally the stranger who says to me "Trump is literally Hitler!" before I can say that he is expressing very poor thinking. This assumes what I'm wondering about, namely...

Yes, there are churches that blasphemously contort the Person and work of the Holy Spirit, as JoJ has noted. But I've been in very biblically-sound, God-honoring, genuine revivals where the Holy Spirit was referred to often - not to the total exclusion of the mention of God and of Christ, but...

If this is a Calvinist/Reformed apologetic for divine monergism regarding our salvation, it has the effect of diminishing God's glory, rather elevating it. Imagine a man who has a sore tooth. If it's going to be fixed and the pain relieved, he must first humble himself under the truth that he...

Yes. An ugly business. I'd agree. But is this all you mean by speaking of the Holy Spirit "a lot more" than Jesus? It seems to me that the problem isn't that folks in circumstances like the "Toronto Blessing" speak of the Holy Spirit a lot but that they do so in very unbiblical, blasphemous...

Well, I wonder how you decide what "a lot more" is, exactly. As I pointed out from Scripture, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and of Christ, the Third Person of the Godhead. So, I don't see how talk of him - especially when it is carefully biblical - can diminish, or compete with, a focus...

It helps me in figuring out how best to love others to understand well what agape love is: a deep, over-riding desire for intimate communion with God. This is what the Triune Godhead enjoyed within itself prior to Creation and it is what God offers to us through Christ. The Psalmist describes...

Cathode, what is the purpose of your statements? They are simply declarative, offering no engagement with the responses your posts have received. Do you think your statements asserting Roman Catholic dogma will be at all persuasive to Baptists on a Baptist website? It seems to me very unlikely...

Isn't your question here essentially asking if works can obtain salvation ("Does...law fulfillment qualify one to be resurrected to life")? If the OT saint obtained salvation by law-keeping, he would have done so by the very means ruled out under the New Covenant in Christ Jesus: Romans 3:19-25...

A change of direction is the effect of a change of mind. The latter generally precedes the former - at least in regards to salvation.

Well, "repent" means "to change your mind." How does a lost sinner come to a saving faith in Christ except he changes his mind about himself, his sin, and his need of a Savior? So, repentance is unavoidable, it seems to me, in being saved. Anyway, look at it this way: Imagine you have an aching...