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By Rome. Eck and several other leaders of the RCC challenged Luther by countering that his doctrine of justification by faith alone had no previous mention in the counsels and creeds.

My response was because of JesusFan's usual reaction, calling my view a heresy and also your saying "yes" to it.

Martin Luther's belief in justification by faith had also been defined as heresy. And I guess you know what his answer was.

I challenge either one of you to show me from Scripture - not from mere creeds - where my belief in a 1st century Parousia is heretical.

I wrote this article first in a number of Preterist groups, to fellow Preterists. Too many are followers of the heretical notions of teachers like Don K. Preston and JL Vaughn, to name just two. For this reason so many are enamored with everything that has to do with AD 70 that they ignore sound...

I was unclear on this. I am a Preterist. And I meant that *some* Preterists have gotten off track, specifically the Covenant Eschatology group headed by Don K. Preston and the Covenant Creationists.

Many passages are so full of riches that it is helpful to just focus on a few verses. These four verses have foundational truth that is very much needed to set many Preterists back on the straight and narrow. Here we have, once again, essential saving doctrine. Not to believe these is to be...

I had forgotten I had written the above. But I am still happy with Linux, although I have changed to MX Linux. And still using Gimp roughly every other day, mostly prepping and uploading photos to Flickr or to my travelblog. My main browser is Brave. I don't know why so many just hang on to...

There is a vast difference between Soviets - especially, Stalin-era Soviets - and Russians. Most Russians I met there would cringe at your conflation of the two.

"Fortunate Son" might very well be my favorite CCR song. Idealism is great. As a Christian I intend to hold onto mine. The problem comes when the idealism is, like I wrote, combines with cluelessness. Most Americans and Europeans are uninformed on the Ukraine War. Rather, I should write...

In light of this discussion I thought this article I wrote on our unplanned, extended tour of Ukraine might be of interest. This is the first of eight articles, including all of the major areas of the country as it was at that time. Our time there was extended because we were not able to fly out...

More people in the eastern areas of Ukraine speak Russian than Ukrainian, 87% (in the south it is 82%). I found plenty of proof in those areas. I was easily understood when I spoke to them, although my Russian is not great. Even in Kiev, I actually heard more Russian than I expected. In fact I...

Yes, it is. Hopefully engrained in me.

https://asterisktomato.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/for-this-i-pray-and-every-day/

Everything God willed and decreed He did in the “beginning“. Not that He had one. He is not like us, who decide absolutely nothing at our beginning, who need a lifetime of growing and knowing to choose and do the good. His wisdom, power, goodness, love were already all perfected ...

So, you take their assessment as gospel. I am glad that Trump is looking into reevaluate our commitment to the UN. They are not the conclave of disinterested wisdom that many seem to think they are. OAN has a good article on them. They abuse us, all the while sucking us dry financially. And for...

I am just surprised by how many folks here, some of whom write quite well on other subjects, just glibly demonize Russia. Your second paragraph is quite on target. Russia doesn't want outright enemies armed right next to them. It's similar to the Russian missiles in Cuba in the 60s, which were a...

Invasion? Still getting your information from one side, I see. The Russians are protecting the oblasts that had voted for secession. And this was only after several years of attack from the Kiev regime. Of course, you don't know any of this because it doesn't show up on your "news" sites.

Martin Marprelate wrote: 'Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat.' I like that quote. It could be directed to either side, however. I was surprised to see it here in Latin. I know that it is not an ancient saying, going only as far back as Longfellow, I think. Maybe a little earlier. The...

Aah, no thanks, brother. I lived in NYC for a couple years. That was enough. And I am not saying that my living in Ukraine for those eight months made me an expert, but I did encounter a number of people who were more favorably disposed toward the Russians than to the Kiev government...