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Your first reason for not affirming the Nicene Creed doesn't seem correct, because you imply that the creed says that God the Father created or made God the Son. It doesn't. It says: "And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God...

Anglicanism (at least here in the UK) includes people with a wide variety of beliefs, from evangelical bible-believers to those who seem to want to follow Roman Catholicism, with incense, "mass," confession to a "priest," ministers of churches being called "Father So-and-so," and much more.

Yet Jesus Himself said: “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” (Joh 8:58 NKJV) Also, the verse you quote, John 1:1, needs to be taken in context. Just a few verses later, we have these words showing that by "the Word" John was referring to Jesus Christ: “And the Word...

As you were replying to somebody who had mentioned us loving God because He has first loved us, I am assuming that by "that verse" you mean: “We love Him because He first loved us.” (1Jo 4:19 NKJV) If so, I have just checked, and it seems to be the word "Him", not "he," that some versions...

The doctrines of grace (what you refer to as Calvinism) are indeed scriptural. The bible says that God chose those whom He would save before Creation: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ...

What bible references do you have for hell being enlarged, and for those already in paradise/heaven being removed and sent to hell?

Yes, I like that one. I also like "O How the Grace of God Amazes Me.": O how the grace of God Amazes me! It loosed me from my bonds And set me free! What made it happen so? 'Twas His will, this much I know Set me, as now I show, At liberty. 2 My God has chosen me, Though one of nought, To sit...

How can "chosen" be different to "elect" when both English words are used in different places to translate exactly the same Greek word? "Chosen" means "elect". But we have verses such as these: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual...

Yet the very words "elect" and "chosen" mean the same thing. Indeed, the same Greek word, elektos, is sometimes translated "chosen" and sometimes "elect". For example: “But you [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the...

Let me start with your ending - yes, what a great God we serve! As to whether the sky where birds fly and the clouds form, and space where the sun. moon and stars are. are divisions of, or separate from, the heaven where God dwells, and whether Martin actually meant that heaven is thus divided...

Yes, having believed, they were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise. Ephesians 1:13 doesn't say, "having believed, you became elect." Not so. Everyone who ends up in hell is receiving God's righteous judgment for their sins, including their unbelief of the one and only Saviour...

Where do you find that in his post? It consisted entirely of a quote from Andrew Fuller, a baptist, which spoke positively of primitive churches.

I don't see in Martin's post anything to suggest that heaven was divided into three parts, but rather that "heaven(s) is used to refer to 3 things: "One other thing: the Jews believed that there were three heavens: the tops of trees and the place where birds fly; the home of the sun, moon and...

I am English, yes, so I am also British, though not an Ancient Briton! However, I'm not sure what that has to do with what I wrote, unless I used some British English word or phrase that seemed odd to Americans. Incidentally, I have just edited my post, because most of it had been hidden...

I would say, as Ephesians 1:3-6 say, that Christians were chosen before the foundation of the world. The salvation becomes a reality for the individual sinner when they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with God-given faith. The apostles said to the Philippian jailer: "Believe on the Lord...

No they are not new revelations. Italics are used in some English translations to indicate that an English word has been inserted by the translators to make it correct English. Translating from one language to another can rarely be a word-for-word translation from beginning to end. Take the...

To the extent that as far as God is concerned, it happened "before the foundation of the world": “Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of...

Where in God's Word are we taught that God punishes people He has saved, people whose sins Christ died and shed His blood to forgive, suffer after death, and that the amount they suffer will depend upon whether Christians on earth pray for them?

But that is not all you said, You wrote: "but since you never did trust in Christ but had to be given your faith well what can I say." So you not only said that Calvinists believe that God gave them faith, you said that the poster you were re[plying to had never trusted Christ...

“Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,” (1Pe 1:22-23...