Thanks. Do you think that might help explain your temptation to be judgmental?
Do All Religions Lead To God?
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Thanks. Do you think that might help explain your temptation to be judgmental?
What part of "okay" do you not understand? My intention is not to quibble about terms, but only to teach that GW refutes tulipism:
T – total depravity, meaning souls are unable to exercise sufficient MFW to seek salvation.
U – unconditional election, meaning that souls need not satisfy a divine requirement such as faith or repentance, but God chooses to save some while damning the rest to hell.
L – limited atonement, meaning that Christ died to pay the penalty of sin only for elect souls.
I – irresistible grace, meaning that elect souls cannot resist or refuse God’s will for them to be saved.
P – perseverance of the saints, meaning that the elect cannot repudiate their salvation and commit apostasy, because God perseveres in keeping them saved.
What's more sad than him promoting what he did being all puffed with pride, look at his comment YES to the question will all religions lead to God.
Why would someone pay him any attention at all?
Him and I have history, he has his own thing going on, I can explain if you like.
ONE GOD and one bible, how many different denomanions are there and they are all right?
Then we have muslims who follow a moon god and the pope thinks we follow the same god. There good to go???
It's just sad to me, we need to follow JESUS not man unless they are follow JESUS.
Question do they follow the book of Acts the foundation of the church?
The first message that JESUS promised to be preached in Jerusalem?
This is what happens when men get involved with GOD'S word.
It is not suppose to be confusing but very simple, as we should obey
Today we live in NT times, so we need to follow it.
To do so we need to rightly divide it.
The beginning, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John JESUS walked with us.
The building of the church, the book of Acts as we see in Acts 1 JESUS left HIS disciples instructions to wait for the promise of the father, the Holy Ghost. Acts 1-5.
This happened,
Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
This was the first message the JESUS promised to be preached in Jerusalem,
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Notice the same thing JESUS said in
Acts 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded -them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
So the only question is should we follow JESUS and HIS rule book and become a JESUS disciple or,
Follow men with all of their twist on HIS word leading to uncountable denominations and alterations of HIS word.
We all have choices to make, they are not hard.
Follow HIS rule book or mens with their opinion of it.
There is ONLY ONE TRUTH everything else is sinking sand.
GOD BLESS YOU.
I should be banned for believing this on a Christian chat site?!:
The normative way of stating the kerygma/GRFS in the NT is “Accept Christ Jesus as Lord” (as in Acts 16:31, 2Cor. 4:5 & Col. 2:6). The main points of Christian orthodoxy implicit in this statement can be explained or elaborated as follows:
- There is a/one all-loving and just Lord or Creator God (Deut. 6:4, John 3:16, 2Thes. 1:6), who is both able (2Tim. 1:12) and willing (1Tim. 2:3-4, Ezek. 33:11) to provide all morally accountable human beings salvation or heaven—a wonderful life full of love, joy and peace forever.
- Human beings are selfish or sinful (Rom. 3:23, 2Tim. 3:2-4, Col. 3:5), miserable (Gal. 5:19-21), and hopeless (Eph. 2:12) or hell-bound at the judgment (Matt. 23:33 & 25:46) when they reject God’s salvation (John 3:18, Rom. 2:5-11).
- Jesus is God’s Messiah/Christ and incarnate Son, the way that God has chosen (John 3:16, Acts 16:30-31, Phil. 2:9-11) of providing salvation by means of his atoning death on the cross for the payment of the penalty for the sins of humanity (Rom. 3:22-25 & 5:9-11), followed by his resurrection to reign in heaven (1Cor. 15:14-28).
- Thus, every person who hears the NT Gospel needs to repent and accept God’s grace or justification in Jesus as Christ/Messiah the Lord or Supreme Commander (Luke 2:11, John 14:6, Acts 16:31), at which moment God’s loving Holy Spirit of Christ indwells/baptizes the believer into the church (Rev. 3:20, Rom. 5:5, 1Cor. 12:13).
- Loving Christ Jesus as Lord (Luke 2:11), God the Son (Matt. 16:16) or God in the human dimension (Col. 2:9) means reflecting divine love as empowered by the Holy Spirit, thereby obeying His command to love one another (Matt. 7:21, 22:37-40, John 13:35, Rom. 13:9)—forever (Matt. 10:22, Psa. 113:2), which will eventually achieve spiritual maturity on earth and heaven after Christ returns at God’s resurrection (John 14:6, 17&26, Rom. 8:6-17, Gal. 6:7-9, Eph. 1:13-14, Phil. 3:12-16, Heb. 10:36, 12:1, Jam. 1:2-4).
Jesus is the only way to God, the creator of the universe. Any other way is the way of Cain, i.e. worshipping God in your own way, offering God what you deem proper.
So did the leader of millions of Christians misspeak or was he misquoted, lets take a look..
"What Francis said was: Tutte le religioni sono un cammino per arrivare a Dio. “All religions are path[way]s to reach God.” ...https://www.catholicworldreport.com...-francis-say-about-religions-as-paths-to-god/
Hmmm...looks pretty clear to me...
I don’t normally pay attention to the claims of the papacy, but he is/was either ignorant or evil.
Your intention is to disparage other Christians by using terms that you know to be inaccurate and refuse to stop even after being rebuked. You hide your bearing false witness with many words, but most people see right through it. You do this to "win" an argument, but only you see a win. Everyone else sees your dishonesty.
That is good! I guess I do not understand the definition of dishonesty (post #111).
(BTW, most agree with my understanding of Scripture re TULIP; "everyone else" is merely your ilk :^)
This isn't about definitions or critiques of TULIP. You often respond this way to hide what you're really doing. Reformed soteriology is often summarized with TULIP by both"Calvinists" and "Hyper-Calvinists." Calvinists believe that God predestined some to salvation, and left the rest to their own demise. Hyper-Calvinists believe God also predestined those who were not elected to damnation.
Words and terms matter. Your misuse falsely accuses others. You do this intentionally because it has happened many times. I don't expect you to admit your error here, because you refused to many times before. Most likely you will reply with many words that don't address the root of your dishonesty.
It is true that the gates of hell will not prevail against the true church as scripture reveals. As such, the true church still follows the doctrine of the apostles. And if you are suggesting, as others have stated, that the Roman Catholic Church is the true church you are mistaken. Their teachings are manmade and far from what Jesus and His apostles taught.
Matt 16:13-19
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Peter was given the keys of the kingdom; meaning he was entrusted with the gospel message and presented it first.
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Because Peter had the God given knowledge that Jesus was the Messiah and because of that Jesus entrusted HIS church to Peter. Only one church can even remotely begin to trace it's history back to Peter.
That's right...the revelation is the antecedent to the blessing and the rock the church is built upon.
Why would anyone want to trace its history to Peter? Jesus is the firstborn among the brethren. He is the one we trace our history to.
No other church presently in existence can even remotely begin to trace it's history back to Peter and as much as it aggravates me iye sensibilities the Catholic Church can