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When God told Paul my Grace is enough He meant that the help that he would receive from the Holy Spirit was enough even before he was delivered out of the trial

I would not say people who experience more manifestations of demons are more sensitive. I would say they are more vulnerable. When I was in the occult I heard it said that those who have more premonitions and such were "sensitive" but that implied that they were more gifted. Instead they were...

There was very little difference between Augustine's doctrine and that of Luther, Calvin and the other Reformers who read him extensively and whose doctrines originated in Augustine

Augustine's deterministic theology came from his ten year association with the Gnostic cult of Manichaeism. When he first converted to Christianity he dispensed with those things teaching instead the traditional teachings of Christianity which held to libertine human free will and to God's...

One should never take what they say as fact as they are consummate liars who use their intelligence as a weapon rather than an organ to find truth. Everything they say, when not an outright lie is intended to deceive.

Tertullian was not the only one who believed we must CONTINUE in the faith to be saved, They ALL did. The idea that we could live in perpetual sin and still enter glory was not according the teaching of Jesus Himself: 45 But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time...

Augustine's belief in God's absolute control of all things - including the desires and will make him a determinist. This is not what those before him taught: 1. This expression [of our Lord], ‘How often would I have gathered thy children together, and thou wouldest not,’ set forth the ancient...

The Early Church Fathers believed that Christians could lose their salvation. That was consistent with their belief that we must continue in faith to inherit eternal life.

The original Church unanimously believed in "free will" - that men are given the choice of whom they will serve but that God coordinates His plan though divine foreknowledge of human choices. The idea that human beings are TOTALLY UNABLE TO make ANY CHOICE was imported into Christian terminology...

1. I began to be aware of my sin through the process of CONVICTION 8And when He comes, He will CONVICT the world in regard to SIN and righteousness and judgment: 9in regard to sin, because THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN ME (John 16:8-9) 2. He began to reveal that I did not really believe but was...

This is not an equivalent comparison. Our relationship to our earthly fathers cannot exists because of a physical event we had nothing to do with. our mothers. We do not have this relationship with God. After being born separate from him to a race that is estranged from His spirit. We had to...

A. I don't believe that a genuine born-again Christian would ever repudiate their saving faith and lose salvation. You may not see how it could happen but the Apostles apparently considered it a possibility or they would not have warned us about it 28For the LORD loves justice and will not...

Also, the Early (Pre-Augustinian) Church believed God's plan was based on His foreknowledge of the choices humans WOULD make but that He did not determine what their choices would be. Justin Martyr, 110-165 AD From Justin's writings we see that “foreknowing” concerns knowing something ahead of...

So every scriptures warning believers about the possibility of falling away is needless and really DECEPTIVE since TRUE believers can never fall away. However an abundance of scriptures say that completing our journey and obtaining the inheritance of eternal life is contingent upon our meeting...

Jesus said 31Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or...