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"Furthermore, if Christ deemed it a requirement for us to be water baptized under the Gospel of Grace, then verse 17 would be a very strange and out-of-place statement indeed within a systematic study of this topic, thus ripping us out from under the salvation by grace. The Covenant of Christ...

Do you think that is why the element of the SHOW (the stage smoke, the multi-colored lights, the elaborate sound systems) have expanded more and more while prayer and scripture exposition has contracted? One thing I learned from the Messianic Congregations is their tradition of holding yeshiva...

Intelligence is overrated.

For about ten years the Evangelical Church I belonged to focus on Resurrection Day consisted entirely of the Pastor repeating the early proclamation of "He is risen" and the congregation responding "He is risen indeed" THAT IS ALL, nothing more, nothing less. While this certainly is something we...

I do not speak in tongues but by what Paul said I know that tongues, first and foremost, are prayers of the inner spirit. The advantage of tongues is that they are not hindered by our understanding - which makes them useful for self-edification but not for the understanding of others.

These consequences did not come to pass in Gethsemene. Rather, the pain experienced in the garden was due to His anticipation about what would happen at the cross.

Are you saying that it was the Father who "force fed" the sin of mankind into Jesus mind? Is this the work of the Holy God - to impress on His mind the Satanic consciousness?

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...