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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...

A. The scriptures do not support the idea of departed souls walking the earth after their death. Those who have died are judged and sent e to their respective rewards or punishments. 27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28so also Christ was offered once...

I live in Texas too. Last year, my wife and I moved to the East Texas Piney woods close to LA.

When I was a young teen my father got my family into the occult which included reading tarot cards, getting readings from psychics, and even inviting psychics into our home. Like you I began to be oppressed by demons whose presence I really believed I could feel. Later I started to attend a...

Are you acquainted with any Native American dialects? I have only heard such languages and their sound is very distinct.

Having researched the beliefs and practices of the Church I found no evidence of a single point of time in which the gifts ceased. There is evidence of the gifts in almost every age. If anything, the only view which is absolutely not supported is Cessationism.

I have heard much that I believe is nonsense. However, one friend of mine who was a missionary to India reported that he was leading a group of Indian young people in prayer when he went into some other language. The young people told him that he had been speaking in one of the many Indian...

31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 And whoever 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 in the...