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1. I personally do not believe it is possible for a Christian (in the true sense of the word, one in Christ) to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. When you speak of a Christian "in the TRUE sense of the word" it is difficult if not impossible to know exactly who you are talking about since ALL CONTRARY...

MY question was He COULD have "hung on the cross to this day" but, that would not have completed the plan of redemption. The Father's plan required the death of Jesus and that He died in that particular way - by crucufixion. He could have willed it not to happen but it had to be that way. He...

…7No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began. 8None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. (1 Corinthians 2:7-8) So your...

Jesus said …17The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. 18No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.” (John...

The one thing that leads me to speculate this way (rather than saying the Father tortured him to deatha) is the fact that the Bible itself says explicitly that the DEVIL was one who did it though the Father ALLOWED it. When Jesus agony was ended "received His spirit" the Father was there to...

Is sin a metaphysical essence or substance that can be "poured" into someone's PHYSICAL body. The Bible says "3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure. 4Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you...

Augustine had a theory that preserved the free will of the elect by saying that God foreknew which options they would freely choose and presented those to them. Of course, this did NOT preserve the omnilove of God toward the nonelect. Neither Augustine, nor Luther who was an Augustinian monk...

The various propositions of "Calvinism" are so tightly inter-related and inter-dependent as to be inseparable - which is not the same thing as their being TRUE. Were I living in the times of the Reformers I would utterly reject them for being the ungodly murderers they were and take up with...

The Reformers were not among the Apostles and Prophets who laid the foundation of the Church. Because of this, much of what they taught and did was not up to "building code" In fact, much of what Augustine taught was imported from the pagan religion of Manichaeism the Gnostic cult he had...

So rather than present your answer on the subject, you send me away with the assignment to read the entire Book of Acts focusing on each and every instance of the Present Tense? Then you insist that I prove what I said by citing every instance of the present tense from the LXX translation of...

No other grammatical elements need to be included before a verb can be seen to be PRESENT TENSE

The Bible speaks of that point in time when a person begins to believe in Jesus and is saved. First we must be persuaded by the Spirit that we are hopeless sinners. This process is what the Bible labels CONVICTION which is from the Greek word 8And when He comes, He will CONVICT the world in...

There you go. You just did the very thing I said you do, you mentions something WE NEED TO DO.. not only did you say we need to do it, You said we need to continue to do it. No the Bible says we must not only believe but CONTINUE to believe. …22 But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s...

Faith is not just intellectually accepting abstract truth propositions. As Jesus taught it FAITH was act of the mind and heart. More than it is something must act upon. This is why we are commanded to respond to the truth by REPENTING of sin and BELIEVING the gospel. This command which was...

For the first 400+ years of history all orthodox Christians affirmed that mean are capable of making moral choices and that they become a part of God's plan by their consent and willingness to submit to the Spirit. Nowadays many call that WORKS although in the Bible Paul's use of the word WORKS...

Romans 5:14–15 (ESV) 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. 15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if MANY died through one man’s trespass, MUCH MORE have the grace...

The Eastern Orthodox, unlike their Roman Catholic counterparts, have mixed feelings about Augustine. While they admire his early apologetic work they believe he deviated from the truth to a great degree and distorted the gospel. The Eastern Church still maintains a belief in FREEWILL and DIVINE...

When the most ancient theologians and apologists taught that mankind possessed the faculty of self-determination (also called also Free Will) they were not asserting that: "mankind EXALTED HIMSELF to be the CENTER of Creation in place of Christ its true King." This statement, cited in both OT...

Anyone who consistently follows Augustinian theology believes that the CONSEQUENCES of Adam's sin - physical death, and moral corruption are transmitted (or passed down or imputed) to every decedent of Adam. Augustine taught that the MODE of this transmission is via SEXUAL DESIRE or...

All USER @JimiSurvivor has been showing me is he believes he has to maintain his own salvation by doing something. Same things as you have been showing me. You neglected to mention that the "thing" I said we must CONTINUE to "Do" is to keep believing in Jesus and continuing in the gospel. The...