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A. These questions are answered clearly in the scriptures. All those, except those who have become confused by subsequent religions do not need a theologian to interpret it for them. The writings of John the Apostle are the most simple and straight forward: 7...if we walk CONTINUALLY in the...

Jewish believers come to truth just as Gentiles do which By the blood of the Lamb. Paul wrote that both groups are united together by the blood of Christ into One Body which is not Moses Covenant but the covenant of Christ the Lamb of God. Christ's blood who was sacrificed for all nations and...

Hebrews says: "When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is about to disappear. (Hebrews 8:13) The language of Author of Hebrews tells us the Old Covenant was was already beginning to pass away when that book was being...

I think faith and works or, the concrete expression of faith in actions INTERACT. When Abraham was told to sacrifice his son it was a terrible moment. However, as he and his son climbed Moriah something began to happen. Abraham remembered that God had said "In Isaac will your decendants be...

(1) The Israelites coming to John for baptism had no idea of a New Covenant. They were coming to identify with the coming Messiah he preached, a Messiah of the Old Covenant. Au contraire, John's message and preparatory message baptism was not merely a rehash of the OT law and prophets. In fact...

I don't know how you can deduce that Satan was motivated by boredom though undoubtedly he wanted to become a perverted fasimili OF GOD like an idol image receiving adulation he does not deserve and and enforcing his image and will on us though the desires of the world, the flesh and Satan...

Mankind does not need to be given anything to surrender to God. As creatures we naturally have something to give God and that is the surrender of ourselves. All must bow and submit our rebel souls to God.

At first Augustine argued against Manichaeism. He chose to study it rather than study the scripture Augustine’s search for truth would inevitably lead him to fall in with the pseudo-Christian sect known as the Manichees (followers of the self-declared prophet Mani). For close to ten years...

Augustine is the one who "discovered" and propagated" the belief system of Manichaeism which was an ALL INCLUSIVIVE DETERMINISTIC SYSTEM WHICH GOD CONTROLS IN EVERY RESPECT and over which created beings within the system have NO POWER whatsoever. Although this makes God seem all powerful but it...

Augustine was an academic theologian who misunderstand the fundamentals of the Faith which was more about theological paradoxes and Platonic speculations rather than straight forward obedience to the truth. Despite all the hype about "deeper truth" and appeal to mystery, Augustines system was...

Augustine was a One, you cannot The system Augustine believed was not even remotely Christian. It was dualistic and based on determinism.

Augustine "discovered" Original Sin where no ancient theologian had discovered it before. It was not an actual sin but the ghost of a the ghost of a metaphysical sin projected onto the general background sins of an entire race. Augustines ideas did not flow from original presuppositions because...

Some things must be foreknown otherwise the idea would not have ever entered into our minds. Foreknowledge seems to be an attribute of God just like omnipotence. It is interesting that the Ante-Nicene Christians believed men had a free choice. It was not until Augustine brought in Manichaeism...

So you take it as some kind of limitation on God's power that He is unable to create living creatures who are able to make decisions only when controlled by God? If that is true, did not God Himself make man unable to make man that way - even though the Bible treats man AS IF he were able to...

…4 Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge. 5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me. 6Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me...

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1. I was not asking for anyone to help me understand it. What I said is well known came from A. T. Robertson and nd Daniel Wallace. I have read many other Grammar works as well which does not mean I know everything. No one who has studied Greek understands that much 2. Looking back I saw that...

What I said is well known not some idiosyncratic idea of mine. Apparently, y Answer your own question: what is Dr. Bechtle's interpretation of the book of Isaiah if you are not too intimidated to attempt it?

1. Molinism is completely incompatible with classical Augustinianism from which arose Calvinism and Lutheranism both of which held completely to the primary teaching of Theistic Determinism. This is why all the Reformers read Augustine so extensively. 2. John Calvin himself wrote: Augustine is...