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- Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:32 pm
- Forum: Christian Theology
- Topic: Question about salvation, repentance, obedience and works
- Replies: 135
- Views: 33806
Re: Question about salvation, repentance, obedience and work
You should all just become Calvinists already.
- Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:26 am
- Forum: Christian Theology
- Topic: Question about salvation, repentance, obedience and works
- Replies: 135
- Views: 33806
Re: Question about salvation, repentance, obedience and work
First, I do think that the Catholic position is more sophisticated than it is often caricatured by Protestants as being. Second, while any Protestant you meet is likely to consider "works" as a dirty word (especially in connection with salvation), people intentionally or unintentionally ad...
- Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:09 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: The LOST Arts of Reading and Communicating
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4971
Re: The LOST Arts of Reading and Communicating
My opinion is that the easiest way by far is instilling a love of literature and stories through the parents/family at as young an age as possible. Once you have to force teens or even college students to read even relatively simple stuff, you've lost half the battle. Tolkien and Lewis are a couple ...
- Sun Jan 13, 2013 8:44 pm
- Forum: Christian Theology
- Topic: Problem of evil
- Replies: 149
- Views: 35047
Re: Problem of evil
My issue is about (non)-comprehending that evil is told to be an asbence of good. Following is from Genesis 3: "22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, an...
- Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Cult Classic Films
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4882
Re: Cult Classic Films
I suppose it depends how you define "cult classic". Some choices- Nighthawks (Stallone film, pretty good) F.I.S.T (another Stallone film, very good) Cobra (80s Stallone action film, very bad but with a style that would fit what others have mentioned) Night of the Living Dead (probably one ...
- Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:00 am
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: How concerned should we be towards stubborn lost people?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18296
Re: How concerned should we be towards stubborn lost people?
A lot of people do confuse what usually (or always, depending on your view) accompanies faith with faith itself. Then there are those like MacArthur who out-and-out state that these other things *are* a part of faith (which confuses me, given the Reformers' definition of faith). Of course this isn't...
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:54 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: How concerned should we be towards stubborn lost people?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18296
Re: How concerned should we be towards stubborn lost people?
While trying to avoid derailing further, I'll only add that not all 5PC are Lordship proponents. And trying not to rehash currently dead topics, I'll also add that a great many Calvinists would be taken aback by some of what's been insisted that they must believe in order to be Calvinists. In fact, ...
- Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:45 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: How concerned should we be towards stubborn lost people?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18296
Re: How concerned should we be towards stubborn lost people?
Hey, I'm the Calvinist here. But there's nothing to be said about Calvinism here really... I agree with jlay that sola fide is at the heart of the gospel message and you have to be very careful how you word/think about these things. Any addition of works to the Gospel and its no longer the Gospel. I...
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: Please Introduce Yourself Here
- Replies: 2307
- Views: 771823
Re: Please Introduce Yourself Here
Thanks for the testimony, gummi.
- Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:57 pm
- Forum: Christian Chit-chat
- Topic: I stepped away and honestly....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4242
Re: I stepped away and honestly....
Unlike many here, I'm fairly big on church. Of course the oft-made and oft-forgotten point is that church is the body of Christ. So obviously when I hear people say that they "stepped away", well, its concerning. I'm also big on the organized part of it. It doesn't have to be "officia...
- Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:43 am
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Do you have Faith?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12692
Re: Do you have Faith?
Faith as "belief without proof" would have completely baffled Christians for centuries, although many Christians today (unfortunately, I think) follow along the same sort of lines as Kierkegaard. So while it may not be a strawman for what some Christians believe (mostly those who haven't s...
- Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:38 am
- Forum: Christian Theology
- Topic: I can just do whatever I want
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3998
Re: I can just do whatever I want
We all fall into the "I can do whatever I want" thinking once in a while, but to me that doesn't show that you aren't saved. And if that sort of thinking is a problem (I think most would agree it is), it still does nothing to negate "once saved always saved" (a phrase that comes ...
- Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: List the greatest films in these categories
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3028
Re: List the greatest films in these categories
My own choices for some other possible categories. Action- First Blood or T2 maybe? Although action is a hard category to do without wandering into my own favorites rather than what I consider to be the best (although they admittedly coincide quite a bit). Adventure- Raiders of the Lost Ark Musical-...
- Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion & Introductions
- Topic: List the greatest films in these categories
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3028
List the greatest films in these categories
Theology, sports, and fiction (books and movies) are three of the things I enjoy discussing the most (at least online). I'm not sure if there's any movie buffs here but I thought I'd try it. A few years back the American Film Institute did a top 10 list in 10 categories, so I'll steal their categori...
- Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:12 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Questions and discussion about lost people and God's justice
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10724
Re: Questions and discussion about lost people and God's jus
You know, its one of those questions that I'm pretty content to say that "I don't know, but God does". Practically speaking, it shouldn't make a difference. We know that our God is sovereign and is not unjust. We also know that we are to preach the Gospel, so there should be no incentive w...