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 8/10/11 9:05 AM |
| Joe the Protestant | | 2525 | |  |  |
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Book of Science wrote:
Didn't similar dissenting words fall from the pope's mouth as Galileo demonstrated that the Earth is not the center of the Universe? I'm sure that 9 out of 10 16th Century Europeans agreed with the pope's literal interpretation of the Bible text that the Earth is the center of the Universe. Are you sure you want to tie your salvation to a literal interpretation of Genesis?
However, if your faith is based on a literal interpretation of Genesis, and a scientist proves that's genetically (etc.) impossible, what's left of your faith?
Finally, how do you know, for certain, that the Earth is only 6,000 years old? As to number one:No. The Pope was not getting his idea from the bible, and Gallaleo was a Christian that belived the literal six day account of Gen.
2. I'm sure Jonh and myself would be glad to base our cetraint of salvation on the Literal Interpretaion on Gen. Jesus said 'If I have told you eartly things and ye believen not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things. If we can't trust Gen. hoe can we trust jn. 3:16
3. What If; as frequently happens, further research disproves former theories and backs up the Bible? What will you tell God?
4.A simple chronology, coupled with what Jesus called the begining. |
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| 7/24/11 9:07 AM |
| Joe the Protestant | | 2525 | | | |
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Bibliophile wrote:
How can the Pope be the Antichrist when he's the most pro-life leader on the planet even protecting the embryo - I'm sure someone has already given this answer already. But here is the answer again: Anti, in Antichrist, can mean either; against, or, in place of. As in the case of a copycat. Of course it can mean both. So, if a man is an Antichrist, we would expect that he would exhibit many positive charachtaristics.
The Antichrist (the man of sin)will convince many that he is the True Christ. He could not do that by being outwardly immoral and evil. As to your many posts of why you left the PCA to become catholic; I'm truly sorry for you. Todays PCA sadly is going into accomadationalism. However the WCF is a much closer representation of scripture than the church of Rome. But if you have a problem with the WCF, the 1689 confession, the Savoy, ect. Then why not just take the New Testament and read it several times, without running it through the grid of what you are being taught in catholisism, then compare It with you new found catholic experience. Many of us are praying for your Spiritual conversion Nicodemus. |
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| 7/20/11 6:36 PM |
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John Yurich USA wrote:
Therefore NO POPE HAS EVER BEEN THE ANTI-CHRIST. The Bible states that there are many anti-christs. You might want to resarch Pope Innocent III (very inappropriate name)He had several French Monks killed for Street Preaching out of Bible texts. And when He said that the Pope was the final Authority, they said the Bible was their authority. Source: Christianity Through the Centuries. By Cairns |
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| 7/15/11 2:19 PM |
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PCA wrote:
What is our theology on homosexuality?
Example:
A 20 year old baptized Christian man is seriously tempted by same-sex attraction and occasionally gives into it for the next 50 years of his life.
Questions:
(a.) Is he saved once-and-for-all, by faith in Jesus, regardless of the number of subsequent homosexual acts?
(b.) Does he lose his salvation each time he gives into a homosexual act?
(c.) Is salvation even possible for him? Here is another possibility:
Was he saved to begin with?
I don't ask that lightly, or in a detached manner. After giving my life to the Lord, I had a recuring problem with a sin, that eventually dominated my life. I had to seriously ask myself the question:Had I ever really been saved to begin with. Looking back after many years, I believe the marks of salvation were there: Conviction and chastizement, and that the Lord did bring me out of it through repentance. Yet, I would not presume on such a thing. Many may be presuming on a Decision once made, but with no eveidence of regeneration, or repentance. |
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| 6/29/11 4:05 PM |
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Dopey wrote:
Joe, my good friend,
Do you think God before the creation of the world was willing to "elect" every human being born with a sinful nature? Hello again.
The best I understand to teaching (mind you I'm still studying this, even after 10 yrs.) God, in the begining,had a free choice (His will being soverign and subject to no one)to either create, or not create. Having chosen to create, he could have created any type of reality He chose. He could have created in such a way as that none fell. I suppose He could have chosen to elect everyone, so that none would have gone to hell.
What seems to throw people, is they think God's electing was based on something good he saw, or foresaw in the elect. That would be Conditional Election, and would indeed make God a respecter of persons.
However, all the documents and commentaries I've read concerning election, say that election in Unconditional. For reasons known only to God, he elected some. It would not be based on any goodness in them.
Why did God do it this way? I don't know. This teaching seems foreign to many people today, but if we had lived a hundred years ago or more, we would take it for granted because it was preached much more then.
CV:I'll have to get back to you. |
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| 6/29/11 10:48 AM |
| Joe the Protestant | | | |
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God is not unjust to provide salvation for some and not all. God would not be unjust if He provides salvation for no one. Salvation, for anyone, is wholly of grace. He would have been just in letting the whole world go tho hell. Lost people are lost, not because they despratly want to get saved, but can't because they are not elect. They
are lost because, by nature they love sin, and are averse to coming to God.
Instances where God provided salvation for some, and not all:
* The Flood. How big was the ark in comparison to the population of the world?
* Sodom. How many people did God send the angels to? As far as whosoever will; it is God that makes one willing. Left to ourselves, none of us would ever choose to turn to the Lord. As far as Regeneration apart from repentance and faith; that is the teaching of Hypercalvinism. Salvation apart from means. Evangelical Calvinism teaches that Repentance and Faith are also gifts from God, and that all are present and necessary in salvation. |
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| 6/23/11 2:56 PM |
| Joe the Protestant | | | |
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CV wrote:
Joe this is actually a quote from this article, It should've been in quotes.
""texting is people engaging,”letting folks know the church is the people," said Pastor Schreiner.
It's more like what we do here at SA and call it a Sunday Service. Thanks for clarifying that. It didn't sound like anything you would have said. Obviously technology can ba used for Godly purposes. I guess that old saying There is a time and a place for everything, applies well. |
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| 6/23/11 10:13 AM |
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CV wrote:
"texting is people engaging,”letting folks know the church is the people. Texting people who are in a different location, while ignoring people Right in Front of you, is disengaing yourself from the fellowship you are supposed to be having. |
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| 5/31/11 6:03 PM |
| Joe the Protestant | | | |
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Dopey wrote:
I wonder if anyone is laughing at Joe the Protestant because in his statement in a five word sentence, he didn't spell one word correctly?
If so, listen very carefully to what I'm about to tell you.
If I was asked by God to pick two of the most outstanding examples of humility to showcase from the comments I have seen at Sermon Audio since I have been here, I wouldn't pick my good friend John, EP, myself, or certain other men who may have reputations for being very knowledgeable in some people's eyes, but I would pick:
Joe the Protestant. Thank you my friend.
It's good to have you on the discusion board.
I have also enjoyed John UK and EP as well. |
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| 5/30/11 7:11 PM |
| Joe the Protestant | | | |
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Conservative wrote:
After reading the LBCF (1689) in the SBC and the WCF (1646) as a PCA member, really thought that Pope JP II is "that man of sin that son of perdition."
Later learned that The Pill is abortive (per packet inserts) and that he strenuously opposed it via Humanae Vitae.
Thus, the most evil man on the planet (per LBCF/WCF) is the greatest defender of the unborn including that tiny person AKA the embryo?
Perhaps the LBCF/WCF made sense in their 17th Century contexts, but today? Hardly.
You thump your Bibles and beat your chests. Get a clue, the Reformation is over. You need to start using another moniker.
Apostate would suit you better than consevative.
Read my previous comment to you. |
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| 5/30/11 10:19 AM |
| Joe the Protestant | | | |
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Conservative wrote:
Attempting to rekindle the 16th Century Faith Alone battle by invoking tired (and slanderous) labels like the "Whore of Babylon" in the 21st Century is only interesting.
What Protestant doctrine needs to address is the holocaust caused by The Pill. Until then, Faith Alone and all the epithets hurled at the RCC are largely irrelevant. I could not disagree more!The pill keeps people from being born. Denying Justification by Faith in Christ Alone keeps people from being born again! In the right context, your posts against birt controll are very good. But, when you compare that evil with the evil of denying Sola Fidela, such a thing becomes outrageous. A straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. You use the name "Consevative": Well it looks like you are more of a social conservative than a theological conservative. What would it profit if you stoped all the birth control in the world, and all went to hell following the deceptions of Rome, Liberalism, The Emergent Heresy, and ect? |
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| 5/25/11 9:45 AM |
| Joe the Protestant | | | |
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Let's see. People in Christian History that had small brains?:
AugastineAnselm Aquinas Bernard Beza Calvin Edwards Farrell John Gill M.L.Jones D.James Kennedey Knox Luther MacArthter Melanchon G. Cambell Morgan Ian Murray John Murray Ashael Nettelton Owen Spurgeon Tyndale Wesley Whitefield Zizzendorf To mention a few. |
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| 5/9/11 4:33 PM |
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Jim Lincoln wrote:
Isn't it great that Reformed Church and Presbyterians support the ESV or [URL=http://www.lockman.org/nasb/nasbcmp.php]]]NASB[/URL]  NO!!!!!!!!
But what would be great is if you started your own nasb web site, and stopped interloping positive KJV articles with your neagtive nonesense.
I you did start your own site (and left Sermon Audio)I for one could promise you that I would not go to your site and post negativity about your bible. |
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