Oh, I didn't mean arguing in a negative sense, although it sounds like it after reading again. I just meant I forgot how we reached that point in the discussion. Lol
I like these discussions and I think they are important. Even if we are very different the discourse challenges us to search...
foszoe,
Do you think the three persons of the Trinity are not in accord? (On the subject of wrath, or anything else)
Do you think God changes?
If God has a trait, does he not have it forever?
Do you think Jesus broke a law?
Do you think Jesus had no wrath?
I didn't expect this...
You said I implied that God changes and I say I do not. My theology has no difficulty with an immutable, unchanging God. I'm glad God doesn't change.
Unless you are implying God is NOT eternally wrathful (or even temporarily wrathful??), then I think the point was made.
Jesus felt all...
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at a Jeb Bush Fundraiser...
God does not change and neither do his characteristics. He is eternally loving, but he is also eternally wrathful toward sin. Psalm 7:11 says God is "angry with the wicked every day."
His law requires that the soul that sins be put to death. Once the sentence has been carried out then...
Ok, not bad.
The essence of the Christian gospel is that Jesus Christ was the perfect sacrifice for the sins of mankind. He bore the penalty of all our sins as a substitute. He was the Lamb of God, slaughtered on our behalf. He paid our debt in full. His work was perfect, complete...
Praying for (and communicating with) dead people has roots in ancient paganism. The myth turned into tradition, and the tradition turned into Roman Catholic dogma during the Dark Ages. Below are some early Roman Catholic decrees on "Purgatory"; the term coined in 1254. It was decreed in...
Very well, Mark, we will search the scriptures together.
The real meat of the objection is the idea that any "purification" remains to be performed. Numerous texts would indicate the opposite, including the one I just quoted: ALL of our sin is cleansed (1John 1:7) by one act of Christ (Rom...
We must love everyone, even our enemies. The world would make that out to mean something all inclusive; not opposing false beliefs, and even working to blend them into one system. The biblical model never supports that kind of thing. We must not compromise on the truth.
Consider this: our...
God draws his elect from many false systems. They will be ex-Muslims and ex-atheists when they die, confessing Jesus as Lord, and only in 20/20 hindsight they will known as the elect.
Yes that is correct about not knowing the elect, since we don't get to read the Book of Life. There are...
Well, the bible says (in multiple places) that God wrote the names of the elect in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world. These verses tell us clearly that election was done before any of us existed; the man's destiny was to belong to God. However, until the moment of...
T.Lex,
I have nothing I care to add about the "Children of God," so the reader can open his bible and see what is (and isn't) written. You got the last word.
31,000+ verses in the bible and apparently none of them call all of humanity "children of God." Is this really a responsible way for any Christian to speak?
That phrase doesn't arrive until John introduces us to Jesus Christ: "But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave...
Negative, the phrase "Children of God" does not exist there. It is not a phrase ever used in reference to the entirety of humanity. It is not biblical.
The devil is a literal person and he has literal followers; the magician was one of them. The magician was literally a spiritual child of...
Please quote the scripture that describes all of humanity as "Children of God." If this is proper biblical language then it will be easy to demonstrate.
I have cited numerous biblical references to the opposite effect and you are unphased.
So... Here is a specific biblical example of...
Certainly. In the context of Christian theology, those words have specific meaning. He took language from the bible and applied it severely out of context.
We have it on the authority of Jesus Christ, and even individual scripture accounts, telling us not everybody gets a trophy...
Yes. Christianity has always understood this biblical truth. Even the Roman Catholics affirmed that until recently.
Do you think everybody goes to Heaven? All mentions of Hell were fables?
"Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them [Jews] is that they may be saved. For I...
God's salvation has always been available to the entirety of humanity. The thing is, you get saved on the terms of the One True God, not based on the demonic "truths" of a pagan religion. In all those examples, the saved person gets pulled out of paganism and sees the truth, and follows by...