Recent content by Bruce-Leiter

What don't you understand, @MatthewG?

Yeah, @MatthewG, it seems that we don't differ very much at all. May the Triune God bless you abundantly in your walk with him!

Yes, I agree, @MatthewG, that we need to exchange views without anger that tries to control people. It's interesting to me that you say that Jesus becomes the Lord God Almighty again with his ascension into heaven, is that right? If so, my question is, who or what was Jesus while he was on...

The Bible is clear in teaching that God is our just Judge and that unbelievers who remain unrepentant during their whole lives bring on themselves eternal punishment because of the guilty verdict that they deserve. It's sad that God must give that verdict because he cannot live with unforgiven...

@St. SteVen, it would be "a bitter pill to swallow" if God didn't give us the ability to humble our reasoning to his mysterious will. We can't reason everything out; he just hasn't revealed everything to us: Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. View #2: Yes...

Where did you get this form of View #1, St. SteVen? Your first and last sentences imply that God is selfish and give him motives that the Bible doesn't address. God's punishment does not reveal any human motives that seem to be described in your first sentence. God has his perfect plans for...

Paul and Peter were only describing parts of the process that people go through when they are saved, @rvmb. They are not prescribing all of the steps of salvation, that is, telling them the exact steps they must go through. Paul's description leaves out repentance, but we know that we must...

Doctrine is not a bad thing as long as it arises out of the givens of the Scriptures. If it does, doctrines are good and certainly not anything to be proud of, since their source is God!

All the truly-Christian, biblical churches agree on the basic doctrines but do disagree on some of the much-less-important ones, @St. SteVen.

@St. SteVen, the only true basis for any true opinions is the Bible's teachings and history. That basis is John Calvin's and mine.

@St. SteVen, the Christians that I know tell the truth about God.

@St. SteVen said the Christians he knows talk about God, @Wick Stick, as follows: "Only with great difficulty that God loves and tolerates us." That's not the Bible's description at all. Furthermore, I still don't know any who talk that way about God, because it's not true.

Yes, St. SteVen, yes, I have kept a lot of good company, and a lot of them were Calvinists, who don't ever speak negatively about God, the way you characterize some Christians. In fact, I am a Calvinist who has studied Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. You might try it; you might...

The way some Christians talk about God, you would think so. They tell us we are unacceptable to God. That it is only with great difficulty that God loves and tolerates us. The image of a God that is disappointed with us, because we don't measure up. Shakes His head when he sees us. An...

@St. SteVen, there is certainty in the truths of the Bible. When I became a Christian at the age of 16, God convinced me that Jesus' resurrection is a historical event because of the eyewitnesses' solid testimonies that they saw Jesus alive after they knew that he had died. Those people were...