Recent content by Piers Plowman

My formal apologies to @GodsGrace and @Eternally Grateful

I mean, I could leave right now, if I am not welcome here. I have no issue with that. No, really, I have no emotion in regards to that. If it means peace for all involved.

Using 'We can not judge who is saved or not' card doesn't give you free pass in passing judgment unto an entire denomination.

One would say being accused of 'denying the Holy Trinity' and 'disagreeing with regarding the Christian faith' is more like 'swinging' and 'slinging'. Ought not new members be treated in more hospitable manner? It takes two to make a board.

In continuation of @Logikos 's post above, my question to @Grailhunter @GodsGrace is: do you have assurance in your heart that, by grace of God, you will receive salvation at the end of your life? I do.

Well now, hold on a minute. Assurance of Salvation is a rather important cornerstone for one's faith. I, personally, firmly, believe that Jesus Christ saved me from perdition. I have assurance of that. OSAS can't be handwaved away that easily. Saints need perseverance.

As opposed to... universalism?

Stop moving the goalposts. And please don't broad-stroke the faith of entire denominations, without even properly understanding what they actually believed in. 'I don't say who is saved or who isn't' card is old and overused, you know.

So nobody in the Church of the East was saved, for the past 1,500 years? I think you should reconsider your questions here. And please also consider the fact that I do not appreciate unsolicited attacks against my faith. Why do you think I brought up the Council of Ephesus?

I still am of the opinion that 'Christotokos' is a better title for Mary, personally.

Yes. And the Church of the East disagreed with the condemnation of Nestorius.

Unless I'm mistaken, Council of Ephesus took place on 431 A.D.?

Church of the East?

I have indeed heard about that-- apparently, it's okay to initiate mass destruction of property and lives, as long as they insert hints of it ahead of time in movies and mass media, or something. Never understood that logic, but then again, I'm rather glad that I don't. I wish to hear your...

/shrug/ nothing I'll say against that. In any case it's a sorry state of affairs, all around. The ones charging such tuition amounts are ruining future generations for their own gain.