Search results

It is kinda funny that you attempt to use the Greek as if that helps your cause. You do know that the Church had only one language, Greek, for the first 900 years of existence. I think they knew their Greek. Yet they don't have the same understanding as you do.

You come from a sola scriptura which was developed within the Reformation. I come from a solid scriptural background, teaching and understanding that has not changed for 2000 years. That is the work of the Holy Spirit within His Body, the Church. I don't put any stock in interpretations and...

this text is part of the prophesy and is speaking of Israel as the purpose of the Church. A corresponding text in the NT is Eph 2:10. Believers were created to be witnesses to the world, created for good works. It is not even addressing Christ's redemptive work. It is addressing the purpose of...

All your texts in context is speaking of believers. However, in order for you and any Christian to have union with God, for God to purify a peculiar people Christ needed to redeem, reconcile, the world and mankind to God. Not only are you cutting Christ's redemption short, you are completely...

Unfortunately you don't understand the Biblical understanding of redemption. You seem to think that Christ created believers by His death/resurrection. To make a persons life a reality, one must accept the call of the Holy Spirit to belief, repentance, baptism and enter into union with Christ.

He hasn't said otherwise. It does not make much difference since he cannot show any evidence that Christians ever believed what he believes before the Reformation. I gave him historical rebuttal of what scripture has meant for 2000 years. I even narrowed it down to prior to the reformation. All...

Lots of strawmen in your explanation. Lots of texts out of context, and misinterpreted. But what could one expect from a man made theory. What sect/denomination supports this theory? It might make sense for the person who wrote this stuff but it is far from what scripture means and has been...

Once again you have not addressed your assertion. You say you will stick with Christ, but your theory only shows you either stick with some other men or just yourself. I don't believe the Holy Spirit is fickle, confused, and gives multiple gospels. He gave it once to the Apostles and the...

The Christian life is possible because of His Atonement.

Which shows that man's will is not bond in any shape or form, it is a classic view of the freedom of man's will. Man's will has always been independent of God's will. The Church dealt with the heresy of Christ's two natures (One Person) in three Councils. 1st Council of Constantinople 381...

You keep repeating your theory. All I can see is Calvinism. Which is a man made theory who had no understanding of God's sovereignty, foreknowledge and how they are scripturally understood. You say you are following Christ's words, yet you cannot show any evidence that it is apostolic...

You will find nothing in scripture, without overriding it with Calvinism, that will make that assertion. As far as I have read his treatises, he has only one and that deals with the unscriptural view that man's will in bound. The only view that fits is Calvinism. From Orthodox, Syrian...

I assumed that you would not be able to confirm your assertion. You have proved, at least to this point, that you cannot support your assertion that all Christians for 2000 years believed that Christians have a bound will. The rest of this post is not pertinent to that assertion.

All these texts are addressing the Christian life. None of them deal with your own topic of this thread, the Atonement.

That is a true statement in spite of yourself. The problem with your understanding is that Christ died for the world, for mankind. He reconciled the world to God. He saved mankind from death and sin. Your view of a limited atonement denies one of the basic tenets of Christianity, namely the...

That is Calvinism, not scripture.

Your thread does not address the question nor the texts. Obviously you cannot reply. You don't understand Christ's redemptive work as described in scripture.

We all know that you believe Calvinism. It is not scriptural. Calvin totally misunderstood predestination and foreknowledge, None of his other 5 points have any root in scripture. They are either his own theories and misunderstandings of context to fit those theories. As you have aptly...

You have never engaged, that is the point. If you don't understand what someone posts, even though it is a text of scripture you dismiss it entirely. You dismiss it because you have no answer for the texts. They refute your assertions which are nothing more than disjointed and unrelated texts...

Obviously you cannot show your view as actually apostolic. You twist scripture, mostly out of context and even Church Fathers to the contrary. Since you made your assertion that all Christians over the last 2000 years held the view of what you all a "bonded will" show any historical statement...