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Karl Peters, you have posted demonic nonsense!! You begin "Theology is our understanding of God. We are all going to have our understanding of God, but it is not what we are to lean on!!" Then you continue to explain - "We are to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, and...

I did not say the Old Covenant people were saved differently than the New Covenant people. We're both saved by faith in the coming One represented in the Old Covenant sacrifices, and taking place at the First Advent. The law of God existed before Moses lived: about murder, Gn 9:5, 6...

An agreement on one point, the First Day of the week did not become a New Covenant sabbath. No such command for that change exists. I disagree on honoring the 7th day sabbath for the following reasons. 1. The Old Covenant was given specifically to Israel, Deut. 4:8 & Lev 27:34. I've never...

The reasons I reject the evasive explanations usually given on Acts 13:48 are as follow - 1. The phrase "were ordained" is in the passive voice, so the agent is God, for only he grants eternal life. 2. The Greek for "ordained" is tasso, and is never used of a disposition arising from one's...

"You have not gone up into the breaches, or repaired a wall for the house of Israel, so that it might stand in battle on the day of the LORD. They have envisioned falsehood and lying divination; they say, “Says the LORD,” when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they wait for the fulfillment of...

When God speaks of foreknowledge of His people, he is speaking of caring for and loving them, not merely foreseeing their conduct or behavior. He speaks of foreknowing persons, not acts of them. God did not elect and choose his people based on their foreseen faith! That idea comes from...

Concerning the beth midrash - "Early rabbinic literature, including the Mishnah, makes mention of the beth midrash as an institution distinct from the beth din and Sanhedrin. It was meant as a place of Torah study and interpretation, as well as the development of halakha (the practical...

On this forum, it is important to keep a couple of verses in mind, and I'll give the traditional translation from the KJV. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." (Isa 8:20, KJV) "For such are false apostles...

Behold, it seems that the teaching of orthodox Christian doctrine really gets under your skin, so let's go to a "Thus says the Lord" and you explain why it does not mean what it so clearly states. You write a lot, but you never explain why the clear statements in God's word do not mean what...

TO THE READER: When you or a family member has a serious medical issue, do you trust every Tom, Dick or Harry you don't know from Adam, who spouts off online? Or, do you pay attention to someone with recognized authority such as the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, John Hopkins, etc.? Everybody...

Many are taught that predestination appears only 4 times in the Bible and always pertains to the Christian. The Greek is G4309 προορίζω proorizo, and the word is actually used 6 times in the NT. If doing a word study by the English, it can be more accurate to use the ASV. I'll use proorizo as...

The doctrine of predestination, as other Christian doctrine, existed in earlier centuries, but was refined and put into systematized creeds and confessions in the Protestant Reformation, but it clearly existed as belief in the early church as I give a few quotes. To claim it was invented by...

Present Tense: God loved the Gentile as well as the Jew, gave his Son, that everyone who is believing (has faith) will have eternal life (This is a simple statement of fact, what is existing; it is not an invitation.) KEEP IN MIND THE FOLLOWING VERSES - "Those who believe in him are not...

Readers, take note how Arminians do not do an exposition of scripture, or give an exegesis of a passage other than what they invent out of their own emotions and feelings. They wish to make God in their image, but God's word forbids that. We cannot even fully comprehend God. God is...

A close and detailed reexamination of John 3:16 - Neuroscience: "The brain uses past learning as the guide for what to expect in the future. Because of prediction, present experience and responses are shaped by the past. Predictions from early life can be deeply encoded and enduring. Predictions...

Calvinism is the gospel message found explicitly stated in scripture. It is Bible orthodoxy as defended in the Synod of Dort against the heresy of the Arminians, and a response made to the Arminian's Five Points. "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not...

I'm a believer in 'truth in advertising'. Those that merely call themselves a "community", church I have no idea what they teach. If I see a church sign that reads "Baptist, Independent, Fundamental, Pre-mil and Pre-trib" I know what that church is teaching, and I know I'd not fit in today...

Norman Geisler - "Geisler maintains that he is a "moderate Calvinist," as outlined in his book Chosen But Free (1999)... He rejects the classical Calvinist tenets of unconditional election, limited atonement and irresistible grace, yet retains modified versions of total depravity and...

I understand "to be more zealous to confirm your call and election" as a warning against what I've heard termed "easy believism", the idea that because you went up front in a revival and professed faith in Christ years ago, but now live like the the world, that you are a true child of God. Eph...

I agree with what you said about the Lamb's Book of Life - "...and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain." (Rev 13:8, RSV) Yet we should not be fatalistic about...