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Calvin might disagree.

The notion here is that even if my prayer directly to God would not be granted, my prayer to Saint So-and-So to ask the same thing of God on my behalf would achieve its granting (because God favors So-and-So’s requests over mine). Let’s dig into this. Four possibilities: 1. God hears my direct...

Has the Lord's "reap what he sows" approach not always been true?

So, you know what happened on Jan 6 because you heard it on a documentary? That's almost as dumb as believing it because Der Führer of Mar-a-Lago said it.

Do Calvinists really believe that? I'm not one, so I don't know. I guess I just assumed than any Calvinists who went that far would have been sterilized centuries ago to prevent any possible genetic transmission of such galactic stupidity. (Or may even put to death on the spot, just in case...

And you have proof of all this? Where were you during the election-rigging trials and hearings -- 30 of them -- that went against Trump? None of Trump's lawyers in those courtrooms were able to make any headway without the proof you've been hoarding.

Maybe the "good people" who marched in Charlottesville?

And now the conspiracy theories will flow, implicating the Secret Service in some hypothetical Democratic cabal to assassinate Trump.

Not true, @Scott. The hush money conviction will not be overturned on those grounds because Trumps actions in the hush money case were not official actions taken while President.

I would put it differently. Scripture neither commands nor forbids a celibate priesthood. So the Church's teaching on the subject is consistent with but not backed up by Scripture -- Paul's preference for celibacy notwithstanding.

What verse are you thinking about? The Greek word for full knowledge is ἐπίγνωσις. Why do you ask?

When a Catholic is apprised of Magisterial teaching, does his "full knowledge" follow, such that his deliberate rejection of that teaching will automatically be a mortal sin?

How does Satan benefit, much less come off as "posing as god" "to get worship," by the doctrine of the Trinity?

Is there any JW mistake still extant?

Paleoanthropology is not a baseless science. It is based on hard evidence. I buy into it, and my Christian faith is unshaken by it. The Genesis creation story is metaphorical. Get over it.

On the practice of praying for the dead, Martin Luther wrote: As for the dead, since Scripture gives us no information on the subject, I regard it as no sin to pray with free devotion in this or some similar fashion: 'Dear God, if this soul is in a condition accessible to mercy, be thou...

Don't you recognize sarcasm when you see it? It's YOU who thinks the exact phrase "in the name of Jesus Christ" must be used in baptisms, without alteration or substitution, or else the baptism is ineffective. You discount functional equivalence in favor of verbal exactitude. The phrase “in...

Care to list any JW mistakes?

I'm not prepared to do that. Verses that tie salvation to faith without mentioning what else may or may not be necessary to salvation are context dependent, and it is difficult for me to get my arms around the context in a way that provides a firm answer. You may as well ask me whether my sins...

Is the issue as simple as whether "If A, then B" means that A is necessary for B or whether it means that A is both necessary AND sufficient for B?