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Show me where it says this. What document, what Council, what homily, what sermon, where in the AAC, what Saints, what Fathers, what historical records, what edict, what bull, what decree, which local synod, which Bishop, which Pope? Show me where. I've had a look at them, didn't see it. Perhaps...

Prove it.

Okay, I'll look and test the spirits by the Word and "see if these things are so" like the Bereans.

I have no idea what hermeneutic you are using to come to these ideas. I am still learning eschatology though. Who teaches these things and where are they from, how old is the idea, and the usual questions?

May the Lord Who Provides (Genesis 22:14) be with you and provide for you in the day of trouble.

I make a distinction between Freemasons who join just for the club and are not necessarily "high up" and "in the know" about what Freemasonry actually is. These lower guys may in fact be Christian, but the ultimate aims of the organization is not at all Christian or compatible with Christianity...

Perhaps there is hope for us to understand these things, St. Paul says: "'For who has known the mind of the Lord; who has advised him?' But we have the mind of Christ." But not yet: "For now we see through a mirror indirectly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know...

As the principle goes "goodness overflows," so because God is good it only makes sense that He would communicate this goodness outside of Himself to others, and as there was no one besides Him He gifted the intrinsically good gift of existence to us all, so that we could share in it (2 Peter...

This is one example of a truly hilarious thing, can John 13:34 be used to prove that Jesus commanded us to love one another? I suppose not, it only proves that Jesus is the Messiah. Moreover nothing John wrote can be used to prove that nothing John wrote can be used to prove anything else...

I agree with this although if they do not have the same nature or some likeness I do not see how one can be called Father and the other Son. For St. Paul calls people his spiritual children in the Epistles but there he has imparted to them a likeness and facilitated them being born again into a...

Every event is by definition unique, so every suffering there is is unlike anything the world has ever or will ever see. You will never again see me break my toenail on the street in the rain again, never was done before (me doing it, there, in the rain, at that time, in that place, by me...

Tribulation has already past, thinking this and making these connections is an abuse of human intellect and honestly beneath your dignity as someone with the Imago Dei.

I see, so it seems like a form of Social Trinitarianism. I do have question about it though, for instance what are these persons? Why is the Father called Father and what is His relationship to the Son? Is one prior to the other in some way or how does this work? None of this speaks of a...

I view it as essential to salvation in that everyone who is saved will acknowledge it, although not everyone in the way of salvation necessarily knows it. The concept of the virtuous pagan and that non-Christians or otherwise may be saved shows this. But it is truly revealed by God to me even in...

I see. "Substance" here I think is just equivalent to essence/nature, what a thing is, which is just related to the universal in it AFAIK. So there is a human essence which makes us distinct from everything else and all things have an essence/substance. Although the concept of a thing having a...

I got it, there are four statements about the substance of God in that Creed which I do confess, the first on the Trinity: "We worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity. Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance." The second on the Incarnation: "As God, He was...

It at minimum means that God is desirous of your salvation and is giving you guys grace to come to Him. God calls all to repentance, whether or not they will be saved or not, for He is just and will never condemn without a warning, but the call to repentance comes with grace to repent, because...

Interesting. Well as I also love the philosophy side of things and consider natural revelation (accessible by reason) as true speech of God like the Scriptures (for no text is self-interpreting this enters either meaninglessness or some ridiculous circularity and knowledge claims), what do you...

It sounds like it was indeed through the Holy Spirit that you came to this together, blessed be God. It is an example of how He works.

The third item, that we can of our own will choose towards God, is that which I deny. So you deny it and I also deny it. How is what you said to me accurate? I am not a Pelagian for it would be ridiculous and stupid to think that I chose God when God said to us "I choose you while you were yet...