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I agree salvation is not dependent on a theology test, God forbid, for many have been saved who could not even read, or people who have been saved but had a difficult time thinking abstractly, or those who simply had to work all their days and did not have the leisure required to abstract in...

"God sent His only begotten Son into this world... then selflessly gave His life as a ransom for sin." Do you not see that depending on how one defines "God" and "Son" here the Gospel radically changes? What if I think of God like the Mormons do? They would agree with this sentence, but their...

How can this be in Protestantism when the Atonement can not rightly be understood apart from the Trinity? "A creature is what brought creatures and God together again" vs. "God brought creatures and God together again" is literally an infinite difference. This is also why Protestant manuals of...

Mediation is by definition between two persons at least. There is Council in God because there are Three Persons. This is not an issue of omnipresence. Do you believe that there are Three Divine Persons?

It is truly shameful when a person argues against a position they have blatantly not studied. As for these two claims (which no one who has even read a single treatise on the Trinity, even a few paragraphs of exposition, would claim even if they disagreed with the Trinity) the answer is simple...

That Jesus is the Second Person of the Trinity who assumed a human nature in His Incarnation. If a person has to believe what the Bible suggests (in other words the Apostolic Faith) then they should in fact believe precisely what Trinitarians (that is Christian believers, holders of the...

If a person thinks Jesus was really a dog masquerading as a human do they know who He is to have faith in Him?

No text by definition is self-explanatory as words must be imbued with meaning and the order of words. If I say "it is raining cats and dogs" is that really by itself, with no context whatsoever (no cultural context for instance, no knowledge of idioms, etc) self-explanatory? If you saw that...

So any prophecy that mentions the world you believe by necessity, based on certain descriptions, is always in the future? How did you come to this underlying presupposition?

How do you take the language of Nahum, a prophecy fulfilled concerning Ninevah, when speaking of the judgment of that city says "Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart. The earth heaves before him— the world and all her inhabitants. Yahweh is good—a refuge in the day of distress; he...

I will ignore your lack of reading ability, and focus on the core of the issue since you seem to think I somehow disagree with you on a point where we are otherwise in agreement but you lack the basic knowledge to see it. Anyway let me set this straight in a child's English since you can't seem...

It's odd to me that anyone would follow the decisions of a false religion on the canon. Not to say that the history of the "Catholic canon" is clean either, even now various Churches still have various Canons, although they all agree on a minimum, the maximum for all is not yet entirely clear...

Amazing thread. To me the very fact that Scripture exhorts rulers to do "justice" and "righteousness" proves that we should be involved in making the civil and cultural world better, for what is just and right except God, His will, and so on? Moreover God judged nations other than Israel for...

Saw this article yesterday, it's a really cool find. A truly ancient land which makes me wonder how it looked back then.

He will have the same body. He has already been glorified and is immortal, incorruptible, and all the other properties (like subtly and agility) that the Resurrected body has. He will never be born again like that. We will receive the same sort of body if we are saved in our Resurrection.

There are many "first commandments." It depends on what you mean by that. Here are some examples of how you can count the "first" commandment: 1) Creating things, the first creation most specifically for "He commanded and they [all things] were made." 2) The first commandment to mankind...

He will and it is possible. In many Christian books you'll see in the beginning a prayer for all who read it that they may profit by it.

As for stoning Him possibly, but there had been before and after Him many Messiahs in that era that claimed it. Also with Ezekiel the title has been translated by people as "human child" or "human being" or "humanoid," while it can have specific meanings it is most often just a way of saying...

Trinitarians are monotheists and have the same religion as the Israelites of old, and are in fact Israel. Those who you call "Jews" are in a different religion entirely and have nothing to do with Isaiah. Fortunately for us the real Jews (the Church) are preserving the history, and the words are...

I was refuting your implication that any of those verses contradicts Trinitarian theology, for it is impossible that it should be done. As for Colossians and the parallel in Romans 8:29 it is simply that Christ is firstborn by being the only Son of God by nature and being first in dignity of...