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Just a few things to note from the quote I posted perhaps you missed: God’s Spirit has guided the church through the ages as it has sought to rightly understand that Word. they often mistreated God’s holy Word by isolating it from the body of Christ and ignoring the insights of others. This...

I stand acquitted!

I wonder if in your last section here you realize your own inconsistency? Why should we recognize your proposed consultation or axiom concerning Mr. NetChaplin? Your argument is self-refuting. While the Scriptures are our only rule of faith and practice (Mt 15: 3-9), God’s Spirit has guided...

This is about one of the Early Church Fathers. I hope it is able to enlighten the concept of theology: While Augustine is commonly considered the father of Western orthodox Christianity, he never saw his own conclusions as indisputable. In response to a letter that questioned ideas from one of...

Jesus is the only atonement for sin. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the...

What is the Gospel? The gospel is not behavior modification, becoming a better person or learning to become more moral. It is not taking the life of Jesus as a model way to live or transforming/redeeming the secular realm. It is not living highly communal lives with others and sharing...

Well to Jews Christianity is not a conversion, rather a completion or fulfillment. The repentance had to do with how they thought of the Christ they called to be crucified. Repentance has everything to do with the person and work of Jesus Christ. Again we can not save ourselves. God saves us...

Yes, sanctification. Let me assure you NO WHERE IN SCRIPTURE does it state we will receive divinity. This is simply your misinterpretation concerning us receiving a glorified body. And Jesus also said the greatest in heaven is the servant of all. We are definitely slaves to righteousness...

This portion of Scripture you offered speaks of how we were reconciled while we were still enemies; that does not sound like a two way street to me. Reconciliation in Romans 9:5-11 is man being reconciled back unto God through the propitiation of His Son. For if while we were enemies we were...

Skypair, I am uncertain how you are quoting, yet as you can see it is confusing the system. I am going to be brief in my response as there are only certain things I want to address. First I stated, "Even as we are being molded into the image of Jesus Christ, we are not partakers of His eternal...

Yes, and grace is the knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ which, if we believe, we must also apply to our lives in order to be saved. And, of course, the gospel is free and unmerited by us who are all sinners. No. The "works" spoken of in scripture as unavailing are works of the flesh and...

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also...

It seems this is a game to you. I read through your comments and the twisting approach you used. If you choose to have a real and direct dialogue I am willing, yet your current tactic is telling me a completely different story. I never once mentioned Calvin or Calvinism. I do not speak of...

God is the one who saves, not our actions or choices. It is through His grace that we repent (change what it is we think about the person and work of Christ) and receive faith. Grace is unmerited favor. What you are falsely presenting is we merit salvation through repentance. This is a...

This is a false teaching. We are not free moral agents like God. You ought to look into the context of where Jesus presents the psalm to His audience. Jesus is the only begotten Son of God, born of the flesh (Mary) and of the Holy Spirit. He is without an earthly father, yet His Father is...

Here I see the direct context dealing with the resurrection of the dead. Some of the Corinthians were stating there is no resurrection. This is a matter of first importance as Paul states. Without belief in the resurrection there is no eternal life, thus their belief would be in vain. cf verse...

Do you know the criteria the early Church used in authenticating Scripture? The Church recognized what is Scripture, it did not establish it. This though must be qualified that those who coauthored the New Testament were apportioned to the Church. (Coauthored to mean under the inspiration of the...

I will respond in greater detail later, yet do you understand that you are under the same dilemma in every question you pose even if you follow the RCC? Yes I have read the ECF. Much of their interpretation is allegorical and they contradict one another on many occasions. I think the better...

Scripture will not contradict itself, only the interpretation has that capability (to contradict itself), thus we must use Scripture to interpret Scripture. Everyone who reads Scripture is an interpreter and applies a certain hermeneutic to the text. The main concept behind studying and...

I liken this with Ephesians 2:7. Also along with your tag, No loner I, but Christ... Then I agree faith is attributed as from God.