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Those OT quotes by Buzz actually backfire. Example...Leviticus 19:9a "When you reap the harvest of your land, "Your" land requires private ownership.

That actually sums up the main difference. Although Church tradition is not wrong in and of itself (even the Prots have their traditions and even liturgies!). the bottom line is what do you do when Church dogma/tradition contradicts rather than supplements Scripture. The Prots (are supposed to...

There is no 'origin' of LIFE. If LIFE had a beginning then God had a beginning. LiFE is one of God's intrinsic, inseparable attributes.

Here is my doctrine on the 'how' of love. 'We love Him because He first loved us.' and the corollary 'we love others as we grasp the fact of His deep love for us' What deep love? 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' This is why the Cross is so...

i would steer clear of a position that is either/or. Paul is simply describing the ineffectiveness of the law due to the weakness of the flesh and the strength of sin (whether he is regenerate of unregenerate.). It is through our union with Christ (Rom 7:4) and not the law that fruit is...

Paul did not cease to covet when he listened to the law (as commandments) of God but rather sin increased (see Rom 7)..This is exactly what the works of the flesh is. It was when he heard and believed the Gospel did he see his only sure hope in the finality of the victorious Cross and the...

You must mean "Roman' catholicism. Catholic simply means universal as in universal church. 'Roman' Catholicism is therefore an oxymoron.

Richard, I think you posted my quote but your response was to a different post. All along I have been pretty much on the same page. chapter and book as you. To most of the others, it seems the emphasis goes to the 'doing' as if our 'doing' is part of the Gospel that either helps save us or...

A true Christian born of God will not look at what God has done for him and then say ''I don't have to do anything'.. He has new desires by the Spirit Who's love is shed abroad in his heart. He will want to please God and try to (even in his own strength unfortunately). He may fail and even grow...

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM. (Joh 8:58)

He (God) picked us up as unclean uncut diamonds in the rough (past), He cuts, cleans and polishes us (present ), He will present us as a completed gem (future). 'He' is the point. The problem comes when we try to interject ourself into the pie and pull out our thumb to say "Oh, what a good boy...

New Heavens and a new Earth. I believe our redeemed Bodies (as well as our spirit) may have a spiritually physical abode. 'Spiritual' being the adjective. to 'physical abode'. ~it was a bodily resurrection, right?

Past,present, future salvation has it's roots in the Grace of God. I don't care how much obedience or even faith, Prentis, you say is required, the fact is that even those things are rooted in God's grace on account of Christ. In short we love Him (the ultimate in obedience) because He first...

Simply straw men arguments. All OT prophecy in the past had been fulfilled literally and no reason why it wont be in the future. Take for example in Acts 1 post resurrection= When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the...

Yes but only because He first loved me by dying for my sins,and drawing me unto His Tree.

During rising persecution, many who were 'quiet' will speak forth and many of the previous 'loudmouths' will shrink in silence. Read Richard Wurmbrand's testimonies.

Those that mix country with Christ make the same mistake that Islam does which is a very religio-political system (two are inseparable in Islam) ; using 'Allah' instead.of Christ. Actually Christianity/Jews religion has it's roots in the Middle East, mainly Israel.

It seems like His Body the Church drives all kinds of ways including driving me crazy with questions like this. :blink:

The 144000 is a good example of 'spiritualizing'. And if it includes the Church today, tell me which of the twelve tribes you are in? And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to...

So the 144,000 in Revelation (12000 in each tribe) is nothing but a figurative expression? One more question. Why were all the prophecies in the OT fulfilled literally and now all of a sudden most unfulfilled prophecies will have a non-literal fulfillment? To me it's a sign of Liberal...