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If they make their priests have to choose celibacy, the it's imposing something on them which is clearly not demanded by God's word. Anyone choosing to be the equivalent of a pastor in the Catholic church should be allowed to marry. It shouldn't be an exception or anything like that. It...

Psalm 32:1-2 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity..." Psalm 103:12 "As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us". A more clear definition also can be found in...

Yes, exactly, coequal.

Right again. Celibacy is in every verse presented as a choice. It is suggested very strongly since it can free us of all kinds of problems. However it is a flat-out lie to say that in anyplace in the Bible it is required. By the authority of God's word, celibacy is absolutely a man-made...

When Jesus uses the title the Son of Man, he is referring to the prophecy in Daniel. He is still a son of man of course since he was born of man, just as Ezekiel was called this. But in Jesus calling himself the Son of Man he is linking himself to the prophecy in Daniel 7:13 -14, a prophecy...

I remember there was some confusion about why he is called Everlasting Father here. I'll have to look into it, but it may be that he is the clearest revelation that we have of God the Father. As Jesus replies to the request of one of his disciples to "Show us the Father", He says, "If you have...

Definitely didn't solve the problem of heresy since it still exists and will always. They did go a long way in defining orthodoxy. The creeds are quite clarifying.

The Son obeys the Father if that's what you mean by subordination. Just as long as you don't mean he's less God in some way.

Well, Jesus doesn't equal God the Father exactly since he is a different person, but he's not like lower in rank or something like that. He's very God of very God being of one substance with the Father, just God the Son not God the Father.

Of course not. It requires an orthodox interpretation of God's revelation to us.

That's because it is. The worship of Mary, purgatory and indulgences are nowhere in the Bible. I'd like to see verses in the Bible which support this idea if it is fact Biblical. The only way any Catholic can adhere to such things is if they have been trained to not read the Bible and rather...

Exactly. People take the verse in James to be the sole proof that salvation must come by faith AND works. Yet, if that is the absolute interpretation of it, then you have a contradiction in the Bible. Therefore, if that is what someone believes, then they believe in a errant Bible, one that does...

Oh, exactly. That is why I'm a huge proponent of orthodoxy and not heresies such as the Catholic Church, Unitarianism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and many others. As a pastor recently said in a sermon, such heterodoxy blunts the word of Truth. But I will always say that I will not stand in...

The Trinity is One God: The One Triune God. Christians believe that God is Triune: He has three persons. Completely beyond the limits of comprehension of our finite logic. Yes, Jesus is eternally begotten of the Father. Again, our finite minds cannot comprehend the Trinity. It appears to be...

Yes, definitely--it is Jesus alone who saves, not one's theology. I'm sure there are saved Non-Trinitarians as well. Like you were saying in the Catholic thread how Catholicism puts you in a rage, it is the idea that Jesus is not God that puts me there. It is so unimaginable that anyone can read...

The problem with these people is that they will not submit to the teachings as revealed by God in his word unless they can comprehend them with their logic. Thus, they make for themselves a god as small as they are. A figment of their own imagination (and they totally discard God's exhortation...

It's really astounding to see that someone has actually said that God is represented as one person in the Scripture. Reading comprehension problems perhaps? But no, if only it were such a simple thing to fix...

I've stopped responding to him directly. Fools will be fools and he has most definitely proclaimed this loud and clearly.

And it's the same concept in Matthew 22:45--If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? The answer which of course Jesus does not explicitly say is that he wouldn't call him Lord if he was his son. He calls him Lord because he's God, not just his son. And no one asks him anything more...

Amen. We must pray that the Lord will open their eyes. Only His Spirit can do the impossible. And the angels will sing praises in heaven when they fall before Jesus and profess, as a doubter before professed, "My Lord and my GOD".