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I have news for you. All the Old Testament saints did not believe in Jesus Christ for salvation, and yet their saved because salvation doesn't necessarily require a full assent to the timeless truth of the gospel. Full revelation of Jesus Christ will often happen not in this life, but in the...

You missed the point of my post entirely and it seems you didn't even read it. I affirmed that there is no repentance after death, but there is a full revelation of Jesus Christ after death, particularly for those who have unwittingly had a relationship with God. Though the full revelation and...

I'm fond of using Zacchaeus as an example of how inseparably works and faith are wedded. He climbed a tree to see Jesus, and when Jesus came to his house, he was filled with remorse and said, "half my goods I will give to the poor and if I've defrauded anyone, I'll restore it." To which Jesus...

Baptism itself is an act of faith. In the early church, it meant severing ties to the corrupt world, saying that Jesus is Lord instead of Caeser is Lord, and making a public proclamation of membership to a persecuted faith. Faith is not a feeling, it's an action, particularly the action of...

And that is an excellent question. How does it hurt a Protestant if a Catholic priest won't marry? The truth is, priests are wrong in the eyes of Protestants right from the start. They believe there is only one priest in Christianity, Jesus Christ (that's another debate) and they don't like...

Exactly. And moreover, the only time you see the phrase "faith alone" in the Bible is when James asserts that a man is saved by works and NOT faith alone.

^^^^ This.

No, I absolutely do not agree that either of us is "gravely, eternally wrong". I think that even severed from full communion with Christ's one and original church, Protestants can be saved. That's what grace is. Furthermore, there is only one gospel and both Catholics and Protestants are...

I don't know what you mean by gravely, eternally wrong? Do I think that heaven and hell hinge on the correct answer to this? Absolutely not. But tying into the topic of this thread, Sola Scripture was invented in the 16th century and certainly was not part of the faith of the early Christians...

Now we have a gusher. Call EMS.

I find it laughable that you seize upon another's haughty disposition while being completely blind to your own. It sort of reminds me of the teaching Jesus gave about taking a sliver out of your own eye before taking a plank out of another's. You assert your opinion as scripture and another's...

I do find your OP to be insightful. One point I often make is that the teachings and belief of the early church, say in the first few centuries, should be weightier than our best guesses lo these 2000 years later. By sheer proximity to the Apostolic age, it's bound to be a more accurate...

That's incorrect. We as humans do not have moral free agency or we could choose to live completely without sin. We are corrupted from the start (total depravity as some call it) and cannot choose the good or choose eternal life except by the grace of God. In the Christian worldview, God is...

Good God your bias is shameless! Democrats can be cozy with the Catholic Church and that's ok, but if it's Republicans then it's a hijacking? And you furthermore don't understand the nature of the Catholic Church if you think we're rich. St. Nicholas of Myra set the model that has governed...

Agreed. The name Mary was actually Miriam, and the name of the sister of Moses was VERY popular.

You're the one who said "You know what happens to people that throw words out of Word of God?", genius.

Yes. Agreed. But just one tiny detail. Jesus didn't say that "the words I speak are spirit and life" until the crowds abandoned him and he was left with his apostles whom he asked, "Will you leave me too?" Jesus was purposely offending the crowd so as to slough off those of weaker faith. Jesus...

The purpose of the theory of evolution is to deny the existence of God, not prove it. It seeks an alternate explanation for our origins from the Big Bang theory, to primordial micro-biotic ascent to interspecies metamorphosis. It seeks to blockade any contribution by an Intelligent Designer by...