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Amen,Hobie! That's Calvinism in its best form.

I hope that your tracts will be used to bless many people, @Hey You!

That's true, if tongues lead them to use them unbiblically or to lead them to pride or OSAS leads them to fatalism or pride, which is not Calvinism but a misunderstanding of it.

Behold, are you proud that you chose to believe in Jesus? If so, then, how does your experience compare with Paul's following statements? Eph 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive...

Please explain..., @marks.

What "church" are you talking about? It's not any one that I know about.

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that possibility, but your correction does make sense!

@amigo, why did Jesus have to die on the cross, if the Father doesn't have to punish human sins? And how do you explain Matthew 25:46 and Revelation 20:14 and 15?

Do you think that he is also the just Judge of all humans unless Jesus saves some? That''s one of the reasons Jesus came to release true believers from God the Father's judgment against them (called "justification"). Psa_82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations...

@Keiw, how can you tell that the passages about eternal suffering are symbolic? In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells several times of a place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Isn't his description literal of suffering because of God's justice?? Mat_8:12 while the sons of...

Luther who??

Ask the people who invented and make them happen.

It says that God is everyone's divine Creator-Judge, the perfect God of justice, who rightly condemns everyone for our rebellion against him. The only escape route by way of the Judge's not-guilty verdict was paved by Jesus' death and resurrection.

That's right!

True, but being an active member in a Bible-preaching and a Bible-discussing small group enables a believer to grow spiritually to prepare better for heaven.

So, you believe the second Person of God always existed but joined humanity as Jesus the Son?

The problem with the KJV's (and apparently the Eastern Orthodox) translation of "only begotten") for Jesus is that they translated it that way by confusing two very similar, easily confused, Greek participles that mean "only begotten" (the mistaken one) and "one and only" or "unique" Son, the...

But was it a literal thorn off a thorn tree, or was he speaking figuratively about some physical, spiritual, or mental attack on him from Satan? That's the real question. But it really doesn't matter, because Satan attacks us in different ways against different people.

What do you mean, @pepper?

The whole point of the Book of Job is not suffering but that true faith endures and perseveres throughout life, as it did in spite of the extreme suffering of Job.