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The number 144,000 of Revelation 7 and 14 conveys the complete completeness (yes, that's an intentional repetition, in the same sense as all the times that Jesus said "truly, truly") in symbolic fashion of God's Israel ~ which is really an innumerable multitude... "as the grains of sand on the...

In your (errant) opinion, apparently ~ and astoundingly ~ yes... <smile> More stupidity... No, it doesn't. If you think it does, then you're accusing the apostle John of at the very least being wrong, and even God Himself, as He is the true Author of His Word. All of which... is just...

I do accept most of what Fuller believed concerning God’s holy, inerrant, infallible Word, yes. I’ve never said otherwise. Fair enough. I respect your thoughts on the matter. <smile> Wow. Surely you’re not this obstinate… BF52, John says there (and I quote), Jesus “is the propitiation for...

<chuckles> <SIGH> Not completely, I guess, because he (Fuller) was wrong about some things. But Fuller did believe much more along the same lines as Calvin and Augustine before him, and that's a good thing. So yes, I'm generally in the same camp as he regarding what God said, I guess you...

From above... Well, yes, in the New Heaven and New Earth, there will be no more death. So it will be completely destroyed. However... those on Jesus's left will be sent away to... <shudder> ...and this is a final death, the second death... and destruction... a total loss of life with and in...

I know. <smile> You might want to start a new thread on it... <enter sarcasm here; smile> I don't think it's never been discussed on this forum... Sure. Agreed. Hmmmm... okay, very succinctly for now at least: Dispensational theology interprets the Bible through distinct periods...

Well, God the Father and God the Holy Spirit are not... and God the Son ~ God's Christ, our Lord and Savior ~ is both God and man, which qualifies Him as our Mediator. Right, Beebster? Yeah. <smile> Yes, if he doesn't overrule His desire and... well, suppress His desire, instead of...

<chuckles>. It can, yes… sin can beget yet more sin. And, too, even in committing one little sin, it is as if, as Jesus said, one has broken the entire law. But now we’re talking about something very different. Or maybe there’s something else going on here… Interesting… Grace and peace to you.

Opinions are like noses; everybody has one... <smile> ...or a million... or so... Maybe to some degree. but Fuller said some good things... Like I said, more John Calvin, and Augustine before him ~ as opposed to Jacobus Arminius (in Calvin's day), and Pelagius before him (in Augustine's day)...

Well, to be very succinct, yes… and no. I certainly want it to be, and through the Spirit’s work in me I trust it is becoming more and more so. But yet… though I don’t go on doing so willingly, I still sin. So again, yes and no. But one day there will be no “no.” For now, though…...

You misunderstand, I think, what I mean by that. We know from Scripture that He desires that all would come to knowledge of the truth and be saved. But just as we do not act on some of our desires for very good reasons from time to time, so it is with God in this case. Not sure why you suddenly...

Yes sir. God’s heart is that all would be saved and would come to knowledge of the truth. His plan, is to save some, a remnant, His elect, unto Himself, for His own glory. If His plan were to save all, then all would be saved, because His purposes never fail (Job 42:2); His Word never returns...

<chuckles> BF52, here’s the verse you’re referring to: “He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.” No, He’s the propitiation for the sins of the whole world ~ all of Creation, actually ~ but the elect, a subset of “the whole world,”...

It’s not. …“a world of elect people “… has no real meaning. LOL! Which means it’s not “a world of elect people.” <smile> I mean if all you mean by “a world of elect people” is that there are many of the elect living among the non-elect in this world ~ like wheat living among tares ~ then okay...

Sure. You either misunderstood or didn’t quite fully understand what I was saying. The Bible never speaks of “a world of elect people“… and never says or insinuates that the world has only “elect people” in it. So, ‘possible’ in the sense that if God’s plan was to give this salvific grace to...

Well, right, but Calvin was… a God-ist. <smile> I mean sure, but Calvin was… a Jesus-ist. <smile> Well, right, but Paul was certainly… a God-ist and a Jesus-ist… so in that sense, Calvin was a Paul-ist. <smile> Calvin absolutely, unequivocally did not teach that. Not in any way, shape or...

Faith, Steven, God’s assurance of things hoped for, and conviction by the Holy Spirit of things unseen (Hebrews 11:1), is a certainty. Just because we doubt from time to time does nothing to diminish the certainty of God’s promises and gifts, which cannot and will not be revoked… are...

Is Jesus the Saviour of the whole World? In the sense that Jesus’s work on the cross makes salvation possible for all, yes. But in the sense that God chose, before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1), only many and not all ~ only His elect (Romans 9) ~ and foreknew… foreloved… them in...

The New Testament "Church," has been established and is being built still today (this is what Paul is talking about in the latter half of Ephesians 2)... being built on Christ, Who is the Rock of our salvation, and on the confession made by Peter to Christ that He is the Christ of God in Matthew...

My question for you, Steven, would be, what would be your definition of "a..." or "the... way to Jesus?" In answer to your questions above, for the first three, my answer could be yes or no... depending on how you mean them, or in what sense you are asking them. As for the fourth, yes... what...