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And that is really all that I had in mind; I was not addressing anything relative to the efficacy of the cross. . Traducianism is the belief that our spirits come not from God but through our parents at birth and carry the stigma of our parents fallen condition over to us, thus making us...

That is simply false. The doctrine of traducianism which you adhere to is simply false. God does not and would not impute the sin of one to another. To do so would be the grossest of injustice. God gave us an entire chapter in Ezekiel to dispute that false doctrine. And there are a number of...

And I also took Greek in bible college, have Greek parsing guides and dictionary books and online tools and some of the renowned Greek scholars. I take your woeful accusations as irrelevant and inane. I admit that my college years were longer ago than I care to think about. However, one of...

Your transliteration of the Greek word proginosko is much like the Catholic transliteration of the Greek word baptidzo meaning to immerse to somehow interpret it to mean pour or sprinkle. It is simply wrong. Biblical translation/interpretation is not about transliteration. The Greek word...

Just one more falsehood promoted by Calvinism/Reformed Theology. Without free will, there could be no sin. To sin is a choice. If sin is not a choice, then it is God who causes the sin. That cannot be. God's righteousness is absolute; He cannot cause anyone to sin.

The Greek word for foreknow is προγινώσκω [proginōskō]. It is made of a combination of the two Greek words "pro" and "ginosko". The word "pro" means before. The word "ginosko" means "to know". It means to know before. There is nothing about either words or the combination that can be...

In truth, you cannot prove anything about God, Jesus, the gospel, etc. God has made that a certainty. If He wanted us to be able to prove anything about Him, He could have done that quite easily; but, He did not. He has made everything known about Himself conditioned upon faith. He has, by...

Yes, it is almost universally a waste of time, but who knows, perhaps it might one day help a brother to see the light.

That is the definition. But once again, the Calvinist in you has to make up other meanings to make it fit your weird theology. I don't actually know what the definition will be in the next century, but in this century and all previous centuries foreknowledge means and has always meant...

Omniscience is past present and future. God's foreknowledge is that aspect of His omniscience as it applies to the future. And I did support it from the Bible. 1 Peter 1-2 says you are wrong. God's chosen people, His elect, and their predestination are according to His foreknowledge...

You have just proven my point about the Calvinist tendency to alter the definition to coincide with the false doctrine. You are absolutely and completely wrong. God foreknows absolutely everything. He actually pre-plans very little even in those cases that He has pre-planned for. He knew from...

And you have done it here with the word foreknowledge. Yes, perhaps the English word "prognosis" comes from the Greek word πρόγνωσις [prognōsis]. But the Greek word does not mean the same thing as the English word "prognosis". The English word "prognosis" means prediction or...

Consider the word foreknowledge or foreknow. The meaning is quite simple. God's foreknowledge is His omniscience applied to the future. It really means nothing more than that. Now I well understand that a Calvinist like John Gill does not necessarily represent all Calvinism or all Calvinists...

It is the Calvinist who misdefines terms. Terms such as called, foreknowledge, predestination, sovereignty, and so many more are given definitions that distort the gospel to coincide with the Calvinist theology, especially soteriology.

That is not true. Being in Christ is not being free from the law. Being in Christ does not mean we are free to murder, steal, covet, etc., When Paul says that we are not under the law, he is not saying that we do not need to obey the law. He is saying that being in Christ is being free from the...

I think you are misreading that passage. Verse 12 says, "So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good." If the law is holy and righteous and good, it cannot promote sin. A key in that passage is verse 8 which says, "For apart from the law, sin lies dead." That agrees...

Whether we fully understand it is not an issue. God has told us that the punishment for sins has been paid. It is only up to us to believe in Him who has told us that and to believe in the truth of what He has told us.

In the Hebrew, to know was sometimes a euphemism not for just some relationship, but rather for the explicit act of sexual intercourse. To think that a euphemism for sexual intercourse carries any meaning whatsoever for God's foreknowledge is not simply crude, it borders on heresy. God's...

I do believe that we were "in God" when we were born. But more to the point, I think being "in Adam" is only a euphemism for being human physically and not being in any way subject to Adam for our spiritual condition or well-being. I believe the very idea of traducianism is absolutely ludicrous.

Weird huh?