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Just pointing out that Mary was not "spared from all stain of original sin". She called God "my" Savior because she knew she needed saving.

Marilyn, Fair enough, for the eschatological views of the Reformers are still as Biblically sound today as they were in the 16th century. I'm curious as to whether your belief in 444 B.C. has any other basis other than Artaxerxes' words to Nehemiah and Christ the "commander". God bless u2, Phoneman

Catholicism cannot trace it's roots to Christ for two reason: The ROCK upon which Jesus said He would establish His church was not "Petros", the "small, unstable pebble" who constantly suffered from foot-in-mouth disease, but the "Petra", the confession that "Petros" made when Jesus asked him...

Hey, condescend away LOL, for what are we if we aren't passionate for the truth as revealed to us, especially spiritual truth which has eternal implications in our lives and the lives of the brethren? God ordained the Reformation to do just that, and for a while Christians followed the Holy...

Marilyn, I find that remark somewhat condescending, for it suggests that the Scriptures are still up on the shelf. Do you really think the Jesuits Alcazar and Ribera attempted to establish their positions upon anecdote or prejudice alone, or that the Protestant Reformers did the same? No, they...

Daniel is Revelation concealed and Revelation is Daniel revealed - the prophecies of the one cannot be properly interpreted without the other. Revelation 13 declares that after its "deadly wound" was healed, "all the world would wonder after the beast." I have presented many Protestant...

I have read your post and it occurred to me that the question "What sin can put me in danger of God's judgment" reveals what is at the heart of the problem with OSAS: it focuses on human weakness rather than Christ's strength. Cain was the first to institute idolatrous man-centered religion and...

LOL I've been studying the tenets of other faiths for years. It's true that Prince Michael ("Who Is As God") was once widely believed by Christians to be Jesus but won't get into the Biblical arguments. You can read some of what the Reformers wrote about the subject, but suffice it to say that...

OK, here it is: Matthew 24:12 KJV says "Because iniquity shall abound, the "agape" of many shall grow cold..." The "many" are ex-saints b/c the agape which once characterized them as saints is now cold, dead, imperfect agape, and they are no longer counted among the saints who are Biblically...

Regarding whether Matthew 24:12 disproves OSAS: The NT defines the "saints" as possessing perfected agape for God and men. Matthew clearly is not referring to those who've never been converted - the unconverted do not ever possess agape. Q. What do you call people who once possessed perfected...

If it's not possible for a believing branch to choose to cease from abiding in the Vine - as OSAS teaches - then why did Jesus point to the dead branch on the ground and warn us of what happens if we fail to remain abiding in Him? God's bark is not worse than His bite and His mercy does not...

Hi Marilyn, Jesus was a "Prince" from birth and exercised "command" as a commander over the elements, angels, demons, and men of authority even at the tender age of 12 and long before His Triumphant Entry, and has been regarded Biblically as "Michael the Great Prince" of the OT by many...

I've constantly deny salvation by works - the most compelling argument perhaps being that Jesus refers to the practice of perfect obedience as "unprofitable". How much less "unprofitable" is the imperfect obedience of you and I? Works are necessary not to profit us with salvation, but for proof...

The fact that there are those who've never been converted among us that eventually end up revealing their carnal hearts by departing from us is evidence for OSAS if we close the Bible right there. However, Jesus spoke of ex-saints bound for hell with the saint who is heavenbound when He said...

You've omitted the most important date: 457 B.C. It was the decree of Artaxerxes in his 7th year reign found in Ezra 7:8-13 KJV, which is the only one comprehensive enough to fulfill Gabriel's description that it would "restore and build Jerusalem" (Daniel 9:25 KJV) 444 B.C. was merely the...

The reason why OSAS is so appealing to you liberals inside the church is the exact same reason why liberal social programs are so appealing to liberals outside the church: it allows both you and they to escape personal accountability and responsibility for one's own actions. We've spent over a...

Sorry to hear about that Stan. I absolutely agree that God does not overrule a person's will to walk out of a relationship, though His will is that we remain in it.

Marilyn, as I stated earlier, Jesus was baptized the only year that Tiberius, Herod, and Pilate simultaneously reigned, which according to the Syro-Macedonian calendar that Biblical evidence points to the one Luke preferred, was 27 A.D. Please look into why this is ignored by those who wish to...

OSAS is not a legitimate doctrine because the Unmerciful Servant wound up lost after he was forgiven and freed from his impossible debt, which is a parable Jesus used to illustrate God's forgiveness and salvation for us. Also, the Bible says the saints are known by their agape for God, for...

Sorry, but if you start at 444 B.C. and count 483 years, you come to 39 A.D.