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2... We don't, of course. My point there was and is, this is the implication, however unintended it may be, of the Pelagian/Arminian understanding of what we call soteriology... who does what in salvation. Well, right, but we want to, also, correct? So it's an act of our will. And, if a...

He didn't. The perception of that is understandable, but he did not. I would actually really, really like that. And would challenge you to do so. Regardless of where you got them, you have some very wrongheaded understandings of who Augustine was and what he believed and taught. Starting...

They are one and the same thing. Just because it is translated a little differently in the ESV and the... whatever your version here is; the KJV? No matter... does not make them different to any degree in meaning. The ESV is better for us today just because of the antiquated language of the...

Fair enough. But the better term to used is covenant theology. <smile> All the term 'reformed theology' means is that... well, not that it was anything new, but that it was the theology that the reformers, the leaders during the period we refer to as the Reformation ~ which officially began...

Totally senseless. You are more than welcome to your opinion, as I have said. Not at all. I know what you mean, and why you think this, but you are mistaken. John clearly says, in 1 John 2:2, that Christ's propitiatory work is for ~ for, in the sense of sufficiency, not in the sense of...

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...