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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...

As Paul said, "the time is coming..." (and is now here, of course; it was even in the early days of the Church) "...when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn away from listening to the...

From above (2 of 2)... Yes, but only because... he/she has been born again of the Spirit. Paul again: "...we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in...

Well then bad on him, if he did... <smile> If he did he got that wrong, along with some other things... <chuckles> Of course. Who in their right mind would teach that man does not have free will? Neither Augustine nor Calvin, nor any of the reformers taught such. However... <smile>...

...continued from above: Weeeeeeelllllll, no you're not... but that's okay... <smile> Yeah no. See above. God says what He says. Somebody's in denial, here, but it's not me (or reformed folks)... <smile> Sure... In... your humble, erstwhile opinion. Yeah I get it. <smile> Well...

Well, okay, what you think is, or are just branding as, "new doctrine." I do, too, actually, but nothing I have talked about is new in that sense, or even close. So this is certainly not an exhaustive list... "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus... we are...

I understand; no worries. I was really just being somewhat playful with you... <smile> Interesting. Yes, I understand. Christians longing to be with other Christians is definitely a thing. <smile> Ah, well, we all preach Christ and Him crucified, do we not? Based on what we've been...

Hmm, maybe so, but that wasn't the idea I got from that... <smile> If so, then maybe she should have been clearer about that, but whatever. Grace and peace to you, PS95.

Guess I'm gettin' ghosted... <chuckles> @GodsGrace Grace and peace to all.

Ugh. No… <smile> I mean, Auntie Jane and I might find some things to agree on, but-tuhhhh… no. <smile> Grace and peace to you.

Continued from above... See, all this is good, God'sGrace, and any Bible-believing Christian ~ even reformed ones... <smile> ~ will heartily agree with all these things. However... <smile> ...all these points can be misunderstood in the certain sense of soft-pedaling God's sovereignty over all...

LOL! Well, we would agree about Catholicism, more or less. But they do get some things right... <smile> I mean, we're all sinners. Not an excuse, but it is what it is. None of us are anywhere close to perfect (but we will be...). As Paul said even of himself, we "do the things we know we...

I wouldn’t call it a “doctrine,” per se; it just is what it is… and it’s been around a good long time… a little north of two millennia now… <smile> You obviously disagree, and that’s… okay. <smile> Well no, the first person to spread it far and wide was Augustine, over a thousand years prior...