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The Holy Spirit was present also...

I'm pretty sure you're right about that... :) Grace and peace to you.

Here is what I believe to be the first resurrection: "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ ~ by grace you have been saved ~ and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in...

That's... not a bad thing. :) I mean hey, the conversation is worth having, and even multiple times, but the problem is that sooner or later (usually sooner), it becomes personal, and that's not good. I think we can all agree that Jesus wins, and that He will return, and we will reign with...

Well, post-millennialism posits that Jesus will return after a 1000-year "golden age of Christian prosperity and dominance," after Christians (not Christ Himself) have established the kingdom on this earth. This is directly opposite the pre-millennial view, which holds to Jesus returning...

Wow.

What was that you were saying about ad hominem again? I forget... But to what you say here, you're hearing what I say and what I quote from reformed sources about reformed things, and you're refuting all that with what your non-reformed sources say those reformed things really are. Do you...

Clearly not; this clinging to misconceptions and mischaracterizations is my point. I have to say, it's... rather curious... that I've explained very clearly what the concepts ~ correctly understood ~ of sola Scripture and sola Fide are, and I have supported both concepts with several passages...

It's not. Historical things tend to get painted all sorts of weird colors depending on the source. We can go around and around on this, and have; I propose we stop. You've clearly misunderstood or ignored (or both) most everything I've said about the solas, and I'll add TULIP to that. You're...

LOL! But falsehoods regarding history are... :) The basis for the concepts most certainly are: 1. The Reformation concept of sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) has to do with the sufficiency of Scripture as our supreme ~ not "only," as it seems it is being falsely characterized ~ authority...

No, it's just a false narrative that "Luther, Calvin and the rest simply invented new doctrines and started their OWN versions of 'Church'”... Seems you have a false understanding of The Reformation principle of sola Scriptura. It has to do with the sufficiency of Scripture as our supreme...

Well, since Calvin came centuries after Augustine, and Calvin himself said his writings were along intimately similar lines as Augustine, you're statement here holds no water. So you're saying that Augustine... recanted at least a good portion of what he had asserted earlier in his life? It...

The truth is sometimes annoying, I guess, or maybe inconvenient... Or at all. She doesn't offer herself as a mediator of any kind, and was not and is not a mediator of any kind. Well, I didn't say that, really. So what you say is... not applicable to me, at least... To be more explicit (as...

Well he couldn't have been, given that Calvin came centuries after Augustine. But the fact is that Augustine and Calvin were very, very close in their understandings of Scripture. Well, I would put it thusly, that Catholicism had its roots in Augustine's writings and teachings, as well as...

Perhaps. Grace and peace to you.

"WHY is it that I had to come here to put out all of the anti-Catholic fires?" LOL! What's the Biblical word (and where is it) that is translated to 'Catholic', BreadOfLife? And I certainly would not call myself anti-catholic... :) or anti-Jew... :) I don't know how this conversation has...

LOL! As if that's a bad thing... :) Although certainly it is in the eyes of many, but that's really of no real consequence. Calvinists and Catholics really aren't far apart theologically on the whole. The core beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church are found in the Nicene Creed, which dates to...

I don't think I said "proof that the current age nearing its conclusion," but only that "I think ~ don't know this to be true" (I was sure to enter that little qualifier) "that will be an indicator that the fullness of the Gentiles has been brought in." That can't be proven, and you may or may...

Agreed on this, as I have said many times... Well, I don't disagree, but again ~ and again and again... I've lost count now... :) ~ we "cooperate" because of His working in us by His Spirit. But I think the way in which you are saying this and suppose it to be is... very Arminian... :) He...

When Jesus, in Matthew 16:18, says, "on this rock," He is referring not to Peter, but Peter's confession that Jesus is "...the Christ, the Son of the living God," in Matthew 16:16. That confession, which is a matter of the heart, is what His Church ~ which is His people, those who believe in...