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Well, that's the point, BOL. There are folks who think they're Calvinists... but are not, really, or, at least they think along some different lines as John Calvin really did. For example, there are folks out there who are really "hyper-Calvinists," hyper-Calvinism being an unintentional...

I think we're all at least kind of stubborn, don't you, SI? :) But, thanks be to God, one day we, like Paul and all those who have gone on before, will be delivered from this body of sin and death... :) Grace and peace to you.

Well, Christianity itself is not declining; God is building His Israel, and it will be completed. As Paul says in Ephesians 2, "(we) are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the...

I'm late this party, obviously... :) ...but I'm going to respond to this, at least: Eh... I would disagree with this, but that's neither here nor there, it seems. This is not true at all (other than Satan hating it, of course). Christ is literally reigning ~ from heaven, seated at the right...

Ugh... Disagree... :) Grace and peace to you, VCO.

No, but it seems you over-estimate the efficacy of our human emotions. You probably won't get the full impact of what I mean by that, but I'm going to leave that there. The Holy Spirit is not human emotion, or empathy, or anything of the sort. He is at work in us believers, for sure. How...

Okay, me it. :) Um, well, us it. :) Grace and peace to you.

Well, there is no correction the point of the final Judgment ~ the Great White Throne judgment of Revelation 20:11-15 ~ but only judgment and the resulting once-and-for-all condemnation ~ everlasting punishment. But sure. Grace and peace to you.

Right, and that's why I said, "We'll agree to disagree"... that's... generally what that means. :) But regarding the specific assertion of mine you were referring to here, which was, "many are dead in this life, and, one day, will (permanently) perish, it seems impossible to refute that but...

I... don't think that was his intent; it certainly didn't seem that way. And even so, to refer to people in such a derisive way, even if innocuously ~ and maybe especially if innocuously ~ is despicable, really. Words are very important; the tongue is indeed a fire. Sadly, many are dead in...

There is one holy catholic and apostolic church, for sure. This is Christ's (invisible, for now) Church. Grace and peace to all.

That's... an odd ~ and contradictive, and self-incriminating, really ~ way to put it... You certainly say some... well, interesting... things, Matthew. Grace and peace to you.

Not if they are unrepentant, which is kind of what this thread is about. Unrepentant sinners are not children of God, neither in this life nor (certainly) the next. Grace and peace to you.

Well, is Paul (and ultimately God; it is His Word) not clear in Galatians 5 that sexual immorality and impurity, among other things, is a work of the flesh, and that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God? He did talk about sexual sin, Jim, and in so doing clearly said...

Not completely, no. God's thoughts and ways are higher than ours (Isaiah 55), and His knowledge is high and unattainable (Psalm 139). But that does not somehow mean that He cannot be understood at all. Hey, Matthew, don't we all purport to understand Him at least to some extent? And, I would...

Well, it can... :) ... in the spirit of being agreeable... (see what I did there?) :) But, well, context is everything. After crying out, "It is finished," as recounted by John (in John 19:30), are we to understand that Jesus "gave up His..." emotion? With all due respect, I think not; I...

Yes. :) As I have said, in Luke 23:43, Jesus, just before dying, tells the thief crucified on His right, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise." Now, their bodies were soon thereafter in their tombs, but they were in paradise, that very day, just as Jesus said they would...

Oh, yes it is... :) Among others, this is, as I have said several times in this thread, exactly what Paul says in Ephesians 2:4-6 ~ "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...

Well no, it means to raise from the dead, just like all your definitions above say. In this life, we are raised spiritually in Christ from the dead, just as Paul says in Ephesians 2, and when Jesus comes back, we will experience the second, physical resurrection, if we are not still alive in...

Well, that depends on what you mean by "new." :) Absolutely. Hm, well, a bit of clarification, here: For those who are still physically alive when the Lord returns, of which there will be many, "...(they) will be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." This is the distinction...