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Armadillo, This paragraph of yours was dominated by doctrine: Grace Christology Belief/faith Doctrineless belief Pneumatology Gospel and eternal life Doctrine/teaching is important. Just observe the many references to “false prophets” in the NT (see Matt 24:11, 24; Mk 13:22; Lk 6:26; 1 John...

Lucian, John Piper has what I think is an excellent explanation for your question: Would someone need to believe in the Trinity to be saved? They certainly wouldn't have to know that word, and they wouldn't have to be able to articulate it very well. But, what they need to do is not deny...

Oneness Pentecostals (e.g. United Pentecostal Church International) are unitarian.

kerwin, This is what happens when you cherry pick 2 verses to try to develop your own doctrine. StanJ has given you a substantial Scripture that refutes your position. Your emphasis cannot be correct and Stan's emphasis correct. We need to check the totality of Scripture. Was Jesus human...

Garrison, Your contrariness is evident. If you read the Scripture accurately, you will find it speaks plainly about tongues which (1) involve a Christian speaking to God in private devotions (1 Cor 14:2 NIV); (2) involve tongues with the gift of interpretation in the church gathering so...

Sadly, Garrison, you are the one being "flaky and dimwitted". It is not Paul who is contradicting himself. You don't seem to understand that there are 2 uses for the gift of tongues. The first is that expressed in 1 Cor 14:2 (NIV), "For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people...

Garrison, Do you believe Scripture speaks the truth? If so, then the gift of tongues will bring this message: "Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction?" (1...

Garrison, You didn't deal with the teaching I provided on the biblical view of tongues. I wonder why. Please note the quotation marks in this statement: 'It is best as a Christian not to use one's imagination and emotions as a factor in such issues as tongues. Doing so grieves The Holy...

I agree. It also can be repeating or reinforcing the teaching of one's tradition or church.

Garrison, It seems you have missed a couple strategic verses for God's gift of tongues: "For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit" (1 Cor 14:2 NIV). This is not tongues in the local church that...

Hyper-dialectic is an actual word. See: "The Hyper-Dialectic in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of the Flesh" by ... Oz

The NIRV translates Ps 92:7 as, 'Those who are evil spring up like grass. Those who do wrong succeed. But they will be destroyed forever'. This is a dynamic equivalence translation. I think it explains the meaning of the verse fairly clearly. Oz

No, brother! Let the paper and ink of the Bible tell us what it is. Is it paper and ink or more than that? All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness (2 Tim 3:16 ESV). 'Breathed out by God' is theopneustos...

GIS, Why don't you provide us with some contemporary examples of people promoting "extreme sovereignty"? Oz

Here you go changing topic again - a red herring. I wish you would become informed about the nature of a red herring fallacy. It is: attempting to redirect the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond. While it is similar to the avoiding the issue...

That's a red herring.

You have a bad habit, IMO, of making flaming statements like, 'being made with the full knowledge that they are directly contradicted in other passages of Scripture', without any support from Scripture. They are out of your own mind but I don't know they come from Scripture when you give not...

And you gave not one example from the Bible to support your case. Not one! I'm unimpressed. Dialectical thinking is a form of analytical reasoning that pursues knowledge and truth as long as there are questions and conflicts. One inhibition to its use is that it can easily be abused--most...

bb, I don't understand because you have a misunderstanding of logic. To even write a sentence on this forum requires logic. God gave us the Bible as a written document and that means he made logical statements so that I might understand what he was trying to communicate. Whether you know it or...

aspen, In God's sovereignty, he allows human responsibility. It started way back in the beginning with Adam and Eve choosing to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen 3:1-7). Otherwise we have a monster God who sovereignly sent millions of Jews to the gas chambers under...