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What was it, now, that you said about "word salads?" <chuckles> What you suppose to be the implications are the issue. They're false implications, not in the sense that you are lying or anything like that, but that the supposed implications themselves are invalid. Nor do I mean you are...

You do. Over and over and over again. You either purposely misrepresent it, or you inadvertently misrepresent it because you don't understand it (even though I clearly explain), and often both at the same time. But yes, over and over and over again. Agree; nowhere have I denied this or...

The issue is in what sense one understands that "man has no ability." Just on it's face, it's very true. Man does surely have the ability ~ merely in the sense that man can make a decision between this or that ~ to repent and believe; in that sense, it's quite ridiculous to think man cannot do...

No, I'm debunking, in effect, what you erroneously think John Calvin said and thus what Calvinists believe. Other than it's His sovereign prerogative and for His own glory, yes. As Paul says... well, rhetorically asks: "Has the Potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one...

Finishing: I assume no such thing; you either miss or twist the point of what I said. Again, I asked... and notice the little smile after... "if the responsibility for one's salvation is divided between God and the one, then shouldn't one praise and worship both God and himself/herself for...

Fair enough; I... don't care. But I'm not; Calvinism Schmalvinism. <smile> God said what He meant and meant what He said. At the outset here, it seems worth saying that I see from time to time in your responses to others that you take great umbrage when they misrepresent (either purposely or...

He is bound ~ absolutely restricted ~ from being able to deceive the Gentiles as a whole. Yet again, every Gentile Christian is irrefutable evidence of Satan's absolute inability to keep the Gospel from reaching to the ends of the earth. This became the case two millennia ago... thus Christ's...

And here we go again... It is. I respect your opinion, but it is. No, because God is at work in us ~ because we have His Spirit leading us ~ we will work out our own salvation and can be confident in doing so. The process of sanctification will look different in each one of us, because we are...

The Holy Spirit not only inspired the Word of God in certain men across the centuries two millennia ago, He has maintained its integrity ever since then. Yes, the Canon is complete. t is what it is. Grace and peace to you.

David, there is a certain sense in which our will is never free. As Paul says in Romans 6, we all are, at any given time, either slaves to unrighteousness or slaves to righteousness. We are all naturally the former, but if and when we are born again of the Spirit, then we become the latter...

Right. No need, in my opinion. Grace and peace to you.

Of course we do. <smile> Just on the human will, David, for any person, his or her will, free as it is, is to do either his or her father's (the devil's) will or ~ if he or she has been born again of the Spirit ~ to do his or her Father's (God's) will. And this is because of the state of his...

Jesus is the Word, Spiritual Israelite, as you know. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:1,14). And...

Right, but still, there is a "right," and there is a multitude of "wrongs." <smile> Still, it's a discussion ~ and debate, if healthy ~ worth having... even through the whole millennium. <smile> <chuckles> At the end of the millennium, all will be resolved. After the final Judgment, maybe...

If you, as I am, are a Gentile, David, and a believer in Christ, a Christian, then you yourself along with me and all other Gentile Christians past and present are proof that we are in the millennium right now. That's of course not to exclude Jewish believers/Christians, as we are all in...

Yes, I'm well aware. <smile> Grace and peace to you.

Sure they do. But it is very possible to be both sensible (for many reasons) and wrong at the same time. <smile> Well, If God gives this assurance, then it's every bit as plain and... sensible... as believing one actually has a nose on his/her face. <smile> Grace and peace to you.

Interesting... "Derived"... Well, not true according to the Book we do have: "what can be known about God is plain to (all), because God has shown it to (us)... His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the...

I understand your position. Ah yes, the lake of fire... Like I said, all these conversations come around to the same things. Again, our God is a consuming fire (Deuteronomy 9:3; Hebrews 12:29). Grace and peace to you.

<chuckles> We disagree, respectfully. I know very well from where Jesus was quoting and to what He was referring in the Old Testament. I would submit that He was using these as pictures... images... visual aids... of far greater, real realities, if you will, much like His "but I tell you"...