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  1. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    Well, then, It's really hard for me to understand this:
  2. BarneyFife

    So again what is growing in the Lord all about?

    The Barna Research Group estimates that the percentage of devoted and/or consecrated in any people group is roughly the same--about 5%. Ellen G. White once said that "not one in twenty whose names are registered upon the church books are prepared to close their earthly history and would be as...
  3. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    I'm not sure I understand this. And I think it's where @marks and @Blood Bought 1953 have trouble, too. Perhaps it's just a figure of speech? :)
  4. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    @Ferris Bueller @stunnedbygrace I stopped having money worries after seriously learning (I forget exactly the circumstances, teachers, etc.--it's all in the Bible, anyway) that everything I thought I owned actually belongs to God (wife, kids, house, car, pets, you name it--it's His) and as...
  5. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    I think it was after. He thunderously roared about his "justification by faith" discovery, and for good reason. Anything that even slightly seemed to cut across it he denounced as anathema.
  6. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    You gotta love this! :)
  7. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    This is another point where things go sideways for me and I think it is the root of a lot of difficulty in these discussions. I think it may be in the back of many minds that we slip in and out of a "saved" condition for unspecified periods of time (days, weeks, years). I don't believe this is...
  8. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    I guess it doesn't really matter so much. But I found it interesting. They say he had quite a beer habit, as well. I guess I'm just gossiping. Whatever the case, there's no denying his immense contribution to the cause of reform. :)
  9. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    That is so much like my own experience. :)
  10. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    I'm sorry, BB. I remember reading this but it seems I somehow got distracted and never answered you. (By the way, the reason I found this is I was looking for your link to the site that has scary passages explained so I could see what, if anything, it had to say about James 2:24.) I believe...
  11. BarneyFife

    So again what is growing in the Lord all about?

    Nor was his natural force abated. :)
  12. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    How do you think both waiting in patient trust and working out our own salvation with fear and trembling achieve any congruence? Do you think this question is worth asking? :)
  13. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    I've heard it said that Martin Luther was so zealous for Hebrews 10:38 and Habakkuk 2:4 that he claimed the book of James was not part of Scripture.
  14. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    "See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many."--How could that apply to an unbeliever? @marks ? @Blood Bought 1953 ?
  15. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    It's really frustrating to me that there's so much truth coming from both sides of the argument, and I want to -like- so many of the posts but I can't -like- posts that really seem to contain thinly-veiled insults. Terms like "hyper-grace theology," "legalist," "Judaizer," "the OSAS crowd," etc...
  16. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    Don't look now, but you're becoming a legalist. :)
  17. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    Does anyone else feel like a fool for participating in these "assurance" discussions? I feel like I'm about to haul off and repent.
  18. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    Christianity becomes more pluralistic as each day goes by.
  19. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    "He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." It is common, I believe, for the ancient Hebrew mind to restate things for emphasis. Verily, verily. :)
  20. BarneyFife

    Here is what it all comes down to—- and you’d better get it right!

    Yeah, how about that? Makes you wonder, doesn't it? :D
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