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It's the irony Paul is trying to explain in Romans 9, with Jacob and Esau. Christ according to the flesh is a descendant of Jacob, and yet Jacob, who here represents Israel and Judah, doesn't believe in Him, but Esau (representing Gentiles) does believe in Him. It's backwards, it's ironic...

Whether they commit evil or not doesn't change God's eternal choice He already made about you.

You're about to see the exact parallel in a Calvinist to Nestorianism in a Roman Catholic, thank you for the quote (e4e): Yes ... 100 Percent. They're going to quibble and get lost in the weeds over their claim that all babies DON'T go to Heaven. What a bizarre hill to die on, but die on it...

Yes, like the tradition of saying Calvinism doesn't promote literally ethical nihilism—even though it most unmistakenly does promote literally ethical nihilism, or call it, moral anti-realism, or moral irrealism. They don't believe ethical propositions bear any truth, that's just the logic of...

You're absolutely right. My mistake. I should have said something like We're not "traditional" Dispensationalists.

It's the Law that makes the Lord Jesus Christ the One worthy sacrifice for the eternal penalty of sin that I'm most interested in knowing and understanding and living my life according to. When I "believe in" Christ, that's the Law I'm believing in—no other option. There's some theology...

That's what I said Clete. Thanks for nothing.

We're not Dispensationalists, so we don't believe Peter and the 12 and Paul are not the same. All Apostolic traditions are of equal value.

"When we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim Your death O Lord until You come again."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Catholics

How serious do you think it would be if a "church" approved of legalized abortion on demand? How about faggotry? "Same sex marriage"? "Transgendering" children? There are lots of big ticket moral matters that the Roman Catholic Church gets a big check mark for supporting or condemning, just...

Here are some leaders of denominations that broke away, even as early as the 5th century: Novatian Sabellius Donatus Arius Eunomius Macedonius Photinus Apollinaris Priscillian Jovinian Pelagius Caelestius Nestorius Literally almost anything can be proven by cherry picking and proof-texting...

I mean you're just straw manning. And begging the question. The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith, and you just declare it's wrong, and then, voila, we have "something between man and God in the Catholic Church", which is ... it's just childish...

Because there's no Real Presence in "Christianity". Christianity is a book religion, not a living relationship with God, like canonical Roman Catholicism simpliciter is. You don't have the Real Presence, with the exception of baptism and perhaps marriage, because marriage is actually...

It is a ploy of canonical Roman Catholicism simpliciter to help you develop your gifts of the Holy Spirit to greatest effect. They are given to you, but they are not for you, they are for the Church, they are gifts to the Church, and so we must develop them, and canonical Roman Catholicism...

Pope Francis is not particularly skilled in nuance, true. Even though he basically changed nothing, he did in effect, exercise his Ex Cathedra power here, something that also the Pope in the 11th century exercised when he doubled down on the Filioque clause being added or accreted to the Creed...

Beautiful. ἀνθρώποις πάντας πανταχοῦ "Men (or people) All Everywhere."

Paul preached the Gospel of Isaiah 53's Suffering Servant. Christ identified Himself with Isaiah's Suffering Servant after He as lector in the synagogue, read the day's reading in Nazareth that day, which happened to be, from Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed...

So there are different Gospels AND different Laws then.

Meaning you have to believe in the blood. And for that matter, the flesh, or body of the victim, for the sacrifice, to be effective. For you. The sacrifice is effective in whatever way it otherwise works, but it is effective for and to you, when you believe in the blood and body of the...