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The Absolute Beginning of Theology The proper place to begin theology is not with what God has done, but with who God is. This is the starting point of all sound doctrine, and it is why the study of God's nature is rightly called theology proper. When one begins with salvation, judgment...

Hypocrite. You're the one that blows off arguments like nothing was said of any substance accusing me of manipulating scripture and then you come at me with this literally idiotic twisting of scripture that not even your favorite bible teacher would agree with, along with fifth grade level name...

You’re right! Calvinism leads to fatalism. If your eternal fate was fixed before you were born and you can't change it, then why worry? Just assume you're elect and "follow your bliss". That’s the only consistent response that doesn’t drive you insane. The problem for you is that Catholicism...

Places where Les Feldick himself limits “all” from meaning “every single one”: Romans 11:26, “And so all Israel shall be saved.” Feldick explicitly narrows “all Israel” to the believing remnant: “All Israel? Well hardly… so all of believing Israel will be saved.” lesfeldick.org Romans 1:8...

So then I take it you aren't going to respond to substance with substance but with dismissal and close minded childishness. So be it.

@xfrodobagginsx, I'm not ready to give up on you here and I'm curious about something. You're fully convinced that Jesus must know absolutely every single thing, with no exceptions or gaps in His knowledge at all, based more or less entirely on John 16:30 which has Peter stating that Jesus...

Even more so than I expected when I started this exchange. It makes me wonder whether he's entrenched for reasons that go beyond these beliefs being long held and personally cherished. I know that formally educated theologiansn and pastors of churches in particular, are just mega-entrenched...

Define "worship"! Don't bother! Allow me.... Do Catholics Worship Mary? A Biblical Look at Worship vs. Rome’s Redefinition Catholics will tell you all day long that they do not worship Mary. They will even get frustrated, even angry, when you suggest otherwise. Their argument goes something...

The OP has been revised. The order of some attributes have been changed to flow more logically, particularly in section III.

Saying it doesn't make it so, Frodo! Saying it very simply doesn't make it so. So very disappointing. :( I don't care what you think. What you think is precisely the problem. It certainly isn't what determines correct doctrine! This is how big a deal this issue is... If your reading of these...

No it doesn't. (Explanation to follow...) It would not have been necessary to predestine everything to bring a prophecy to fulfillment. God doesn't have to be a puppet master in order to accomplish his goals, especially on the large international scale. Large groups of people are not very...

By their own standard, they cannot know whether they (i.e. whichever Calvinist is telling you this stuff - doesn't matter which one) are predestined to salvation. How could any of them know whether God had predestined them to eventually fall away or not? They might insist that they would never...

PLEASE read this.... First Principles: Thinking Through the Doctrine of Divine Immutability and the Character of God It's quite a long read but when you finish it, you'll not only know why Calvinists teach what they teach but you'll understand WHY they are wrong. Your intuition is correct...

NO! Catholics don't worship Mary! Move along now! Nothing to see here!

How Would I Describe the Triune God! The format of the opening post of this thread inspired me to give some thought to the attributes of God. My goal was to think them through and place them in a coherent order rather than just a basically random collection of loosely connected ideas or the...

This thread was inspired by, and is in direct response to, another thread with a similar but distinctly different title. The format of the opening post of that other thread inspired me to give some thought to the attributes of God. My goal was to think them through and place them in a coherent...

I'm not really sure what to make of this. It feels like an attempt to make a rational argument where the idea is to say that because X is true then Y necessarily follows, but that isn't what this actually is. As written, it drifts into speculation that Scripture does not support. God’s...

In the most recent Berean Search Light, Pastor Sadler writes a piece entitled "The Twilight of Grace". In it, as it typical of Sadler's doctrine, there are portions of it that are solid and others that are not. Is it just me or does anyone else feel like Sadler just tries too hard? He seems to...

Messianic Jews are funny!

First, the actual number is more like 60% rather than 67% but that's not a huge difference. It's statistically significant but only just. I just bring it up for the sake of precision, not to argue against the overall point you've made. A major root cause of the suicide epidemic is government...