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  1. J

    Are UFOs Satanic?

    The reality or lack thereof of aliens isn't determined by how "beneficial" the acceptance of the reality itself would be though. They either exist or they don't. If they do then Christians will find a way to make room for this new discovery. If they don't then they wont need too. I agree...
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    Are UFOs Satanic?

    It wouldn't demolish my belief in God. In fact it would be rather tangential to the whole the issue imo. I could meet ET tomorrow and the issue of my salvation and God would still be equally important to me. Maybe more so because I might not have long to live if ET wants to kill me lol...
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    Christianity VS Islam - who started the battle?

    That isn't a commandment given to the Apostles to kill anyone. It was a line from a parable Jesus was making use of. If you notice none of the Apostles took it in the sense of an order being given them to physically kill people. Rather than killing their enemies they submitted to martyrdom...
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    Christianity VS Islam - who started the battle?

    The answer would depend on how you define "Christianity." If by Christianity you are speaking of the tradition / religion Jesus actually taught in the canonical Gospels then it would be a religion of peace. If it's meant in the more sociological sense of whatever people who self identify as...
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    Christianity VS Islam - who started the battle?

    I believe they did this at first because they misunderstood Jesus. Jesus later corrected them when Peter tried to use the sword he purchased because of his misunderstanding. I believe he waited until that moment to correct them because he knew it would have more of an impact when revealed in...
  6. J

    Why Jesus did not come to save everyone

    Regarding Romans 11:6. Romans is a valuable resource on salvation but I've had some trouble understanding certain parts and reconciling them with say the Gospels or James. I then started looking at commentaries and eventually came across "Ancient Christian Commentaries on Scripture, Romans"...
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    Freewill religion is the Man of Sin !

    I don't believe any of those verses are specifically addressing the issue of "free will". They seem to be more about people failing to submit to God in humility. A misuse of the will. Personally I don't consider "free will" people like Methodists for example to be satanic nor do I consider...
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    Christianity VS Islam - who started the battle?

    I believe Jesus was speaking spiritually and the Apostles at the time understood it in a literal or carnal sense. Then, when one of them actually used the sword he purchased, Jesus told him to put his sword back in its place because those who live by the sword die by the sword. As Tertullian...
  9. J

    Christianity VS Islam - who started the battle?

    The more christian a person is the less possible it is to start a battle with them. You can martyr them for sure but they will refuse to fight back following the example of Christ or the early Christian martyrs who were slaughtered by the thousands by pagan Rome. Despite this persecution they...
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    Wearing a crucifix: yes or no?

    I agree. The prohibition of the 2nd commandment was intended to prevent idolatry and this wasn't idolatry. Simply wearing a cross isn't idolatry either. If one takes the 2nd so strictly that it bans all religious imagery then God becomes one of the culprits involved in breaking it. The fact...
  11. J

    Wearing a crucifix: yes or no?

    Was the Ark of the Covenant with the gold cherubim on it an inappropriate / idolatrous graven image? What about the staff with the bronze serpent on it that Moses used?
  12. J

    Faith is active, not passive. Ephesians 2:8-10

    I don't believe the idea of Christ taken the punishment for our sin in our place has to be based on the idea of God being angered and thus forced to punish someone. That's simply one exaggerated form of the idea. Not everyone who uses legal metaphors goes that far with it. Paul himself speaks...
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    Finnish Interpretation of Luther

    For it is true that a man helped by grace is more than a man; indeed, the grace of God gives him the form of God and deifies him, so that even the Scriptures call him "God" and "God's son. -Luther, Sermons on the Day of Sts Peter and Paul "Just as the word of God became flesh, so its is...
  14. J

    Finnish Interpretation of Luther

    What do you make of it? Personally I think it points in the right direction regarding salvation as theosis or partaking in the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) but others seem to think it stress one side of Luthers thinking at the expense of others. I tend to care more about Christian truth rather...
  15. J

    Faith is active, not passive. Ephesians 2:8-10

    Penal substitution isn't my favorite metaphor for the mystery of salvation but I don't see why it would be heresy. Imputation might not be the be all end all of how it works but I don't see it as heretical in itself either. I look more towards salvation as participation in the divine nature...
  16. J

    Do u Need jesus to get into Heaven?

    No worse then praying for the salvation of those who are with us still on earth imo but I know it can be controversial. I don't believe God is bound by the constraints of time. With God anything is possible. Christians have been praying for the dead since the earliest days of the Church...
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    Faith is active, not passive. Ephesians 2:8-10

    I can't respond regarding your take on Calvinism because I'm not that well educated in that arena but I think your expression of what Wesley / Methodism teaches isn't exactly accurate . Wesley taught entire sanctification and growth via participation in the divine nature. Reminded me a lot of...
  18. J

    Christianity VS Islam - who started the battle?

    I don't accept the theory that there has been a single thousand + year battle to begin with. There have been numerous battles (in the plural) between Muslim and Christian armies started for various reasons I saw others discussing the issue so I put my 2 cents in.
  19. J

    Christianity VS Islam - who started the battle?

    When it became illegal to practice Judaism or Islam in Spain certain people publicly "converted" so as to be left alone but still privately practiced their old religion or at least syncretized their old and new faiths. The inquisition sought those people out and "dealt with them" in a very...
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    Do u Need jesus to get into Heaven?

    The Christian Scriptures teach that the only way to the Father is through the Word / Logos. I don't believe this necessarily implies that it's only through the historical form of Christianity, it's scriptures, and traditions that men can have a relationship with the Word , who is the Light that...
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