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    How important is hermeneutics in these discussions?

    I get that. Usually it's not hard to spot. I try to give new or young Christians the benefit of doubt. Like if someone thinks that their faith is all from themselves. I wouldn't beat them over the head with a theological hammer. It's part of the learning curve. Eventually they will get there...
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    Understanding the Incarnation

    Hi Doug I meant to post this earlier, but I had a power outage. It gave me more time to think this through. My head is in the clouds because I've been sick for a week and quit coffee since I couldn't stomach it while I was sick anyways. It's an adjustment for sure. Anyways I know the evidence...
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    How important is hermeneutics in these discussions?

    Hi WIP No, we can't control what others think. The goal for me is about productive discussions, not about winning arguments. I'm always willing to learn. But if the discussion never gets past elementary levels, one has to wonder if at some level, this is not idolatry. A suppressing of the...
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    How important is hermeneutics in these discussions?

    I sometimes feel like the person that I'm corresponding with in a thread is seeing our discussion as a tit for tat scripture posting war. They seem to be in a relativist mind set and are quite comfortable in the apparent contradictions between the scripture that they've posted, and any other...
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    Understanding the Incarnation

    There is always an overlapping in the Godhead that we can never completely separate. In John 14:16-17 Jesus calls Himself the Spirit of truth and said that He dwells with you (Flesh) and will be in you (Holy Spirit). Here we see the overlapping of the Holy Spirit and Jesus as One. In the Old...
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    Argument Against “Double Predestination” and Support for the Tripartite View

    Alfred Can you show me where Calvin or any mainstream Calvinist states that God is Author and finisher of ones unbelief? You're reading into the terminology something that neither of them taught. And you are making you're argument against "Calvinists", not just Calvin. As I said, I don't know...
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    Argument Against “Double Predestination” and Support for the Tripartite View

    And yet Calvin also said..."The blame lies solely with ourselves, if we do not become partakers of this salvation; for he calls all men to himself, without a single exception, and gives Christ to all, that we may be illuminated by him." (Commentary on Isaiah the Prophet). Is Calvin also a...
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    Bible Study Understanding Total Depravity.

    The substance of this discussion is not going to be solved by showing someone making a choice, or being given a choice, but rather the question at hand is what motivates the choices we make. Ordained does not mean that God caused it. He is sovereign over it though...
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    Thread of OT types

    The Lamb without blemish from the OT sacrifice is a type of Jesus. Who is called the same and also the Lamb of God. The Passover, that's a big one. 1 Peter 1:18-19 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition...
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    Argument Against “Double Predestination” and Support for the Tripartite View

    That's a straw man argument. "A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw man argument" is to describe a position that superficially resembles an opponent's actual view but is easier to refute, then...
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    Bible Study There are two justifications for Christians

    If you offended the Law at one point, you've offended it at every point. Who passed?....tic....tic....tic...tic...tic...tic...NNNNNNNBuzzerNNNNNN. Give up? Jesus did. :thumbsup2 Dave
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    Bible Study There are two justifications for Christians

    There is only one way to be justified. It was impossible for us, but possible for God. Evidence of a genuine faith is not justification. Justification is evidenced by a genuine faith. That faith is evidenced by good works. That evidence is the fruit of the Spirit, not the fruit of the believer...
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    Bible Study The New Testament Begins in Acts Not Matthew

    The baptism, the one that saves us, the one true baptism, is Jesus placing the Holy Spirit in us. That is the baptism, the placing into, the immersion that saves. Without the baptism with the Holy Spirit, one cannot be "in Christ", because it is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the agent of...
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    Bible Study Understanding Total Depravity.

    Actually, that we would come to faith was predestined before we were born, from the foundations of the world. And yes, it did come by the hearing of God's Word. Dave
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    Bible Study Understanding Total Depravity.

    Hi J That passage does not say that all men can respond positively to the Gospel message. It only makes known the means by which men will be saved. Who will hear effectually? His sheep. Those who He predestined according to the good pleasure of His will. Remember, the Bible was written by God...
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    Bible Study Understanding Total Depravity.

    Yes, I read them. But you cannot define those verses without the context of the rest of the Bible. If someone is asked to come to faith in Jesus Christ, you would read that as a free will decision and would claim it as proof. I see that same verse as someone who the Holy Spirit has brought to a...
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    Been having a major disagreement with boyfriend and needing some insight and/or advice.

    That can also play into another interesting fact that when a man and a woman are married as virgins, the success rate of those marriages is 95%. That's why, for the couple in the OP I say, if they were virgins, and now consider themselves to be married, no harm done. I probably shouldn't say...
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    Thread of OT types

    I heard somebody once say that the whole Exodus illustrates our salvation. Anyone care to elaborate?
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    Bible Study The New Testament Begins in Acts Not Matthew

    Hey J I just wanted to clarify. And being "in Christ" is the result of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. No baptism, no NT Holy Spirit indwelling, not "in Christ". Which is a result of a genuine saving faith. Faith, then Jesus places the Holy Spirit in us (Spirit baptism), then water baptism...
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    Bible Study Understanding Total Depravity.

    Glory, and everyone, I could post scripture all day, but the idea needs to set in of what it is that you're actually arguing against. John Piper Total Depravity John Piper & Bethlehem Baptist Church Staff 1998 | MINNEAPOLIS, MN-- When we speak of man's depravity we mean man's natural...
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