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1/8/08 2:46 PM |
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I think the truth is out now. AVA here is Jack Chick. May I call you by your first name, Jack?
AntiVaticanistAmerican wrote: Note: The last Diabolical & Dastardly "act" done by the last "Black Pope", Peter Hans Kolvenbach/Klovenhoof, before he stepped down on 1/1/08 ; was to have "ordered" the "assassination" of Pakistani Presidential Candidate Bhutto! Evidently, he didn't want to allow an independently minded Pakistani President, like Bhutto, to ever think again of using Pakistan's nuclear capabilities against an overt political-religious enemy like India; or covert religio-political enemy like...... The Satanic Vatican! |
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12/5/07 1:16 AM |
By Your Standards, Not Elect | | Oblivion | | | |
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Terry,If I'm not mistaken, I think you just 'rebuked' me. Interesting. To be more precise, Calvin ends up being a pope in the novels. It's hard to tell who the author is really bashing since he's using an alternate world scenario most of the time. All Christians get it in the end. Also, it never hurts to know at least a little about what one is bashing. This is why I recommended the Jacobs piece. Honestly, I wasn't attacking you or "grieving the Holy Spirit", at least not intentionally. terry evans wrote: Are you saying christians should see the movie and read the books? Or just bashing calvinist |
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12/4/07 10:48 PM |
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Well, I'm not sure if the restaurant analogy works (if each of them had gluten allergies and it was a bakery or perhaps an Italian restaurant, one might draw the wrong conclusion), but Alan Jacobs wrote a nice piece on the books and he's actually read the entire trilogy. After all, John Calvin is recognized in the book. That ought to interest more than a few here.Dan wrote: No need to read them. All you need is an excerpt like this one from the 3rd book… “The Authority, God, the Creator, The Lord... those were all names he gave himself. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves—the first angel, true, the most powerful.... The first angels condensed out of Dust, and the Authority was the first of all.... One of those who came later was wiser than he was, and she found out the truth, so he banished her. We serve her still. And the Authority still reigns in the Kingdom, and [archangel] Metatron is his Regent." If it is reported that a particular restaurant’s food makes everyone who eats there sick – there is no need to go try it for yourself. |
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11/19/07 3:57 PM |
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Fair enough, Michael. I just wasn't sure. As to your other question, well, let's just say I do think the issue is Jesus. Michael Hranek wrote: BYS NE Somehow it seems you've gotten me confused with the Calvinists. I am neither a Calvinist nor an Arminian, I am a born again Christian, a Baptist, a former never to be again Roman Catholic. So let me ask you again, are you a Roman Catholic? The issue isn't Calvinism or Arminianism, the issue is Jesus Christ and whether or not a person knows Him and is known by Him. And of course one doesn't have to have a doctorate in theology to be saved but they do need to know the truth of Christ, what God Himself says in the Bible, not the made up lies of Tradition. Even as Jesus Himself has said, 'Ye must be born again.' Something that simply does not happen in infant sprinling. |
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11/14/07 7:05 PM |
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Does it matter if I am? I didn't think my question implied anything in particular.
Michael Hranek wrote: BYS Not Elect Let me ask, are you a Roman Catholic? The issue isn't Calvinism or Arminianism, the issue is Jesus Christ and whether or not a person knows Him and is known by Him. Even as Jesus Himself has said, 'Ye must be born again.' Something that simply does not happen in infant sprinling. |
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11/13/07 4:50 PM |
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So, Mr. Hranek, would you consider Biblical ignorance as a sign of, for lack of a better word, non-election? After all, it is only a few of you that actually know the way since you are the only ones that read your Bibles and understand them correctly.
Michael Hranek wrote: Jim I think more than being bothered at the Pope's visit is the gross and inexcusable Biblical ignorance in the churches of this country. It is like only a small remnant has any idea at all of what the gospel really is and what it means to personally come to know God in the new birth. And without this foundational knowledge its like we are spitting into the wind to try to get people who think they are good, caring, tolerant people to face up the fact that the Roman Catholic Religion is so heartbreakingly false and those holding to her teachings will die in their guilt and their sin, their virgin Mary is actually somekind of a deceiving demon who will not plead their case before Christ but most likely is mocking them even now for falling for such a lie. |
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6/5/07 4:23 PM |
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On the contrary, Mike, there are many individuals posting on these threads that would, by their standards, consider me damned. My pseudonym is quite fitting, and hardly makes me a "non entity", whatever that means. Indeed, most of the comments directed at Lance and GG imply that God has not chosen them as well. I guess I am unclear what the relation to belief and election. You (and perhaps this is aimed more specifically at Dan) seem to think that neither Lance and GG have correct beliefs and that you are merely putting the truth before them, yet it is God who will bring them to repentance (or is it that he brings them to belief? Were they unable to believe it previously?). Sometimes it looks like election has nothing to do with belief, since election comes before belief, or does it? In which case, it seems an entire church could have questionable beliefs but still be full of the elect. Perhaps Neil could add something to this discussion. I am genuinely perplexed as to how these things fit together. |
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