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 1/16/08 10:15 PM |
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WOMI,Are your subjects commanded to believe 100% like you do? I have personally chosen to keep my theological beliefs out of the church. I am not a teaching elder or a ruling elder in the church, nor am I a deacon. Are your subjects not allowed to search and read the scriptures for themselves and guided by the Holy Spirit to see what the bible says for itself, or, are they only allowed to believe what you tell them to believe. |
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| 1/16/08 6:04 PM |
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Mike wrote:
Thus the general call must be a meaningless gesture. Though it is difficult to believe God does anything meaningless. Not meaningless at all. All men who hear the gospel are now without excuse. It is when you come to the realization that you have absolutely nothing within yourself to offer God is when you can now come to put your complete trust in His free gift of salvation. |
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| 1/16/08 5:06 PM |
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R. K. Borill wrote:
That is why they are called "A_rmed I_)!@^$". The scriptures are speaking of salvation because within the same passage: "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved." Rom. 9:27 RK,I know that and you know that, getting them to believe it is a different story. Derek,
The general call goes out to all to repent and believe, however, only those who are effectualy drawn by the Father will repent and believe the gospel. |
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 1/14/08 10:34 PM |
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Perhaps this thread is a better place to discuss whether the 7 churches are literal or figurative.Rev 1:19 is the key verse of the book of Revelation. It gives us the outline of the book "Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;" 1. "The things which thou hast seen" This is the vision in chapter 1 and is in the past tense JD, not future. The previous verses are explained in 1:20. 2. "The things which are"
This is in the present tense and covers chapters 2 and 3. 3. "The things which shall be hereafter"
This is the future and covers chapters 4 to the end of the book. This was the standard interpretation I was taught in the IFB. JD's version comes from the pages of Clarence Larkin who was a hyper-dispensationalist not from the bible. (See "The Book of Revelation" by Clarence Larkin) What I also find interesting is that this is the same view held by the Historicist Protestant interpretation of Bible prophecy. I am also surprised that JD agrees with thr postmillennials and including Luther, Calvin, the Reformers, Wycliffe, and Henry Alford. Most fundamental baptist hold to the futurist intepretation of Revelation with the exception of the first three chapters. |
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| 1/13/08 10:42 PM |
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JD wrote:
... the humanistic doctrines of the reformed hard today. And this is coming from the camp that believes that man has the power within himself to save himself without divine intervention. Itis called the human freewill.At least Calvinism teaches that salvation is of the Lord from beginning to end. Humanistic frewillism teaches in a man centered salvation where man takes the credit for his own salvation, giving only partial glory to God keeping some for themselves. Calvinism teaches in a God centered salvation and all glory given to God. And he calls reformed doctrines humanistic. |
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