Here we go down the slippery slope. It was inevitable as soon as our nation rejected God and the Scriptures. Without the anchor we left to drift with the flow.
“ Dr. Sproul changes view on creation ” I have thankfully heard that Dr. Sproul has changed his view on creation. From RC Sproul himself... on Ligonier's site...
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Six-Day Creation
For most of my teaching career, I considered the framework hypothesis to be a possibility. But I have now changed my mind. I now hold to a literal six-day creation, the fourth alternative and the traditional one. Genesis says that God created the universe and everything in it in six twenty-four-hour periods. According to the Reformation hermeneutic, the first option is to follow the plain sense of the text. One must do a great deal of hermeneutical gymnastics to escape the plain meaning of Genesis 1-2. The confession makes it a point of faith that God created the world in the space of six days."
The fact is that, as Selang mentioned, the answer to this problem is not prescription drugs. I have been deployed and found that I was strengthened in my faith, because I have a real and living faith in Christ. Most soldiers, however are in a dark place spiritually and the military chaplaincy is largely ineffective and watered down. This is exactly what we would expect to see from a Godless culture that seeks PC solutions to spiritual problems.
Christian Love what you said is completely ignorant on more than one level. On a purely secular level, you would oppose the ONLY ally and true democratic nation in the entire middle east. On a biblical level, you are way off base. They are not all Israel, but a very large portion of them are and like it or not the nation of Israel is still Israel with it's remnant just like it was in the days of Elijah. We as Christians are grafted into them not the other way around. So the way I see it you are placing yourself among the likes of Hitler and all the rest of the Muslim hoard bent on the destruction of not only the Jews, but also Christians as well.
No Bob, I disagree. The Gospel is not a way of life. You don't live the Gospel. You don't show the Gospel by action. The Gospel is a specific message that has to be preached- ie Romans 10. I am not knocking the value of living biblically like you suggest, but you have to understand that there are people out there who do "good" things and live very morally, yet have no relationship with Christ at all. If we are trying to use our own lives and conduct as the measure to try to show people the Gospel, then they are either 1. Going to proclaim all Christians as hypocrites since none of us can live up to the letter of the law. Or 2. They are going to reject the whole thing on the basis that they are doing just as good as you without Christ. The Gospel is all about God and what God did on our behalf. By saying that we are going to live it out so the world will see is to put all the glory on us and our actions. Instead we need to preach the Gospel since : "faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ"(Romans 10:17 NASB) and "How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE
I agree with both of your comments. I can't understand how a true Christian could ever cast a vote for the party of abortion and gay marriage, but I can see little practical difference in the past policies of Romney. I, for one, am done casting a vote for the lessor of two evils. I will vote my values and convictions or I will abstain.
I'll be interested to see what "solutions" they come up with. The overlooked fact in all of this is that your methodology in evangelism flows directly from your theology and especially on your view of the state of man (total depravity or able to choose).
The other thing, why did the put one lone woman, whose job title is homemaker, on a commitee full of seminary professors and pastors? It just struck me as odd.
There is a time in the not to distant future when we will have to decide whether we are indeed aliens and strangers in the land looking for that heavenly country or we are going to be forced onto the bandwagon of this one.
No Tommy I think you are wrong. No where in the scriptures will you find the responsibility of the church to provide welfare. We are called to care for our brothers and sisters, but never the world in general. Jesus even said that the poor we would always have.
If you don't support your own local body, what does that say about your part in the plan of God in your own community? If you are so worried about misuse of your funds you either need to get more involved in the body or move to a different congregation.
P.S. I think the tithe is a good place to start. Like all other Old Testament principles, it is one that shows us where the heart of God is. It was actually more than 10% as well. But before you jump on me, think about this- Shouldn't we, who live in the reality of this side of the cross give much more liberally than those who didn't have the law written on their hearts?
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