stranger on earth wrote:
Like the CofE the CofS is infested with the unBiblical satanic religion of Liberalism, which rejects the Scriptures and wants to keep their sin, lusts and abominations.

How does a denomination know when to stop handing out too much grace so that their members are unhurt by it?

It wasn't long ago that the extremely small number of Christian divorcees were considered "damaged goods" -- that is divorced with private admonition never to remarry. Now there's so much grace passed out that any Christian can get divorced for virtually any reason, remarry and be considered a member in good standing in the most conservative of Reformed churches. Few, if any, questions asked.

If we give too much latitude to a young child, doesn't he eventually get hurt? Likewise, if grace is a rope, can't it strangle if too much is supplied to a believer?

"Homosexuality is next on the list. More and more educated Evangelicals seem to feel they must compromise between the inherited party line and their liberal social conscience. This is especially true with seminarians and young ministers. And such theological accommodations are not hard to find. It doesn't take as much text-twisting as slave abolition or feminism, that's for sure. And it was secular feminism challenging the church that led, more than anything else, to the great inerrancy crisis among Evangelicals in the 1970s. Prayer changes things? Things change prayer."

-John W. Loftus, [URL=http://www.amazon.com/End-Christianity-John-W-Loftus/dp/1616144130#reader_1616144130]]]The End of Christianity[/URL], p 365, 2011.

"John Wesley's favorite writer, William Law, wrote, "We are to consider that God only knows what shortcomings in holiness He will accept; therefore we can have not security of our salvation but by doing our utmost to deserve it." "We have," said he, "nothing to rely on but the sincerity of our endeavors and God's mercy." Was Law an evangelical? If so, someone owes Pope Leo X an apology."
-Horton, "Evangelical Arminians"

CV is trying to discern the mind of God in marriage, divorce and remarriage.

If significant neo-Calvinists are suggesting that Rome is owed an apology because the Reformers were unnecessarily hard-over on Monergism, imputation, forensic justification, etc. but the overwhelming majority of modern Protestants are semi-to-full-Pelagians, then this really, really matters, too.

Perhaps Calvinists have been advising what the mind of God is on justification and they're only now admitting that they were wrong by keeping this a relative secret. They never got the word out in our day of instant global communication. Wesley won. Law won. Synergism won. Monergism is unknown by the majority of Protestants.

Winner: Arminians (Synergists) 4:1.

If only Monergists may go to Heaven as the Protestant Reformers assumed and left the Roman Catholic Church over, then the vast majority of Protestants would be doomed since nobody is bothering to share this news with them.

Meanwhile, Protestantism is spawning global armies of Synergists. Why are Arminians considered "brothers" while words like "evil" and other epithets continue to be hurled at Roman Catholics after almost 500 years of separation?