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https://www.bible.ca/catholic-apocrypha.htm During the 16th century, Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church alike removed some or all of the books of the Apocrypha. This link ^ explains some of the reasons. As for "removed," these books that are not usually included in the versions of the...

John 11:35

All right, but that wouldn't really be a suicide; it would be an attempted suicide. The question (I thought) had actual suicides in mind. That is true. At least, it's the Protestant view of things. For Catholics and anyone else who believes that it is necessary to die in a "state of grace" in...

When would you be repenting of your sin if you are dead from suicide and no longer in this life?

Some of the early manuscripts do not have any verses after verse 8. But for those that do, the presumption was that these women were so shocked and afraid that they at first told no one about it; but later, after other people were reporting on the same events, they felt better about discussing...

We don't know, but because God created Eve in response to something that was missing in Adam's life, it suggests that this took place fairly soon after the creation of Adam. “And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.'” (Gen. 2:18)

In scripture, to call upon the name of someone can mean to call out to them. It's not used exclusively in the sense that we today are always given a personal label at birth, what we call a "first name" and a "last name" (or surname) and maybe a middle name also. :) Note that "I am that I am"...

Oh, let's not. I think that what I was inquiring about has been established now.

All that we've done, then, is verify that you agree with Calvin, not that he's correct about the matter that's often termed OSAS.

Sooooo... Does the Bible teach OSAS or not, Tulipbee? :rolleyes:

I agree. No faxing, but the Holy Scriptures do tell us in several places that the writers of those books wrote as they were inspired (by God) to write.

The Bible has been called the most criticized book in world history, and yet it's true that supposed errors that have been claimed by one critic or another have turned out, time after time, not to hold up to closer scrutiny. That said, we must also recognize that most of the criticisms are...

What that says is that a sinless being understands that there are temptations and human weaknesses which play upon the individual. But to excuse sin in a being that has free will cannot be justified simply because someone was tempted and "gave in" to temptation. The Bible is more than clear...

Well, the point there was just that those are decisions made purely by us, and made for whatever reason that's sufficient in our judgment. It's a mistake to make real conversion and Faith be thought of as another choice the individual makes on his own without any action on the part of God.

Well, that's debatable. So are a lot of other things we reject as unbiblical. How can accepting/believing in Christ as one's Lord and Savior be irrelevant? I don't see why we have to say that Bob lied in this case. But everything you described about his early years could easily be--and in...

"Doesn't make sense at all"...IF you presume that a conversion experience is merely a personal commitment that's little different from deciding which car to buy or which candidate to vote for. Those decisions are not a matter of a divine plan, and the presumption (which is not confined to the...

I suppose that their answer would be that he never did believe, not even if he seemed by his external behavior to be a disciple prior to "Jim's" later lifestyle and attitude as you described it. Indeed. Right. I don't see the problem. At the same time, this doesn't mean that I'm a fan of...

True...but it is not hard to identify certain people who DO NOT have saving Faith. In the case of "Jim," we have a person who willingly lives a non-Christian life while claiming that he's born again, etc. If he really did have Faith, he would not hold to the POV that "I can do anything I want,"...

I think that the response of many Christians would be that Jim, as shown by his attitude and actions, quite obviously has not been given saving Faith. Therefore, nothing is proven about the point, one way or the other. That is the main theme of the Epistle of James--that Faith is not something...

The doctrine is based upon Luke 1:28-30 in which the angel Gabriel declares to Mary that she was favored (or highly favored) by God. Virtually every Bible translation uses these words, but the old Roman Catholic translation, the Douay version, has it as "full of grace," which allows the church...