Recent content by Nic

Hi Frank , I don't know. But if there is anything to it, not that we would want for anything, but perhaps complitarianism and / or maybe fellowship?

How much perfect obedience or perfection is necessary and does God grade on a curve if we try to live this way and fail? So where do we have or find confidence? This perfection sounds like a recipe for failure.

Being perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect is probably more than four things. Perhaps, you are making use of a shorthand for perfectionism, is that it? A perfectionism that is the same as the command, be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. Is that a fair rendering of what you're...

To be clear, you're not asserting Romans 10 as a formula or means to salvation, right?

I believe we agree but to clarify I ask, is this faith is passively received? This seems accurate from my perspective too. While true, I believe fail at this. Eg. We truly fail to love God or man.

Agreed. I suppose that's one way to look at it, but generally speaking, when we look at 'knowing them by their fruit,' we're talking about the fruit of false prophets, as I understand things. I think on one level or another we're all probably guilty of making these types of evaluations...

Right or wrong, for me I'm a bit uncomfortable with the notion of this being viewed or appreciated as a transactional understanding. I'm not sure, if you intended that, but in the very least it's on the horizon. Here's a note that seems worth mentioning. The reform will look to the law as...

Agreed. Agreed. This appears to illustrates the issue of the source of the law. The source of the law, that is most clearly defined, is found in God's word. Whereas when the law is derived from people's hearts, this tends towards less clarity. I believe this accounts for the various...

Yes. I referred to what you wrote as the very good shorthand.🙂

Yes, I'm Lutheran. Thank you for your reply! Salvation doesn't turn on man's correct understanding of what the message is. If that were true, then infants and toddlers and of the like, couldn't be saved. People can import baggage onto the message yet God can still save them with their less than...

In a concise way, anything not of God is sin.

Private confession grew out of private counseling where a person may of had some struggling with an issue, particular sin or clarity of the gospel that saves.

They are intentionally or tacitly litigious. Yes God still saves in these settings, but mans laws do more to obscure the message and the work of God for all men.

Smaller venues.

Predicting behavior is a skill set in my view. Having knowledge of anatomy is another. Yet, conscientious is more than our anatomy. Food for thought.