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Fuddy, I'm afraid that your reasoning is outside of Paul's teachings in Ephesians 1:3-5, which says very clearly that he chose believers before he created anything: Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in...

No, receiving the good news isn't works, because the Holy Spirit enables them to do it. However, it's our human responsibility to receive it, according to many commands such as Peter's "Repent...," at the end of his Pentecost sermon. God's comprehensive plans for all events AND full human...

I too disagree with the Catholic doctrine about Peter; all believers have been given the Word of God, some of them formally and the rest informally. But your disregard of and rejection of parts of the Bible is the result, I believe, of what we used to call "higher criticism," which rejects parts...

The irony is that I agree completely with your statement of the biblical truth but would show different parts of it to people at the times when they're ready for them.

Your first post had me agreeing until the last paragraph, when it asserts "the infallibility of its teaching." I know that Catholics believe that when the Pope speaks ex cathedra, he speaks infallibly. Does that idea include all the additional doctrines about purgatory and Mary? If so, how can...

Your last statement confused me. I thought immediately about what Paul commanded to Timothy: 2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for...

Yes, we all pray to the Father through Jesus for each other as Christians, but where in the Bible are we commanded to pray through Mary? Nowhere. We biblical Protestants depend on the truth of the Bible, not human so-called truth. Just admit it, when the Roman Catholic Church became the official...

No, you can say that God is a God of grace (free acceptance) apart from anything we can do to earn his approval, because Jesus earned it for us by taking our guilty verdict on himself and giving us our not-guilty verdict. which is absolutely free, before the Father, who is the Judge of all...

What do they do, or what should they do? What specific problem with Scripture do you want to discuss?

Which question do you want me to respond to? I'm confused; I guess it's my angst. :)

Look at the next three verses: Mat 15:26 And he answered, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.” Mat 15:27 She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table.” Mat 15:28 Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is...

However, the fall of Adam and Eve affected them, the universe, and the whole human race so that even their genetics were affected by sin. The result is that we are conceived and born as slaves to Satan (Ephesians 2:1-3) and have to be taught that God should be the center of our lives, not ourselves.

I'll take one belief about Mary, that we should pray to Mary so that she can pass it on to Jesus: 1Ti 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1Ti 2:6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time...

No, it is spiritual reasoning to live out of love for our neighbor, which is the second great commandment after the first one (Love God above all with your whole being), according to Jesus. Love for the unsaved means pastorally to separate the two aspects of the truth to give election to them...

Luck has nothing to do with Calvinism. It is the arrangement of circumstances without God. Such belief has nothing to do with that system of beliefs. God must have a very good reason for choosing the elect, but he has not revealed it. It's obvious from Romans 8:28-30 and Ephesians 1:3-14 that...

No, election of believers happened before creation. You don't have to mention that part of the truth at that point in order to invite them to trust in Jesus and his grace. You don't want to confuse them; It should come later when they are maturing believers, when they will be more ready for...

Find another group or Reformed, Evangelical, or Baptist church that is more open to wider discussion and application of God's Word.

It's not neglecting to tell them about Ephesians 1:4, but it's more pastoral to tell them about it later when they are maturing in the faith, so that they can take it as a comfort instead of as a threat or a confusing doctrine.

What "Deuteronomy requirements for the Word of God do you mean, JustTheFacts?

Not all visions are from God. How do you know they are from him?