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Can I therefore assume you hold the Roman Catholic Church position?

I believe Luther lived in the 1500s as did Melanchthon. It seems that real presence is an attempt by them to keep one foot in the Roman Catholic Church and one foot in the Reformation that was progressing, with or without them. Again, I would ask that we look at the Bible and define real...

I would add that no human works, whether Christian, Muslim, Atheist, etc., are good. All our works are as filthy rags. It is only the imputed righteousness of Christ Jesus that causes our works to be of any value.

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of thecovenant, which is...

I would prefer to survey the Bible. In what special way does the Bible present a special presence of Jesus beyond the reality that Jesus is present in the fellowship of believers? What are those certain reasons you speak of and where are they expressed in the Bible? The middle ground view of...

OSAS is actually a traditionalist Baptist view. It is a view mixes some Arminian positions with Calvinist positions. Often someone who holds to OSAS will call themselves a 3 or 4 point Calvinist. They teach that God draws a person to him, but the individual has free-will to accept or reject...

It seems to me that Jesus, being God, is really present in the midst of the assembly, regardless of whether the Lord's supper is remembered or not. There seems to be two possible views for communion. First, the bread and wine are actually the body and blood of Jesus in reality. This is the...

I disagree with your final assumption. The whole reason man was able to sin is because God allowed the rebellion. We are never given the direct reason why God allowed it, but he did. We see that in allowing man to sin, God had designed a plan to redeem those he chose to redeem. God also allowed...

I'm reading a book by Jonathan Leeman entitled, Church Membership. In the first chapter he likens the local church to a nations embassy, meaning that the church is the embassy of the Kingdom of God. When people walk into an embassy, they are walking into the nation which that embassy represents...

Certainly God allows for veneration of declared saints. If he didn't allow it there would be a lot of dead people in the Roman Catholic church. Does God applaud the praying to saints, burning candles to saints, honoring the supposed remains of dead saints, etc.? I personally doubt he is...

God raises up churches for a season. Some have longer seasons than others. Some shrink because of human movement. Some shrink because of sin lurking in the fellowship. Pastors and leaders must remain faithful to God and not worry about size. A small congregation may be mighty in the Lord. A big...

Here is a perfect example of why quoting a verse and claiming a theology from it is dangerous and faulty. "If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” Luke 4:7 Now look at the context. And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the...

This issue is purely an issue for synergists who teach free-will salvation. The assumption that humans instigate and cause their reaction to God's call results in a position that humans are responsible for salvation. One group declares that humans chose to receive salvation and thus they can...

If person's were eating the actual body and drinking the actual blood of Jesus body, they would be, by any definition, cannibals. However, that is not actually happening, so Christians are not cannibals.

English certainly borrows from Latin. No doubt it's not called Thursday in the Mandarin language. However, with Easter you get the Easter Bunny, chocolate eggs and other secular/pagan festivals, which have been co-oped into various Christian families. As I stated, I prefer Resurrection Sunday...

Do each of those days pertain to the resurrection of the God/Man? It would be a blessed thing to change the name to "Resurrection Sunday." You are correct, not all Christianity has to call this special day of remembrance, Easter. Indeed, not all Christianity celebrates Resurrection Sunday on...

Scripture interprets scripture. So I agree it is important to study the Bible verse by verse and line by line.

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! Job 19:25-27

Sardis epitomized the complacency, softness and degeneration which invariably ultimately accompany wealth. It was also considered a mountain fortress which was very difficult to capture, except through the negligence of the defenders: At the approach of Alexander, . . . the Sardians hastened...

This argument seems eerily similar to Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of*natural selection*as*Charles Darwin*had perceived in plants and animals in nature. According to the theory, which was popular in the late 19th and...