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    "My existential angst is sky high"

    The connection between providence and our daily lives is basically a mystery that we need to accept because God is God, and we're not. God has plans for all of life, while we are fully responsible for our whole lives. Both are true; how they work together is the mystery, because God didn't have...
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    Problematic verses?

    I believe that the Bible teaches us on the one hand to love our enemies and that we're all equal in status before our God as humans and at the same time, that we have different roles in life as children, parents, wives, husbands, slaves or employees, and masters or bosses. Both are true.
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    Of course, Paul was describing the whole Old Testament, which the Jewish scholars had assembled by that time. Jesus designated Paul as one of the Apostles on the road to Damascus, but Peter said that Paul was writing Scriptures, just as Peter's letters are Scriptures: 2Pe 3:14 Therefore...
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    I thought that maybe you could give me the short version. However, I don't have time to study Catholicism in depth, since I have several ministries to attend to.
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    My answer to the question at the beginning of this thread is with the short version, "No, not until they become believers and are ready to hear it as comfort instead of confusion."
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    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...
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    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...
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    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...
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    Did Christ die for them that are perishing ?

    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.
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    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...
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    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...
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    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...
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    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...
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    Problematic verses?

    What do they do, or what should they do? What specific problem with Scripture do you want to discuss?
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    "My existential angst is sky high"

    Which question do you want me to respond to? I'm confused; I guess it's my angst. :)
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    Did Christ die for them that are perishing ?

    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...
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    World population

    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.
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    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...
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    Did Christ die for them that are perishing ?

    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...
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    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...
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