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    Did Christ die for them that are perishing ?

    A good, biblical way to understand Christ's death is that it was sufficient to save everyone but only efficient in the lives of believers. Why he doesn't save everyone is the question. There must be a very good reason, but God has not revealed it in the Bible. It is one of many mysteries that we...
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    Limited Revealation

    No, as Paul says in Romans 1 that God reveals himself as the Creator in his creation and in the Bible, but he has also enabled believers to believe in him through his gift of faith.
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    Are you a Mary or a Martha?

    I guess we should be a combination of both, serving and learning. That's why I'm writing forum responses and books to serve people and reading and studying the Bible, while I also pray along with my activities.
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    Limited Revealation

    It's my observation and knowledge of the Bible that David's observation in Psalm 51 that he was born in sin is true. Why? God inspired David to say it, according to Paul in 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Also, babies are born very self-centered, love being the center of adults' attention, and have to be...
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    Did Christ die for them that are perishing ?

    Romans 5:10 does NOT say that we received God's reconciliation BEFORE we became believers. It says that God's reconciliation happened so that we could become God's friends instead of being his enemies. Salvation happens at the same time but will be completed at Jesus' second coming, when he will...
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    Free from the Law, oh blessed condition! I can sin as I please and still have remission.

    If Noah was exempt, why weren't all believers in the Old Testament exempt from the dietary laws? I understand the difference in the old and new covenant differently. With Jesus' death, he took away the external form of the law (the "letter" of the law: 2 Corinthians 3:5-6) and replaced it with...
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    The creation of Adam and Eve

    To me, "created" and "constructed" are exactly the same in Genesis 2. Where did you get these extra-biblical ideas? I don't find them there.
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    Are you a Mary or a Martha?

    Oh, I see. :D In my stage of life (82), I have to be more like Mary sitting at Jesus' feet, but when I was young, I was more like Martha in actively serving people, especially as a pastor for 27 years.
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    Free from the Law, oh blessed condition! I can sin as I please and still have remission.

    I agree with most of what you say. Here is another way to look at the question. God's grace that was won by Jesus' death for us ended his verdict of "guilty" for our many self-centered imperfections and also ended the external, national forms of the law in the Old Testament. However, his grace...
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    However, today almost no unbeliever that you would encounter in the western culture or any other one would know the controveries over election and predestination the way that they probably did in Abraham Kuiper's day. In talking to unbelievers, therefore, I would never bring it up.
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    True, but Protestants went to the Bible alone as the source of their beliefs, not to an additional, separate tradition, unlike the Catholics.
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    You say that he was restored to "office." He was restored to servant-leadership of believers' needs. He wasn't even the head of the early church; James appears to have been (Acts 19), since he made the final decision at the Jerusalem Council.
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    The unrepentant taking communion?

    At the very least, he's giving them the responsibility to examine their lives to see if they have true faith and repentance.
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    Adam and Eve

    I agree, but God can soften their hearts to believe through our witnessing to them about God's work in our lives, which is what he has called believers to do.
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    Have you felt that angels have helped you?

    I don't care about what people think of my sharing on a forum. What can they really do to me?
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    Kuiper lived in a different time, when unbelievers were probably more aware of theological ideas in the Netherlands. Now, in a secular society, the idea of election would never cross the minds of unbelievers. So, we shouldn't bring it up until much later when they are in the learning process as...
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    God came to earth in the form of man

    Your statement that "Adam embodied both genders" is an assumption that the Bible nowhere supports. Eve was a miraculous creation, as Adam was. God could have easily made a woman with the female gender out of the male one without Adam having both genders. After all, he's the all-powerful Creator...
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    Free from the Law, oh blessed condition! I can sin as I please and still have remission.

    You were told wrong; that idea may value Jesus' death to forgive our sins but doesn't value Jesus' resurrection power that enables us to begin honoring God with our lives by following his will that is revealed in the Bible.
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    Problematic verses?

    The homosexual lifestyle is clearly unbiblical, but I love everyone, including gay people. That's the distinction that I believe the Bible makes.
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    Protestants who follow the Bible and Roman Catholics agree on the Trinity and Jesus' two natures.
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