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    What does it mean when someone says they weren't saved in the first place?

    It means that they are confused about something and have probably suffered some hurt. With respect to their ultimate eternal destination, it means nothing. John 6:37-40 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down...
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    "Once Saved Always Saved" The "P" of TULIP and a Distinctive of Calvinism

    Hebrews 2:1-4 1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 2 For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a...
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    "Once Saved Always Saved" The "P" of TULIP and a Distinctive of Calvinism

    John 6:44 No one can [T] come to me [L] unless the Father who sent me [U] draws them, [I] and I will raise them up at the last day. [P] Jesus Christ disagrees. :thumbsup:
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    "Once Saved Always Saved" The "P" of TULIP and a Distinctive of Calvinism

    Since you asked me to go back to the first post, let's start here. I am through talking if you are not going to listen, so let's keep it REALLY simple. I am a Calvinist and I claim that "Once Saved Always Saved" is absolutely NOT the "P" of TULIP. Please provide some evidence to support this...
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    "Once Saved Always Saved" The "P" of TULIP and a Distinctive of Calvinism

    You really don't get the TULIP at all, do you. It's Romans. And Paul and the earliest church fathers. It is all about our inability to save ourself. It is all about the choice of God to save me. It is all about the inability of the blood of Christ to fail to accomplish what it was shed to...
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    "Once Saved Always Saved" The "P" of TULIP and a Distinctive of Calvinism

    A Calvinist would tell Joe about the Gospel and call Jim a liar. :) [Can you tell why I am not a pastor?] ;)
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    "Once Saved Always Saved" The "P" of TULIP and a Distinctive of Calvinism

    O.S.A.S. is not Calvinism and not what it teaches. It is a distortion of the truth that non-Calvinists frequently accuse Calvinism of teaching. As for what Calvinism teaches about Perseverance: John 10:25-30 [NLT] 25 Jesus replied, “I have already told you, and you don’t believe me. The proof...
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    True meaning of repentance

    Do you need to succeed at 'turning from sin' or is the intense desire enough? I have a friend who struggles with Drug Addiction. No one I ever met hates his old self and old life more than he does, and I have seen his struggles. Including his failures. Yet after each failure, he returns to...
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    Have we lost the faith of our fathers?

    I'll end here because I'm way off topic and that's not fair to the OP, but anyone unsure about salvation has not understood Calvinism or has been taught a lie that someone just called Calvinism.
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    Have we lost the faith of our fathers?

    [Shhh. Don't tell anyone, but God, to show his sense of humor, had my unsaved Roman Catholic mother (God is too scary, so she just talks to Mary and lights lots of candles) and my Atheist father work out a compromise for the grandparents and I was baptized Lutheran as an infant. One of exactly...
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    Crackers and cottage cheese - the making of theology.

    Writing a letter or sending some money or offering a little prayer to 'help' someone that I do not know far away still feels like a bit of a band-aid for the conscience. It still leaves me minimally inconvenienced, sitting on the sofa, eating crackers and cottage cheese. [cottage cheese...
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    Have we lost the faith of our fathers?

    My grandfather worked for the Bakelite compay during WW2 and was a production chemist manufacturing the 'plastic' domes that allowed radar equipped night fighters and the planes that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since my grandfather probably supported the murder of Japanese civilians during...
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    Have we lost the faith of our fathers?

    There are lots of reasons to accept or reject Calvinist Doctrines, but half-truths and over simplifications about what John Calvin did or did not do is not among them. For the record, John Calvin killed no one. At worst he wrote in a letter to a friend that he agreed that the Spanish Heretic...
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    True meaning of repentance

    Romans 14:22-23 22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from...
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    Crackers and cottage cheese - the making of theology.

    Maybe, but I don't like throwing money at problems to make them go away. I can't help but think of "I will not present burnt offerings that have cost me nothing!” [1 Chronicles 21:24]
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    How does our fasting provide the healing?

    Here is my advice for Fasting: Isaiah 58 [NLT] 1 “Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast. Shout aloud! Don’t be timid. Tell my people Israel of their sins! 2 Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple every day and seem delighted to learn all about me. They act like a righteous nation...
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    Our Faithfulness vs God's Faithfulness

    John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned...
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    Sabbath keeping counts towards what, exactly?

    Hebrews 10:23-25 [NIV] 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all...
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    Evangelical Only Tongues .valid in varying forms. A wider view.

    Be careful WHY you are asking ... John 14:10-14 [NIV] 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the...
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    Crackers and cottage cheese - the making of theology.

    Respectfully, there is little that I can do about terrorists, so I leave the matter in God's hands. Even if I tear my clothes, cover my head with ashes, weep and mourn, sell everything that I have and give the money to a refugee relief effort, and dedicate the rest of my life to helping children...
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