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  1. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    So what is left behind of the Sufferings of Christ that is so harmless? Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    God CAN save unrepentant child murderers and man slayers... God CAN save unrepentant persons... God CAN save the floater in the punch-bowl... But God incarnated to save repentant sinners... We who are sinners must turn from our sins... THEN God will Save us from Death... Which He does by...
  3. Arsenios

    Communion for all, no questions asked?

    Not surprising at all, for such churches have secularized their services... In our monasteries, this is still frequently the practice... In our particular parish, which is traditional, we still call for all the catechumens to depart at the end of the first half of the liturgy, even though in...
  4. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    Thank God I start with sinners called to repentance to be Justified by God unto Glorification... How about you? Do you start with zombie corpses walking and talking in total depravity from God? Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    I think it is almost a matter of robotics... One can always say: "God is the Savior and man has nothing to do with entering his own Salvation." And one can then prove one's self right by quoting Jesus: "Apart from Me you can do nothing." And from this idea, that man cannot save himself, one...
  6. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    "Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting ME? It is hard to kick against the pricks." Paul was not persecuting Christ when he saw to the stoning of Stephen was he? He was just peresecuting Stephen, wasn't he? Or was Christ telling the truth? If I step on your toe, am I stepping on you? Is the Body...
  7. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    Sure we can, and not only can we, but we do so all the time... Yes, obedience to, and not just hearing without obedience to, Jesus... What He did for ALL - "And I, if I should be lifted up, will draw all (men) unto Myself..." This is the error - Forgiveness of sins is not...
  8. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    Romans 10:5-21 5 And Moses wrote, about the justice that is of the law, that the man who will have done justice shall live by justice. 6 But the justice that is of faith speaks in this way: Do not say in your heart: "Who shall ascend into heaven?" (that is, to bring Christ down); 7 "Or...
  9. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    It takes humility... The pride of Lucifer brought it down... The humility of Adam Not your call, Menno... God will judge... The living and the dead... He will judge you, and He will judge me, and He will judge us all... And once pardoned, He will grant Salvation or He will not... Not...
  10. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    It is called a Covenant... Two parties... Each doing what it promises... Or not... God is not the 'or not'... But you and I are... Arsenios
  11. Arsenios

    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    Thank-you... The term depravity is therefore a misnomer... Because depravity is indeed for sociopaths... Which explains popular conceptions about Total Depravity that are at odds with the Reformation... Arsenios
  12. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    You guys sure jumped quickly on the term DEAR... For which you are all DEAR to me! Arsenios
  13. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    Sorry for a bad choice of words - You CAN make yourself PITIABLE enough before God to have Mercy on you... The Greek term "Mercy" - ELEOS - Means pity, mercy, or compassion. IN OTHER WORDS, my dear Brothers and Sisters: We do NOT make ourselves WORTHY of God's Mercy/Pity We make ourselves...
  14. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    Would you settle for "PITIABLE" instead of "DEAR"? I was running late this morning and did not come up with a better terem that dear... Make yourself pitiable before God and God will take pity on you... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    Yes - You turn from evil and see the Good, and God will take pity on you, because you cannot do good of yourself, for you do not have Life in you... Well, perhaps DEAR is not the right word for this... You have to make yourself PITIABLE before God, that God take pity on you... I agree -...
  16. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    The original Call to Repentance was to His People, and being rejected, then that Call went to the Gentiles... And the simple fact is that not all RECEIVED - eg believed and obeyed - that call when they heard it... And not even John the Baptist the greatest of the Prophets who made that Call was...
  17. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    Mar 1:15 And saying, "That the time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God has drawn nigh: Be ye repenting, and be ye believing the Gospel." So Christ comes and says to unsaved men: Repent and Believe... Are they able to do so? Arsenios
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    Imputed or reckoned?

    Who is this Presbyterian chap? Arsenios
  19. Arsenios

    Imputed or reckoned?

    So that imputed Righteousness means righteousness that is reckoned or accounted toward... You see, the Imputationists thin that this is what God does to make man Righteous - eg God simply REGARDS a man in all his ongoing sins as if he were righteous, which righteousness will be actually...
  20. Arsenios

    Imputed or reckoned?

    1Cor 2:16 For who hath known the mind (nous) of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind (nous) of Christ. The nous of Christ here is no ordinary term... Thoughts have little to do with it... But it has everything to do with thoughts... And with moving beyond them...
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