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  1. Arsenios

    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    In the Divine Services the bread and wine BECOME the Body and Blood of our Lord... At that point, the Bread and Wine ARE the Body and Blood of Christ... Which we consume... No more needs be said... The Mystery is ENTERED, not spoken... It is Christ Who CONSECRATES the MYSTERY... Just as He...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Have you any first hand experience of such a perfect act of love for God done in faith leading to justification? I mean, I know you are a well disposed sinner, OK? And that you have been baptized, and that you may well have received penances... (Me too, even if I have ended up having to impose...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Well, I was not trying to give you an easy lob shot, so I would like to give you a little more accurrate translation of that verse: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. And everyone who is living and believing into Me shall not ever die. Hence it is a conditional activity...
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    JOHN'S BAPTISM

    3:15 (KJV) And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer (5628) it to be so now: for thus it becometh * (5723) (5748) us to fulfil (5658) all righteousness. Then he suffered (5719) him. αποκριθεις δε ο ιησους ειπεν προς αυτον Responding Jesus said unto him αφες αρτι Suffer it now...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    John 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? We are saved from death by becoming the new creation in Christ's Life... Arsenios
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    JOHN'S BAPTISM

    Mat 3:13-15 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, "I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?" And Jesus answering said unto him, "Suffer it to be so now: for thus it befitteth us to bring to pass all...
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    Can faith save him?

  8. Arsenios

    KKK and Extremist Groups

    I have a very dear liberal friend who is very frightened of the KKK - There is a house flying the KKK flag within 1 miles of here - Who thinks that they present a clear and present danger to our republic... The simple fact is that by numbers alone, there may be 5 or 6 in the whole county, and...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Perhaps IF you were to tone down the rhetoric ABOUT Menno... And actually talk WITH and TO Menno... And care about him in your words TO him... THEN perhaps you might avoid the charge... Arsenios
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    Can faith save him?

    Jas 2:14 Τί τὸ ὄφελος, ἀδελφοί μου, What the profit, my Brothers ἐὰν πίστιν λέγῃ τις ἔχειν, if ever faith should say anyone to have ἔργα δὲ μὴ ἔχῃ; But works he should not have? μὴ δύναται ἡ πίστις σῶσαι αὐτόν; Is not able the faith to save him? What is the profit...
  11. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    He was alleging that this "bias" was showing in her edits of the posts... It was not... Arsenios
  12. Arsenios

    Salvation - Part 2

    Her Lutheran frame of reference was not in evidence in her removal of inflammatory language... Arsenios
  13. Arsenios

    JOHN'S BAPTISM

    John did indeed baptize unto repentance calling the people of Israel... However... His Baptism of Christ was NOT unto repentance... As the Forerunner and greatest of the Prophets, he prophesied that the Christ was coming Who would be baptizing in the Holy Spirit and in fire, and indeed, John...
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    Ephesians 1:18

    Nice job of enquiry into that text, js... We all are in the dark, some way more than others... πεφωτισμένους τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τῆς καρδίας ὑμῶν, pephostismenous tous ophthalmous ths kardias umwn having been enlightened the eyes of the heart of you εἰς τὸ εἰδέναι ὑμᾶς eis to...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    No it isn't... Arsenios
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Telling other people what THEY think is not exactly your strong suit, Josiah... Nor is its persuasiveness, for that matter... Arsenios
  17. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    Your glue appears to be melting... Wounded by the Fallacy of the False Alternative... Because Adam turned away from and disobeyed the unincarnate God and died... Those in Adam must turn toward God in obedience to Christ-God to gain Life... God took Adam's disobedient life... God restores our...
  18. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    We prefer to say that Faith in Christ is Salvific... And this because we do not believe in Salvation by works... Salvation is by the Person Who is God, Jesus Christ... Arsenios
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    Can faith save him?

    "Faith alone, but faith is never alone..." Josiah's very words... He believes in faith alone and in the same breath denies its existence... Arsenios
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    Can faith save him?

    Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Christ seems to command otherwise... Arsenios
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