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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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    Universal Atonement - Part 2

    You're right, Hammster!
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    Limited Revealation

    Yes, every insight we have about God and his Word are to God's credit, not ours, since he gives us faith by his grace.
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    First the Prohibition, Then the Go Ahead

    Yes, he was not asking them to literally eat his literal body. The same is true of all the other "I am" claims. He compares himself to the good Shepherd of Psalm 23, even though he is a carpenter by trade, not a literal shepherd, thus claiming to be David's divine Shepherd. He says that he is...
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    Why? What does he say about sharing election with unbelievers?
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    Paul Chief of Sinners

    Yes, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit work together to enable us to make spiritual progress; but we are called to cooperate in the process. Notice Romans 1-11 versus 12-16; Ephesians 1-3 versus 4-6; Colossians 1-2 versus 3-4; Hebrews 1-11 versus 12-13. In the first parts of these letters, the...
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    When Jesus said "this rock," he could have also been referring to Peter's faith. After all, Jesus didn't say "you." Furthermore, three verses later, Jesus rejects Peter's criticism of his plans to go to the cross this way: Mat 16:21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must...
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    Paul Chief of Sinners

    One good way of looking at the "dilemma" is that in principle we are declared "not-guilty" and right before God in his role as our Judge, but as our Father, he provides us with power to overcome the fact that we are sinners in practice. Jesus' death obtained our "not-guilty" verdict, and his...
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