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  1. prism

    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    Quoting me but speaking to Josiah isn't, that helpful. Anyways you are correct about the RCC, except my wife is ex-RCC. Having spent 7 years in the Lutheran Church and becoming well acquainted with the Book of Concord as well as Melanchthon, Chemnitz, and Johann Gerhard (as well as...
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    That essentially says nothing, except... Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? There is no receiving of God's Spirit except through justification (which is by faith alone).
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    Maybe not for Anglicans, but for Lutherans, it's the real deal... Justification is the article by which the church stands and falls.” -Luther.
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    @Albion , Rome agrees we are justfied by faith but reigned down Anathemas at Trent for those who declared 'faith alone'. I don't know what your Confessions say about that topic, 'magic phrase or not'.
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    Romans 3:9-12 ESV What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, [10] as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; [11] no one understands; no one seeks for God. [12] All have turned aside; together they...
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    I really was hoping you'd have more quotes from the Fathers (other than one)stating specifically that 'we are justified by faith alone', as this is the charge Rome constantly brings against the Protestant Church, implying the novelty of the doctrine. I was specifically hoping to see the word...
  8. prism

    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    Unless you deny God predestinates certain people to eternal life, then you're stuck with an 'unsympathetic God'.
  9. prism

    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    I see only Hilary mentioned 'justification by faith alone'... hardly a stand out crowd.
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    I see we are all hardened in our positions, perhaps that is the way God predestined it (tongue in cheek).
  11. prism

    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    Albion, could you share a few quotes?
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    If He died for some (elect) but His intention was for all (as you are putting forward), yet only a few are saved, then His purpose was thwarted. If His intention was for all, but only some get saved, again, His purpose gets thwarted. If His intention was for some and those some get saved...
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    No need to shout, we are brothers in the Lord, no? It shows His Word, (whether incarnate or not) goes forth with a specific purpose. The atonement is "Limited", limited to those who believe. I'm familiar with the history of the Remmonstrance. ??????? Did Jesus die with the intention that...
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    In your prayer did you state. 'I do not pray for other daughters"? It's a non sequiter. Here is where it is '6 of one, a half dozen of the other'. If Jesus died for those in hell (the majority of souls), then He died for those in vain. His death was not in vain but accomplished His will to the...
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    often 'all' is put for 'many', as an example... Luke 2:1 ESV In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. Obviously, all the world was not registered. Jesus specifically excluded the world in His prayer... John 17:9 ESV I am praying for them...
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    Michelangelo's 'David'

    Here‘s the problem... "Due to “a series of miscommunications,” the letter did not go out to the sixth-grade parents, and some complained, Carrasquilla said."
  17. prism

    What's the oldest memory you have?

    Saw myself being born (in a vision), other than that I remember crying, sitting on this scary Santa Claus (just turned 3).
  18. prism

    Sermons written by ChatGPT

    This is true, the trick is to have the abstract link to visual realities as Jesus did with His parables. Another thing, I doubt ChatGPT is capable of.
  19. prism

    Sermons written by ChatGPT

    My wife does best with visual illustrations as well, unfortunately, I’m more abstract minded except when it comes to poetry…which I hear ChatGPT does quite well as well.
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    Sermons written by ChatGPT

    I was thinking about this today, although AI may be able to collect data from all over the internet at incredible speed, I don't believe it has any true concept of eternity or eternal life and therefore can't be of much help when it comes to eternal things. Can you imagine ChatGPT expositing...
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