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  1. Albion

    Mike Pence running for President

    It's not a certainty that it will be Trump who's nominated. All sorts of developments and changes are possible between now and then. However, it won't be Pence.
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    Ron DeSantis Making it official

    With a long way still to go until the first primaries, it is beginning to look as though frustration has taken a toll on some of the challengers to Trump. As far as their hopes are concerned, things couldn't have gone worse for them lately, with Trump gaining strength despite that business of...
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    ...what our friend might refer to as a belief of "false religionists," I suppose. :) .
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Just a slip-up, now corrected. Apparently, you are the only reader who didn't understand what was intended. In Ellicott's Commentary, he explains the point this way-- "In his view, God’s grace is the beginning and the end; man’s co-operation lies in the intermediate process linking both...
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Faith can be a "consequence of election" and still be meaningful, effective, and necessary. That's not what I was commenting on. Rather, it was the idea expressed here on CH by some to the effect that Faith is nothing more than a residue, evidence of something or other that had happened--rather...
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Well said! We agree that the salvation of sinful men was God's plan from long before our own births. But the posters here who are on the "other side" of the basic issue from us do not simply point to that one aspect of the issue. They GO ON to ADD that Faith is only an incidental part of it...
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    Communion hymns on non-communion days?

    That's pretty standard, I think. If there's Holy Communion, there's a Communion hymn at that time. But as for the hymns sung at other times during the service, it's usually either the sermon topic or whatever the particular Sunday happens to be on the Church Calendar (Lent, Pentecost Sunday...
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Then, Is there any church/denomination you can name that agrees with this personal opinion of yours? If it were as simple as "Its [sic] what the Apostle Paul stated," almost every Christian church would be agreeing with you, but we already know that this isn't the case.
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    Plan B?

    Well, I was addressing the general issue of where these ideas come from and why advocates are often prideful, thinking that they are superior Christians for dealing in the "where, when, and how we can know it" of Bible trivia. I don't think that's correct to say. Lutherans, Methodists, and...
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    Plan B?

    In fact, it's based much more often on the statements and reading lists of people who are devotees of Nineteenth Century premillennialism, the rapture, the tribulation, and dispensationalism. These often look down on orthodox and evangelical Christians and think of them as ignorant of the Bible...
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    creation story

    ...and it was a look back in time. The main purpose of the early part of the OT was to set up what was to follow in the story of Man's relationship with God, etc.
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    Plan B?

    He didn't give us every last fact that is in the Bible so that we'd turn it into a dogma, either. If that were what's expected of us, we'd be making our own ritualistic re-enactments of crossing of the Red Sea into a sacrament.
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    What people believe about your denomination's belief that isn't true?

    Mainly that King Henry VIII started a new church because he wanted a divorce. 1) There was no new church created in the 1500s. The one church then and now had existed since Apostolic times. 2) The king sought an annulment from his political, arranged marriage, not a divorce. The Papacy had...
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    Plan B?

    Very much like the Jehovah's Witnesses who predicted 1914, and then when it didn't happen, said that the start of World War I signified something, but it would be actually occur sometime during the lifetimes of people who were ALIVE during 1914. They are now nearing 110 years of age. Or the...
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    Plan B?

    That does seems to be the key item with everybody who believes it is immanent. But on the other hand, that development happened in 1947 or so, and that was almost 80 years ago.
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    Plan B?

    If the rapture occurs during our lifetimes, of course it matters. But while we should always be ready, generation after generation through the centuries believed they were living in the last days and pointed to political developments as evidence...only to have it not occur. So I always wonder...
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    Your political opinions

    I can't say too much in reply, because I'm not familiar with the political parties in the Netherlands. However, in other Western countries like my own, the Left-of-Center party, which includes some elected legislators who openly label themselves as Socialists, nevertheless is the party of the...
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    Plan B?

    Why is it that "end times" chronology (which many Christians spend countless time and effort thinking about and attempting to get in the right order with the right timing, etc.) is so important? Amill, pre-trib, post-trib, yada yada yada...? :unsure:
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Then it's 'Brightfame' you should take it up with.
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    When a person hasn't followed the whole of the conversation, misunderstanding can easily follow. Those examples of mine concerned acts that are meritorious, and it was Brightfame who argued that any action that your mind or body can do amounts to a "work" such as Catholics believe contribute to...
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