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  1. Albion

    Dick Kruijthoff faith healing

    I was anxious to find what in that report made you reply with a "Wow," Messy. Frankly, the only surprise in the entire thing IMHO was this-- And when the report went on to add that about 3/4 of both Protestants and Catholics pray for other people to get supernatural healing from God...well, I...
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    No.
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    Dick Kruijthoff faith healing

    That's what I was commenting on. Doctoral dissertations tend to be very specific, sometimes almost laughably so, and that is partly because of the need to write on something that hasn't been researched before by someone else. However, the message I thought I got from the post(s) here was that...
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    Dick Kruijthoff faith healing

    Oh, I don't know about that. I'd say that, by and large, it isn't much of a thing with other churches. These will acknowledge the concept of a conversion experience and the necessity of coming to faith, but that wouldn't be what being "born again" means for those other folks.
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    Dick Kruijthoff faith healing

    You mean in countries that are famous for mixing Christianity with voodoo and other such non-Christian beliefs and practices. Well, there certainly is a belief in healing through prayer "in other churches." It is well-known that, in the older Christian denominations (Catholic Anglican...
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    That's true. It doesn't make sense, nor is it Scriptural, to argue that before a person has faith in Christ and his saving work, he is already saved by faith. Agreed. Faith (believing, trusting) is not a "work." And this is a well-studied issue in the history of Christianity. Catholicism...
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    Dick Kruijthoff faith healing

    A question that might be asked is: "Why limit any study of this matter to 'charismatic and evangelical congregations?'" And also...Brazil and Mozambique? The suspicion that quite understandably follows is that a lot of shaking and shouting must make the critical difference, not the "faith" in...
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    The Big Extraction

    Gabriel is also recognized as an archangel. While both angels and archangels serve God as messengers, archangels are believed to be the ones sent on the missions of highest importance. There is no doubting that revealing to Mary that she would give birth to the Son of God falls into that...
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    Was it a hate crime?

    It was Civil Rights activists who, in recent years, began to add the part identified above in red to the definition as it had existed previously. In addition, it's race, not ethnicity, that determines "racism."
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    "Living example." Okay, but the claim was that "not once" did any of the Apostles present the fact of Christ dying for their sins to potential converts, and there is plenty of Scriptural evidence to the contrary. I did leave out from my reply a large number of verses that seem to be in that...
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    New Calvinist Bible

    Maybe we should focus on the 'no evangelizing' characteristic. Most of the rest of this is what a lot of other Christians think describes the Reformed churches in general! ;)
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    New Calvinist Bible

    The last of the three is (as I get it) taken from the one church body that is considered to be a Hyper-Calvinist church, so I'd probably favor that one, if it matters.
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    Tribulation Trivia

    It seems hard to believe that the whole world will join in worshipping some demon, but do you think the reference could be to the triumph of some kind of de facto religious faith which will demand the submission of those inhabitants of Earth who worship a supreme being (including Jews...
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    New Calvinist Bible

    I'm not an expert on Calvinism, but I wonder what some other reader might take from that explanation. Surely there is another and better one, and the one you used is, I believe, taken from a Wikipedia article. If it was your choice to look at the matter in greater depth, I think you'd find that...
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    Why confine it to the Book of Acts? In 1 Corinthians, we have the Apostle reminding his listeners that they had been told exactly what you here wrote was not done. "Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you...For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also...
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    New Calvinist Bible

    Which, I have long thought, is why Calvinism is appealing (to some). The TULIP scheme seems systematic and/or logical, and it puts all the difficult things totally into God's hands. It's disturbing to think that we mortals have any choices to make that deal with gaining or losing salvation...
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    New Calvinist Bible

    You are right, Messy. Parts of the TULIP line-up are accepted by other Christians because parts of it are correct. However, there are quite a few Christians who, when questioned about it will say--half jokingly but still seriously--that they are 4 point Calvinists or 3 point Calvinists, etc.
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    Well, that's not something to argue about. It's just an error. No one gets a ticket to heaven thanks to his own action or striving. It's accomplished by Faith in Christ and his saving work and by this alone.
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    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    What there is to see is this> He imagines that Faith is a "work," an action like going on a pilgrimage or feeding the hungry, and for that reason he rejects it. You, however, supported the most famous of all the doctrines to come out of the Protestant Reformation--Sola Fide (Faith Alone). Most...
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    Our interaction with AI seems to debunk Biblical ideas

    That would be a god who is just as well as loving and who knows much more about what's good for us than we do. To suppose that God operates something like a dispensing machine that will produce whatever is wanted, under any and all circumstances... ...is to believe in something less than the...
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