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  1. MoreCoffee

    Once saved always saved?

    Your replies lead me to doubt their good faith.
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    First straw man: 1. If you believe in election, doesn’t that leave you with the problem of why God doesn’t choose to save everyone? Answer: No, this is an absurd question. It assumes a common and shared understanding of the doctrine of election and that is definitely problematic because the view...
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    Is that a serious question?
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    That's right; they are all straw men.
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    Yes, I read it. Rather bad straw man creating.
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    Both have to do with human claims to knowledge of what God has not revealed. God has not revealed that specific individuals in this thread are elect and he has not revealed that they will or will not obey his commandments. All claims to know either that one is elect or that one is acting...
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    The doctrine of election is scriptural if it is stated that God saves whom he wants and condemns those who sin. What more is there to say? But if the doctrine of election is expanded to include notions of predestination and reprobation and human knowledge of either of these things or if it is...
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    Some thoughts on Authority

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    Some thoughts on Authority

    Divorce was never 'hard' it was just not recognised as a godly and real dissolution of a properly formed and sanctioned sacramental marriage. People have divorced for centuries, the Church rejects divorce now as she did 2,000 years ago. The only thing softened is the attitude of pastors and...
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    It is irrelevant because neither you nor I nor anybody participating in this thread knows who is elect and who is not except by presumption and presumption is not a virtue praised by God but a fault that the faithful ought to avoid.
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    Some thoughts on Authority

    It has not happened; no dogma, no doctrine of the faith, and no infallibly decreed decision on morals has been reversed.
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    Some thoughts on Authority

    Infallibility is a grace, a gift, from God and it applies to specific utterances and specific acts but not to created persons; specifically if a man or a woman receives a revelation from God that he commands to be made public then the public utterance of the revealed truth is infallible because...
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    Share your Halloween Costume!

    In Oz we don't do Halloween :P
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    The question I responded to and which I included in my reply does ask a question about what God may not have revealed. God, in general, does not reveal what an individual will do so it is irrelevant to ask if a man or a woman can do differently from what somebody alleges God already knows they...
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    Everything because though it may be true that God knows everything (and I do not doubt that it is true) it is not true that we know everything or that we know what God knows so speculating about predestination as if we did know what will come to pass or how it will or why it will is unhelpful...
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    Inspiring psalms and hymns and songs.

    This is the magnificat in English, it is quite beautiful and always makes me feel deep gratitude to God for the goodness he shows to his people.
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    What will do you allege God has apart from his revealed will? Because if people can act contrary to God's revealed will as well as acting in accord with it then what question can one possibly have about this matter if it does not relate to God's revealed will.
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    Can your bible make you into a bigot and a 'jerk'?

    Obviously one can say whatever one pleases and protestant however one likes provided that all is done within the law. And equally clearly people can ignore the protests and refuse to listen to what is said.
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    3 Objections to the Doctrine of Election

    Obviously people can choose contrary to God's revealed will; clearly Adam and Eve did exactly that.
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    FASTING what is it ,why do it

    FASTING is refraining from food and drink as an expression of interior penance, in imitation of the fast of Jesus for forty days in the desert. Fasting is an ascetical practice recommended in Scripture and the writings of the Church Fathers; it is sometimes prescribed by a precept of the Church...
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