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  1. Albion

    Wealth disparity

    I am beginning to think that you live in some world of your own imagination or else spend too much time hanging around the local NDP headquarters. You have somehow gotten misinformation about the way things work in the USA and are simultaneously unwilling to admit the truth about the Canadian...
  2. Albion

    If 1 Corinthians 10:13 is supposed to be addressed to all Christians, it is not true

    That sounds a lot like a rationalization. What's not to say that you actually were capable of abstaining from the sinful act but gave in to the temptation anyway? Of course, a person would like to say that he was tempted beyond all limits and couldn't do anything other than what he did, but...
  3. Albion

    Wealth disparity

    I wouldn't say so. The absurdity of the original proposition did invite blunt replies, however. What exactly is the attraction of authoritarianism for you? Since you ask, the way you have worded post after post does not come across as a plea for compassion but more like an exercise in using...
  4. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    I don't believe that a case can be made for the proposition that the Church ever taught justification without Faith. The T-U-L-I-P stuff, however, was prompted by the excesses of the Medieval Church in the West. To that extent, I can understand the motivation, but that's not the same as...
  5. Albion

    Wealth disparity

    So, you've now narrowed your proposal down to hitting just the "ultra wealthy." That sounds better to the ear, but it's not the "ultra wealthy" who are the most impacted by having the government confiscate wealth. Most of the funding for social welfare programs falls on the people who are just...
  6. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    LOL. The Christian churches were teaching free will many centuries before Arminius came on the scene to contest Calvin's innovations. Over 15 centuries, in fact! Yeah. I explained how you misunderstood the meaning of that particular word and that in the original language from which it was...
  7. Albion

    Wealth disparity

    ...which has nothing to do with GOVERNMENT programs. You are describing private charity and private acts. I pointed that critical difference out to you in my first reply after you'd written that Jesus had urged "social programs to get people on their feet, like healthcare and distribution of...
  8. Albion

    Wealth disparity

    You mean that they don't give as much as would be needed in order to create a much more pleasant society with a minimum of privation, want, or unhappiness. And I would have to agree with that. On the other hand, no earthly government has been able to do that, even when exercising the maximum of...
  9. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    That, however, is a different issue.
  10. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    It is understandable that it might seem that way. I decided to check with recognized Bible authorities/commentators, the same ones that anybody can find easily with an internet search. I read what a number of them had to say. Naturally, there are others whom I didn't reach. Somewhat to my...
  11. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Maybe you hadn't heard the name of Calvin. However, this doesn't mean that you had not been influenced by Calvinistic theorizing at some time, perhaps while not even being aware of the source.
  12. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Well, of course you can. You can bring the Gospel to just about anyone. However, the question then arises...should you do that, believing full well that the person being approached hasn't much of a chance of being saved, not even if he is converted to Christ and rallies to the promises Jesus...
  13. Albion

    Hateful and Racist People

    That's probably true, but what it also means is that they "type cast" Christians. They generalize from the behavior of only some. That's ironic, to say the least, considering that those people are usually oriented towards Leftist social and political standards that incessantly harp on the...
  14. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    LOL. If that were true, you would have shown us something to that effect from Scripture and done so many posts ago. But in the meantime, there have been scores and scores of posts that flatly disprove your theory and do it by referring you to Bible verses.
  15. Albion

    Wealth disparity

    Nope. Jesus taught individual PEOPLE to be mindful of the needs of others. At no time did he recommend that other people, or governments, confiscate some people's wealth in order to distribute it to different people favored by that same government! You will not find any support for such a thing...
  16. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Because justification and salvation are not the same thing; and it would be helpful if you and your allies here would stop switching back and forth between the two concepts in response to each post from a member who has shown from Scripture that Christ did not die for only the few.
  17. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    That small modification aside, it does appear to me that you are indebted to Calvin for your thinking on this issue. Thus, you will feel, in your heart, that what you wrote before--"In my case, Calvin had nothing to do with it . The Lord drew me" --is correct, but lots of people talk like that...
  18. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    If you believe in that T-U-L-I-P package of beliefs, I'd say that you ARE indebted to Calvin. And the idea that the Lord drew you isn't anything out of the ordinary. Any believer in free will might say the same, and for good reason. This doesn't really have anything to do--one way or the...
  19. Albion

    Have you ever heard the Gospel?

    It probably would be worse to bear false witness against any of the posters here, calling them haters, and doing it simply because they aren't fans of a person like John Calvin. (n)
  20. Albion

    Why are Some Saved and Not Others?

    It would really be "horribly twisted thinking" if God were actually to ignore all distinctions between good, obedient people and worshippers of other gods, murderers, etc. God is merciful. but God is also just. Anyone with even a casual familiarity with the Bible would know this.
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