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    Salvation - Part 2

    :smirk: Looks like Josiah doesn't want it to be over, yet. One more round, at least. Now Josiah rejects - or at least objects to - the term "the faithful". Looks like a manufactured dispute about words. Let's see how this develops.
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    What do you make of it?

    Amen. None of those books was ever declared to be inspired holy scripture by any Church council. And does anybody seriously contend that those books in Barnes and Nobel are inspired scripture? The Catholic Church doesn't, does your church? So why bring them up unless you think a red herring or...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Let's see if that end it all :smirk:
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    What do you make of it?

    They are, among many, these: acceptance of the Mosoretic text as the "original" rejection of the LXX as ancient beyond the Masoretic text and maybe closer to the "original" than the Masoretic text acceptance of the post destruction of Jerusalem Jewish tradition about what books are holy...
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    What does it mean?

    Lovely verses, do you think that they mean that a man or a woman is judged according to what they do? That is, according to their deeds, good or bad, and not on their faith alone?
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Amen and Amen, Jesus is the Lord and saviour of all the faithful. Is the thread over now? Let's see.
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    Salvation - Part 2

    The only sprinkling I've ever seen in a church is when the pastor sprinkles the congregation at Easter time during the Easter Vigil mass but that isn't baptism.
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Do you think that those verses mean that one must be able to speak to be saved? Really?
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Saint Paul told the gaoler that he would be saved by believing on/in the Lord, Jesus Christ. Acts 16:31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." The apostles taught that grace saves: Acts 15:11 "But we believe that we are saved through the grace of...
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    Titles Used by Clergymen.

    Saint Paul is the author of the passage so saint Timothy doesn't come into it as far as I can see, except as saint Paul's beloved and faithful child in the Lord. I [Paul] do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you [the Christians in the Church at Corinth] as my beloved children...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    That is your perspective on what Arsenios wrote but it is not what I see in his posts and not what he says he means. You've put a predictably negative spin on what he writes so you can complain about it and pony up with your view which you allege is God honouring and good in ways that what...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    That may be how you see things but it is not how I see it. You're talking but not to me. There's a lot of words in your post but they all miss the mark by a long way. You tell us what we allegedly think but do not ask.
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    Salvation - Part 2

    When you tell me what I allegedly think (and get it wrong) I don't want to play along with you and pretend that you're honestly dealing with what I have said.
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    Titles Used by Clergymen.

    What do you think of this passage: I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me...
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    Happy Birthday Confessional Lutheran

    Near enough is good enough :smirk:
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    Titles Used by Clergymen.

    Oz is a different country with a different culture.
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    Are you afraid? Thousand Oaks killings.

    Afraid of going to places where shooters might attack. Afraid of being shot and wounded, injured, crippled, or killed. These are the sorts of things that happen with shooter's victims. It isn't a theological question. This is the "news centre" forum.
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    Titles Used by Clergymen.

    No, they call him "Joe" and his assistant is also called by his Christian name. Some prefix "Father" many do not.
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    Titles Used by Clergymen.

    I'd prefer that no title be used except perhaps "brother" and that ought to be used of all one's Christian brothers and "sister" for one's Christian sisters. But on the whole first names seem best for informal occasions. If a title is needed/wanted to denote one's training and education then...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Perhaps more is read into "dead in trespasses and sins" than is really there. Dead in sin is used in holy scripture a number of times. It is not clear that the author(s) intend the phrase to mean "totally incapable of anything appertaining goodness and God". That is a denominational point of...
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