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    Tax exemption and corruption

    Tax exemption for religions is way too open to corrupt abuses. It ought to be curtailed.
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    Can heaven keep up with technology?

    The resurrection is about being clothed with a body like Christ's glorified body. Remember the passage about a seed? ! Corinthians 15. Personally, I'd like really good internet in heaven :)
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    Justification - Part 2

    Some, it seems, will say "my baptism". Others will say "I just know!". A few say "I trust God's promises". But almost none offer any significant reason - except maybe baptism.
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    Can heaven keep up with technology?

    Centuries ago people imagined heaven as an idealised Earth of their times. IN our times people imagine heaven as an idealised version of Earth in our times. Will there be good internet in heaven, will I have access to enormous band width and a few billion wholesome TV channels to entertain me...
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    Justification - Part 2

    Luke 5:27 After this, Jesus went out, and noticing a tax collector named Levi, sitting in the tax-office, he said to him, “Follow me!” 28 So Levi, leaving everything, got up and followed Jesus. 29 Levi gave a great feast for Jesus, and many tax collectors came to his house, and took their...
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    Justification - Part 2

    As you say "We do good works". That is the point. We do them. Not somebody else.
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    Justification - Part 2

    Yes, we get lungs with which to breathe and a nervous system that involuntarily breathes when we sleep and are unconscious and that breathes more or less without direct conscious control when we wake. The point being that it is we who breathe even though the process is "automatic". God does not...
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    Seminary President removed from job

    Maybe the lesson is "do no work for a religious institution"
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    Justification - Part 2

    Let's be truthful about those verses. They are about Paul. Not about Lämmchen. Romans 1:16 For I [Paul] am not ashamed at all, of this Good News; it is God’s power, saving those who believe, first, the Jews, and then, the Greeks. 17 This Good News shows us the saving justice of God; a justice...
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    Justification - Part 2

    God's promises are not disputed here. Nor is the meaning of faith, except to remind all that faith is a verb and not a noun, it is about believing and the actions that belief produces because without the actions it cannot be belief as a verb. What is disputed is the self confident claim that you...
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    Justification - Part 2

    In English too, "hear" means "attend!, Listen and obey!" but that is not so in Protestantism. Have you not noticed the tendency to strip down to the barest smallest least compelling meaning evident in Protestantism. Grace become "unmerited favour", justification become "declared righteous"...
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    Justification - Part 2

    Not everybody who hears the gospel has faith. And this thread is about Justification. Your posts imply that you are confident that your faith alone apart from any works will see you through to heaven safe and sound. YOU are confident about that. Romans 10:17 does not mention Lämmchen. So YOU...
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    Justification - Part 2

    That passage doesn't mention you, does it?
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    Justification - Part 2

    Jesus died for the sake of all. Does that mean everybody is saved? No, that would be universalism of a sort. But YOU are confident that YOU are saved. Self confident. God reveals to YOU that YOU are saved in "his word"? Really?
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    Justification - Part 2

    But you are confident that you do have faith. Confident that you have properly identified what you have as faith in Jesus Christ. Confident that it is not self deception. Confident that it is what the bible says you ought to have. YOU are confident about all that. Self confident.
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    Justification - Part 2

    So you are confident that your faith will see you though? It isn't God's promises then. Just your confidence about your faith. Everybody can see God's promises and many claim to be confident that those promises apply to them. Time will tell. Self confidence is, according to some, a commendable...
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    Justification - Part 2

    It is absolutely true that there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. Yet the question is "who is in Christ Jesus"? Many say that they are. Some are absolutely confident that they are. Only God knows with certainty who is.
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    Do you have assurance that you will have everlasting life with God?

    No pious person ought to doubt the mercy of God, the merit of Christ and the virtue and efficacy of the sacraments. Each one, when he considers himself and his own weakness and indisposition, may have fear and apprehension concerning his own grace, since no one can know with absolute certainty -...
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    Do you have assurance that you will have everlasting life with God?

    The question is interesting. It amounts to saying "I am confident that my faith is real enough to warrant confidence that I shall go to heaven and if works play a role in justification then my works are good enough to warrant heaven if works do not play any role whatever then my faith regardless...
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    Justification - Part 2

    MennoSota wrote "This is just bad logic on your part. Breathing is autonomous. God breathed..." and the quote above is your reply, friend ImaginaryDay2. "autonomous" - an interesting claim to make about human beings coming from MennoSota who appears to support Calvinism's endless war against...
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