I'm not going to call this poster out but just post what he said in his own words because this is Baptist and Bible Study and I don't hang around here much but tend to hang my hat in the C/A Forum... Who else believes this?... Jesus Christ, who from his birth was the image of God, soul, body, and the Holy Spirit indwelling his body, making him a trinitarian entity, and like God... I actually don't know where to start... To me this is denying the Divinity of Christ... Who not only created the...

On another thread @KenH introduced an interesting theological "problem" concerning whether God actually interacts with man.

The majority of Scripture provides examples of God responding to man and man responding to God. BUT could these instances be anthropomorphic?

@KenH suggests that man responding to God denies divine sovereignty and God responding to man raises man above God.

This isn't a new debate, of course, and it is perhaps more philosophical than theological (but theology...

Often, on BB we have heard some mention "The Sinners Prayer"

So what is your definition of a "sinners prayaer"

What would you say is the biggest difference between the sinners prayer and true salvation?

Romans 3:11 makes this statement and some read this as saying "there is none who seeks for God at any time." However the intended contextual message might be "there is none who seeks for God all the time, or when they are going against God by sinning."

Contextually, since Paul is saying "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) when going against God by sinning is most likely the actual message.

Consider this verse:
2 Chronicles 15:4 (NASB)
“But in their distress...

Posted on Facebook by Richard Warmack, pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Ruston, Louisiana.

I read a few comments in another thread on the subject of predestination and I could not help but notice that much disagreement existed between different denominations of Baptists. ( honesty demands that noone but Baptists should be commenting).
I think it will be helpful to begin a new thread where I can encourage a look at this subject within the context of where this action of God the Father takes place and where in the scrtiptures God deals with it. Make no mistake about it, it is an...

Revelation 3: 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

I have heard it said since I have been here, that this is a picture of the Lord knocking on the poor sinners...

Two fallacies are commonly found around the cross of Christ, on the one hand, Easy Believism and the claim it is easy to find the narrow way that leads to life, and on the other hand, Impossible Believism and the claim the lost cannot find the narrow way that leads to life.

Both are unbiblical false doctrines and should be discarded based on a study of God's word.

Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there...

Hyper-Calvinists openly assert everything is predestine. Boettner says everything is predestined. But is that Biblical.

No. This thread is not about Omniscience, no matter how it is defined. According to Arminianism, God knowing the future exhaustively does not predestine it. We must set aside this issue and stick with the scope of predestination.

If everything is predestined, that is Closed Theology and God is the Author of Sin, just as Hyper-Calvinism claims

If everything is not...

"Major Baptist convictions include: Believer’s baptism; “soul competence” and “soul freedom”; local church autonomy; religious liberty for all; and the separation of church and state."

Actually the above only applies to non-Calvinistic Baptists. But on the other side of the ledger, we have Believer's baptism, adherence to Reformed Soteriolgy, and separation of church and state.

On one side we have soul competence, soul freedom of choice, and on the other side, total spiritual inability of...