Since the beginning, there have been those who have inserted changes to fit their own doctrinal bias.
Because they are predisposed to mans 'ideas' and 'interpretation', rather than the truth, their can be changes by unscrupulous men or those who do not fear God. This was the reason the Jews would not change the text, but do a word for word translation or manuscript, and this is not the case at the least for most of these 'modern' versions.

Lets compare one verse, 1 John 4:3:

NIV - but...

So in C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, he puts forth that God is a being that exists outside of time. What does this mean? Does God observe all of humanity and it's history all at once? This wouldn't make sense, because then that would also mean that to God, we're already all in heaven and spending eternity there?
Or when we finally arrive in Heaven to spend an eternity there, will we then be removed from the constraints of time?

I have been lurking on other Christian boards and groups, and I am shocked by what I saw. Biblical illiteracy, pop psychology, emotionalism, crazy antics being called signs and wonders, belief every strong emotion or dream or deja-vu is an omen from God or prophecy, and so much more crazier stuff are being promoted and taken for granted by seemingly almost everyone.

I thank God for the Baptist Board that I have found an oasis from the madness. As crazy as that sounds considering our...

https://csbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CSB-Improvements-2020-v3.pdf

Abstract of Systematic Theology, James P. Boyce | The Reformed Reader

II. Spiritual death was also an effect of Adam a sin. Our inquiry into natural death as a penalty leads us to look for some other and higher evil as resulting from sin. It must be something which occurred at the very time of eating, which affected that part of man that was naturally immortal, and which was also connected with that part with which conscious personality is inseparably associated.

1. It must therefore be...

Or is that a direct violation about no graven images made for God?

Are there many Baptists on here who are members of the Southern Baptist Convention? Those are the Baptists who are most numerous in the area I have moved to. What are your opinions of the SBC?

Do any noncalvinists really believe that anyone today was on His mind? That He truly has a specific purpose and plan (not a generic one) for any individual's life?

Some will say yes because of His omniscience, His "looking down the corridors of time" (LOL). But you need to be careful, because asserting He knew each one who was conceived also means that He knew which ones whose conception was thwarted, meaning one of two things.

1) You're here by happenstance, a fortuitous turn of events...

I am not asking this question in the blind. I have an opinion about it but I am interested in the opinions of others. So, the question is:

Is intellectual faith alone sufficient for salvation?

Hey everyone, just wondering what Puritans you guys recommend reading?

Obviously I have John Owen on my list. Who else does everyone suggest and why?