Here is an excellent article on the subject of original sin. My view most closely agrees with the Eastern Orthodox, who also reject total depravity, as do I.

Original sin - Wikipedia

I'd like to get comments on the following:

"It was Stephen Olford who introduced Billy Graham to the Keswick message at a Keswick Convention in 1946 over a period of days of Bible study and prayer in a hotel room. This teaching gave Billy Graham the assurance of God's power in his life, which Graham wrote in his autobiography, Just As I Am, came to him as a second blessing and had empowered his preaching ever since."

See also this article:...

Let's hear a definitive answer from Scripture for this question. A lot depends upon it.

Stick to answering this question without attacking other posters. If you attack other posters, the integrity of yourself and of your expressed ideas will mean nothing.

As well, try your best not to ramble on with disorganized and irrelevant notions. Speak briefly and concisely like Jesus did without chatting. Lol.

Round 1

Alpha and Omega Ministries - Toward a Defense of the Faith

Gipp came out swinging but never landed a blow. Meanwhile White lands several body blows.

Round 2

Alpha and Omega Ministries - Toward a Defense of the Faith

White picks up where he left off, Gipp looks dazed and confused.

Round 3

Alpha and...

Originally Posted by Chowmah
Observe special days

Are you refering to scripture below?

GAL.4 [8] Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.[9] But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?[10] YE OBSERVE DAYS, AND MONTHS, AND TIMES, AND YEARS.[11] I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Moriah's...

Is anyone else bothered by this chapter? Am i misreading what it says? Why bother reading and or doing anything thats written if our outcome has already been predetermined? Read it 5 times since last night hoping id see something i missed. I see what i saw the 1st time i read it. Someone please tell me ive missed something!

Do we choose to become what we are--or are we forced into that becoming? What do you think.

Baptist Church Ordains Omarosa Manigault, Former Star of TV's Celebrity Apprentice

after serving as an assistant pastor at her home church—the Weller Street Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California—for about a year. Manigault was unanimously approved to become a reverend by the ordination committee in a vote held at Weller Street church in mid-February.

The newly-minted reverend said of her ordination: "This is the day that the Lord has made, I truly rejoice and am glad it...

What is that?

Is it just an excuse for not going to church?

Doesnt the Bible require us to assemble and fellowship together?

John

If God created man knowing that the heart of man is evil, and, if man does not have a choice to repent.....then every time a lost person dies and goes to hell, is it God's fault?

Think about this before you answer.

If God creates an evil man, and denies him even the oppurtunity to repent, is it the man's fault he goes to Hell, or is it God's?

John