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Romans 9 Isn't What You Think It Is
So many people think that Romans 9 is about predestination and that it has a lot to say about how or why or whether someone is saved. The fact is, it doesn't have anything to do with either. Romans 9 is about Israel - the nation of Israel.
Before I get started, let me say first that I think that the Bible interprets itself and must be taken as a whole but that I also believe that individual passages of Scripture must stand on their own without being logically incoherent. In other words, we... -
There is No Natural Goodness in Me
"The transgressions of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes."—Psalms 36:1.
How striking is this scripture, and how true! Yes, my soul; thou needest not to look abroad into another's heart to see iniquity; for at home, in thine own, a voice may be heard continually proclaiming it. Renewed as thou art by grace, still thou feelest the workings of corrupt nature: and though, as the apostle said, "with thy mind thou thyself servest the law of God, yet... -
Historical usage of Words reveals the Contextual Meaning
False teachers attack truth by redefining the meaning of words. Many times in scripture the statement is made that salvation is "through faith." Often the Greek preposition "dia" which means "by means of" or "by reason of" when used to indicate instrumentality, is nullified by a non-literal corruption rather than literal interpretation.
If individuals were chosen for salvation unconditionally, then salvation would not be "through faith."
Thus when you see "through faith" (or by faith) some... -
The problem of evil.
God is Omnibenevolent.
Infinititly good.
God is omnipotent.
Infinititly powerful.
God is the creator of good and evil.
Genesis 2:9.
Isaiah 45:7.
Evil cannot exist without finite and Temporal good.
Genesis 1:1.
Genesis 2:9.
Genesis 1:31.
Revelation 21:1.
Revelation 21:27.
Ezekiel 28:13-15.
John 8:44.
Matthew 25:41.
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Baptism Doth Also Now Save Us
I'd like to give my understanding of these verses and will be open to other possible interpretations.
1 Peter 3:15-22 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye... -
The Word prior to His incarnation.
John 1:1-2, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
It can be understood that the Word was always both with God and was God prior to His incarnation.
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Divine Mercy Chaplet for Protestants?
Someone closed the thread as I was writing this post, so I started a new thread.
(Why this place shuts down threads while they're still active, I'll never understand!)
I can understand some what the Protestant aversion to the Rosary, but I think a viable alternative is in the Divine Mercy Chaplet. There’s one Hail Mary in the Chaplet, the rest is addressing God The Father.
Considering the power and promises attached to this prayer, Protestantism should not be missing out on it.
As if one... -
Encrypted or Unencrypted
One of the difficulties bible students studying from English translations is that sometimes the same source language word is translated into several English words. This is sometimes needed because the source word carries or apparently carries more than one contexual meaning.
But a very different difficulty is encountered when the same source word carrying the same contextual meaning, is translated into multiply English words. This seems to accomplish encryption in my opinion.
And still... -
Four reasonable questions concerning KJVO
Hi, longtime lurker, fist time poster here. Title says four questions, but it was seven by the end of my writing and I don't know how to change the title. Sorry.
I’m posting this out of genuine curiosity. I have not arrived at a destination. I am simply trying to figure out where I stand on things. I want to give some background. I grew up a Christmas and Easter Baptist. Went on to a Christian college during the 2010 hipster pastor movement. Fell into Big Eva non-denominational mega church... -
Divine Mercy Chaplet for Protestants?
I can understand some what the Protestant aversion to the Rosary, but I think a viable alternative is in the Divine Mercy Chaplet. There’s one Hail Mary in the Chaplet, the rest is addressing God The Father.
Considering the power and promises attached to this prayer, Protestantism should not be missing out on it.
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