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God is Personal God is a who, not a what. To say that God is personal is to make a claim of enormous theological significance. It is not a concession to human psychology, nor a minor doctrinal detail, but a foundational truth about reality itself. God is not an abstract principle, a blind...

Both Catholics and Calvinists give the same lip service to free will, Derf. It's only ever just that - lip service. The way you know is by looking at what they cling to when the contradiction in their doctrine occasionally forces them to choose between one doctrine or the other. Free will is...

Saying it doesn't make it so. If you can do something other than just declare your doctrine to be true and call me idiotic names, like make a real argument then I'd enjoy the exchange but this is boring. You believe that but cannot prove it because it isn't actually the case. I have shown you...

It takes plenty of biblical knowledge to get over it. You are worshiping the god of Aristotle and Plato. I know, you don't believe me. Your belief or lack thereof doesn't change the facts. You are willing to believe the self-contradictory and don't seem to care about biblical arguments one...

You literally have the understanding of a teenager!

God is Living God is the source and standard of all life. The most fundamental truth about God, the one upon which all other truths must rest, is that He is alive. This is not merely eloquent wordplay or an echo of ancient religious instinct; it is the most basic affirmation of Scripture and...

The Absolute Beginning of Theology The proper place to begin theology is not with what God has done, but with who God is. This is the starting point of all sound doctrine, and it is why the study of God's nature is rightly called theology proper. When one begins with salvation, judgment...

Hypocrite. You're the one that blows off arguments like nothing was said of any substance accusing me of manipulating scripture and then you come at me with this literally idiotic twisting of scripture that not even your favorite bible teacher would agree with, along with fifth grade level name...

You’re right! Calvinism leads to fatalism. If your eternal fate was fixed before you were born and you can't change it, then why worry? Just assume you're elect and "follow your bliss". That’s the only consistent response that doesn’t drive you insane. The problem for you is that Catholicism...

Places where Les Feldick himself limits “all” from meaning “every single one”: Romans 11:26, “And so all Israel shall be saved.” Feldick explicitly narrows “all Israel” to the believing remnant: “All Israel? Well hardly… so all of believing Israel will be saved.” lesfeldick.org Romans 1:8...

So then I take it you aren't going to respond to substance with substance but with dismissal and close minded childishness. So be it.

@xfrodobagginsx, I'm not ready to give up on you here and I'm curious about something. You're fully convinced that Jesus must know absolutely every single thing, with no exceptions or gaps in His knowledge at all, based more or less entirely on John 16:30 which has Peter stating that Jesus...

Even more so than I expected when I started this exchange. It makes me wonder whether he's entrenched for reasons that go beyond these beliefs being long held and personally cherished. I know that formally educated theologiansn and pastors of churches in particular, are just mega-entrenched...

Define "worship"! Don't bother! Allow me.... Do Catholics Worship Mary? A Biblical Look at Worship vs. Rome’s Redefinition Catholics will tell you all day long that they do not worship Mary. They will even get frustrated, even angry, when you suggest otherwise. Their argument goes something...

The OP has been revised. The order of some attributes have been changed to flow more logically, particularly in section III.