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In what way does the phrase "interpret the bible" equate with "what you want it to say"? You seem to be conflating "interpretation" with "distortion". To study the Bible is to interpret it. The very act of reading a text and trying to understand its meaning in context, what the author...

This idiotic claim is false by Catholicism's OWN standard! Just one of 551,217 examples.... Scripture (affirmed by Catholicism as God's Word): Catholic Doctrine (Council of Trent, Canon 9):

All theology is philosophy. Theology is merely a branch of philosophy. Christian theology is Christian philosophy and vise-versa. Letting God speak for Himself through scripture is a philosophical stance. This may seem like a semantic point, and in this particular forum, especially in any...

I just showed you PROOF otherwise, Nick, including from Paul's own writing. Look at the passage you yourself just cited. The eight words that immediately precede the verse you quoted.... "sin is not imputed when there is no law. " God is just. That is all you need know in order to toss...

What is morality, (or ethics)? A code of values to guide one's choices and actions, the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life. To speak meaningfully of “value", one must first understand what a value is. A value is not merely something admired or preferred...

You highlight the wrong portion of that verse. Romans 5:18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. The doctrine of Original sin is...

Nang only ever posted here because I had totally humiliated her husband in a debate on another website. She was obsessed with me for a couple of years. LOL!

Those old Fátima photos don't even count as evidence, by the way! The Cottingley Fairy photos, which were completely fake, were taken the same year as the Fátima photos, 1917! Two girls used paper cutouts and completely fooled the public. Even Arthur Conan Doyle believed them! At the time...

Why is it that miracles always seem to happen to people out in the middle of nowhere in places no one who's supposed to believe the miracle happened has ever been or has any means to get there or any access to anyone who was supposedly there. In short, there's never any means by which to confirm...

I screwed up when editing the OP and had two paragraphs in there that said almost verbatim the same thing. I've reworded it to reduce the redundancy and consolidated three paragraphs into two.

"Cop out", is too kind. He is intentionally, knowingly and blatantly dishonest... WITH HIMSELF!!!! A completely total waste of time (unless the interaction is just sort of practice, for you own benefit, with no expectation of having a substantive two way exchange.)

In addition to the essay in the OP, I've written a 4700 word essay for the purpose of establishing that every distinctively Calvinist doctrine derives from the doctrine of Immutability. I can't decide whether to post it here or not because it reads like a Calvinist apologetic, and could...

Of all the things I said in that post, the rhetorical questions that practically answer themselves are what you chose to respond to? How about Hindus? Are there some saved Hindus? Perhaps there are saved members of NAMBLA! What about atheists? Are there any atheists that manage to get saved...

Calvinism: Inconceivable! The system of Calvinism presents itself as a faithful exposition of biblical truth. It is, in reality, a philosophical framework imposed upon Scripture. At its core lies not a devotion to the Word of God as it stands, but a prior commitment to a concept of God that was...

I've literally lost what it was we were talking about but in response to this specific statement... If someone who identifies as Catholic has come to trust in Christ alone for salvation, apart from the sacraments, apart from Mary, apart from the priesthood, apart from papal authority, etc, etc...