Recent content by Derf

@Regulus: just so you understand what I’m saying, you can’t lose your salvation if you still believe those truths about Christ. But Satan is happy when you succumb to temptation, and it is important to keep yourself out of situations you already recognize as weaknesses for you. If pornography...

The difference is that a recognition of free will allows some meaning to their choices, even if it is less logical with the presupposition of exhaustive foreknowledge.

Your clarification at the end is helpful, but almost too late. I didn't understand you were talking about when you were a Calvinist.

Then there's no salvation to lose. But don't walk in darkness. Make sure your life is lived in light. If you can't do what you want to do in front of your pastor, or parents, or wife, or whoever, then you should consider not doing those things.

At some point you should be able to "put off the old man". But your faith is based on your belief in Christ, not your ability to stop sinning. Do you believe Christ came in the flesh, died on a cross, was buried, then rose from the dead?

I wasn't reading her views, but her post. You apparently think her post is not representative of her views, which is fine, and hopefully true, but she's intelligent enough to tell me that--she doesn't need you to interpret her views. So why do you do it? You must think she's an imbecile, like...

What do you think about the idea of forgiving one's self? I think it is usually used to assuage guilty feelings for something one did in the past, but it always makes me cringe a bit.

You besmirch yourself with such words. I spelled out the part explicitly where she was unwilling to discuss restrictions on abortions for convenience until I agreed that the state must support the baby throughout. Abortion means the killing of a baby. Please point out where I went wrong in the...

Do you feel like you are stumbling into less sin than you used to?

Here's where i got it from: I said She replied So the only way I can have a meaningful conversation with her ("get back to me when") about abortion for convenience sake (the part of my post she was replying to) is if I first concede ("you're ready to") that the state must ("have the state")...

@annabenedetti was. And you took her side. Ergo, you did make that argument.

Then I recommend you think through your post and try again. I couldn't tell what you were getting at. The title talks about Calvinism and your salvation, but the OP only talks about Calvinists who gave you some advice. Can you explain WHY you think Calvinism almost made you lose your salvation?

Do you have a question we could help answer? God hates divorce, and it wasn't His plan for you. But now that you're dealing with it, deal with it according to scripture, not according to some theological system.

I still don't see why, because a parent might not be able to care well for a child, that makes it ok to kill the child. The two are not the only options.

Wrongly, of course. But that was my point--that such a course allows people wholly antithetical to a movement or ideology to pretend to be part of it and corrupt the movement. Republicans are in danger of promoting the very things the party complain about. So if you don't agree with murder, the...