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You aren't technically wrong but the meaning of sanctification depends on the context, and the terminology I used in my post is often used in Christian vernacular to distinguish between issues having to do with getting saved (Justification) vs. issues that have to do with living a Christian life...

In short, whether scriptural or otherwise, there is no such thing as an irrational truth - by definition. That is to say that being irrational is the very definition of what it means for something to be false. Then, if it is indeed an "inescapable logical necessity", you should be able to...

I entirely see your point here but it seems to me like you're conflating justification with sanctification. "Justification" being the act of getting saved and "sanctification" being the process by which we grow in Christ and learn to let Him live His life through us. This feels like a topic...

I think the term for this is... non sequitur

Very creative and clever post! I like it! Time does exist just not ontologically (i.e. in same way that you or I or any other person or object exists). Time exists as a concept, as an abstraction. It's a convention of language used to communicate information about the duration and sequence of...

I think there's no question that Cornelius was preached the Kingdom gospel. There's no way Peter would have even know what the Gospel of Grace was. As for the rest of your post, it is, as usual, very well thought out and presented. I have nothing to add except to say that I fully understand why...

If so, then there are almost no saved Christians anywhere in the world! Care to establish that biblically?

So how does the fact that Paul typically went to the synagogue when he went to a city help to explain the fact the Lydia was baptized after heading the words of Paul? Was Lydia saved under the Kingdom Gospel or the Gospel of Grace? If the former, then why Paul? If the latter, then why the baptism?

YES! Has Will turned into a terrific pastor or what?! Bob would be so proud of him!

Which is precisely the goal.

This reminded me of something I read about thirty years ago... "God's way of deliverance is altogether different from man's way. Man's way is to try to suppress sin by seeking to overcome it; God's way is to remove the sinner. Many Christians mourn over their weakness, thinking that if only...

Playing a bit of the devil's advocate there, actually. Definitely not.

I love it. My favorite sentence in this whole post is.... "I don't know if the grammar of the original language texts would support this, but...." If every Christian tried this hard to both make actual arguments that make sense and displayed even half this much intellectual honesty, the world...

Nevertheless, he was water baptized and does point to himself as the prototype. But it was done as the result of Paul's preaching. Paul brought up baptism and then they got water baptized in Jesus name. Whether he physically did the dunking is a matter of speculation and isn't the point. Well...

Well said. ...or at least it had been up until God said, "Rise Peter, kill and eat." at which point it was no longer. Do you think there is anything to the idea that God had in mind at first to take Paul's gospel, the gospel of salvation through grace apart from the law, to the world through...

I don't disagree but I think where some make a mistake is by neglecting the fact that the Kingdom gospel, as we typically call it, was still being preached by some and believed by many AFTER Acts 9, and when we draw too stark of a line at Acts 9 we open ourselves up to objections that are more...

I agree, the Acts 28 position is more or less ridiculous. But there were people being added to the faith in significant numbers at the preaching the the Twelve AFTER Paul's conversion and so it wouldn't be accurate to draw too stark of a line at Paul's conversion (Acts 9).

Your points do not connect with anything we believe because you do not know what you're talking about. It's hardly your fault though, really. It's paradigm blindness. Your objections are only valid from within your own theological paradigm, which is precisely what is being debated. They call it...

So, in an attempt to turn this thread into a discussion that is actually profitable and interesting.... I happen to be reading through the book of Acts right now and, as you well know, I am definitely a Mid-Acts Dispensationalist. I would, however, stop short of saying that the Acts 13 and Acts...

While the subject of the content and extent of God's knowledge is a perfectly legitimate topic to discuss, I wonder, if there's any sort of knowledge at all, whether experiential or otherwise, that God doesn't know, whether it even makes sense to say that God is all-knowing in the first place...