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I don't know that I have a dog in this fight, but I was reading Ez 36 the other day, and it seems like the return of the people to the land and their return to God are sequential: Ezekiel 36:24-27 KJV — For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will...

My concern over faulty or poor reasoning is that you say God gave it to us. He also gives us information. And if what God gave us is not sufficient to come to the right conclusion, then we aren't culpable, because with chosen, as you say, without all the means necessary to choose correctly...

Hi steko. I missed your post--a good one--for awhile, because it wasn't directly quoting a post of mine or tagging me ("@" followed by my username). If you'll do either in the future, I get notified. I'm ok with most all of that, except that the "gospel of the earthly kingdom" is intimately...

That's good. What about the second? If you agree with me that there isn't any other gospel, this follows--they can't be saved by persevering any more than we can, but that's what that other gospel says. Some of the back-and-forth here has been about James' "faith plus works" salvation vs...

Of course you would. But the fact that they are "Acts x" means they are taking it from the bible (rightly or wrongly), and that you call them dispensationalists shows that you support what I wrote.

"They" being MADs, perhaps, but not all dispensationalists. MADs are a subset of all dispensationalists.

The New Testament provides us the Apostolic narrative. It's the only trustworthy source. As such, you have your authority sources flipped. Since the apostles are no longer with us, the narrative they left behind is the remaining source. Calling something "the actual, true, historic Christian...

Where does James say that? If you say James 2:14, then you're mistaken. James is making the point that a faith that has no evidence is not faith at all. Notice my addition of the indefinite article "a" before "faith"? It's because I haven't introduced the faith subject prior to that. If I had, I...

But faith is not alone. No able Christian should sit on the couch all day long "just" believing in Christ, asking others to provide for him. No evangelist should just wait at home believing God has saved him and others, but should actually tell others of Christ and the resurrection. No...

But I think those descriptions are accurate. Why don't you agree? For instance, if Paul called preachers of other so-called gospels anathema (accursed), Gal 1:8, and the gospel of the kingdom is another gospel, which is a tenet of MAD, what is there to disagree about?

That Paul and other NT writers were not only targeting different people groups, but also were propagating different gospels, which Paul anathematized. That the Jews could achieve salvation by persevering, but others didn't have to. That there was competition between the 12 apostles vs Paul--to...

Thanks for answering so succinctly, Stripe. I agree that much of it fits the narrative, but not all.

If we apply perfect reasoning to faulty premises, we get a faulty result. You keep calling it faulty or poor reasoning, and it is, but not because we are incapable of the reasoning process. Adam and Eve had faulty reasoning because they thought they knew everything they needed to know--a faulty...

That won't be enough, unless every member of Congress does it. And then the rest of us don't have to.

And your point is? What about this verse do you think speaks against what I wrote? Do you really think just quoting a scripture without any explanation is going to be effective? As if I never saw that scripture before? As if nobody who disagrees with your view ever saw it before?

I hate to reply because there's nothing to say, but i feel bad for your thread.

With a divisive theology? You should. Not all works are deeds of the law, nor are we to trust in our works, else Paul is duplicitous when he commands works. No, James specifically says, "Can that kind of faith save that doesn't have any works?" He, like Paul, is saying faith saves, not works...

More that you can't help carrying others with you, or you should question your faith.

You quote Paul saying: Then you quote James saying: Which ends with this verse you left out: 16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? And then you can say with a...