The Narrow Path Ministries

RickC wrote:Darin,

You prefer non-Reformed soteriology, eh?
Me too, from a long time before then: The Soteriology of Jesus and the Apostles!

Yep, I suppose I do.

I guess most people have careers from which they will someday need to retire. It may be wise, and God's will, for them to save for that day. On the other hand, God may call some of them into second careers, after retirement, in some form of ministry, through which He will continue to meet their nee...

Michelle wrote:Wow, Darin, thanks for bringing this up. I had some time this afternoon, and a job I wanted to procrastinate about doing and this turned out to be an interesting question to look into.

The anticipation is making me wait.

Nothing meant - haven't even read it closely yet and was just adding the reference to facilitate discussion.

I see what you're saying - now that I read it with that in mind, I think you're probably right but it does seem a bit odd and anti-climactic to spend these chapters leading up to the "appeal," and then to have him just freed without fanfare when he arrived in Rome after the shipwreck. It's just odd ...

13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; 15 for the Law brings about wrath, but where there i...

Calvinists don't follow Paul's train of thought. And in discussing and/or debating with them, I've found that I can become so "distracted" {for lack of terminology} from the worldview of the Bible authors that I actually start "seeing" {terminology lack} the Bible like a Calvinist. This can lead so...

30 The king stood up and the governor and Bernice, and those who were sitting with them, 31 and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment.” 32 And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if...

But, didn't the angels fall in a similar situation? I don't see how this is even remotely similar. We are saved from our sinful condition into righteousness. A painful process. We know and have experienced a life of sinful behavior. Angels that fell started from a position of righteousness just as ...

I makes no sense to me why someone would live in this age for Christ, which is difficult because you have to die to yourself and receive little if any benefit from doing so, and then later (after our bodies are glorified and we are no longer tempted) we would freely choose to fall. Do we think that...