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- Tue May 26, 2009 12:34 pm
- Forum: Roman Catholicism
- Topic: Converting to the RCC
- Replies: 86
- Views: 60294
Re: Converting to the RCC
Your post was interesting to me, Steve. I haven't been able to fully understand these assertions: I am not opposed to a group having official leaders, if that becomes necessary, as Paul and Barnabas apparently deemed it to be in some of their young churches. It seems you are referring to the followi...
- Tue May 26, 2009 10:17 am
- Forum: Creation/Evolution
- Topic: Giant Mystery Blob Discovered near Dawn of Time
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15724
Re: Giant Mystery Blob Discovered near Dawn of Time
What?!?! He [the guy from Aaron's church] couldn't put a month and day on it?? Tell him come back when he gets a little more precise! Right. If he had spent adequate time studying the genealogies in the Old Testament as Bishop Ussher had done, he would have come up with the precise date. Ussher sai...
- Tue May 26, 2009 9:54 am
- Forum: Roman Catholicism
- Topic: Converting to the RCC
- Replies: 86
- Views: 60294
Re: Converting to the RCC
Homer, how did the first elders ever to exist come into being in the expression of the Church with which your local assembly is in fellowship? Did those first elders not arise in the "de facto way"?
- Mon May 25, 2009 11:07 am
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: Romans 5:6-11 and the Trinity
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3272
Re: Romans 5:6-11 and the Trinity
How has God demonstrated His love for us if the criteria for the highest possible love, as Jesus said, is to lay down your life for another? I fail to see how this does not apply also to the Father in every system of Christology except Modalism in which it is believed that Christ is the same Person...
- Sun May 24, 2009 6:55 pm
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: Romans 5:6-11 and the Trinity
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3272
Re: Romans 5:6-11 and the Trinity
And do you see any problem with your own view? It would seem to me that if Jesus is not God but is "diety", then you face the same dilemma I brought up. When I say He's "not God", I am saying that He is not the Father, nor is He part of a compound Trinity. But I say that He is the Only Begotten God...
- Sat May 23, 2009 11:03 am
- Forum: Theology Proper, Christology, Pneumatology
- Topic: Romans 5:6-11 and the Trinity
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3272
Re: Romans 5:6-11 and the Trinity
So Jesus is the one who laid down His life for us. Then it is not possible for God to love us more than Jesus. Or even as much, because God has not died for us. Unless Jesus is God, that is. Are you saying "unless Jesus is God the Father"? Or are you saying "unless Jesus is part of a compound God, ...
- Sat May 23, 2009 10:47 am
- Forum: Eschatology
- Topic: This generation will not pass away until ... what happens?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 15854
This generation will not pass away until ... what happens?
Perhaps the chief proof text which preterists use is found in Mark 13:30 (and its parallels in Mt 24:34 and in Lk 21:32) Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place . [ταυτα (these) παντα (all) γενηται (become)] A number of Greek scholars wrote “exegetic...
- Fri May 22, 2009 7:35 pm
- Forum: Eschatology
- Topic: David Wilkerson Prediction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4425
Re: David Wilkerson Prediction
So, I guess Mellontes can't explain the verses I quoted. At least he didn't do so. But perhaps he believes Jesus already came in the glory of his Father with the angels and has repaid everyone according to his deeds --- in 70 A.D. (Mt 16:27) And perhaps he believes that Christ has already judged the...
- Thu May 21, 2009 2:00 pm
- Forum: Eschatology
- Topic: Left Behind......sheesh!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8019
Re: Left Behind......sheesh!
So I'd probably tell him that I am not convinced of dispensational theology and hope and pray he would listen to some of the arguments in favor of the amil view. If not, I would not object to not being allowed to teach that way in the class. That's not to say I wouldn't love to teach it (not that I...
- Wed May 20, 2009 5:19 pm
- Forum: Roman Catholicism
- Topic: Sedevacantism
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9370
Re: Sedevacantism
For those who are not familiar with the term "Sedevacantism", there is an excellent wikipedia article, short but to the point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism