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Well, yes, and no. But no only, if the thinking is only in the first sense of Christ's atonement, which is indeed unlimited in scope, and not in the second, which inarguably is limited in scope. Both are true, and neither at the exclusion of the other. Ah! <smile> Well, I have been very...

Yikes. I certainly don't mean to do that... Grace and peace to you!

Titus, I know this was/is a conversation between you and @ElectedbyHim, but if I may... <smile> There is a sense in which Jesus did die for the whole world, for sure, and 1 John 2:2 is not the only place where we see that. But there is also a sense, a different sense, in which He only died for...

You're conflating a couple of things, Titus. Regarding believers, yes, believers like me can go against God's will for my life in a multitude of ways, which is sin; He wants us all to be perfect as he is perfect. So, experientially speaking, yes, we can go against God's will. But even then...

"Calvinist's"... what? the 'apostrophe-s' indicates possession of something, Titus... <chuckles> Sorry; just poking a little fun atcha... Come on, now, don't get hot and bothered, laugh a little... <smile> Anyway... Such a blanket statement without any explanation; we see a lot of that on...

You believe what you think Revelation 5:8 says (or just what you've been told, maybe), which is very much incorrect, which I was very clear on in my last post. Again, a key element in this vision is the scroll. The scroll is a heavenly book containing God’s plan and the destiny of the world...

Ha! Now that's funny. <smile> Grace and peace to you, GG.

<eyeroll> Not what I said... Although to this, does your Catholic catechism allow dead people to pray for you? And how do you know they do? And, do you thank them, or... praise/worship them? And... please (please GOD) don't bring up Revelation 5:8 again... And how do you know they do? I...

You were. Irrelevant ~ we were addressing Catholicism and prayer to the dead. Okay. Relevance? None... Well not those who are still alive, who haven't physically died yet, I agree. <smile> Everyone who has died is deceased... physically dead. Now, if you want to change what we're talking...

So you think, but no, just the former; not the latter. You may say I'm not understanding it correctly, but never would I disagree with God's Word... and I'm saying precisely the same of you. Right, well, then based on what I said directly above, we should be able to leave it on good terms at...

Yes. <smile> <eye roll> <smile> Yes. <smile> You pray to Mary and to "Saints," e.g., John Paul II. Good folks, for sure, but they're dead. Of course not. They are dead. If they are elect, then their spirits are with Christ Jesus, but only Christ Jesus intercedes to the Father on our...

You've shown... well, stuff... for sure. LOL! The Catholic Church did. Genesis through Malachi, yes. Jesus is the Word become flesh (John 1:14). But not the Apocrypha. Well, yes, but mistakenly (to put it nicely... <smile>)... Not true. There are good things in them, but what you say...

LOL! I have, but just to repeat, Joel 2:32, Romans 9:11-18, Ephesians 1:1-13, Ephesians 2:4-10, 1 Peter 1:3-5... I've quoted all these before, several times over... So you think; fair enough. I say it does; we disagree. Hebrews 11 speaks of Abraham three times in terms of his faith, which...

The passage is about Abraham's receiving God's call and thus having faith, which is impossible without having the Holy Spirit, regardless of when that occurs, either before Christ's death and resurrection and Pentecost or after. as Scripture clearly attests. It does; faith is faith, regardless...

Now, keep in mind from above that faith is the gift of God, worked in us when we are born again of/by the Spirit… <smile> Hebrews 11:8-10, 17-18 — “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was...

In Galatians 5:4, FTL, Paul is not discussing the question of whether a genuine believer can lose his or her salvation. He is only saying that people who may once have made a profession of faith, if they are now truly seeking to be justified by the law, must not really have a relationship with...

Not with Christ, no; you don't mean to, I know, but what you say here is very much tantamount to saying Jesus ~ God ~ is not perfectly faithful, and that God, in giving you newness of life in the Spirit, did not really put His Spirit within you, both of which are categorically false. Yet you...

You think so, sure. There was hardly any, if any significant, disagreement regarding the Old Testament canon ~ there was some debate, yes, " and by 250 A.D. there was nearly universal agreement on said canon of Hebrew Scripture, and the Apocrypha was not included. You're right, the Roman...

<smile> Okay, well, we very much disagree... I say the same thing about your "two bodies"... well, I wouldn't call it a "philosophy," but certainly a misunderstanding. It is really a very wooden understanding of what Paul is saying there in 1 Corinthians 15 in particular. Actually, that...

Okay. But I think that is in opposition to what Paul says in Ephesians 1:4-5 (not you being opposed to it, of course, but antithetical to what he writes there), and I believe the only names written in the Book of Life are God's elect. I would say Paul is very clear on that ~ what God created...