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The phrase "on going plan" seems to denote the Lord is still creating His plan in accordance with the choices we make. This thought does great violence to the omniscience of God. Nothing is contingent with the Lord, especially us. If He has to gaze into His crystal ball to determine what we will...

Sandra, my wife, has been diagnosed with gall stones and is currently in hospital. Prayers being sought for successful surgery and rapid recovery. Thank you Andy

Whether a doctrine is "applicable" in today's world or not has zero bearing on its truth claims. Watering down teaching to appease the world is what has gotten us where we are now.

And you're banned, too. ;)

Justice was indeed meted out upon Christ at the Cross. However, the ultimate end of that sacrifice was God's Eternal Mercy being made available to Mankind. So we can recast the statement I made above in this light; If everyone receives Mercy, God's justice is nullified. It was this type of...

Oh crap, you're and anti-pauline, aren't you?

You all are very far off. Before a single word of scripture can be interpreted we must first be able to do two things competently: Understand Language and Think Critically (i.e. logically). The message of scripture is so simple a child can comprehend it's basic meaning, even before they have...

I can almost agree with that Rach... however, I see it more as the Lord extracting Glory for Himself since we have no innate glory in which to offer Him. Unless the Holy Spirit moves within us, all our deeds (be they well intentioned or not) amount to nothing more than soiled toilet paper to the...

You are the one calling God out on playing favorites, I have made no such claim. He hates sin yet loved the sinner enough to provide a way of salvation. But, since we are unable to save ourselves He had to go the extra mile to do it. If everyone gets saved then no one is left to be condemned...

And you do? What secret knowledge do you have that has eluded many Godly and learned men for millennia?

It is a right, not an inheritance. Difference is a right exists even though there is no one to receive it. An inheritance flows from one to another, if the line is broken the inheritance ceases to exist.

Why can't it be "both and" rather than "either or"?

And we certainly have enough trinity deniers here as well. Also, historical creeds are a marvelous way of both affirming what is true of Christianity and making it easy for the most unlearned to recall. Simply dismissing a reference to a historical creed as "catholic" simply illustrates the...

Just live your life and leave to comings and goings of others up to God.

Sheesh... Red soup eaters... just when I think it's stopped snowing another flake flutters by ;)

Mushy new age gobbledygook...

Peanut butter and pickle sandwich.

LR, do you get the channel Keen 17 where you are?

It might be inline but it is not the spokesman for the doctrine. I personally follow the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689.

Axe, God IS telling us the reason of WHY and as a bonus the HOW; it's because HE WILL. What you might call "willy nilly" is what is in reality God's Sovereign Choice because of His own good pleasure. I am sorry God does not live up to your expectations of a reasonable response. After all, does...