Posted on 12/01/2002 5:22:20 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
I believe you will be judged on your lie..not a loss of salvation for the elect..but no medal of honor either
Do you trust God to preserve you or not?
What concerns me here is the professed Calvinist think they need to sin to help God along in accomplishing His will.. God is not able to accomplish what He will without your sin ...
Mat 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Mat 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
Mat 26:54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Woody God needs to act for HIS glory..if you sin to cause an acceptable ending all the glory goes to you..you rob God
Exd 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so.
This word "under" is a very big deal in Pauline theology. It conveys an idea of a relationship which Paul repeatedly says we don't have to the Law. We have a better relationship. Paul says we are in-lawed to Christ.
The New Covenant theological position is ultimately just an elucidation of that position. (It does have eschatological implications, BTW, but it is not a hybrid of the dispensational and covenant theology positions.)
A surprising percentage of the stuff which you might happen to read about the New Covenant theological position is sheer crap. Our detractors misrepresent us as licentious, as antinomian, but nothing could be further from the truth. (We wouldn't dream of cheating on our taxes [grin].)
The funny thing is, many of those guys whom you mentioned as respected Reformed theologians would not even sit down at the same table with you--since you aren't a strict Sabbatarian!
The whole controversy is a mess. It requires a calm approach to sort through the garbage and to see what the Bible is saying and what it is not saying.
It seemed to me all of what I was hearing was a bit legalistic..Perhaps I will get with you for further discussion later
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