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To: Cronos; HarleyD; metmom; RnMomof7; Quix
Calvinists use this to plumb the depths of despair as since they do not believe in repentence,

The difference between the Protestant method of debate and the RC method of debate is that the Protestant 1) uses the Scriptures as our guide and 2) decries actual beliefs of our opponents.

Whereas the Roman Catholic 1) ignores Scripture and 2) fabricates beliefs of his opponent.

Because your church appears not to understand the Scriptures, let me inform you that all men are called to repent of their sins, obey God and believe in Jesus Christ.

"Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent" -- Acts 17:29-30

See, there is the truth and power of God's word. In two short sentences we have a denunciation of the church in Rome's idolatry, and a declaration of God's command for all men to repent.

You're welcome.

2,133 posted on 01/30/2011 12:21:21 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
1 John 3:4 is clear
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him

7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
For a non-Calvinists (Catholic or a Protestant: Pentecostal, Methodist etc.), we believe in repentence and we believe that some can fall away into sin.

For a Calvinist, this means that they fall into the depths of despair as since they do not believe in repentence, then anyone who does not do what is right the Calvinist believe they were never really Christian
2,161 posted on 01/30/2011 2:09:44 PM PST by Cronos
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the OPC with it’s double-predestination seems to willingly cause it’s cultists to plumb the depths of despair — since they do not believe in repentence, then anyone who fails then is told by the OPC that they were never Christian.


2,246 posted on 01/31/2011 1:50:35 AM PST by Cronos (Vade Retro Dottore Satana Jeckle)
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