Ping
I’ll take the Catholics and lay the points.
Most Jews could care less about abortion, one way or the other. Same goes for unnatural marriage. They could care less. About 90% vote for democrats.
Thanks for posting this. While I appreciate Dr. Scott a lot and read him regularly, I take a somewhat different view of Rick Warren. I don’t think he’s ignorant of church history or Rome at all. He’s well read, brilliant, and cagey, so I suspect he knows exactly what he’s doing. I believe Warren is a dangerous deceiver who is bound to and determined to lead the way to Laodicea.
1.Does God accept us because of what Christ did for us (pro nobis) or on be basis of what God the Spirit is doing in us with which we are freely cooperating?”
Both! The first point(death and resurrection) gets us into the door...the second develops out of the first point as an on going relationship that continues from our initial salvation! The question is not really a question but a “splitting hairs game” of silly semantics!
Look at the pro-life movement. Catholics held that bag for quite some time. Then Protestants got on board and realized that Catholics don't have horns.
But we need to have some point at which we say to each other that we do have more in common and then decide to build friendships from there.
It is called honest dialogue and it is something I think Jesus would really appreciate.
People don't have to convert to another's religion just because they agree on the basics.
The beauty of true Christianity is that God has ALWAYS had an elect remnant that remained true to the faith. Many of these believers, like many of the faithful ancient Jews, were persecuted and executed by the religious hierarchies of their day that cared more about power, influence and wealth than truth. Those who backed the Reformation were not all former Roman Catholics, but they WERE among the elect that remained faithful to the true faith because they followed Christ and not men.