Posted on 05/17/2006 9:08:53 PM PDT by Full Court
font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4" color="#990000">From Operation Rescue to Operation Convert
May 21-27, 2006 |
by TIM DRAKE |
Also in the Register: Randal Terry, CatholicRandall Terry has become Catholic. Tell me about your family. How did you come to know Christ? How did you first get started in pro-life work? What led to the founding of Operation Rescue? How many times were you arrested? When did you first take an interest in the Catholic Church? Which theological hurdles were the most difficult for you to jump? I understand that you are awaiting word on the annulment of your first marriage. Can you tell me why you chose to be received into the Church (without being able to receive the Eucharist), before the resolution of your annulment? Tell me how your reception into the Church came about. What was your greatest fear? How do you expect your evangelical colleagues will react to news of your conversion? Do you anticipate that your conversion could hurt you in your Senate race in a predominantly Protestant state?
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Living my faith through the lens of Calvinist theology has been the biggest blessing God could give me. Sad? No way! My God is Sovereign and I can trust Him to meet my every need.
Everything has been predetermined. God knows what is going to happen, therefore whatever God knows will come to pass is predestined to come to pass exactly as God knows it will.
Does that bother you? If it does, then obviously you were predestined to be bothered.
I sent Randall an email, in it I told him I was not surprised that the pro-life movement had so many tares in the leadership. I was also not surprised he was one of them . God once prophesied through the mouth of an ass and he prophesied from the mouth of a false prophet Balaam and the pagan king .
God allows for free will, son.
The very idea of predestination is silly.
Absolutely not. I am asking why you would support baptizing an unbeliever of ANY age, and why you would support baptizing an infant, which IF that infant became a Christian at a later date, he would of been robbed of a baptism.
Baptism is only for those who believe.
Pedo=baptism is papist and pagan.
When did you become a Christian?
His compadre Jim Pinto did the same thing, except he was raised catholic, nominally, but was supposedly saved in his 20's I believe and claimed to be an Evangelical.
He had a stay in the Charismatic Episcopal as Terry did.
Yes, or how else could people disobey the Gospel?
2 Thessalonians 1:7
And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and
that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints,
and to be admired in all them that believe
(because our testimony among you was believed)
in that day.
I don't know, but God knows it's going to happen to you.
Daniel 2:20
Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
No way...you and I are actually agreeing on something.
I was just thinking the same thing. Why would we be told to "repent and be saved" if the endstate is already determined? That's the gaping hole in Calvinism.
Plus Calvinist tend to neglect soul winning, and that bothers me.
If we were not supposed to do it, Jesus wouldn't of told us to.
Amen, Suzy! I'd go nuts, quite frankly, if I believed the responsibility for my salvation was ultimately mine, i.e. whether my "free will" was going to interfere with God's forgiveness.
Then God must not know the future.
Too bad.
But it seems like you're the one who's making baptism into something required.
None of the sacraments are "required" for salvation. But I doubt a saved person would not partake of them because we're told to do so.
I support baptizing infants because it doesn't have anything to do with a requirement for salvation. It has to do with acknowledging the infant as a child of God, born into a covenant family and congregation.
If someone is not baptized, do you think they can be among the saved?
Why are they baptized when Scripture clearly states that one MUST believe in order to be baptized?
Yep. I really believe most people ignore or rebuke the idea of Predestination simply because they've heard other people do it.
If given time to just think about it in the context of a God who has created heaven and earth and who is as He says He is, then the concept of Predestination becomes obvious.
He's either God, or He's not. And so much of the world wants Him to be not.
How does someone disobey the Gospel?
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and
that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
So you do seem to be saying that baptism is required for salvation, right?
An oath taken as a necessary prerequisite for initiation?
Eventually the COC's hijack every thread.
Oh every time it rains it rains Snickers from heaven Don't you know each cloud contains Snickers from heaven You'll find your Snickers Fallin' all over town Be sure that your Yarmulka is upside down So when you hear it thunder Don't run under a tree There'll be Snickers from heaven For you and me
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