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To: jo kus
FK: as I have said before I know the Spirit does not work in the fashion of complete revelation of doctrine to believers on day one. It is an individual process of sanctification.

That day will never arrive. The process of sanctification will never bring two Protestants of different persuasions (Armenian and Calvinist, for example) together on doctrine.

You are right that Protestants will never agree completely on everything. And yes, there are important differences on such things as even salvation, so I cannot sugarcoat that. However, there are quite a number of "Bible-believing" churches, which have much in common. So, the sanctification process never ends in the same place for any two of us. Does it with any two of you?

Christianity is a revealed religion, not one based on our own private thoughts and interpretations.

LOL! I'm laughing because I am very confident that we both deeply and honestly believe this is the absolute truth, and yet look at us ... :)

3,418 posted on 03/10/2006 3:44:57 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper
I wrote :Christianity is a revealed religion, not one based on our own private thoughts and interpretations.

You wrote : LOL! I'm laughing because I am very confident that we both deeply and honestly believe this is the absolute truth, and yet look at us ... :)

When one says "revealed", that means it was told to us, given to us. It doesn't come FROM us! The teachings have been passed down to us - we don't make them up by reading a book and figuring out for ourselves what Romans 3 means. That is the difference between our two views. You think "revealed" means that your opinions and feelings are from God. I think that "revealed" means that God gave some men in time a message that was given to succeeding generations.

Regards

3,425 posted on 03/10/2006 5:39:56 AM PST by jo kus (I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore CHOOSE life - Deut 30:19)
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