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To: annalex; Kolokotronis; Forest Keeper; Cronos
The notion that only the "saved" are admitted to the church is pure donatism. Poor Augustine, -- the stuff they do in his name

I have heard that the Calvinsits & al have grossly distorted Blessed Augustine's theology, but I never thought they would somehow connect it to donatism!

469 posted on 01/05/2006 8:45:36 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; annalex
I have heard that the Calvinsits & al have grossly distorted Blessed Augustine's theology, but I never thought they would somehow connect it to donatism!

Now look folks, it's not fair that you are piling your insults based only on the previous insult. :) First, we had kosta50 accuse me of some "tractor beam" idea in #447 that implies we are just robots. I answered that in #456 and said that we are free to sin.

Then, in response to #447, annalex said in #462:

The notion that only the "saved" are admitted to the church is pure donatism.

Where is this coming from? Is this from when I said that a person must be saved to become a member of a Baptist church? That isn't donatism. Not only do we welcome the unsaved into our pews and Sunday schools every Sunday, we hold several special events every year for the specific purpose of drawing in the unchurched to expose them to the Gospel message. We SEEK the seekers.

Finally, kosta50 builds on the previous insult in #469, which I have now refuted in this post. We can play fair, right?

492 posted on 01/05/2006 10:58:02 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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