To: Cronos; Dr. Eckleburg; OLD REGGIE; Quix; Iscool
All the groups you belong to may say sola scriptura, but each interprets the beliefs of those separately and distinctly. Still trying to create division among Christians?
We don't have to have unity in all things, it's only the control freaks in the RCC that demand it. We are united by our faith in God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and our faith in The Gospel. We are united by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
We may have very different understandings of free will vs predestination, covenant theology vs premillenialism, church structure, etc., but we share a common faith and an indwelling Holy Spirit. The differences make for interesting discussions, but they are only matters of discernment not salvation.
Unfortunately, your church has taken a different road and you are separated from the Body of Christ because of it. The good news is you can throw off that man made yoke of works, legalism, rituals, and submission to men anytime and join the Body of Christ by having Faith Alone in Christ Alone.
2,007 posted on
07/25/2010 10:18:38 AM PDT by
wmfights
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To: wmfights; Dr. Eckleburg; OLD REGGIE; Quix; Iscool
GRoupings that reject free will and hold to unconditional election to salvation and damnation like the Calvinists are intrinsically different from all non-Calvinists, whether the Apostolic Church or Lutherans or Anglicans or Pentecostals or Arminian Baptists who believe that God chooses, for eternal salvation, those whom He foresees will have faith in Christ
The Calvinist viewpoint contradicts the Gospels which speak of a loving God and hence the Calvinist legal God of anger and not Love is pretty far from the Christian God as evidenced in those who do not hold to the idea of a God that damns
Pentecostals, Methodists, Free-will Baptists, etc all hold to a universal drawing and universal extent of atonement instead of the Calvinist doctrine that the drawing and atonement is limited in extent to the elect only.
2,029 posted on
07/25/2010 2:16:04 PM PDT by
Cronos
(Omnia mutantur, nihil interit)
To: wmfights
I don’t know individuals’ hearts unless God shows me.
However, it’s obvious that the Vatican INSTITUTION
hinders many millions from an authentic RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Prevents many from ever forming such a RELATIONSHIP
and causes many such fragile new relationships to crash and burn on the altars of INSTITUTIONAL RELIGION, DOGMA, BLASPHEMY AND IDOLATRY.
2,033 posted on
07/25/2010 2:38:17 PM PDT by
Quix
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To: wmfights
We don't have to have unity in all things, it's only the control freaks in the RCC that demand it. We are united by our faith in God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and our faith in The Gospel. We are united by the indwelling Holy Spirit. We may have very different understandings of free will vs predestination, covenant theology vs premillenialism, church structure, etc., but we share a common faith and an indwelling Holy Spirit. The differences make for interesting discussions, but they are only matters of discernment not salvation.
Unfortunately, your church has taken a different road and you are separated from the Body of Christ because of it. The good news is you can throw off that man made yoke of works, legalism, rituals, and submission to men anytime and join the Body of Christ by having Faith Alone in Christ Alone.
AMEN!
2,338 posted on
07/26/2010 3:55:32 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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