Posted on 01/14/2011 5:57:52 PM PST by topcat54
Evangelical book catalogs promote books such as Planet Earth: The Final Chapter, The Great Escape, and the Left Behind series. Bumper stickers warn us that the vehicle’s occupants may disappear at any moment. It is clear that there is a preoccupation with the idea of a secret rapture. Perhaps this has become more pronounced recently due to the expectation of a new millennium and the fears regarding potential Y2K problems. Perhaps psychologically people are especially receptive to the idea of an imminent, secret rapture at the present time. Additionally, many Christians are not aware that any other position relative to the second coming of Jesus Christ exists. Even in Reformed circles there are numerous people reading these books. Many of these people are unaware that this viewpoint conflicts with Scripture and Reformed Theology.
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Are there a handful of html codes I could learn to create a table of contents and pages to click to for my FR home page?
It’s getting pretty ungainly! LOL.
I think 80-90% of it is great posts I’ve archived there of yours. But they need organized etc.
To do a table of contents where each item hot links to another place on the same page, try this html code (without the ^)
In the table of contents:
THANKS BIG.
Saving to my boilerplate Word file.
No sweat.
Thx tons.
You normally encourage me in a list of ways . . .
by living, breathing, posting Holy Spirit wisdom, understanding me, penguins, . . .
Yeah. So I hear.
Amen!!!
Believe whatever you want but they have been thrown out of countries in the past for what they have done by infiltrating and starting trouble because of their agenda.
The Secret History of the Jesuits
http://arcticbeacon.com/books/Paris-The_Secret_History_of_Jesuits%281975%29.pdf
Written by a former Jesuit Priest
Evidently on your reading, dear kosta: You read the scriptures as if they were legal documents, challenging the authority of every line, setting yourself up as the ultimate arbiter of the meaning of the text....
I don't read them that way. To me they are the Word of God and thus of unquestionable authority. They are His self-revelation to us, "told truly, though not exhaustively."
So I don't know how we "get on the same page," kosta dear.
BTW, it's not "my" Bible. It is THE Bible.
THANKS MUCH.
Good one.
LOL!!! In a word-NO! :O)
Might as well put up the quotes!
"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." — Martin LutherThank you so very much for your insights, Cronos — especially your points (2) and (3):
"The devil . . . the prowde spirite ... cannot endure to be mocked." — Thomas More
"Of course the key theme is that we can fall into two extremes that are error-prone: denying demons exist or getting obsessed with them."Seems to me demons do exist; and the best way to deal with them is as Luther and More direct: Simply dismiss them by ridicule. This saves one from "obsessing" about them....
Free will in action.
I would like to address more than one post here, regarding what i see as as broad brushing and or mischaracterizations. But I cannot presently get into this in an extended way now and would first like to ask some questions .
1. Do you deny that the blood (atonement) of Christ became the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men?
2. Do you believe that at conversion one is forgiven of all sins and the heart purified by faith?
3. Do you believe that the atonement of Christ continues to enable cleansing of sin, upon repentance and faith?
4. Do you believe that historic Protestant faith overall minimized personal sin and piety?
5. Do you believe evangelicals overall evidence less commitment and uniformity to moral values than Catholics overall?
6. Do you believe most evangelicals today are Calvinists or Arminians?
Wow. Do you truly believe that? Does the RCC teach that? A man with God is stronger than any army, as Alamo Girl's verses confirm.
What was Paul's job given to him by Christ?
"To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." -- Acts 26:18
And Paul did not fail. Paul succeeded.
"...that through death (Jesus) might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil: And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." -- Hebrews 2:14-15.
Sin no longer has power over us.
"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." -- Romans 6:14
As believers, we are God's children and have power over the flesh, the world and Satan.
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." -- Galatians 3: 26.
Just as Christ surmounted Satan, so do we because of Christ within us.
" For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." -- Colossians 3:3 "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." -- 1 John 4:17
Christians have this confidence. In fact, with Christ any temptation is not too great to withstand...
"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." -- 1 Corinthians 10:13
MARKBSNR: It took all that Jesus had to withstand satan, no?
No. 1) There was never any possibility that Christ could fail against Satan (or all our Christianity would be a lie.)
And 2) Christ was contending with Satan for all His sheep. Just consider how much sin that entails. It is beneficial to us to see that resisting the devil by atoning for sins is not such an easy task. And yet, Jesus did just that, thereby increasing our gratitude of His work on the cross and leading us to glorify God all the more.
ALAMO GIRL: If it had been someone from another Christian “label” who found the bakery shop kids, built the church and baptized us, I’d probably be wearing a different label today. LOLOL!
As it is my "letter" has always been in a Baptist church, though that point is meaningless to me because at the root, I will always be that bakery shop kid – a Christian, plain and simple.
lolol. AMEN! Cupcakes for a cupcake. 8~)
Your anecdote from the other thread is just beautiful - "that bakery shop kid."
As our merciful, gracious God wills.
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