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To: PieterCasparzen
Are you Reformed Christian ?

I am not 100% sure of what you are asking, but let me give an answer that I hope satisfies you. I am certainly a reformed, born again ex catholic. As to reformed, if you mean do I lean toward Calvinism? I guess I do lean in that direction. I believe when Adam and Eve ate the fruit in the Garden of Eden, they fell totally and completely away from God, without one ray of hope for ever returning to fellowship with God, which is why mankind needed to be bought back from TOTAL spiritual deadness (by Jesus Christ of course) He bought us back, by His death and resurrection, without even the tiniest effort on our part. Salvation bring totally and completely by faith in Him, a faith, I might add, that produces a lifetime of good works, like in the Book of James. I do not dwell on it much, however. Evangelism is most important to me at this time. I am not a strict dispensationist either. I think God deals with the world in different ways sometimes, but I am not hard core into the age of law, the church age, the tribulation age, even though I read Clarence Larkin's dispensational Truth. As I said, I am more into evangelism than anything else. Make sense?

4,701 posted on 01/02/2015 12:56:44 AM PST by Mark17 (I'm a new creation, I'm a soul set free, and the man I was, you no longer see. Praise Jesus)
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To: Mark17
Ah, I see. The confession of faith I subscribe to is the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646).

The version at that link has Biblical proof texts noted, which I find very helpful whenever I reference it.

I find Matthew Henry's commentaries to be extremely useful in getting a basic understanding of Scripture, especially on allegorical passages.

My conversion started by my inadvertent reading about the Reformation; I still find the study of it useful and moving.
4,702 posted on 01/02/2015 1:14:20 AM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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