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why do you all suppose this thread has made it so long? It's gotten pretty nasty at times, especially at the start, before we knew each other. And it still does. Everything that has been said on other threads that got them pulled has been said here.

Good topic Becky.

I guess we're like a good marriage, every once in a while, we have to cash in all our saved up stamps, and get the real or perceived gripes or arguments of what you believe the other person believes off our chest.

I think I know where everyone here will come from on any doctrinal issue, but sometimes I ask again, just to see if your/their answer has changed, or to make sure you ask yourself the question again and deal with your own answers. Lol

I don't usually follow through after they reply, because I know you still feel the same and I know it will end up the same way.

I still believe Catholicism is a basic “Model T” Ford, that they’ve been adding accessories to it all these years so it will pass as being up to date, like reflectors, coon tails, curb feelers, chrome strips and fog lights and running lights and etc. for appearances. Oh, and foam rubber dice hanging on the RV Mirror.) Lol

I still think the Preterist believe as they do, because some one frightened them about the end of the world when they were young, and since God didn’t directly say that the end wouldn’t come for thousands of years after Christ, then it’s open for any interpretation you wish to give it.

That those who believe it’s necessary to keep the Sabbath and the Levitical food laws, and Jewish holy days, are trying to pay God back in some way because they can’t believe that God would give them such a free gift, and not want them to do some work of the law to repay Him.

I still believe that we who God has forgiven the most, are more apt to believe in “Eternal Security” then those who have been forgiven little. They see their few sin’s, as ones that with just a little more work, and they’ll be perfect on their own. On the other hand, those who have been forgiven much, know they could never come close to perfection, and are more then willing to let God have credit for everything they become.

But then again, …………………………………………..

JH :-)

post #56537 was meant for All.

That those who believe it’s necessary to keep the Sabbath and the Levitical food laws, and Jewish holy days, are trying to pay God back in some way because they can’t believe that God would give them such a free gift, and not want them to do some work of the law to repay Him.

Pretty arrogant Jim. Do you always judge the thoughts and intentions of one's heart? Don't you thing you ought to leave that to God?

...and are more then willing to let God have credit for everything they become.

I thought Becky said that we had survived the Calvinist assault? ;^)

I still believe that we who God has forgiven the most, are more apt to believe in “Eternal Security” then those who have been forgiven little. They see their few sin’s, as ones that with just a little more work, and they’ll be perfect on their own. On the other hand, those who have been forgiven much, know they could never come close to perfection, and are more then willing to let God have credit for everything they become.

That's not a half-bad insight, Jim.

(I bet you didn't expect that. LOL)

I would only comment that the divide may also have much to do with those who had an epiphany that God is forgiving of anything, versus those who always had that understanding.

SD

That those who believe it’s necessary to keep the Sabbath and the Levitical food laws, and Jewish holy days, are trying to pay God back in some way because they can’t believe that God would give them such a free gift, and not want them to do some work of the law to repay Him.

Besides they're sabbaths and feast days of the Lord. And we shouldn't keep them because we want anything, or expect anything. We keep them because Christ indwells in us and Christ certainly honors the days he himself sanctified.

Now how would it sound if I said that you keep the Catholic Day of the Lord and the Catholic holy days? :-)