They're on safe ground if that ground is the foundation Paul laid, viz., Jesus Christ. All other ground is unsafe, unstable, unsure, uncertain.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
He started out as Jehovah Witness, q.v., [URL=http://www.mmoutreachinc.com/jehovahs_witnesses/jehovah_witness_index.html]]]Topics for Jehovah Witnesses--Their Family & Friends[/URL], and no telling how much farther he has sunk.

Barry from Ky. wrote:
Wow, I got an idea, let's call them "Hitler's Youth"

Mark M. wrote:
I need to find a new country to live in...and I'm to the point now where I'm serious enough about it to look in to teaching abroad.

John Yurich USA wrote:
How can you state that almost all Mainline Churches are godless when they affirm everything mentioned in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds?

John Yurich USA wrote:
Obama just keeps getting more insane and more psychotic all the time.

Now read a few articles written from campaign finance disclosure forms showing AIG making big contributions to various politicians - over $100k to Mr. Obama, just for example.

Then consider that Congressional pensions are insured by a private insurance company. Guess which one?

To the outraged questions from spittle-lipped Congressmen about who's to blame, I suggest someone hold up a mirror for them.

Let companies fail, including the banks. Let the entire financial system collapse. It will be a good starting point for rebuilding an economy based on something real, rather than on financial speculation and services that produce nothing.

"Oh, how cold! People will suffer!" some might say. That is true. The suffering we will experience is the direct result of living to excess for the last 60 years, forgetting our God, and will be no greater than the suffering we will experience following Obama's path. He may be able to delay it for a short time, but the suffering is coming either way.

The Roman Catholic church is big enough to have heretics fighting heretics within her. The pope opposes condom use while remaining silent about the Marxist bishops and priests in Central and South America, the homosexual mafia in the North American clergy, the lazy diamond-studded flunkies in Europe, etc.

charles m wrote:
generally humanist world view
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example of closing down discusion ...

I am not an Arminian by any means. I do not wish to close down discussion; rather, I wish to influence a change in the tone of the discussion. Here are some of my observations about calvinists:

Good intellectual understanding of doctrine but overvalue of their own ability to reason
Cite proof text scriptures at the expense of understanding the whole counsel of God
Major on the minors
Argumentative, strident, arrogant
Make up answers to questions that are unanswerable (e.g., "infralapsarianism v. supralapsarianism")
Ignore answers to questions that are answerable (e.g., "How will the world end?")
Because of this, get it wrong on some of the plain things (e.g., "Has the church replaced Israel?")
Avoid those scriptures that command us to demonstrate practical love one to another

John Yurich USA wrote:
You are correct that the Bishop is a female. I did not pay that close attention while reading the article. There is nothing wrong with the episcopal church government not if they only ordained men to the clergy.

Angela Wittman wrote:
I am encouraged by this article, but not by some of the behavior exhibited on this thread.

Galatians 5:
13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
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19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, ...,
20 ...hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21Envyings, ..., and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Galatians 6:
10As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Where would the sodomites' arguments for "marriage" be if there were no secular benefit to it? I think if it comes to pass (and it has already begun) that the state sanctions "gay marriage," Christians ought to ignore the state and marry without consulting it. Who has the authority to declare a marriage valid: the state, or God? And if it is only God, then who has the authority to determine the validity of a marriage in this life: the state or the church?

John Yurich USA wrote:
What is with that stupid dame Episcopal priest that she thinks that she can be both an Episcopalian and a Muslim? It is impossible because Christianity and Islam are diametrically opposed to one another. It is good that the Rhode Island Episcopal Bishop wants to defrock her. She should not have been able to be ordained an Episcopal priest in the first place since the Bible prohibts women from being ordained to the clergy.

I pray that you would limit the "discussion" of Calvinism to the thread attached to the article about Baptist Calvinists. I further pray that we might build one another up in the most holy faith.

James 4
1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?"

John Yurich USA wrote:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the greatest president because if it was not for the social work programs of The Works Progress Administration and The Civilian Conservation Corps then my late Father would not have been able to get a job after graduating from high school in 1935 to support my Grandparents.

Yes, Mr. Smith, it is VERY apparent that you take the question very seriously. Only the 'confirmed, solid' catamites, sodomites and lesbians will be accepted. No room for those who are plainly NOT Christians - no sirree! You have shut that door TIGHT! Wouldn't want anyone comparing you to those out-of-control Episcopalians or liberal Lutherans, right? I mean, you're right there in the middle of the Bible belt! Gotta stay vigilant! Wouldn't want to let any non-Christians climb into the pulpit!

John Yurich USA wrote:
Well naturally Obama and Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy because they are insane and psychotic. Obama is the worst president since Hoover.