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The Christian position is this:
The Old Testament is just as much God's Word as the New Testament is.
There are differing Christian positions on how much we should consider the Old Testament to be history. The majority position would be that most of it is considered roughly historical. A substantial number would consider it all to be 100% historical, and a ...
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With all due respect to Mark Hausam, the logic just doesn't hold water. That sounds like a category error.
Category Errors
These fallacies occur because the author mistakenly assumes that the
whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts. However, things
joined together may have different properties as a whole than any of
them do ...
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For Wesley and other Arminians, original sin is not a matter of predestination but of human nature.
In his sermon Original Sin, Wesley states:
The Scripture avers, that "by one man's disobedience all men were constituted sinners;" that "in Adam all died," spiritually died, lost the life and the image of God; that fallen, sinful Adam then "begat a son in ...
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The confusion comes in when we conflate "salvation" with "ending up in Heaven for eternity."
"Salvation" has three meanings in Scripture:
Initial conversion (being "born again")
Sanctification (of believers)
Ultimate redemption (resurrection, etc.)
It is clear that the first two can happen without the person necessarily ending up in Heaven for eternity, ...
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"Much of it spans generations, some of which was then rewritten by others and passed on by word of mouth."
Exactly how the text was transmitted is a subject of much debate. There's no concrete evidence that anything in the Bible was passed by word of mouth. There is some evidence that Old Testament manuscripts were edited or annotated after the original ...
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Absolutely! It's impossible for nothing to happen when you pray. (Even if it looks like nothing will happen at all.)
As it is written in Romans 4:9 (NIV)
Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness.
Faith is the currency of heaven, and it is through faith and prayer that spiritual battles are won. (Including the battle for the soul of the one ...
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Much of the Old Testament does not apply to our life. For instance, we are not likely to be asked to set our son on fire.
We do have complete free will. But that does not mean its for us to use. I prefer to believe that it is intended for us to give it up. We can see evidence of it in the Bible and throughout society regardless of what time period. The ...
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OK so to answer this we first must look at a few different things. First we must answer the question why do we suffer. We suffer because of the sin we created in this world in Genesis 3. It is true that this could only happen because of free will BUT free will itself did not create suffering. Sin is the reason for our suffering. If we look at Adam and Eve in ...
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Philosophically, there is a theorem called "The Law of Non-Contradiction" that has gained wide traction in Christian Apologetics circles. (See especially Ravi Zacharias.) The "law of non-contradiction" is a simple premise - a thing cannot be both A and not A. Anything less is nonsensical.
The theological extension of this is that God cannot violate his ...
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