True Doctrines wrote:
What Baptists apparently do not understand::-
""What do you think of the Christ?” In guiding the Jerusalem leaders to contemplate this question of eternal weight, Jesus turned to the authority of what is written “in the book of Psalms,” specifically Psalm 110 (Matt 22:41–46; Mark 12:35–37; Luke 20:40–44), and asked a question childlike in both simplicity and profundity, the answer to which plunges one into the unfathomable wonder of the incarnation of God: How could David refer to his son as Lord? This probing question was but the application of what Jesus would later declare, that he himself is the object of all the Scriptures of the Old Testament, summarizing their threefold division in Luke 24:44 as “the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms,” with the Psalms standing as the summary representative of the Writings." (Rev. L. Michael Morales)

Real Christianity wrote:
The real "anti-Christian" is YOU Jim Lincoln - AND apparently the BAPTIST organisation if it believes and teaches these unbiblical lies. No wonder they haven't got a Covenant with God.
The ELECT know for a fact that the entire Bible including the Psalms is about Christ Jesus.
JESUS states
"These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms concerning me" Luke 24:44.
Jesus also uses the psalms in discussion in the NT.
The words ON THE CROSS spoken by Jesus to God "My God my God why hast thou forsaken me?" Comes from Psalm 22.
If this is standard Baptist doctrine then Baptist theology is heretical and unbiblical.
It is no wonder that Jim Lincoln uses the heretical modern versions with such blind and unbiblical fallacies being posted below. Clearly this is NOT Christian teachings.
No wonder the SBC cant figure out Calvinism - It is too Biblical for them!

Real Christianity wrote:
Well well I was right about the Baptist fraternity ditching the Old Testament.
Jesus declares don't change one jot or tittle of the Old Testament.
Jim and his Baptist cult have lost the plot.

CAB wrote:
The same Bible teachers who condemn homosexuality (and well they should) -- also teach their congregations that "all sins are equal," that God is blind and can't even SEE sin thru the imputed righteousness of Christ. They promise sweet lies of Heaven no matter what we do or don't do, that all our sins are "paid in advance." They teach the blood atonement in hymns and mention in sermons for emotional appeal, but the real message people take home is that the Father punished the Son on the cross and then later in Hell for every sin he predestined the sinner to commit. No double jeopardy, all paid in advance, no way to lose our salvation.
Who would not take a deal like that? You get everything (ie License to Sin and a one-way ticket to Heaven) and the other guy (God) gets NOTHING. It's even sold that way. "It's free."
But the Bible says to "count the cost"--that God wants EVERYTHING from us, to put God first, to love him with all our heart, mind, soul and STRENGTH, and that all who live Godly in Jesus WILL be persecuted.
The church says to steer AWAY from the Gospels and Jesus' words, that they are "in code to the Jews" and "not for us."
Heresies!

CAB wrote:
.....Remember Annanias and Sophira. They are in Hell because they lied.

CAB wrote:
It's quite amazing if anyone ever studies how mind control does happen. Spend some time looking at Youtubes showing stage magicians hypnotizing people. Jaw dro

CAB wrote:
J4J, why do you discuss with people who won't ID themselves.

John for JESUS wrote:
So believers didn't understand them either, yet that didn't prevent their faith.

The question was not about understanding. I granted that they could understand. Now you're saying even believers didn't understand but this did not prevent their faith?! So you want to take back what you wrote earlier about unbelievers understanding?

My question is not about believers. I am talking specifically about the 'natural man' viz. the person with no spiritual life in them. The text is very clear that they cannot receive the things of the Spirit for they are foolishness to them.

Do you take any part of the Bible seriously, or is it just a mental game to you?

AMill wrote:
Amillennialism: A Word Direct From The Scriptures
by Tony Warren
"The essential reasons for our holding to what is called the Amillennial position, is that even apart from it being Biblically validated and declaring nothing more than what the scriptures themselves state, is that it is the only consistent exegesis of biblical text. It is the testimony of the faithfulness of the early Church in the teaching of Christ concerning the kingdom. And it is in complete agreement with the testimony of scripture that was handed down by the Apostles. While I make no judgments concerning the Spiritual well being of those who hold to the other millennial views, the truth is, Amillennialism is the only view that is totally supported with scriptures that cannot be denied (some of which I have posted in this essay). It is the only view that consistently gives an understanding of Revelation chapter 20 that is in "total" agreement with all other passages."
http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/eschatology/amillennial.shtml

John for JESUS wrote:
...I don't believe the Holy Spirit enables people to understand the gospel .... I believe people (in general) can understand the preaching of the gospel in their natural state and as a result of faith they become alive in Christ...

AMill wrote:
AMILLENNIALISM - The Truth of Scripture.

John for JESUS wrote:
I believe the children of the kingdom are the children of Israel.
who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen. (Romans 9:4, 5 NKJV)
Just because they are heirs of the promises of God according to the flesh, they will not receive those promises because of their unbelief.
That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed. (Romans 9:8 NKJV)

John for JESUS wrote:
...If you consider the field the kingdom, then why not the seed, tares, or enemy also? How could you believe Satan will sow seed in the kingdom?
...The seed are sons of the kingdom.

11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

SteveR wrote:
Like most Christians, I respect the Reformer John Knox. He was truely a Blessed leader who warned of the spiritual consequences of following the Anabaptists.

SteveR wrote:
"Knox wrote that even though "the Papists are busy to espy our offences, faults and infirmities..., they are not the enemies most to be feared. For...of the other [Anabaptist] sort of whom before we have somewhat spoken, the craft and malice of the devil fighting against Christ is more covert and therefore more to be feared."
Think of it -- the Anabaptists more to be feared than the Romanists! For the Anabaptists, insisted Knox, were "privy blasphemers of Christ Jesus; supplanters of His dignity; and manifest enemies to the free justification which comes by faith in His blood."

Did you bother to read the letter through? Are you capable of telling to truth on any matter?

He is NOT referring to Anabaptists, but to those who espoused the Reformed faith and backslid!!

SteveR wrote:
More like, all he has done is confirm your blindness
John Knox in 'A Warning Against the Anabaptists'.... Knox condemned those who "have separated themselves from the society and communion of their brethren in[to] sects damnable and most pernicious."
further
"{Anabaptists}shall not escape judgment and condemnation." This is so, declared Knox, "because they do despise Christ Jesus and His holy ordinances."

Covenant detail wrote:
The promise built into the Covenant of Grace which does not change is "I will be your God and you will be my people."....

The only continuity between the Abrahamic covenant and the New Covenant is the fulfilment of the promise annexed to the Abrahamic covenant.

If you wish to argue that the Abrahamic covenant was the covenant of grace, then why not trace the promise back to Genesis 3 and argue that the Adamic promise was the covenant of grace? I'll tell you why, because you don't find circumcision there!

Covenant detail wrote:
Lurker
Yes "details" of the Old Testament were changed when Jesus walked among us.

John for JESUS wrote:
3) The Bible is full of verses referring to people's faith as an act of obedience for salvation (not as an act of salvation from the Spirit).