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11/13/06 9:37 PM |
Byron | | Texas | | | |
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Mike from PA:I'm playing devil's advocate for a minute, so please forgive me. Of course, atheists wouldn't see it that way. They would claim a mechanistic universe operating under natural and scientifically verifiable laws (while admitting human knowledge in this area is finite and incomplete). The bad news is, we all still die regardless. The good news is, we can use our minds in the duration of our human lives and work to improve our own condition and that of humanity as a whole. That is the "evangel" or good news of the atheist, representing an increasingly common usage of the word "evangelical" in a non-religious sense as a metaphor for zeal (such as found in definition #5 of the Merriam-Webster definition below). http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evangelical All I can say is, thank God for delivering me from this sin. And I agree wholeheartedly with your comments, Mike. May God save His own elect sheep from the darkened philosophies and religions of mankind! |
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11/11/06 2:39 PM |
Byron | | Texas | | | |
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Benny Hinn is a false prophet. Many of his false prophecies and heretical teachings have been well documented. People continue to grant him religious legitimacy at their spiritual peril.For further information, see the following links produced by a quick informal Google search (which are not necessarily the best or exhaustive): http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hinn/general.htm http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/tbn.htm http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h01.html For those wanting to "buy" into his heresies, caveat emptor. |
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11/9/06 8:20 PM |
Byron | | Texas | | | |
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Then thank God they were not good Calvinists. However, I'm certain they would have assured you that any Calvinism with no desire to evangelize the lost is fatally flawed, such as in the Hypercalvinist system. I agree. And, like them, I do not believe it is inconsistent to be truthful to the call of Scripture to evangelize, knowing that God has ordained that self-same means of preaching the Gospel to effectually call the elect (Acts 16:14 again, and Romans 10:17). We preach the Gospel, and God opens the hearts of and shows grace upon whomever He will. And, for the most part in Scripture, people are only saved in the NT by hearing the gospel preached (one could build a good Scriptural case I think that the salvation of John the Baptist occurred even before his birth, since Scripture says in Luke 1:15 that he would be filled with the Holy Spirit in the womb). In both OT and NT in my reading, people are only saved by God's revealing of Himself to them, which I believe can occur outside of the preaching of the Gospel (in the case of John the Baptist) but would not occurr today. Though it is possible, as I've heard reports of Muslim conversions by having dreams of Christ as Lord and God revealing Himself to them.I don't see the inconsistency in that. |
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11/9/06 6:09 PM |
Byron | | Texas | | | |
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Neil from Tucson: oh, I didn't know all of that.Yamil Luciano: I'm sorry, but I don't understand the "most people do not." Most people do not what? Calvinists believe in evangelizing all peoples of the earth because of two things: God has ordained means (the Gospel), and that the exact identity of the elect is not and cannot be known. We Calvinists should preach with more conviction than the Arminian, because we know the efficacy of preaching the Gospel does not ultimately rest on our abilities or the willingness of others, but in the sovereign grace of God that unfailingly calls out the elect unto salvation in the timing and purposes of God. But, election, predestination, and all of that, are NOT the gospel, of course. Those truths are meant for the study of more mature Christians (and mature Christians have intelligently disagreed for centuries over these truths, which if anything, is a testimony to the depth and complexity of the nature and workings of God). And I believe these truths must be revealed by God. I'm not even a Calvinist when it comes to preaching the gospel, but a three point Christian. It's all about Christ: Death, Burial, Resurrection. On these three precious truths rests all the glorious grace of God and hope for humankind. |
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