Thread: What is faith?
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Old 05-17-2007   #40 (permalink)
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Default Re: What is faith?

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Originally Posted by bvc
I have stated what most 'believers' do with the teachings of reformed theology, which is nothing regarding witnessing . What we do is what matters, not what we say, so it makes no difference what the intent of the calvinistic/reformed teachers is, or what they say.
I've lost you completely. You are saying that what believers do as a consequence of their doctrine determines whether or not the doctrine is correct? So, if Christians believe as the Corinthians did that, since they are free from the law, they are free to sin all they like, it is not true that they are free from the law? This simply doesn't make sense. The logical extreme of your position is that the Bible is false, since people misunderstand and misapply it all the time. Jesus, on the other hand, did not blame Scripture when people misunderstood it, but the people themselves.

I'm also kinda curious—what the heck does it mean to believe 0.5 points of TULIP?

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Originally Posted by yaaarrrgg
If you believe the principle is in fact reasonable, why on earth are you attacking it? It's a shared assumption then.
You seem to be equivocating again. It is reasonable given a Christian worldview. It is most certainly not reasonable given a scientific/empirical/naturalistic/materialistic one.
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