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401 | Biblically waht is the difference? | Bible general | DocTrinsograce | 242980 | ||
Hi, Justme... Yes the Eastern Orthodox vary somewhat as to which confessions are those with which they would agree. I don't think there is any problem with their agreement with Christendom as a whole in the ecumenical councils. They tend to put a lot of stock in the words of those they call the Apostolic Fathers. In that sense, they are a lot like the Roman Catholics and the Pentecostals. Where they would all differ is on WHO are the Apostolic Fathers after the death of John. They have a term Patriarch that is not easily achieved, but is right up there in authority. In the US the American Orthodox Church they have a pretty comprehensive compilation of their faith and practice. In Russian they have something called the Orthodox Confession of Moglias in 1643). There was some disagreement so there was a council in Jerusalem which produced the The Confession of Dositheus for Eastern Orthodoxy (1672). They are pretty strict in following the various Archdiocese to which they submit. I have had the opportunity to hear various Eastern Orthodox fathers give instruction. However, I am certainly no expert. In Him, Doc |
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402 | God's Infinite Goodness and Providences | Rom 11:34 | DocTrinsograce | 242977 | ||
"The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God, are so far expressed in His providence, that His sovereign purposes extend even to the first fall and all other sinful actions of angels and human beings. (1) This is not merely by a bare permission, for He most wisely and powerfully limits and by other means arranges and governs sinful actions, so that they bring about His own holy purposes. (2) Yet in all this the sinfulness of these actions comes entirely from the creature, and not from God, Who is altogether holy and righteous, neither is He nor can He be the author or approver of sin. (3) (1) Rom 11:32-34; 2 Sa 24:1; 1 Ch 21:1; 1 Ki 22:22-23; 2 Sam 16:10; Act 2:23; 4:27-28 (2) Act 14:16; 2 Ki 19:28; Gen 50:20; Isa 10:6,7,12 (3) Jas 1:13, 14, 17; 1 Jo 2:16; Psa 50:21" 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 5.4 |
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403 | He delights to open up the Word | John 14:20 | DocTrinsograce | 242974 | ||
"If you do not understand a book by a departed writer you are unable to ask him his meaning, but the Spirit, who inspired Holy Scripture, lives forever, and He delights to open up the Word to those who seek His instruction. He is always accessible: 'He dwelleth with you and shall be in you.' [John 14:17] Go to Him for yourselves and cry, 'Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law' [Romans 2:18]; and, this being granted you, entreat Him to send forth His light and power with the Word when you expound it, that your hearers also may be led into all truth. Commentaries, expositions, interpretations, are all mere scaffolding; the Holy Ghost Himself must edify you and help you to build up the church of the living God." --Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
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404 | Immersed in the Element of Holiness | Rom 15:16 | DocTrinsograce | 242970 | ||
"A man shall carry a bucket of water on his head and be very tired with the burden. But that same man when he dives into the sea, shall have a thousand buckets on his head, without perceiving their weight because he is in the element and the element entirely surrounds him. "The duties of holiness are very irksome to men who are not in the element of holiness, but when once those men are cast into the element of grace, then they bear ten times more and feel no weight, but are refreshed thereby with joy unspeakable." --Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) |
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405 | The First Cause | Jer 31:35 | DocTrinsograce | 242966 | ||
"Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God who is the first cause, all things occur immutably and infallibly, so that nothing happens to anyone by chance, or outside His providence. (1) Yet by His providence He arranges them to occur according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.(2) (1) Act 2:23; Pro 16:33 (2) Gen 8:22; Jer 31:35; Exo 21:13; Deu 19:5; Isa 10:6-7; Luk 13:3,5; Act 27:31; Mat 5:20-21; Phi 1:19; Pro 20:18; Luk 14:25ff; Pro 21:31; 1Ki 22:28,34; Rut 2:3" 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 5.2 |
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406 | Matthew 27:3 Question | Gen 32:12 | DocTrinsograce | 242964 | ||
Ma'am, Take great care to post only those things consistent with the Terms of Use. Each post affirms our promise to those Terms. Whenever a person joins, they are explicitly agreeing to those terms. If you post a quote by a person who would disagree with the Terms, then you are not participating in the way that our gracious host (Lockman) has asked us to do. In Him, Doc |
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407 | Repentance to Life and Salvation | Acts 16:29 | DocTrinsograce | 242963 | ||
"Some of the elect are converted in later years, having lived for some time in their natural state (1) in which they have served various lusts and pleasures. Then God gives them repentance to life by effectually calling them.(2) (1) Tit 3:2-5 (2) 2Ch 33:10-20; Act 9:1-19; 16:29-30" 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 15.1 |
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408 | The Providence of God | Ps 145:11 | DocTrinsograce | 242956 | ||
"God, the good Creator of all things,(1) in His infinite power and wisdom,(2) upholds, directs, organizes and governs (3) all creatures and things, from the greatest to the least,(4) by His perfectly wise and holy Providence,(5) to the end for which they were created.(6) He governs in accordance with his infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will,(7) to the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, infinite goodness and mercy.(8) (1) Gen 1:31; 2:18; Psa 119:68 (2) Psa 145:11; Pro 3:19; Psa 66:7 (3) Heb 1:3; Isa 46:10-11; Dan 4:34-35; Psa 135:6; Act 17:25-28; Job 38-41 (4) Mat 10:29-31 (5) Pro 15:3; Psa 104:24; 145:17" 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 5.1 |
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409 | Has Dan 12:11 been revealed in 1967? | Bible general | DocTrinsograce | 242953 | ||
Hi, Bill... Welcome to the forum! My comment -- made two years ago -- was not regarding you, Bill. It was regarding some fellow named Ellis Skolfield. It takes a bit of time to figure out how to navigate the forum. In Him, Doc |
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410 | Psalm 110 Hebrew Version Used by Lockman | Ps 110:1 | DocTrinsograce | 242947 | ||
Dear Paul, That's interesting. Translation is a bit more of an art than is textual criticism. We are grateful to those who work in this discipline. All of their effort is exposed to peer affirmation or refutation. Indeed, we would just as soon that they did their work outside of Christendom's doctrinal positions. This insures that we have the highest quality translations that we can achieve. Remember that all intellectual or spiritual effort occurs within a specific historical grammatical and cultural context. Even we function in such a context! We must allow leeway for all such effort in context. Just as our exegesis must ever and always be in historical grammatical context. We hope that those in the future will judge our own efforts by that context! In Him, Doc |
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411 | Love the World or Love Christ? | Eccl 5:10 | DocTrinsograce | 242945 | ||
"Okay, let’s talk about your television. You watch things. You expect God to move? You love those. You love their jokes, their off-color jokes, their humor. You find yourself laughing in wickedness. And then you want God to move in your family and move in your life. Do you love the world? My dear friends, yesterday I was nine years old; today I am 43. Tomorrow I will be 90. Life is a vapor. It is fleeting. Everything will die. All will pass away. We are to love the things of God, the things that are eternal, and one of the signs of a Christian is that they are not entrapped or enslaved to the things of this present evil age, but they are set free to see Christ in His glory and follow Him and follow hard after him. Christ!" --Paul Washer From: http://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com/documents/sermons/washer/Examine-yourself-Washer.pdf |
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412 | Perfection in Glory | Eph 4:13 | DocTrinsograce | 242942 | ||
"Only in the state of glory will our wills be made perfectly and permanently free to do good alone. (Eph 4:13; Heb 12:23)" 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 9.5 |
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413 | God Converts the Sinner | Rom 7:16 | DocTrinsograce | 242940 | ||
"When God converts sinners and transfers them into the state of grace, He frees them from their natural bondage to sin, and by His grace alone He enables them freely to will and to do what is spiritually good.(1) Nevertheless, because of their remaining corruption, they do not perfectly nor exclusively will what is good, but also will what is evil.(3) (1) Col 1:13; Joh 8:36; Phi 2:13 (3) Rom 7:14-25; Gal 5:17" 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 9.4 |
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414 | ...through the fall... | Rom 6:20 | DocTrinsograce | 242934 | ||
"The human race through the fall into a state of sin, has completely lost all ability of will to perform any spiritual good accompanying salvation. In our natural state we are altogether opposed to spiritual good and dead in sin; we are not able, by our own strength, to convert ourselves, or even to prepare ourselves for conversion. Rom 6:16,20; Joh 8:31-34; Eph 2:1; 2Co 3:14; 4:3-4; Joh 3:3; Rom 7:18; 8:7; 1Co 2:14; Mat 7:17-18; 12:33-37; Luk 6:43-45; Joh 6:44; Jer 13:23; Joh 3:3,5; 5:40, 6:37,39,40,44,45,65; Act 7:51; Rom 3:10-12; Jas 1:18; Rom 9:16-18; Joh 1:12-13; Act 11:18; Phi 1:29; Eph 2:8-9" 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 9.3 |
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415 | Adam's Freedom | Eccl 7:29 | DocTrinsograce | 242933 | ||
:In his state of innocence, Adam had freedom and power to will and to do what was good and ellpleasing to God; (1) but he was unstable so that he might fall from this condition. (2)" (1) Ecc 7:29 (2) Gen 3:6 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 9.2 |
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416 | Not in its own proper colors... | 1 Tim 5:15 | DocTrinsograce | 242932 | ||
"Satan knows that if he would present sin in its own nature and dress, the soul would rather fly from it than yield to it; and therefore he presents it unto us, not in its own proper colors—but painted and gilded over with the name and show of virtue, that we may the more easily be overcome by it, and take the more pleasure in committing of it." --Thomas Brooks (1608-1680) |
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417 | Of the Freedom of the Will | Deut 30:19 | DocTrinsograce | 242931 | ||
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418 | Of the Freedom of the Will | Deut 30:19 | DocTrinsograce | 242926 | ||
The old divines used Matthew 17:12; James 1:14; Deuteronomy 30:19. I tacked it on Deuteronomy 30:19 because it was one of their verses, but was lacking any notes to date. The Westminster divines, some 45 years earlier (1656), worded it as follows, using the same proof texts: "God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good, or evil." Westminster Confession of Faith 9.1 The Savoy Declaration (1658), Congregational Church of England, worded it, with only slight change in punctuation, and the same proof texts: "God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty and power of acting upon choice that it is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to do good or evil." Savoy Declaration 9.1 You might find greater comfort with Augustine's statement: "“For when [God] has foreknowledge of our will, it is going to be the will that He has foreknown... Therefore, the will is going to be a will because God has foreknowledge of it. Nor can it be a will if it is not in our power. Therefore, God also has knowledge of our power over it. So the power is not taken from me by His foreknowledge; but because of His foreknowledge, the power to will will more certainly be present in me, since God whose foreknowledge does not err, has foreknown that I shall have the power." On the Free Will (sometime in the 4th century). This would also be how Open Theism's theodicy would prefer it. The Remonstrants, citing Jacob Harmensen (1560-1609), wrote the following: "Although human nature was seriously affected by the fall, man has not been left in a state of total spiritual helplessness. God graciously enables every sinner to repent and believe, but He does not interfere with man’s freedom. Each sinner possesses a free will, and his eternal destiny depends on how he uses it. Man’s freedom consists of his ability to choose good over evil in spiritual matters; his will is not enslaved to his sinful nature. The sinner has the power to either cooperate with God’s Spirit and be regenerated or resist God’s grace and perish. The lost sinner needs the Spirit’s assistance, but he does not have to be regenerated by the Spirit before he can believe, for faith is man’s act and precedes the new birth. Faith is the sinner’s gift to God; it is man’s contribution to salvation." But without citing any verses. It is such a blessing to read through all of this as our Lord works the truth through His church. |
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419 | Of the Freedom of the Will | Deut 30:19 | DocTrinsograce | 242924 | ||
"God has provided the human will by nature with liberty and power to act upon choice; it is neither forced, nor determined by any intrinsic necessity to do good or evil." 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith 9.1 |
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420 | Our Firm Foundation | Luke 14:29 | DocTrinsograce | 242923 | ||
"In considering any doctrine it is always necessary to ask whether it is in harmony with the total teaching of Scripture. Doctrine based on less than a holistic view of Biblical truth can only do harm to the cause of Christ. It can often be more detrimental than views which reject Scripture altogether. Some people will more likely accept something as truth if it is referred to in the Word of God, even if the teaching is an extreme emphasis or contradicts other principles of Scripture. "God’s Word does teach great truths such as healing, provision for need, faith, and the authority of believers. The Bible does teach that a disciplined mind is an important factor in victorious living. But these truths must always be considered in the framework of the total teaching of Scripture." --General Assemblies of the Assemblies of God (1980) |
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