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We are saved by GRACE through faith ( Ephesians 2:8-10, Luke 24:44-48) etc.) This thread elevates faith above grace and disgraces the...

The way that you believe in "faith alone" was not taught by the first Christian pastors, hence, it is not what the Scriptures are...

Of course I am unwilling to "read and understand for myself" when what you are asking me to understand defies that which was taught from...

This is why we need the Church. What you are doing here is what all Protestants do - personal interpretation of the Scriptures. This is...

And many of us actually wind up getting there! :oldthumbsup:

Yes, but we are talking about people who were discipled by the Apostles and taught that baptism regenerates: Justin Martyr “As many as...

Your problem is that your belief was not taught until the creation of the Anabaptist faith in the 16th century. If you read the works...

Actually, I'm sort of in the middle of all this working on trying to figure it out. I have some ideas, but they are not widely accepted...

So then, by extension, what you are saying is that the whole of the Christian faith simply disappeared for 1500 years until Messrs...

I repeat, the Apostles never taught this. Period. If they had, then it would exist in the writings of those Ante-Nicene and Apostolic...

You appear to not have read what I wrote. Christ did not "pay" anyone with His death on the Cross, neither the devil nor His Father...

Ah, yes, but perhaps you could answer me this: how did the Greek-speaking Christians of the first several centuries of the Church come...

The Church does not have "denominations." Christ established a single Church. It was one. Not many. Because it was one, it came to...

Jesus didn't "pay" anything. That is the typical manner in which Western soteriology views salvation. What Jesus did do on the Cross...

I am still interested in why the "Good News" (i.e. "Gospel") of God's all-inclusive salvation gets your knickers in such a knot. Why...