Recent content by RandyPNW

That isn't the Gospel. The Gospel has never been about God gradually working towards the New Covenant where He could finally reach people with the proper method. It was really the same God from beginning to end, establishing the need for Christ to come and die for sin so that atonement for sin...

You're saying that, and I've heard it many times before, but there is not a shred of evidence that it is true. It is purely a Marcion-like argument--Marcion was a heretic who had 2 gods, one of the OT and one of the NT. Everything in the OT era was individual. This does *not* need to be proven...

The Old Covenant did *not,* you say, address the problem of "fallen man," the problem of "separation from God?" How absurd! The entire Tabernacle structure was geared to deal specifically with Israel's separation from God. This was acknowledged by the erection of barriers between Israel...

The differences between the testaments are minor in the sense that it is the *same God* administering both of them. They are only major when viewed in light of how more important it is to have eternal atonement than temporary atonement. Both, however, are legitimate forms of atonement from God...

All goodness, and all virtue for Man, comes from God, whether one is aware of it and whether one is actively committed to God. This means that the worst person in the world, if he has any goodness at all in him, derives that goodness from God. God created Man in His image. Therefore, all men...

I suppose you will follow Catholic tradition regardless of the facts? Your choice. Mary inherited a Sin Nature, and was not saved from committing any sins. Everybody commits sins who is descended from Adam. Jesus was exported from heaven into Mary, who was descended from Adam. Hence, Jesus...

Slander. I never said any such thing. If this is your way of discussing issues among Christians, you need to do some personal analysis. Of course, you may think I'm somebody else, or confuse me with somebody else. You certainly don't have things right.

Nicely said except I don't do the Rosary. I don't mix Mary with Jesus--they are as different as we are from Jesus. Mary is not more like Jesus than we are. Like us, she had to go humbly before Jesus, her son, to seek his mercy.

Yes, that is a position I many years ago used to consider, but I now realize that it was a position heavily influenced by Dispensationalism, and by the minority view of Irenaeus and Hippolytus. The mainstream view of the Early Church Fathers and later was that this passage spoke of 70 AD, and...

By new false prophets we learn that Mary is exalted above Christians. Baloney! Jesus is our God--Mary is not the Way, the Truth, and the Life. If you believe that, what are you basing your Salvation on?

God's anger is not irrational--it is His word of justice, attempting to reconcile the sinful world with His righteousness. No, Jesus rescues the repentant from wrath designed to punish sinners. When we repent we escape wrath that would've been directed against us, had we decided not to repent...

A rose by any other name is still a rose. If it quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. I hear everything from Mary is a perpetual virgin to she is sinless, Mother of God, queen of heaven, coming again with Jesus, pray to her, etc. etc. And you say she is not a god? When she called God...

You're putting Mary in there with Jesus. You have a 2-headed God.

I don't go for all this Mother Mary stuff. We preach Jesus and him crucified. All the glory, and the prophecies of Man, will be diminished. That's my prediction.

Yes, I follow something my father used to hang on our basement wall: "If you can keep a level head in all of this confusion, you just don't understand the situation." Unity in Christ with liberty. One spiritual experience, the essential doctrines, and freedom to make mistakes, mature, and...