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Finding Qualified Young Pastors
As a "boomer", I recall many young men of my era in Bible College/Seminary training to be pastors. Many of those freshly-scrubbed faces served 35-45-55 years for our Savior. But WE are "aging out" in great numbers (I retired from full-time pastoring in 2021 at age 73 after a stroke). At the same time, I see many of our fundamental Baptist schools closing and those that are still training our students have LOW numbers in the pastor, mission, youth pastor ministries majors.
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Other objections
(5) Priestly Confession and Absolution
(6) Infant Baptism
(7) Transubstantiation/ Real Presence
(8) Purgatory
(9) Catholic Doctrine of Justification
(10) Catholic View of Scripture and Tradition
The Catholic idea of Reconciliation stems from the Lord granting power to His Apostles to forgive and retain sin in His Name and Person. This Apostolic gift is bestowed by The Holy Spirit being breathed on them by the Lord.
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Who will answer with a yes or no?
1) Is it wrong to believe fallen mankind is able to seek God and trust in Christ, in light of God revealing Himself and providing the gospel of Christ?
2) Did God really choose some foreseen individuals with or without foreseen faith when He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world? If this was a corporate election then God did not choose any specific individuals, just the target group of His redemption plan, those who would be redeemed by His Redeemer.
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"Graduating" from the NIV
If someone is ready to choose a more "word for word" Bible translation (after having read the NIV for a number of years) which translation would you steer them toward,if asked your opinion? -
Discussion.
@Christforums,
I would like to hear your view on Jeremiah 31:31-34. Especially on the promise in verse 34, . . . saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
This is the understood promise of the New Covenant of verse 31, Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: . . . -
The LORD: "HATES all workers of iniquity"??
When I do my daily Bible/Devotions I USUALLY go by what is in Tyndale's "One Year Study Bible." It normally quotes 2 Chs fm the OT + 1 Ch fm the NT+ a Psalm (or portion of 1 (cf. Psalm 119) + a reading in Proverbs. .... But every once in a while I "depart from (or include along w/the above). My "birth month" is May...the 5th month of the yr....So, why not go to Psalm 5.....In fact, why not go to v. 5.... Now... I've "always" been told: God "LOVES the sinner, but He HATES the works ("Deeds")... -
Salvation Is By The Interposition And Mercy Of God Alone
"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life."—John 3:14-15.
It was a serpent, that stung the Israelites. It was the old serpent, the devil, which poisoned our nature at the fall. All his temptations, assaults, and poisons, are fiery. And when the dreadful effects of sin are felt in the awakened conscience, how do they burn with terrors in the soul! What could the... -
Was the Kingdom of Heaven Really at Hand When Jesus Came
Did Jesus choose his officers of his kingdom after the model of Moses in the wilderness, twelve heads of Israel and 70 appointed elders?
Mt 4:17 From that time (the time he began to dwell in Capernaum of Galilee) Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
The answer to the question should be a yes or a no.
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The Biblical Basis of 10 Catholic Distinctives
I am an evangelical Methodist who grew up Pentecostal. But for 12 years I was a Theology Professor at a Catholic university. Readers who have followed my critical posts in the Perpetual Virginity thread may be surprised by my positive perspective on Catholic spirituality. I have even won a lawsuit against Catholics! Despite this, I believe there is no Christian spirituality superior to Catholic spirituality at its best and I prefer to ponder the relevance of the biblical basis for this... -
Question about Calvinism
As someone who is not a Calvinist currently, but open to becoming one, I have been presented with a straightfoward question that I have not been able to refute with confidence.
Most Christians will agree that God is all-knowing of future events. Therefore, if God knows every action that I will ever do, can I do anything but what God knows? If I say no, then am I falsifying God's infallible knowledge of the future?
Let me provide a practical example:
Let's say that I hold to a free will...
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