Lance Eccles wrote:
....secular and Godless.
There is no way Europeans are going to pay heed to Christianity of any sort.

Islam will reintroduce God...

God does not need to pave the way with FICTION first.
Whether Islam or Popish dogma.

As for the state of things in Europe or anywhere else. The dark ages have come and gone in many nations many times throughout history. Revival and Reformation is the way and the work of God. He will continue to call the Remnant out of secular ideologies and religious cults, which was what happened in the 16th century Reformation.

As for your added idolatrous dogma that is not a factor in God's purpose and plan.

This is still the Truth....

I have doubts about this fellows faith, in the answer he provides above. Faith should be a personal statement of a personal relationship, in the Spirit, with Christ and His Father. Not simply an experience of family life.

Thus the answer to the difference between the Bible and science is ==

I suppose we must feel sorrow for these poor deluded sinners on their way to eternal damnation without any hope or faith.

Psalm 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

Psalm 146:5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God

Psalm 147:11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

BUT!!!

Psalm 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Michael Hranek wrote:
Talk about a hateful twisted caricature of God

These teach that man can overcome sin by his own power, therfore sin is not factored into their religious convictions.
These teach that Satan may blind people, but the sinner can perceive even through his power.
These teach that their god requires their prior cooperation or salvation doesn't work.
These teach that although man is dead in sin he can revive himself unto life.

Thus their "fruit" illustrates that they don't trust in the merits of Christ crucified because they don't need to. (Thus they cannot receive Limited Atonement)

= Prayer of the free willer who rejects God's sovereignty....
Luk 18:11 "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners....."

Mike wrote:
So those He allows to pass by have been called. Interesting.

Mike wrote:
Considering that God is sovereign and omnipotent, is not choosing to allow them to pass by in fact making it impossible for them to come to Him, since all power in it is in His hands and none in theirs?

The negative result.
Those whom God does not choose are guilty as charged and receive righteous punishment accordingly.

Mike wrote:
Respectfully, I disagree. We are not saved by human works but by the grace of God. That is the contrast.

"evidence" - ελψγχοσ = is also proof/conviction in the Greek.

If faith consists of a conviction or evidence from where does this come?
From man himself?
It cannot be so when;
1Cor 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

Therfore faith cannot be a human attribute until the Spirit of God works in the heart of the sinner.
This is the greatest gift to men - Faith unto salvation.

1Pet 1:5 Who are KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Eph 2:8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the GIFT OF GOD:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast."

Is it a surprise to folks to see that the politicians are humans who do ordinary things like buying the groceries?

Lt. Gen. Louise Coles U.S.A.R. wrote:
1] you calling me "Sir" is indicative of a "name calling" mentality.

2] where in Scripture does God forbid women in the military?

3] I can name dozens of women I know in the Military Police who can show you one on one to your dismay, trust me.

4] Lighten up boys, you guys all talk so tough on this forum, like a bunch of school boys trying to impress each other in the 5th grade.

2] Where in Scripture does God suggest that women should join the military?

3] Emphasising their masculine side does not really respond to the issue at hand.

4] Now who is name calling sir?

BTW I did serve in the military (Navy) which is precisely where I formed my empirical opinion on this.

Lt. Gen. Louise Coles U.S.A.R. wrote:
If a woman can be Governor and commander of the national Guard, and a Vice President of the USA, a heartbeat away from being Commander In Chief of the whole U.S. Military, then she can and should be prepared to go into combat.

However not everybody agrees with the way modern society is changing traditional rules of gender role and function.

My position is not just the objection to women working in new roles today, it is that other necessary roles are suffering because of this. EG: the institution of marriage and motherhood.

Lance Eccles wrote:
Yet in your theology, people can enter heaven laden with sins.
According to Protestant teaching, as I understand it, those who believe will be covered with a cloak of righteousness, hiding all the putrid sins underneath, as though God won't notice.

Purgatory is there for a reason.

But dont worry we Protestants have noticed you leave Him out of a lot of things - salvation for example.

Bible teaches that Christ's righteousness is imputed to the True Christian.
Isaiah 45:24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come

2Cor 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Wise wrote:
The infrastructure of your nation has nothing to do with the punishments. It would be hard for me to sit and believe that God who says he punishes the wicked daily would not bring that same wrath down on a nation that is practicing every abomination like we are doing.

We have the example of Britain and Scotland some of the greatest reformers and preachers came from those nations. Then they turned to worldly lust....

America is relatively young in the grand scale of things.
Whereas
Britain, (of which Scotland is a part of), is an older country more established in its decline. Also our national churches (CofE/CofS)are more spiritually bankrupt by now.

As for the muslim nations Christianity has had only minor inroads into these nations.