Rufus wrote:
In the sense that Christian means to follow after Christ, it is oxymoronic. Other oxymorons would include alcohol drinking Christian, movie/tv watching Christian, gluttonous Christian, uncharitable Christian.
If the sense of the word Christian is one who has been saved, then that Christian can be all of the above. I know of a Christian in the Bible who was a godly man and was a man after God's heart. Yet, he became slothful, looked on a woman lustfully, acted on his lust and committed adultery, then engaged in lie and deceit, then killed a man. He didn't get unsaved in that vomit and it didn't mean he wasn't truly a believer, it just meant he was in trouble with his spiritual father and that father chastised him as a good father should.
Hebrews 12:6 - For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

But this is NOT what we are discussing here.

Rufus wrote:
There is such a thing as a Roman Catholic bought by the blood of Jesus Christ believer who has received the free gift of eternal life. However, they will be in trouble in this life and at the judgment seat of Christ if they do not come out from among them and continue to make an uncertain sound.
Likewise, there is such a thing as a bought by the blood of Jesus Christ believer who is given up to a reprobate mind and turned over to that which is unseemly.
From Romans 1...
...who hold the truth in unrighteousness
...Because that, when they knew God
...as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
...Who knowing the judgment of God

John Yurich USA wrote:
Yes a Catholic can be a Christian if they embrace Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

John Yurich USA wrote:
There is no such thing as a homosexual Christian.

friends wrote:
He sees the RCC and Pope becoming more like him, Evangelical.

meek and mild wrote:
R.C. Sproul Jr. argued yesterday that the U.S. has 50 million dead babies by abortion and not one Christian martyr. He predicted Christians will go down the same pike with same sex marriage.
In summary he stated:
"Of course we’ll still be busy growing “grace based” churches. We’ll still hold conferences on living gospel-centric lives. We’ll still write learned defenses of what Jesus actually said. What we won’t do is depend on His grace, while repenting of our failure to call the world to repent, as Jesus told us to do. And the world will know us for what we are, mildly annoying, but harmless."

Should he not be leading by example?!!

Cliff Leckey wrote:
Would anyone run their household budget the way these criminals & crooks run a Nation`s economy?
& then want the poorest to bale out the banks?
You couldn`t write a script like that if you tried.

In fact even now, if the British found out quite how bad the situation is there would be a mad panic and I am sure that heads would roll- literally!

To know more, please watch:

[URL=http://pro.moneyweek.com/myk-eob/EMYKP317/?a=5&o=72151&s=74975&u=1128856&l=266929&r=MC&g=0]]]The end of Britain[/URL]

Please ignore the advert for the magazine towards the end and just watch the video through to the end.

The figures they cite are all verifiable.

jpw wrote:
the watchmen are letting down the gates, opening them up.

Christopher000 wrote:
Jim, I can't see or use the link you posted from my phone so I scanned his sermons; not noticing the one you posted.
I did, however, download a couple of others:
"The reality of an eternal Hell"
"God's view of homosexuality"
Is he your Pastor? You sure quote him a lot. You are a Gil Rugh shill.

It is recorded in Ecclesiastes 8:5. There God declares:

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth [better translation: will know] both time and judgment.

one of the Watchmans

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Revelation 9:5
The End of the World
October 21, 2011

DJC49 wrote:
One who is willing enough to go to his cross for a cause = the maximum commitment That's TRULY denying oneself (read the followup verses of Lk 9:23; Mt 16:24; Mk 8:34)

Now, what did Thomas say to the other disciples when he knew the circumstances that awaited them in Judea?

He said, "Let us also go, that we may DIE with Him." John 11:16

pew view wrote:
To make such a sweeping statement illustrates a very callous and unChristian background to your writing.

That is what differentiates today's preacher who adheres to a "Confession of Faith" to support his understanding of Scripture, from men like Bunyan, Whitefield, and Spurgeon.

It is the power of God that works in the man of God who comes bringing the Word of God to the people.

There isn't any power in knowing a "Confession of Faith."

Instead, they came to the pre-digested food of the Scripture. . .ate that up. ... and, then went to the Scriptures with a doctrine to support. That is the reason they love men used by God to address doctrinal issues for the Church, instead of loving Scripture first.

The one who having heard the Word of God, were saved having believed, then searched the Scriptures, and with the teaching of the Holy Spirit came to an understanding and can then can agree with a "confession of faith," their faith not resting on a confession but on Scripture itself.

Thanks for standing for Truth. It is by faith alone that we are saved, but faith is never alone in the one saved. Faith without works is a dead faith.

"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." James 1:22

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." James 1:26

Lance Eccles wrote:
I'd rather be Uncle Scrooge.