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Did God Really Say...?

^The question Satan asked Eve in the garden. But how can you learn to respond and defend your faith? Do you have to be a professional apologist?

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I was really disappointed when I saw THIS deception in the Divine Office!

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Does the Canon of Scripture completely destroy the Protestant idea of Scripture Alone?

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@Bidendummy @TaylorRMarshall Mary was an INCREDIBLE woman. She is the new Eve whose bore God himself, the second person of the trinity, in her womb. No other woman is like her in this way. She was not picked randomly but by sovereignty of God.

Also she was not immaculately conceived.

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@ReformedToRome @HwsEleutheroi Not just that small quote, but his whole beautiful description of the great exchange - THAT is imputation. In addition... unless you mean something more specific that I am not aware of, vicarious atonement is just another word for substitutionary (of which PSA is one)

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@ReformedToRome @HwsEleutheroi If you agree with this, then praise God! But, my friend, this is imputed rather than infused righteousness - a protestant distinctive.

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What kind of worship does GOD want from us? I found this conversation FASCINATING as someone who comes from a contemporary worship background:

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@RachelBooklover References please? I see Hippolytus calling CHRIST the new ark.

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@Low_Churchman This doesn't negate your point at all, just trying to parse out the details a bit.

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@Low_Churchman I had the same thought tbh... but wasn't it the case that it was a development within St. Augustine's own thinking? As a younger man I thought he was more willing to accept the noble pagan, but later in his writings he seems to take a more "the church as the ark" view.

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@JoshuaTCharles You really need to be concise... no one can engage with this. It's not beneficial to anyone.

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@PapistJP But Mary was born from a sinner... so even if immaculate conception was true, she would have had sinful cells from HER mother. So by your logic, St. Anne MUST have been sinless b/c otherwise her cells would have mixed with Mary the same as with Jesus.

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"...the Holy Spirit certainly does work through baptism, and it becomes a a'means of grace' through which the Holy Spirit brings blessing to the person being baptized and to the church as well." - Wayne Grudem

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"Although we must avoid the Roman Catholic teaching that grace is imparted even apart from the faith of the person being baptized, we must not react so strongly to this error that we say that there is no spiritual benefit at all thata comes from baptism..."

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@SethKGibson @BrianGiaquinto It is so unfortunate that Reformed Baptist pastors who often hold such a high view of Calvin's theology reject him on this point on which he is, historically, certainly on point.

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@ClaraStillwater @JoshuaTCharles This is only true if you interpret unity as 'institutional unity.' Protestantism broadly is united under their doctrine of God, the Gospel, the two sacraments given by Jesus, etc. This is not public relations... but a truly practical unity within diversity.

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Charles Spurgeon on I Cor. 11:26, "you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes."

"Is it possible that we can forget our Lord's death? Ah! if it had not been possible, and probable, that we should forget it, there would have been no need of this supper; but it is ordained because we are naturally forgetful, we are ungracious enough to let even the best things slip....
He says to us, as it were, 'Nay, my beloved, I will not let you forget me, I will give you something that shall frequently remind you of me. Come often to my table, and there constantly think of me afresh and anew.'"

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@praytherosary This is sadly very similar to what the Latter Day Saints believe about their Prophets and Apostles as far as the authoritative interpretation goes...

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@JoshuaTCharles The argument from the beginning is basically to say that because people have read these particular fathers and that contributed to them leaving Protestantism, that means that these fathers say what you have claimed? Very weak. In addition, there WERE false letters of Ignatius.

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@dhillen @JoshuaTCharles ^ I was JUST reading the WCF this weekend and thought this quote was interesting. I'm glad you're bringing it up here David!