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In article <134.18.14.05.238302000@srcbs.org>, Gary McNees says...
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>"Matthew Johnson" wrote in message
>news:133.37.08.05.024481000@srcbs.org...

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>Matthew, haven't you seen yet that the Calvinists treat Scripture
>in the same fashion as do the JW's.

No, they are not _quite_ as bad. At least they do not tamper with the text.

>Every passage which clearly contradicts Calvinism is CHANGED,
>mutilated, twisted, and otherwise perverted, and made void so
>that they can continue to hold onto their corrupt diabolical Calvinistic
>system.

>Ex 18:23 is but one of hundreds of Scriptures which must be so
>treated for them to maintain their false system.

Right. But when they come up with their twisted interpretation, they do violence
to the context only, NOT to the text, nor to the individual words of the text.

What I mean by this is that when they translate "do I will the death of the
sinner" as "do I delight in the death of the sinner", they are still within the
semantic range of the verb I insist must be 'will'. But they do violence to the
context.

This is bad, of course, but not as bad the the JWs, who claim that YHWH can be
inserted all over the place in the NT.

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Acts 20:29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among
you and will not spare the flock.

Matt. 7:15 ¶ ³Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep¹s
clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

2 Pet 2 (entire chapter)

Jude (entire book)

How to handle the Terrorists

Below are some of the notes I took down on the subject at the Shepherds
conference at Grace Community in March.

58 pm Shepherds Conference-John MacArthur

Jude

LK 11:37ff
War against Spiritual Terrorist

Heb 2 & 10 warnings against Perverting the OT & NT

LK 11:24-26,MT 23:15-Twice Son of Hell as they are

Lk 11:53ff-False teachers confront Jesus

False religion exposed

1)Love for the symbolic v.38
2) Love for the sinful v.39
3) Love the Simplistic v.39
4) Love the secondary v.42-43
5) Love for Status-Love status in the marketplace
v.44-Evil transmitted to others

Rom 2:29

Pet they are c