In article , Bart Goddard
says...
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>mej1960@yahoo.com wrote:
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>> Besides: you must make your fellow Predestinarian
>> Bart cringe with such illogic:
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>I'm not a "predistinarian".

Maybe not. But I wrote "Predestinarian", not "predistinarian". And following
Denzinger's definition of this term, you most certainly are.


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Gary wrote:

> "Bart Goddard" wrote in message
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> > gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:
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> > So you think faith is cognative? Again, your theology
> > doesn't allow infants to be saved. Salvation doesn't
> > happen because one acknowledges that a certain list of
> > facts are true.
>
> Bart, I thought you were the one that taught that an
> infant can have faith?
>

Not relevant, since God saves who He wants to save.

> BTW, I believe that God saves all infants dying in infancy.
>

But why? Do you rely on the unscriptural concept of the "age of
accountability" which denies our connection to Adam?


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lsenders@hotmail.com:

> Matthew Johnson wrote:
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>>
>> True. But please bear in mind that especially over here on
>> this side of the Pond, we have a lot of people who cannot
>> accept it as "reliable testimony" unless they believe it's
>> literal sense is true. As to _how_ it is that we have so
>> many people who approach Scripture that way, that would be a
>> topic for another (and long) post.

And that other (and long) post which I am not going to write either, at
least not now, would have to make a distinction of

- belief in the inerrancy of originals (according to various definitions
of both terms)

- belief in the inerrancy of translations (especially one of them into the
world's only important language)

- belief in the necessity to always interpret according to the most
literal meaning of the words

- belief in inspiration (according to various definitions of this term)

- belief in literal (aka "verbal") inspiration

- the sola scriptura principle (according to various defini