Information about the AAU organization in Maine. Includes schedules, directions, contacts, teams, events, clearing house, and how to form a team.

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Does anyone know of any good material describing the peoples and
culture of Tishbe, where Elijah came from?


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gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:

> Well, Bart, we are on completely different "levels" then.
>
> IF saving faith is the same as obeying the 1st commandment then I
> don't have saving faith. But then again, in my estimation, I have
> never met a single person who has kept the 1st commandment. I know
> that Jesus kept it but I know I don't.

I don't know anyone who has perfect faith either. That doesn't
mean that the Spirit won't perfect it. I refrain, occasionally,
from stealing, so, occasionally, I obey that commandment.



> Further the 1st commandment has no promise in it. Further again, all
> "faith" is not the same. There is saving faith, and other kinds of
> faith.

I'm speaking here only of saving faith.

> I see faith not as doing something like keeping the 1st or any other
> commandment, but rather, as receiving what God offers freely in the
> gospel, by taking Him at His word, i.e., believing what He has said.

So? The issue is whether one gets that faith by an act of
his own will or an act of God's will.

Bart

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In article <097.51.10.05.116949000@srcbs.org>, basicallyblues says...

>Matthew wrote:
>
>(snip)
>
>I wrote:
>
>Matthew you are missing the point here.

No, it is you who are missing it. Your whole argument is based on sand.

> When you take a whole body of
>writings of an author you have a better understanding of his beliefs.

Right. But you have never done this, as is all too clear.

>You can extract verses that at face value seem to support your trinity
>hypothesis

And here you are missing the point in yet another way! That is NOT what I am
doing.

> but when other quotes are compared you see that there is
>another possible and mor elikely interpretation of his views.

You _claim_ to have done this, but the claim is patently false. How could you do
this comparison, when you base your whole argument on a WRONG interpretation of
'co-eval'?

> I
>provided you with quotes that unequivocally contradict the Nicene
>Trinity which is all I set out to do.

But the quotes do not do that, as I have already shown.<