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Stephen M. Adams wrote:

>
> >So you can't blame this on "sola scriptura".
>
> Actually, I think we can. Modern evangelicals made as one of their
> primary doctrines *THE* source of most heresies in the early church.
>
"evangelicals" needs to be defined. Truth be told, most "evangelicals"
today wouldn't have a clue what 3, let alone 5 of the sola's are. They
may claim some sort of quasi sola scriptura doctrinally, but they
certainly don't live by it or actually teach it. Evangelical churches,
largely, don't apply it to either their apologetics nor to their
theology. It's a claimed presupposition but its mostly just a good
feeling declaration.

Sola scriptura is based upon total depravity. This is the true
presuppositional divider. You don't understand Reformed theology if
you don't recognize this major point.

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In article <97F96B84-4E03-B943-8E4D-F16DE94FF862@srcbs.org>,
jessica_boxer@yahoo.com says...
>

[snip]

>[By the way, on a point of accuracy, the verses in
>Acts use a direct cognate of the actual word in Matthew,

At the risk of sounding like a hopeless quibbler, I would like to point out that
they are more than mere cognates: the root and stem of the two verbs are exactly
the same, differing only in a prefix.

>Matthew uses aparneomai, and Acts and 1Tim apneomai,

Ah, I know someone has been studying his/her Greek when he/she confuses Greek
for Roman letters;) Of course, you really meant ARNEOMAI (g720).

>but they are essentially the same words, simply
>reflecting sylistic differences.]

In this period, the prefix APO is often used to give a verb a perfective force.
So the difference _might_ be just a little more than stylistic. But only a
little. The basic meaning is certainly the same in all these passages.


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gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:


>> It doesn't matter how you put it. If God sovereignly determines
>> it, then the person is not even slightly free. Either there
>> is something that God did not determine (such as whether I
>> choose corn or peas for supper tonight) o