tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post4882466374451007696..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Can we be sure?Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-38325230909776532852014-12-14T20:17:19.705-05:002014-12-14T20:17:19.705-05:00i) Well, as a Calvinist, I think they should embra...i) Well, as a Calvinist, I think they should embrace Calvinism. Of course, one can be a Reformed Anglican. <br /><br />Again, though, there are degrees of error. <br /><br />ii) How can you be a monergist if you believe in baptismal regeneration? If everyone who receives valid baptism is born again, that's indiscriminate grace rather than discriminate grace. <br /><br />iii) "A biblical understanding of purgatory" as in purgatory is false? <br /><br />iv) I doesn't surprise me that Protestants who espouse sacramental realism like him. In that respect they have more in common with Rome. <br /><br />v) I think the EO church is a beautifully decorated empty shell. stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-19527557900753009852014-12-14T14:38:07.111-05:002014-12-14T14:38:07.111-05:00I understand but which model should Rome embrace? ...I understand but which model should Rome embrace? They are not all in agreement. Would you commune with Rome if it became Anglican? Also what is your opinion of Ratzinger? On many issues he came close to Protestant doctrine. He was mongergistic in doctrine and held to the Augustinian doctrines of grace. He also had a biblical understading of purgatory and held to material suffeciency. I know many Protestants that respect him, especially Lutherans and Anglicans. Do you think the EO church is apostate? Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686738325565738419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-72338865989292458682014-12-14T13:31:45.303-05:002014-12-14T13:31:45.303-05:00The apostasy was incremental. Apostasy in practice...The apostasy was incremental. Apostasy in practice as well as official error. It can vary in time and place with a far-flung religious institution. Pockets of orthodoxy. <br /><br />Classic Protestant theology including Lutheran, Reformed, Arminian, Anabaptist, Anglican. stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-26736980905468946592014-12-14T13:19:09.563-05:002014-12-14T13:19:09.563-05:00Would you say Rome became apostate at Trent or way...Would you say Rome became apostate at Trent or way before that? I think it went off the rails at Vatican II when it embraced universalism and post-modernism. At least before that it stood for traditional Christian truths like the inerrancy of scripture, the trinity, no ongoing divine revelation, salvation only by grace (not like Vatican 2 says). Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686738325565738419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-51853064089597622322014-12-14T13:15:49.764-05:002014-12-14T13:15:49.764-05:00When you mean classic Protestant Theology do you m...When you mean classic Protestant Theology do you mean Lutheran, Reformed, Arminian or Anglican? Which model should Rome embrace? Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686738325565738419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-55701754826313841002014-12-14T13:14:34.364-05:002014-12-14T13:14:34.364-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686738325565738419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-52974943541800007182014-12-14T13:01:44.539-05:002014-12-14T13:01:44.539-05:00I consider Rome to be an apostate denomination wit...I consider Rome to be an apostate denomination with some residual truths. It can become a Christian church by renouncing its Roman Catholic errors and embracing classic Protestant theology. stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-46514274151766455732014-12-14T12:03:27.327-05:002014-12-14T12:03:27.327-05:00Steve do you consider Rome to be a christian churc...Steve do you consider Rome to be a christian church and part of the visible western church? And if not then what does Rome need to do to become part of the western church?Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17686738325565738419noreply@blogger.com