You re-stated your premise and gave me a search of select quotes from your site but still didn’t answer the question…sighI believe if Augustine lived 500 years ago, he would be a leader in the Protestant Reformation.
monergism.com/directory/search.php?action=search_links_simple&search_kind=and&phrase=augustine
There not quotes of Augustine. Please try to click the links again.You re-stated your premise and gave me a search of select quotes from your site but still didn’t answer the question…sigh
Why would Augustine, a leader of the Church and defender against those whom strayed from the Church teaching, then leave the Church and join the Reformation with those whom strayed from Church teaching?
All these articles take your inital premise as a given…There not quotes of Augustine. Please try to click the links again.
monergism.com/directory/search.php?action=search_links_simple&search_kind=and&phrase=augustine
And again, I’ll tell you that he may have been a leader in a reformation, but not of the protestant variety.I believe if Augustine lived 500 years ago, he would be a leader in the Protestant Reformation.
monergism.com/directory/search.php?action=search_links_simple&search_kind=and&phrase=augustine
The grace of Jesus is sufficient to lead us to heaven if we choose to accept it.:hug1: Here is a Calvinism thread for my Catholic siblings. On the “Sufficiency of Christ” thread, the conversation of Calvinism kept coming up.
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=396054
Therefore, this is a Calvinism thread created for my Catholic siblings to discuss with gentleness and respect within the family of God. :hug1:
LOL… I love my Arminian Protestant brothers too. You remind me so much of them.The grace of Jesus is sufficient to lead us to heaven if we choose to accept it.
LOL… I love my Arminian Protestant brothers too. You remind me so much of them.
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Of course, Calvinists believe that we freely choose Christ like you. We know people go to Hell by refusing to come to Christ for life.Good for you.
Do you believe that it is necessary to accept, and not reject, the grace of Jesus?
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That is not what Calvinists believe.Of course, Calvinists believe that we freely choose Christ like you. We know people go to Hell by refusing to come to Christ for life.
Calvinists believe in unconditional election and irresistible grace.
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So Calvinist believe in a free will—that the elect can turn their backs to God if they do choose?Of course, Calvinists believe that we freely choose Christ like you. We know people go to Hell by refusing to come to Christ for life.
It’s Reformed Theology based on the Protestant Reformation. Some Reformed Theologians can embrace Catholics as Chrsitian siblings just like JI Packer (ECT 1 and ECT II). Some are not able to reconcile the two. Even John MacArthur and James Whitle believe and understand that there are converted Catholic Christians in the Catholic Church who are their true Christian siblings. The Magestrium does the same juggling act too in regards to seperated brothers and theology. :juggle:In your site, I did a search of “Catholicism” and found some charming articles by the likes of *The Roman Catholic Controversy *author James White and The Gospel According to Rome by James MacArthur, Jr.
See here
Catholics that are the elect in spite of but not because of the Church in other words?It’s Reformed Theology based on the Protestant Reformation. Some Reformed Theologians can embrace Catholics as Chrsitian siblings just like JI Packer (ECT 1 and ECT II). Some are not able to reconcile the two. Even John MacArthur and James Whitle believe and understand that there are converted Catholic Christians in the Catholic Church who are there true Christian siblings.
I think each Reformed Christian would have to explain their own view. But the Magestrium does the exact same thing with Protestants and official documents like the Council of Trent and the Catholic Catechism. I think we all know we are joined to the hip somehow… as being in Christ together.Catholics that are the elect in spite of but not because of the Church in other words?
2nd Adam, what is a “true Christian sibling”?
What are your beliefs? Yes, you say that you are an ECT Christian but use this site which has numerous examples of anti-Catholicism.I think each Reformed Christian would have to explain their own view. But the Magestrium does the exact same thing with Protestants and official documents like the Council of Trent and the Catholic Catechism. I think we all know we are joined to the hip somehow… as being in Christ together.
It’s just the roots of Reformed Theology. A brother pm me about the Westminster West Seminary who has hired professors who graduated from Catholic seminaries to teach OT classes. I would say that Westminster West seminary is a good representation of my beliefs. I believe in remnant theology, in which there is a remnant saved by grace in all Christian communities.What are your beliefs? Yes, you say that you are an ECT Christian but use this site which has numerous examples of anti-Catholicism.
I ask you to answer my questions in my previous post in a more direct way.
That’s not a true statement all. Here’s an article for you to read. It was written in 2009.I spent the early formative years of my Christian life under the teaching of John MacArthur. I then spent several more years in a church that only hired pastors that graduated from The Master’s Seminary, run by John MacArthur.
I will guarantee you that there is no acceptance of Catholic doctrine or Catholics within that world of Protestantism. The hostility and belief that those associated with the Catholic Church are going to hell is very evident. There may be a rare Catholic who “get’s it” but the church itself is heretical and leading it’s followers to hell. Anybody that has spent time under these “teachers” cannot and would not preach acceptance of Catholic beliefs. To portray him, or his followers, as tolerant is a gross misrepresentation of the truth.
Did they graduate from seminaries and then become Calvinist protestants and then teach?It’s just the roots of Reformed Theology. A brother pm me about the Westminster West Seminary who have hired professors who graduated from Catholic seminaries to teach OT classes. I believe in remnant theology, in which there is a remnant saved by grace in all Christian communities.