Originally posted by SuperJayXD:

I'm pretty sure God is against denominations. It doesn't make sense to split up and not just follow what the Bible strictly says as one group.

Denominations are not ideal, but they are necessary as they quickly show the world what you teach and believe.

Originally posted by nitseD:

Originally posted by Llefty:

"allah" is literally just God in Arabic though, and Christianity/judaism/islam all share an origin (they're all Abrahamic faiths) so are you saying our God is the same as Satan as well?

So our God is the islamic god aka satan? That is what you are saying. Our lord is jesus christ.
The "God" they follow is just satan. All of those other beliefs were made up so they could decieve you.

2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

Satan is a Deceiver, for he made these other beliefs, to lead people away from Jesus.

Six-hundred years before Muhammad was born, Jesus and his apostles warned of future false prophets and deceivers who would do things Muhammad did. In Matthew 7:15-16 Jesus says, “‘Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits’” (Matthew 7:15-16).

Christians were using the word Allah for God long before Islam existed. In Arabic regions, Allah is still used for God in Christianity, not because of anything to do with Islam, but because that is literally the word for God in their language.

I've been playing a lot of Dead by Daylight lately.

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Originally posted by Third Degree Bern:

Originally posted by Bradcore:

Are you born untainted by sin?

Original Sin is stupid.

Case in point: Are all White Christian Protestants guilty for slavery?

That's not even close to a proper understanding of original sin. It's more akin to a hereditary disease that we are born with, not a guilt for something that we didn't do.

I did and it's more Harold Camping nonsense.

I went and checked it out. Looks like Harold Camping nonsense all over again.

Originally posted by nitseD:

Am I born a adult adulterer? No I chose to become a adulterer at heart, and they chose to be gay

Are you born untainted by sin?

Since you have given me no reason or indication to believe that you have actually read the detailed articles and video I have linked to, I have no reason to believe that you will read this. That' said, I am posting the doctrinal statement of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod so that it may be made clear. If you would like further details, please refer to the other information I have previously posted. I must point out that I do not believe this is a salvific issue and it is clear to me by your passion that I can rightfully consider your a brother in Christ, despite your error. ;P It is also clear to me that neither of us will convince the other and that is fine. It is my will, though, should anyone who has been crushed by decision theology, you can put your mind at ease and know that there is nothing you can do. It all rests upon Jesus.


We teach that conversion consists in this[www.lcms.org], that a man, having learned from the Law of God that he is a lost and condemned sinner, is brought to faith in the Gospel, which offers him forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation for the sake of Christ's vicarious satisfaction, Acts 11:21; Luke 24:46, 47; Acts 26:18.

All men, since the Fall, are dead in sins, Eph. 2:1-3, and inclined only to evil, Gen. 6:5; 8:21; Rom. 8:7. For this reason, and particularly because men regard the Gospel of Christ, crucified for the sins of the world, as foolishness, 1 Cor. 2:14, faith in the Gospel, or conversion to God, is neither wholly nor in the least part the work of man, but the work of God's grace and almighty power alone, Phil. 1:29; Eph. 2:8; 1:19; Jer. 31:18. Hence Scripture call the faith of men, or his conversion, a raising from the dead, Eph. 1:20; Col. 2:12, a being born of God, John 1:12, 13, a new birth by the Gospel, 1 Peter 1:23-25, a work of God like the creation of light at the creation of the world, 2 Cor. 4:6.

On the basis of these clear statements of the Holy Scriptures we reject every kind of synergism, that is, the doctrine that conversion is wrought not by the grace and power of God alone, but in part also by the co-operation of man himself, by man's right conduct, his right attitude, his right self-determination, his lesser guilt or less evil conduct as compared with others, his refraining from willful resistance, or anything else whereby man's conversion and salvation is taken out of the gracious hands of God and made to depend on what man does or leaves undone. For this refraining from willful resistance or from any kind of resistance is also solely a work of grace, which "changes unwilling into willing men," Ezek. 36:26; Phil. 2:13. We reject also the doctrine that man is able to decide for conversion through "powers imparted by grace," since this doctrine presupposes that before conversion man still possesses spiritual powers by which he can make the right use of such "powers imparted by grace."

On the other hand, we reject also the Calvinistic perversion of the doctrine of conversion, that is, the doctrine that God does not desire to convert and save all hearers of the Word, but only a portion of them. Many hearers of the Word indeed remain unconverted and are not saved, not because God does not earnestly desire their conversion and salvation, but solely because they stubbornly resist the gracious operation of the Holy Ghost, as Scripture teaches, Acts 7:51; Matt. 23:37; Acts 13:46.

As to the question why not all men are converted and saved, seeing that God's grace is universal and all men are equally and utterly corrupt, we confess that we cannot answer it. From Scripture we know only this: A man owes his conversion and salvation, not to any lesser guilt or better conduct on his part, but solely to the grace of God. But any man's non-conversion is due to himself alone; it is the result of his obstinate resistance against the converting operation of the Holy Ghost. Hos. 13:9.

Our refusal to go beyond what is revealed in these two Scriptural truths is not "masked Calvinism" ("Crypto- Calvinism") but precisely the Scriptural teaching of the Lutheran Church as it is presented in detail in the Formula of Concord (Triglot, p. 1081, paragraphs 57-59, 60b, 62, 63; M. p. 716f.): "That one is hardened, blinded, given over to a reprobate mind, while another, who is indeed in the same guilt, is converted again, etc. — in these and similar questions Paul fixes a certain limit to us how far we should go, namely, that in the one part we should recognize God's judgment. For they are well-deserved penalties of sins when God so punished a land or nation for despising His Word that the punishment extends also to their posterity, as is to be seen in the Jews. And thereby God in some lands and persons exhibits His severity to those that are His in order to indicate what we all would have well deserved and would be worthy and worth, since we act wickedly in opposition to God's Word and often grieve the Holy Ghost sorely; in order that we may live in the fear of God and acknowledge and praise God's goodness, to the exclusion of, and contrary to, our merit in and with us, to whom He gives His Word and with whom He leaves it and whom He does not harden and reject...And this His righteous, well-deserved judgment He displays in some countries, nations and persons in order that, when we are placed alongside of them and compared with them (quam simillimi illis deprehensi, i.e., and found to be most similar to them), we may learn the more diligently to recognize and praise God's pure, unmerited grace in the vessels of mercy...When we proceed thus far in this article, we remain on the right way, as it is written, Hos. 13:9: 'O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thy help.' However, as regards these things in this disputation which would soar too high and beyond these limits, we should with Paul place the finger upon our lips and remember and say, Rom. 9:20: 'O man, who art thou that repliest against God?'" The Formula of Concord describes the mystery which confronts us here not as a mystery in man's heart (a "psychological" mystery), but teaches that, when we try to understand why "one is hardened, blinded, given over to a reprobate mind, while another, who is indeed in the same guilt, is converted again," we enter the domain of the unsearchable judgments of God and ways past finding out, which are not revealed to us in His Word, but which we shall know in eternal life. 1 Cor. 13:12.

Calvinists solve this mystery, which God has not revealed in His Word, by denying the universality of grace; synergists, by denying that salvation is by grace alone. Both solutions are utterly vicious, since they contradict Scripture and since every poor sinner stands in need of, and must cling to, both the unrestricted universal grace and the unrestricted "by grace alone," lest he despair and perish.

What is Decision Theology[steadfastlutherans.org]

Decision Theology: Can you make a decision for Christ?[www.extremetheology.com]