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  1. TMS

    Total Depravity

    Knowing that God can use His power to do anything. Does God use it to force us?
  2. TMS

    Total Depravity

    We can not change our heart. But God can if "IF" we allow him to. He has all power but the question isn't about if God has all power to do all thing but If He forces His will on us or not.
  3. TMS

    Protestantism. Is it over?

    The reformers believed the bible and they believed that the papacy was the antichrist. It makes sense if you look at the identifying characteristics in the bible. The devil is good at hiding the truth and confusing things. So much history with so much truth but people today have forgotten...
  4. TMS

    Protestantism. Is it over?

    When truth, which sets us free, was being revealed to the world, the Catholic church employed people (Jesuits) to invent false doctrines so that people could not see the truth. Almost all reformers believed that the papacy was the antichrist. It fits every identifying mark in the bible.
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    Protestantism. Is it over?

    You need to understand history. The known world was ruled by the papacy. They had the power and it was called the dark ages. The papacy had the power to excommunicate monarchs for failing to follow Catholic doctrine. The church teachings and political power joined and were enforced on the...
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    Protestantism. Is it over?

    The Catholic church ruled the world for many years and then people like Martin Luther, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, John Wycliffe and more stood up against the tradition and stared to obey the bible. The protestant reformation was founded on justification by faith alone and sola scripture...
  7. TMS

    Total Depravity

    If God gives a gift you and you don't want to open it or accept it. Would it be fair of God to force you to accept it. If God tells people that "if you love me with all your heart you will be saved" and people don't have a choice, why does He even ask us to love Him? Many of you are saying...
  8. TMS

    Total Depravity

    Think about a giant court room with the devil and his angels on one side putting there case to the universe and Jesus putting His case to the universe.. The trial is for each person. God the father said that nothing unclean will enter Heaven, He said sin shall not rise a seacond time. Sin =...
  9. TMS

    Total Depravity

    I said we can choose. This does not mean God can't work on us and in us. We can accept or refuse the love of God. We should pray 🙏 continually for God to work on our friends and ourself. We are nothing without God but with God we can do great things. The path we choose is a result of...
  10. TMS

    Total Depravity

    1Co 13:12-13 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. We will not understand everything about God. But we can...
  11. TMS

    Total Depravity

    Omni is Latin for "all" Omni-potent = all powerful omni-scient = all knowing omni-present = all present or present everywhere at all times. GOD IS ALL THESE THINGS. But God is Love and love does not force or take away people's choice. I do not understand God and I think you need to be...
  12. TMS

    Total Depravity

    We don't seem to agree on the basics What is salvation and faith, and free choice. So no wonder there is so many different views.. What are we saved from? Sin. Why is sin the issue? Because we can't dwell in God's presence when sin is in us. How does God decide if we are saved or not...
  13. TMS

    Total Depravity

    I'm following the bible. Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Is the soul a 3rd component or the result of 2 components. ?? Be careful new age teaching has caused many to presume that a...
  14. TMS

    Total Depravity

    An understanding of this subject might help you. You are convinced in your mind. But the bible verses I read convince me differently. We are made of two components. The flesh and the Spirit. Read creation. The Spirit comes from God and is life. The flesh is corrupted by sin, Can you...
  15. TMS

    Total Depravity

    Do you think none of the verses apply to you... are you too good, too righteous? When we see our sinful state we seek help. Mat 9:12-13 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. 13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth...
  16. TMS

    Total Depravity

    All good comes from God. Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Jas 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated...
  17. TMS

    Total Depravity

    They choose self over God. They choose the carnal flesh over God. Two commandments of Love .... Love God with all your heart and Love your neighbour as yourself. If we love self more then God or self more then our neighbour, = sin. The world is full of temptation and sin but that is not an...
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    Total Depravity

    That is presumption, there is no evidence for that statement. Sure there is no evidence from this story but the Bible states that all have sinned. Even Able sinned. He needed Jesus too. From a look at society today we can surely say that people are born selfish and with a propensity to sin...
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    Total Depravity

    We can't do anything good All good comes from God. God is Love. Anyone can do good deeds. Even the devil can appear good for false reasons. It is the motive that counts. Without the Spirit we can not master the flesh. The Spirit of goodness is from God. The Spirit of Love comes from...
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    Total Depravity

    The closer you get to God the more unrighteous you see yourself. If you compare yourself to the Glorious righteousness of Jesus I hope you see that there is no comparison.. Daniel wasn't able to stand ...Dan 10:8, 17.. Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained...