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- Real Name
- Theodore Zachariades
- Gender
- Male
- Location
- Manchester
- Occupation
- Speaker of God's Words (1 Peter 4:11).
- Interests
- Reading; Soccer; Movies; Internet browsing
- Biography
- I am a pastor of a Baptist congregation.
- Religion / Church Affiliation
- reformed baptist
P-Net Questionnaire
All members are required to answer this questionnaire. We apologize that it takes a long time to fill out, but we like to see how everybody lines up theologically. It has helped our discussions tremendously.
- Soteriological Position
- Calvinism (Supralapsarian)
- Eschatological Position
- Partial preterist/futurist/postmillennialist
- Covenantal Position
- Covenant Theology
- Creeds and Confessions
- London Baptist Confession of 1689, London Baptist Confession of 1644
- Are some men elected to salvation?
- Yes
- Are some men elected to damnation?
- Yes
- Is salvation by works?
- No
- Do men have free will?
- No
- Is salvation offered to all who hear the Gospel?
- No
- God wants all men to be saved?
- No
- Salvation dependent upon acceptance of truth?
- Yes
- Jesus died for all men?
- No
- God loves all men?
- No
- Christ experienced sin in His person?
- No
- Was sin imputed or imparted to Christ?
- Imputed
- Is righteousness imputed or imparted to believers?
- Imputed
- God predestines all things, including sin?
- Yes
- God wanted Adam to fall into sin?
- Yes
- What sin is imputed to the elect?
- God never imputes sin to His elect.
- When Adam and Eve sinned, what really happened?
- All of mankind fell into actual sin with Adam as their representative.
- God has how many wills?
- One (His decretive will of purpose is His will of pleasure)
- Do you believe in Justification from Eternity?
- I don't know
- What point in time is righteousness imputed to the elect based upon?
- I don't know
- God hates the elect at some point in time?
- No
- God loves the reprobate?
- No
- God's will is mutable?
- No
- Tithing is obligatory?
- No
- What is the purpose of the law?
- It points the individual to sin, guides them to Christ, and provides a guideline for living.
- Baptism is required for salvation?
- No
- Baptism is the sign of the new covenant?
- Yes
- Is the book of James authoritative?
- Because it's been recognized by the churches throughout history.
- Definition of Faith
- It is simply mental assent to the truth.
- Is there such a thing as a "Dead Faith?"
- No, there is no such thing as a "dead faith" because those who give mental assent to the truth will undoubtedly perform good works.
- Assurance
- The Spirit gives assurance but good works are sometimes or always used by God to produce this assurance.
- Agreement
- I have answered all of these questions to the best of my knowledge.
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To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."
Ephesians 1:5-6.
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proorismenos on 06-26-2009 at 11:51 PM
Death, Burial, Resurrection, Intercession: The One Plan of God to Reach His Own.
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proorismenos on 02-19-2009 at 04:47 PM
Dogmatic.
I am often asked, “How can you be so dogmatic about your views, when great minds have been divided over issues for so long?”
Part of my response to that question is to ask, “Do you, the questioner, not hold some things dogmatically?” “Is there really any doctrine that has not been divided?” “Does this mean we cannot be dogmatic about anything?”
Well, let me address this question as best I can.
I am dogmatic about
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proorismenos on 02-09-2009 at 10:50 PM
Self-advancement or Self-abasement?
“Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to
throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to
glorify Christ.”
J.C. Philpot
If Philpot is right, and I am fully inclined to take him so, then this shows the key to discerning whether our Christian churches are promoting “true
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proorismenos on 02-05-2009 at 09:50 AM
“Glorious Justice: Its All About Him.”
I was reading in Ezekiel a few months ago, and I recall being struck by something rather startling. There was a clear declaration that God was going to judge and punish sinners. Usually, one links the judgment or punishment of God with the just desserts of sinners. It fits with the cultural notion that, “what goes around comes around.” Yet in this text there is a very different idea, indeed. The ultimate goal of God’s judgment is His glory.
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proorismenos on 02-02-2009 at 05:31 PM
“Some call it Calvinism”
Is it compromise or is it something else? Why is it that so many Calvinists disparage other Calvinists with the epithet of hyper-Calvinism?
Much of what passes for discussion on these issues is really nothing more than misunderstandings of the Bible. How my heart aches as I hear Calvinists give up ground to Arminians in their exposition of such texts: John 3:16; 1 Timothy 2:4; and 2 Peter 3:9, for example. Many Calvinists surrender these
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