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Real Name

John

Gender

Male

Location

England

Occupation

Admin

Interests

Many

Biography

The Lord created Adam. Sin entered. The Lord saved me from sin.

Religion / Church Affiliation

Church of Jesus Christ

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

Jesus Christ

Eschatological Position

Jesus is reigning now, and Jesus will reign on earth! "Your Kingdom come, your will be done, *on earth*"

Covenantal Position

The New Covenant

Creeds and Confessions

I don't agree with any of the listed confessions or creeds.

Are some men elected to salvation?

Yes

Are some men elected to damnation?

*Many* men are fitted to destruction.

Is salvation by works?

Yes, the works of Jesus.

Do men have free will?

Not libertarian free will, which has never existed even in God.

Is salvation offered to all who hear the Gospel?

...

God wants all men to be saved?

All men without distinction, not all men without exception.

Salvation dependent upon acceptance of truth?

Salvation depends on Christ alone.

Jesus died for all men?

All men without distinction.

God loves all men?

All men without distinction, not all men without exception.

Christ experienced sin in His person?

He was made sin, who knew no sin.

Was sin imputed or imparted to Christ?

Imputed - yes. Imparted - depends on what is meant by "imparted".

Is righteousness imputed or imparted to believers?

Imputed - yes. Imparted - depends on what is meant by "imparted".

God predestines all things, including sin?

Yes

God wanted Adam to fall into sin?

God decreed sin according to the desire of his will.

What sin is imputed to the elect?

God never imputes sin to His elect.

When Adam and Eve sinned, what really happened?

Adam sinned, and everyone in Adam sinned. Everyone is wicked because of their own personal wickedness in Adam. Prior to Adam's sin, he was pure.

God has how many wills?

One (His decretive will of purpose is His will of pleasure)

Do you believe in Justification from Eternity?

God's people are justified by faith.

What point in time is righteousness imputed to the elect based upon?

Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

God hates the elect at some point in time?

Not the new creatures, who are his elect people. Only the old creatures who he hated so much that he poured out his judgement on them at the cross in the body of Jesus.

God loves the reprobate?

He loves them in the sense of doing good to them. He hates them in the sense of doing good to them so that they might burn all the more in his wrath, for continuing to hate God even after he has done good to them.

God's will is mutable?

God is the same, yesterday, today and forever.

Tithing is obligatory?

Giving *everything* is obligatory.

What is the purpose of the law?

The law was fulfilled in Christ, such that everyone should obey everything in the law and the prophets, for we should obey Christ.

Baptism is required for salvation?

Nothing man ever does is required for salvation, and anybody believing any different is headed straight to hell.

Baptism is the sign of the new covenant?

It is an outward sign that a person has been born into the people of God (i.e. born again), just as circumcision was an outward sign to the Israelites that they were born into the people of God.

Is the book of James authoritative?

Everyone who does not recognise that James is inspired is not a recognised by God as a Christian. James is God’s word and *Luther* believed it was inspired by God (not that what he thought matters).

Definition of Faith

Faith is looking neither to one's own will, nor to one's own choices, but to Christ alone for salvation.

Is there such a thing as a "Dead Faith?"

Yes, and everyone who has read God’s word James knows this. Dead faith is faith that does not produce works - i.e. not true faith at all.

Assurance

The elect can have no assurance by looking at their good works (letting their left and know what their right hand is doing). But when the Lord gives a man repentance from evil works, his keeping of the flesh in submission means he has no guilty conscience. When God gives men both the Spirit and a clean conscience by the Spirit, they are assured of salvation. Men cannot have assurance while doing that which their consciences testify to be sin. (i.e. *having* good works contributes to assurance, NOT *looking towards* or *thinking about* good works, or in any way letting one's right hand know what one's left hand is doing.)

Agreement

Answering this question is sinful. To go beyond what I have already said would be go beyond letting my yes be yes and my no be no.