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		<title>Say What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It strikes me that the statement, as written and published by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, is blasphemous as it impugns the very character and nature of the LORD. Yes, there is an implicit question raised in the statement because it states the “great controversy” regards or is in regard to, the character of God.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I couldn’t believe it. I read it and could not believe it. Surely they cannot believe this. Nonetheless, apparently they do.
What is it I could not believe? The following statement from the Seventh Day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs page:
8. Great Controversy:
 All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What must I know to be saved?</title>
		<link>http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/2009/10/what-must-i-know-to-be-saved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following questions are not concerned with the attributes one must have to be saved, (i.e. faith, and repentance), rather they are focused on KNOWLEDGE, or what one must KNOW with surety to be saved.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This post arises out of a study that I am doing, and is tied to one of John Locke&#8217;s books, which is The Reasonableness of Christianity. In this book much argument is made of what one must know to be saved or born-again, and become a Christian. At the time I read the book (which [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Giving Occasion to the Enemies of God &#8211; Pt. 6</title>
		<link>http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/2009/09/giving-occasion-to-the-enemies-of-god-pt_6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/?p=1124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last five posts addressing this subject, we have dealt with the heart and mind of the LORD God toward the lost, and how Steven L. Anderson departed from that in his sermon of August 16th, 2009, in which he loudly and strongly proclaimed that he was praying for the LORD to slay Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, and send him to Hell for his advocacy and support of abortion, among other egregious things.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the sixth in a series addressing those who profess Christ and consider themselves Americans first and foremost. The point of this series is to educate everyone (not just born-again believers) on what the Scripture actually states concerning a proper attitude toward authority and toward those around us, both the froward and the good. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Giving Occasion to the Enemies of God &#8211; Pt. 5</title>
		<link>http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/2009/09/giving-occasion-to-the-enemies-of-god-pt_5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something is obviously being missed by Mr. Anderson, who claims to be a Believer and a preacher of the gospel — and that something appears to be the heart of the LORD God.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the fifth in a series addressing those who profess Christ and consider themselves Americans first and foremost. The point of this series is to educate everyone (not just born-again believers) on what the Scripture actually states concerning a proper attitude toward authority and toward those around us, both the froward and the good. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Giving Occasion to the Enemies of God &#8211; Pt. 4</title>
		<link>http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/2009/09/giving-occasion-to-the-enemies-of-god-pt_4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The above statement is the expected, reasonable service of a born-again Believer. Dedicating their life to serving the LORD and presenting the gospel in every aspect of their existence ought to be the norm. It should be borne in mind that no Believer is here for the enjoyment of life in America (or any other place) or to satisfy our hopes and aspirations in the flesh. Rather, the Believer is left here after salvation to serve the LORD and present the gospel of the kingdom of God to a nation that sorely needs it. Moreover, the whole pattern of thinking for the Believer should be set around this truth.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the fourth in a series addressing those who profess Christ and consider themselves Americans first and foremost. The point of this series is to educate everyone (not just born-again believers) on what the Scripture actually states concerning a proper attitude toward authority and toward those around us, both the froward and the good. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Giving Occasion to the Enemies of God &#8211; Pt. 3</title>
		<link>http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/2009/09/giving-occasion-to-the-enemies-of-god-pt_3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/?p=1093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By this, the Believer is NOT first and foremost a citizen of whatsoever country they happen to reside in. Rather, the Believer is first a citizen of the Kingdom of God, and second a citizen of whatsoever country they happen to reside in. It is this way because we are expressly told that we, as born-again children of God are ambassadors to this world.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the third in a series addressing those who profess Christ and consider themselves Americans first and foremost. The point of this series is to educate everyone (not just born-again believers) on what the Scripture actually states concerning a proper attitude toward authority and toward those around us, both the froward and the good. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Giving Occasion to the Enemies of God &#8211; Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/2009/09/giving-occasion-to-the-enemies-of-god-pt_2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/?p=1087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Aside from the fact that calling for the LORD God to slay someone and cast them into Hell goes far beyond the bounds of being “harmless as doves,” there is the larger, more fundamental issue of the Believer’s relationship with, and to the world. Without establishing that relationship, the above admonition sits without a context to give it the full import and sense the LORD intended.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the second in a series addressing those who profess Christ and consider themselves Americans first and foremost. The point of this series is to educate everyone (not just born-again believers) on what the Scripture actually states concerning a proper attitude toward authority and toward those around us, both the froward and the good. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Giving Occasion to the Enemies of God &#8211; Pt. 1</title>
		<link>http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/2009/09/giving-occasion-to-the-enemies-of-god-pt_1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/?p=1078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it Scripturally correct for a “Baptist pastor” to call for the LORD to smite President Barack Obama, and then use Psalm 58 for his justification?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is the first in a series addressing those who profess Christ and consider themselves Americans first and foremost. The point of this series is to educate everyone (not just born-again believers) on what the Scripture actually states concerning a proper attitude toward authority and toward those around us, both the froward and the good. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Question for Calvinists and Reformed Devotees &#8211; Updated and Reposted</title>
		<link>http://www.reproachofmen.org/blog/2009/04/a-question-for-calvinists-and-reformed-devotees-updated-and-reposted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hence, by the above definitions, to say that everything we do, good or evil, is God’s will and God ordained it, is to say that God ordained both good and evil, and it is “God’s” will that we commit evil deeds. Hence, it necessarily follows that God ordained (willed) our “evil deeds” and thus “ordained sin” which is to say that God is the author of sin, the author of the fall, and the author of all wickedness and iniquity. This cannot be excused or explained away. Moreover, to say that we are responsible for the decisions we make that were scripted for us to make, is, on its face, utter nonsense.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, so God never commanded them to burn their children, and he never considered commanding them to burn their children. Where’s the dilemma here? Surely you aren’t suggesting God was caught off-guard, or that it’s possible for us to override his will.1

The Reformed/Calvinist adherents claim that everything done is God’s will, whether it be good [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>An Inconceivable Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if it is the express will of the LORD God that man, once granted faith and repentance, is allowed to freely choose the path he will follow — either accepting Christ, and subsequently being born again; or rejecting Christ and remaining dead in sins and trespasses?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Calvinists love to accuse others of taking verses out of context anytime a verse is quoted or explained that demonstrates their doctrine to be not Scriptural. Moreover, they love to quote the following verse as “proof” that God is sovereign, and foreordained everything:
. . .In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated [...]]]></content:encoded>
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