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Eliptic01

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    I believe in God, the Father almighty,
    creator of heaven and earth.
    I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord,
    who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
    born of the Virgin Mary,
    suffered under Pontius Pilate,
    was crucified, died, and was buried;
    he descended to the dead.
    On the third day he rose again;
    he ascended into heaven,
    he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
    and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
    I believe in the Holy Spirit,
    the holy Christian Church,
    the communion of saints,
    the forgiveness of sins,
    the resurrection of the body,
    and the life everlasting. Amen.

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About Me

As for my Christian Church profile, I am essentially a Reformed Baptist with ties to the United Methodists, Presbyterian Churches, as well as others.

Although I have joined the SDA church, I maintain my reformed theology as my mind-set. 

Where we live here, all the major denominations are very ecumenical.

Among my favorite scholars is the late Dr. R. C. Sproul of Ligonier Ministries.

Also I appreciate the teachings of Dr. Charles Stanley and the author Gordon H Clark.

Besides reading the King James Version of the Bible cover-to-cover as a young adult, I have also read Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, Philo,  Augustine's City of God, as well as Gordon H Clark's Biblical Predestination and God and Evil and Hans Kung's Christianity, an excellent historical work.

My favorite daily devotional is Oswald Chambers "My Upmost for His Highest".

Unlike some others, as I child I always knew that there is an Almighty Being and He had a purpose for me, so by the Grace of God, I was spared of the often told "lost and then found" type of "Experiential Salvation" that so many seem to be proud to tell about in the body of Christ.

Among other things, I do not do the "sharing of the nasty dirty laundry in the past" kind of thing either.

For the record I will not argue any statement I posit here, because after of after over 20 years of independent research,  checking and re-checking my sources, I have no personal need to go back in order to re-prove what I discovered in spite of my own skepticism.

Since 2 Corinthians 5:17 says "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" and Psalm 103:12 "as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.". I cannot see it as anything but blasphemy to go back and dig up the dirt from our past.
As it says in Hebrews 6:1:
"Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,"
 
Therefore let us follow the instructions in Philippians  4:8:
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things."
 
“There are many doctrines of a less essential nature. ... In these, we may think and let think; we may 'agree to disagree.' But, meantime, let us hold fast the essentials. …” 
 
I look forward to making new friends and encouraging others as well as learning here.
Since my personal theology is a mixture of Reformed, Baptist and Methodist with some Neo-Orthodox thinking thrown in, I think of my viewpoint as elliptical.
Hence the chat handle "EllipticOl", or "elliptic-one" 
For the record, I do subscribe to the dogma of Biblical Inerrancy. ?
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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