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What does any of this have to do with "Asking a Calvinist"? I guess he is just asking christians in general?

I think this is an excellent suggestion and it is getting close to scratching this itch. Just from the things my friend said it sounded to me like he believes faith precedes regeneration. I pointed him to John 6 which is Christ's discourse as to why the Jews (certain Jews) didn't believe. But...

I do believe it is semantics and that we are talking about the same thing as far as the biblical definition is concerned. My concern is that when he hears me say that I believe he immediately thinks intellectual ascent and that I'm falling short. That is what I figured at first. When I told...

Revelation 3:20 isn't about responding to the Gospel. Rev 3:19 says: Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. Christ is speaking to the church at Laodecia. These are believers that Christ is admonishing.

I haven't had a chance to look at all those clips yet but by believe I 'm talking about saving faith. And by receive I think he is talking about trusting in Christ for your salvation. Therein lies my problem. He separated both of those. I don't see a two step process. I understand that...

I have a question for my calvanist brothers and sisters. I had this discussion with a evangelical friend of mine about what saves you. He contends that you need to believe and receive to be saved. I agreed with the believe part but the receive part sounded too human centered for me. I appealed...

I think a cheat sheet of replies would be excellent. Although I would also like to suggest that we can use this to find the blind spots in our theology.

I've had a chance to deal with this passage while speaking to JWs. The responses have been from blasphemous to ridiculous. The blasphemous one was when Thomas exclaimed "my Lord and my God" he was not calling Jesus God. What he was doing was reacting in surprise. This got my juices boiling...

The responses here have been spotty at best. I do like the response to the John 1:18 question even though it should be fleshed out a bit more. The OT saints did not exactly see God. They saw and interacted with theophanies and visions. John 1:18 speaks of Jesus revealing God in a more...

Rom 5:12 establishes original sin. Since Adam is our federal head, when he sinned it was as if we sinned. To put it another way, if we could have taken Adam's place we would have sinned in the same manner.

Two points here: 1) It sounds to me like you might have fallen into the double predestination trap. We are predestined unto salvation and that is it. We are not predestined to damnation. That is our default condition by virtue of original sin. 2) God is actively restraining sin in the hearts...

It all boils down to original sin. If Adam is our representative then we have commited Adam's sin. If we were in the Garden of Eden we would have done exactly what Adam did.

I visited my parents a few weeks ago in Florida. They go to a Southern Baptist Church and the pastor does not believe in limited atonement. Now here is the kicker. They are going through the Westminster Shorter Catechism in Sunday school. The Sunday I was there they were on the question of...

About 2000 I started listening to the White Horse Inn on the radio. At first I thought it was only a critique of American evangelicalism but then I realized that they were coming from a reformed view of things. Up until that time I had not put much thought into the calvinism vs arminianism...

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