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But I have, my friend. If all men are guilty by their racial relation thru Adam God is under no obligation to save anyone. That he saves some is what is called GRACE, unmerited favor. Therefore the perishing sinner may cry that God didn't save him but he is still guilty by race and deed...

Your argument is self-contradictory in this way: if man's nature is a sin nature then he will follow his nature unless that nature is changed. You are trying to interject a third causation. That man, while constrained by his nature, is able to discern that he is constrained by his nature...

I thought that was what you meant. Friend, whatever you think you know of Calvinism, and seeing all the strawmen set up on this thread is typical, what you just described is exactly the way a good Calvinist describes the relation of the will to the world. All men have "free will" in the sense...

Hmmm...friend I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. Would you mind restating that?

Trinity is reality. It answers the age old problem of the One and the Many. If the emphasis is strictly on the One we fall prey to Platonism and monism and pantheism. If the emphasis is on the many we fall prey to Nihilism and pluralism and panentheism. Only a proper balance that acknowledges...

Perhaps the clearest message of the New Testament is that liberty is found in the complete abandonment of "free will". We see this especially in the relations between the persons of the Trinity. Christ glorifies the Father by abandoning his "free will" for that of the Father's will so that the...

Thank you kind sir! As you are well aware, Augustine did not view the decree of predestination as preceeding original or actual sin nor does he place the decrees after these but original sin does logically preceed the gracefulness of predestination. Most importantly, he does view original sin...

"Just why God saves some and leaves others to perish is a mystery. It is not unjust, for God owes no man anything. Rebrobation is an act of God's justice just as predestination is an act of His grace. In both God manifests His virtues." (De civ. XIV, 26) ST. AUGUSTINE

As stated in the Canons of Dort, First Head (Chapter 1) Article 15 [1]: Moreover, Holy Scripture most especially highlights this eternal and undeserved grace of our election and brings it out more clearly for us, in that it further bears witness that not all people have been chosen but that some...

"Reprobation is a state of being." That's exactly right! The race (human) is reprobate and God pulls some people from that race and returns them to their originally designed state as image bearers of God. The race failed but God redeems some of that race for himself. Those who have been...

We are singly damned by our kinship with the federal head Adam. Those elected are singly regenerated by the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. It's the all temporal view.:eek:

I think Panentheism is the better description of numbers 3 and 5. Unlike pantheism, panentheism does not mean that the universe is all God or that God contains the universe inside himself. In Panentheism God maintains a transcendent nature but at the same time is within the creation such that...

You are essentially a classical theist with a touch of Orthodoxy and Barthianism.:thumbsup:

1. God's life is one of bliss and goodness; a life of non-suffering apathy. (Apathy in the sense that passions or feelings do not affect reason and joy.) God's love is a gift-love: agape. 2. God's being and God's will are unconditioned. God cannot change, for he is perfect. God's love is...

No, that isn't my real name but it sounds cool and he was a Dutch Theologian.  Thanks for the history.  You can give me all the early church history you know.  Thanks. Call me Gisie for short.  LOL

Thanks fellas.

Huldrych; Sounds interesting. I noticed your quotes are from Catholics. Is this a Catholic community?

Paul is but a man, like you and me. Surely today we know more about science, humanity, dna, genetics, etc. than he did back then. Men sleep with their wifes when the menstrual cycle is in affect, etc. Paul likely thought all humans were heterosexual and any homosexual activity was a sign of an...

You have several " arguments of silence".  It's been complete and utter eisegesis.  Your inferences have no foundation.  There are so many fallacies it difficult to know where to begin.

Oraclex You have made me very blessed. I don't deserve it.