Those are some excellent posts Child of Zion.
You gave some Scriptures that cannot be disputed. Just like John 3:16 can not be properly interpreted to mean that Christ did not die for the WHOLE world, and therefore an exegesis of John 3:16 is avoided by the Calvinist, so it is with many of the warnings in the Scriptures about losing ones salvation.
What kind of a twisted mind would believe that Jesus died only for the elect, and that God did not love the WHOLE world at Calvary? What kind of a twisted mind would believe that God chose only a handful of people to be saved while sending billions of people to Hell? What kind of a twisted mind would adamantly insist that God predestines to salvation, but then denies the very purpose of that salvation - freedom from sin in the here and now! And what kind of a twisted mind would believe that one can commit all types of the works of the flesh, including incest, and still be saved?
Calvinism is nothing more that Gnosticism, Augustinianism, and Roman Catholicism, dressed up in Protestantism.
Lets get back to the Holy Scriptures, and what Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John said, instead of what some theologian said.
John Calvin, in his Institutes of Christian Religion bragged about how his doctrines were taken from Augustine. He quoted Augustine hundreds of times in his Institutes of Christian Religion. Too bad he did not have such an affinity for the Apostle Paul.
You have misrepresented an entire group of Christians (including me) by giving a false representation of what those of us who have calvinistic leanings believe. Thanks for the name calling bit BTW.
If I were to go with my intuition, I would be inclined to believe free will. It is precisely because of Scripture that I am inclined to believe differently.
Why don't you read through the Scriptures I posted on predestination so you can better understand that it is not a twisted mind that believes in predestination and God choosing, but that it is in fact a Biblical concept.
http://christianforums.com/showthread.php?t=7313000
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