Well first off my church is not calvinistic.
Second I study the bible and teach from it. After almost 45 years, I think I have learned.
Third you should learn the difference between positional truths and experiential truths.
Gods will is sovereign in the universe! What God wills , will happen! God may allow sin to run its course for a season, but even that is according to the will of God! No one can resist the will of God. Romans 9 makes that clear!
As for Gods drawinig power- no one can approach Christ unless they are drawn! NO where in Scripture will you find that someone can resist the soteriological drawing of God. Paul was set apart form the womb, Jeremiah before He was conceived, and believers are the chosen or elect from before Creation!
Sayin men practice evil and God allows it to accomplish HIs will is not blasphemous- it is biblical! As it says in Isaiah- He even created evil for its purpose!
God knew the fall of man before He created man-
Even a believers sin ultimately works for his good! (Romans 8) That is not a license to sin, just simply a biblical fact! For ALL things work for the good!
I Agree with you about living a holy life- that is living faith- that is the working out of our saving faith! the two though related are not the same! Now if someone makes a profession of faith but shows no changed- the bible has an answer for that and it is not that they lost their salvation!
Romans 9-11 is about God will save all Jews at one point in time in the future that are alive! It is His covenant with the physical seed of Abraham! But Romans 9 is for all of us, not just Israel!
Yes we are warned about using grace as a license to sin! but that falling away is not a loss of salvation, which if you read your bible instead of Armenian propaganda started byt eh first century Judiazers you would know that!
Wow! Let's dissect that line by line.
Why would your church not be Calvinistic when you are a Calvinist? Why have you compromised on your doctrine in being part of a church you don't agree with?
45 years teaching the Bible can just result in more time perfecting defending heresy against Biblical Truth. You have learned and taught people to interpret the Bible through Calvinistic glasses and the Scriptures themselves witness against you and prove that your ism is not Biblical. I don't know why your church tolerates this either since it's not even Calvinistic.
Your belief about sin being God's will makes the most heinous sins out to be God's will and that is indeed blasphemous. Not everything that happens is God's will and your supposed 45 years of Bible study ought to have taught you that. Have you never read Jeremiah 19:5 which so directly proves that all things that happen are not God's will? "They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind"
Romans 9 does not prove that no man can resist His will in the sense you are speaking of. It is speaking of how God has terms to be served on and woe to the man who strives with God and expects Him to save anyone on other terms. Paul refences Jeremiah 18 in Romans 9 when speaking of the clay and the potter- and Jeremiah 18 teaches the very opposite of Calvinism as it shows God giving men according to their choices and pleading with Judah and Jerusalem to save itself from judgment. They were resisting Hs will in that they would not obey Him- and they paid dearly for that! Likewise when Scripture says God is not mocked, it obviously doesn't mean that He cannot be mocked at, it means that God cannot be mocked without the mocker eventually being punished so severely that he will surely regret mocking Him.
Of course no one can come to Christ without the drawing power of God. But that power is working on all men and men can indeed resist that. This "soteriological drawing" you are speaking of is just a made up Calvinist improvisational term because you cannot escape the fact over and over and over again in Scripture men do resist the Holy Spirit- and they would have been saved if they had not done so. How's this for soteriological drawing? "11
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." And yet most do not cooperate with God's grace, further proving that men resist God's will. You claim to have studied the Bible and taught it for 45 years. Why are you trying to pull the wool over my eyes as if I do not know this Scripture which you apparently also know. You lied to me about it not being in the Bible (unless you really do not know what the Bible says), when it is in the Bible.
Paul said he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision he had of Christ (Acts 26:19) and he acknowledged that if he was unfaithful he could yet be damned in the end (1 Corinthians 9:27- and thought continues through 1 Corinthians 10 really). Throughout the Book of Jeremiah you see God speaking to Jeremiah as a man whose calling was conditional and his faithfulness and salvation was no guarantee. Individuals are not chosen or elect to salvation before Creation. The Bible never teaches such a thing. It teaches that Israel was chosen/elect as a nation to bring forth the ultimate chosen/elect Messiah; and that believers in Israel's Messiah are elect in relation to their living faith towards Him. What was predestined before Creation was the plan of redemption itself in the Messiah, not who would partake of that individually. "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;" (Titus 1:1-3 -same book where it is said shortly afterwards in 2:11-14 that the grace of God which brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching...)
God can indeed allow evil that wasn't His will towards the end of accomplishing greater purposes. That thought in itself is not blasphemous. But you (in following Calvin) go further by saying that even the evil itself is God's will which He ordained and which men cannot resist- and that is indeed blasphemous. You reference Isaiah 45:7 to try to prove your blasphemous position, but you ought to know that "evil" in the context of Isaiah 45:7 is speaking of calamity (as opposed to peace). It is not speaking of God creating moral evil- Satan is the father of that! (John 8:44, etc)
Saying that God knew the fall of man before He created man is not the same as saying He created evil or that He deliberately willed that mankind fall. These are not the same and you keep trying to equate them as the same.
No, sin does not work out for anyone's good. Just reading Romans 8 as a whole proves that. Romans 8:28 is only teaching that God will cause circumstances to further the end-goal of becoming like Christ for those who love Him and have fallen line in line with His purpose (and anyone who truly surrenders to God and walks by a living faith in Christ is submitting to the process of being conformed to His image). Sin is by its very nature antithetical to that purpose.
You are wrong. There is no distinction between a living faith and a saving faith. A faith that isn't living is dead- and a dead faith obviously cannot save anyone. The Bible knows of both people who profess Christ but were never born-again, as well as those who were born again and truly knew Him who later turned away from Him or refused to go further in following Him, and thus fell away. You cannot read Scriptures like Romans 11:22, Hebrews 3:12-15, 1 Corinthians 9:27-10:14, Revelation chapters 2 and 3, and many others honestly and say otherwise. The grace of God can indeed be received in vain (2 Corinthians 6:1 proves absolutely) and only those who endure to the end faithfully will ultimately be saved by grace (Matthew 24:9-13, 2 Peter 2:18-22, Jude 3 -7 etc).
Romans 9 to 11 is not saying that God will save all Jews in the future because they are the seed of Abraham! It is teaching the very opposite! Just read the chapters in the context of R-mans and don't just single out individual verses and this is obvious. It is teaching that God has the right to work through any people group for His purposes and that individuals must fall in line with His working or they will be rejected because He is not obligated to save anyone because of their natural lineage. That is indeed a lesson for all of us. We have to run God's way in submission to God's plan of redemption. God isn't obligated to save Abraham's seed because of their lineage nor is He obligated to save us because of ours or because of anything about us which we might in our hearts uses as a substitute for faithful submission to Christ. Paul's exceeding longing for Israel to be saved at the beginning of chapter 9 would be madness if they were already secure because of Abraham and/or if election to salvation for individuals was already determined before the foundation of the world.
Falling away is indeed a loss of salvation, it was not invented by the first century Judaizers, and it originates with Lucifer who fell away from the Lord by rebellion to His Government and thus secured his own damnation. It was taught by the Old Testament Prophets (Ezekiel chapter 18 for example), Jesus came not to destroy the Law nor the Prophets (Matthew 5:17-18), and thus Jesus and the Apostles preached about the possibility of such (as I already proved above). The 1st century Judaizers were actually offering people a false security through physical circumcision rather than through a living faith in Christ which is actually the intended purpose of the Law when it is used lawfully/rightfully. "5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm."
To say that falling away is not a loss of salvation like you have said does indeed turn God's grace into a license for sin. "18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."
Congratulations, you are teaching just like the false teachers warned of above and are leading any who heed you into the very same false security that leads to sin and eternal damnation that is spoken of above.