...and your Calvinism is a heresy to the RCC, sigh. Your clique is not the judge of all truth.
Not "Calvinism" but Reformed Theology. Semi-Pelaganism was condemned in 529 by the RCC.
In response to this post -
#312 -- we have
Ok so your solution to #312 is not to address any of it?
Isaiah 5:3-4
3 “And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah,
Judge between Me and My vineyard.
4
What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes
did it produce worthless ones?
The two questions
- What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? (Answer: "Nothing more you could have done")
- Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones? (Answer; They have no excuse - you already did everything)
I agree with the above answers. There's no conflict or contradiction.
Now let's edit God's questions
1. What more was there to do for someone I decree to be lost - that I have not done? (Answer: nothing)
2. When I expected them to fail - did they fail as expected? (Answer: yes)
But Calvinism has an answer for God first question, the question actually IN the text.
What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? (Answer: "we all know good and well what you could have done if you wanted them not to fail -- you could have drawn, chosen, enabled and caused them to do the right thing")
No need to edit God's questions; they're perfect the way they are.
Rom 2 is being ignored entirely so then Rom 2:11 "God is not partial" is being ignored as well.
God is not partial with
his children.
All the Bible examples in my post -
#312 - are being ignored, so now I am to address that question above...
Not ignored. I addressed most of them. The ones I haven't yet are:
2 Cor 5:19 - By itself is a universalist message, and yet 17-18 provide the exact context.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come">[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
Verse 18 proves the whole point: It's God doing the work, not man.
And then,
2 Peter 3:9
Original greek uses the word "pas" (cited below) and can be understood in the same context as "not willing that any of you..." The message is for the audience.
πᾶς,
a \{pas}
1) individually 1a) each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything 2) collectively 2a) some of all types
This is simple logic, God has no reason to create humans that He would wish not to perish, but end up doing so beyond His Will, for He knows even before they were created both their purpose for His Glory and their final destination. To assume that He doesn't create people He knows are destined for Hell apart from His Will is to either deny His Omniscience OR Creatorship. Which shall we deny? I refuse to deny either.
1 Peter 1: To those who reside as strangers, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father
Now I have answered your question
No, you haven't. What is the source of faith? God or man?
- ... so is it time for you to address the Bible Examples I have given from Romans 2 and in post -
#312 - ?? and the Romans 2 details in
#291
Again, with His Children. There are children of the devil to consider: sheep v. goats; wheat v. tare