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See, I was right about no. 1
By the way, you may find many Calvinists that will tell you, should you ask, that Calvinism isn't Calvin, nor his institutes.
Why should I trust you? You don't know how I came to believe what I do. I did not know it was essentially Calvinism (nor Reformed) until a while after I came to it.
So you think Calvinism teaches God decides by "arbitrary decision", "- based on nothing". It does not. Even if all it claimed was that the decision is made by God by his own council, that should be more than enough to destroy any notion of comparative validity, integrity or ability of mere creatures to make such a decision, let alone when one considers the fact that apart from Christ we can do nothing, and worse, that the spiritually dead are UNABLE to submit to nor to please God. (And, like before with other things, don't distort what I say here to mean that we don't decide. We certainly do decide, but our decision is not what our Eternity is hinged on.)
Cocolithophoes are single celled algae
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You didn't know what cocoliths are.
Sure.So you think Calvinism teaches God decides by "arbitrary decision", "- based on nothing". It does not. Even if all it claimed was that the decision is made by God by his own council, that should be more than enough to destroy any notion of comparative validity, integrity or ability of mere creatures to make such a decision, let alone when one considers the fact that apart from Christ we can do nothing, and worse, that the spiritually dead are UNABLE to submit to nor to please God. (And, like before with other things, don't distort what I say here to mean that we don't decide. We certainly do decide, but our decision is not what our Eternity is hinged on.)
You ask: "HOW can we trust a God that does not allow us to know His requirements to become saved?"
He DID let us know. You can try to go with one or the other of two requirements: You can choose to live a life without sin, (for all the good that choice will do you.) Or you can be born again, of the Spirit. And that, you cannot do either, though you can try to choose it. But how can one at enmity with God even WANT to choose to be born again?
And don't distort this to claim that I mean that salvation is not by faith. Salvific faith is 'generated' by the Holy Spirit —not by human integrity, ability and will.
You interrupt the thread to object to me talking to an atheist, and now you get to say when we stop this back and forth!!?
Only in the sense that the Divine can be found not only in the coccoliths piling up over time, but also the in the wind and waves of the Ocean that eroded the cliffs exposing the white chalk that we see today.
Your post #273 gives me permission to go here: At the risk of sounding chauvinistic, is this the flip of the feminine hand that directs the world's traffic? The regal dismissal of the bothersome subject? See, I don't have to play that. I don't have to let you win. You don't get the last word and expect me to bow, because to me you are just another who makes false claims about me and Calvinism/Reformed Doctrine and Scripture. Male or female counts for nothing here.
