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Recent content by Boxmaker

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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    Good things never end! :amen:
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    Then Calvinists have done a poor job of explaining what it is. Please, 'splain it. Specifically, please explain the meaning of "whatsoever".
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    First, please provide the definition of "all" so that we are starting from the same place. Then please answer the following question. Is or is not God in control of all things?
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    Not under the calvinistic interpretation of God is control of ALL things. If God is control of all things then every action Satan and men make is directly ordained by God. If God does not ordain their each and every action then there are things that are not under God's control. You cannot...
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    Do you really believe God directs ALL choice? It does not sound like it when your very next paragraph attempts to describe how God is NOT responsible for some things. Either God has directed EVERYTHING or He has not. You CANNOT have it both ways. Consider: Were you aiming at ball B or not...
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    I see a lot of "so?" and a lot of assertions that God directs all choice, a cryptic reference to "second causation" (that never appears in the Bible) but fairly little reference back to scripture. I do not find your response compelling.
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    Yes, we can choose to. That doesn't mean that we can. In my cadicism class when I was a kid the teacher taught us that Christian means Christ Like. As believers, we try to live a life as muck like Christ's life as we can. We fail. We are human. Our eyes wonder and we have committed...
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    This is where we differ. I believe that as God's creation we were created with the ability to choose between the options available to us. Our options are not limitless but we are free to choose what we can - free will. I have seen all the scriptures that relate to Calvinism and I have at...
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    The pronouns are referring to the person doing the asking, the seeking and the knocking - you and I. And does not salvation begin with a prayer?
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    Knock and the door will be opened, seek and you will find. Jesus spoke those words. He was not saying that men should just sit around and wait for God, men should look for God actively. So, just as Adam and Eve hose to reject God because of Satan's lie, so to must we choose to reject Satan's...
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    I object. I am not saying or implying that I have any self wroth independent of God. I am saying the the self worth I have is from God (because I was created in His image).
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    I could quibble with you over some wording but we are basically saying the same thing - because Cod created us, we are worth saving to God. I also see that we differ over what men contribute, we agree on the contribution of sin, but I believe that the Bible supports that men contribue more.
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    I could quibble with you over some wording but we are basically saying the same thing - because Cod created us, we are worth saving to God. I also see that we differ over what men contribute, we agree on the contribution of sin, but I believe that the Bible supports that men contribue more.
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    I don't honestly know. Genesis only says that God created men and walked with them in the Garden. It doesn't say why. We are God's creation. He loves His creation. What do you think makes us worth saving?
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    95 Biblical reasons to believe the future is not exhaustively settled...

    26k - That's tough. I looked at satellite internet once. That is expensive but fast. I've been on various boards for about three years. You are right, things rarely change. Although, on another board I spend most of my time on, a young women who has been Buddhist for a long time took here...
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