Recent content by Gavino

Hi joeP222w, Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post. Sorry for the length of this post; I have emboldened the sections I would really like to have answered if you choose to reply. Unfortunately, I’m afraid other Calvinists would disagree with your assertion; all of the Calvinists...

Ultimately, as far as I can see, Calvinism cannot survive without a blend of absolutism and relativism. It must start with absolutism to establish the facts that we sin and that God has to punish our sin, and then switch to the relativistic argument that morals are relative and that God has one...

Hi JJ, Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. I appreciate your input! Unfortunately nobody has actually answered the question I have put in six of my posts in this thread: is it morally right to call someone to come to you, even when they can’t, and then punish them when they...

Sounds good. Thanks for your time man, appreciated the discussion and your thought-provoking input! In the love of Christ, Gavino

While I feel that the Bible indicates that we are condemned for our individual sins, even if that were not the case, we are still faced with the same dilemma. Let me use an example. Let’s say you’re the king in a city. Everyone in the city is a citizen under your protection, but everyone born...

Hi Hammster, Thank you for clarifying that; sorry for the miscommunication. No hard feelings. In the future I'll highlight or embolden something if I would really like that particular question or topic to be addressed. After reading your post, I’m afraid I would have to disagree. The...

Hi Hammster, Wow, man…“baby steps”? I have to tell you, acting in a condescending manner and insulting the person engaging in discussion with you merely signals to them that the strength of your argument is weak enough that you feel obliged to attack the person rather than the argument in...

Hi Hammster, Thank you for your reply. After reading your post, I’m afraid that the issue appears to remain the same. As far as I can see, “cannot” is still “cannot”. If I were to ask you, “Is it at all possible for an unregenerate man to respond to God in faith?”, I feel certain you would...

Hi RC1970, Thank you for your reply. The questions you pose (“Wouldn’t it have been better if God hadn’t created them at all?”) certainly fall into the realm of a discussion of God’s love and purpose in His creation, but not His justice. We can certainly have a discussion on God’s love at...

Hi Hammster, Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post. Unfortunately, I’m afraid other Calvinists would disagree with you; all of the Calvinists with whom I have spoken and all of the Calvinist works I have read appear to emphatically affirm that man cannot come to God. This is...

Hi tstor, Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. I would agree with you that God is just to condemn our willful sin. The question at hand, however, is the fact that according to Calvinism, God calls men to repent---even though they can’t---and then condemns them when they don’t...

Hi RC1970, Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post, I really appreciate your input and point of view. Unfortunately, I feel like I am still missing the answer to my question. The question at hand is whether or not it is morally right to call someone to come to you, even when they...

That's a very good point Paul, I had never thought of it that way before. Thanks for your input!

Hello RC1970, Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. In your reply, you mention “God’s justice”, and then “human justice”. This is exactly what I'm referring to when I talk about relativism. It’s the idea that God has His standard of justice, and then we as humans have ours...

Good Evening All, I wanted some of your input and discussion on a topic that I’ve been mulling over lately. There are several issues that would need to be resolved in my mind before I could consider Calvinism, the main issue being that Calvinism appears to require elements of both absolutism...