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I imagine you have a long list. A skewed gospel is no gospel at all.
Well, you certainly aren't without a list yourself and I was being charitable; there are lots of variations on the gospel out there and some are farther away from the truth and some are closer. And most believers in any case pretty well live as if they know they must 'act justly and love mercy and walk humbly with their God' (Micah 6-8), in the light, as children of God should. And that theology is far more crucial than a lot of the other stuff.
You will see in the Day of Judgment that Tulip Truths are the Gospel and you have been deceived.
If a person IS walking in the Light and is imperfect in the eyes of critics, by what standard is he imperfect?
What do you call other stuff? The word "stuff'" could refer to anything. Please clarify.
Your post referred to walking in the Light. Those whom God is saving ARE walking in the Light. We have been saved by Him, not by things we have done or are doing. If we are being sanctified, God isn't finished with us, but critics might still accuse us rather than notice the changes HE has made.
I understand that that's how its meant to be. I also understand that no believer is forced to remain in Him and that walking in the darkness is still a possibility. And that's exactly why believers continue to sin. To the extent that they don't sin, they're walking fully and only in the light. To the extent that they do sin, they're walking away from it. To the extent that they never sin, they would be perfected in love: that's a one-to-one "equation", so to speak: to love God and neighbor perfectly would be to exclude sin completely and absolutely. And that's a work of God's in us that He's patient in achievng as He intends to draw us more and more on board with His work, with His love.
How do you even get calvinism out of that verse? I don't understand.
The "us" is that verse is not referring to all believers, is it? If calvinism was true, how can it be so difficult to just find one clear verse about it?
"Giveth" in what sense? What do you do with verses like John 3.16 where is says God so loved the world? World is not just some part of the world, no, but the whole world. "Whosoever" is not just some people, no, but ANY person. It doesn't say that whosoever out of the elect, just whosoever period.
Yes, I could've been more clear there. I mean, for example, you make limited atonement and TULIP into sort of article of faith acid tests which determine whether the gospel is accepted or rejected. And while I reject much of TULIP, I don't deny your faith, or view it as displeasing to God. Any faith that acknowledges the true God-as revealed by His Son- as God and changes us in such a way that we being to follow Him, walking in His ways, loving Him and neighbor as we should, is a faith that at least covers the essentials.
If God loved the WHOLE world, we'd all be Univesalists, but He hates the workers of iniquity. He allows sin and He allowed Satan to tempt Eve. He allows wickedness. He allows child abuse, etc.
Do you think that it's okay To judge people who are imperfect? Do you think non-Calvinists are perfect? No, so you didn't need to suggest that some of us aren't being judged by others.
He allows freedom-because He wants us to choose to use it rightly instead of abusing it. And He gives us the grace, by the Holy Spirit, to do just that without coverting us into automatons who couldn't do otherwise. That's how He's dealt with man since the beginning. It's only because He values that freedom so highly that sin/evil is even possible.
Sorry-not sure what you're meaning to say here. The standard for what constitutes sin is God's justice, His love to put it best. And that's exactly what He means to cultivate in us as He transforms us into His image. Jesus didn't come just so we could remain as we are-in our sins.
I don't disagree. People either believe in Limited Atonement or don't. But believing in unlimited atonement has never been proven.
