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Seriously, read Galations without imposing your once saved always saved biase on it.

Of course... But a gift is something that can be refused or given back. People that stray away are app to say that they fell into false belief. The reality is that they listened to it, and fed the false belief until it became thier reality. Paul makes this point in Galatians... If we believe...

Johnny's mommy told him about Jesus when he was 4 years old.. and he genuinely believed. But for the rest of his life he lived like a child of hell... And only used the name of God as a curse word. He hated God and the gospel and taught others to do the same. According to your theology, Johnny...

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, James, Jude and Paul.

It doesn't matter how many bricks are in the row that I push to drop one on your head, I'm still responsible. And cherry picking verses to combine them, and come up with a theology is bad exegesis.

. God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass.

According to Calvinists, man sins because God decrees his sin. It's not a false dichotomy, they are just wrong.

You are right. Rock music is a wide genre. Much of what we call country today would have been southern rock a decade ago for example. Rock can be just as beautiful and moving as any orchastra, and it's odd how some lump it all together with the type that is coarse and has vulgar lyrics.

What is consistent about believing one way and acting another? Tim keller is the same way. 90 percent of the time they teach like armininans, but are not. To be consistent, a Calvinist can never say God allows sin, he must say God causes sin, but they won't state the obvious, they dance around it.

John Piper is a fine example. He writes a book called "Don't waste your life." while his theology teaches that every moment of your life is predestined by God to be whatever it is. When asked how he fits these two together, he says he's Christian first, then reformed. Which, to me, sounds like...

I've read quite a lot from prominent Calvinists. Invariably, thier doctrine contradicts how they actually present the gospel... modern Calvinists tend to try and live with a tension between what they say they believe and the actual tenets of thier theology, creating confused followers.

I'm not a universalist. I see little different between universalism and Calvinism. The only difference is that all are irresistibly elected in universalism, vs a few in calvinism. In either case, faith becomes irrelevant, as it is just forcebly applied.

If God wants to make the condition for the application of the atonement Belief, who am I to argue? You want a Savior who drags you in by your hair kicking and screaming, you won't find him in scripture.

Finally, an honest person. Saying Satan has no control is just blatantly false. He controls every one who doesn't have the Spirit of God, to one degree or another.

We talk a lot about the extravagance of Christmas, the commercialization, and it’s true, but still, we can never be more extravagant than God . So perhaps our attitudes need adjustment. God gave all that he could. He gave himself. Do you think he really frowns when you spend a bit too much on...

3If you, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4But with You there is forgiveness, that You may be feared.…

What is so hard to understand about God choosing to limit his power for a time in order to give men free choices? Man's free will does not limit God's Omnipotence, because man is free (within certain limits) because God chose to make him free.

Jesus actually did that a lot, answering a question with another question. But, what you said was "He didn't ask me a question, then when I post the question, you dodge it again.

"OK YOUR TURN! The Word of Faith bring preached to not just some but EVERY CREATURE.....Do they have an excuse not to have faith YES or NO!" Actually he did. Try to pay attention.

Ahh, yes the favorite Calvinist tactic.... If you can't answer the question, throw in a diversion.