How do you know if you are truly, part of the Elect?
If you do have a emotional experience, what conditions were the reason and can you trust your emotions?
Wouldn't it be far more reasonable to consider the Elect, those who have salvation already , but not excluding others from the gift of Salvation ?
How is it a person can determine who goes where ?
Why would God be so angry with the deeds of people, that He would turn his back on them once and for all?
He destroyed this World long ago over sin.
Quote: Wikipedia
In a religious context,
sin is the act of transgression against
divine law.
[1] Sin can also be viewed as any thought or action that endangers the ideal relationship between an individual and their God or Gods; or as any diversion from the perceived ideal order for human
living. "To sin" has been defined from a Greek
concordance as "to miss the mark".
[2]
Unquote.
What about sanctification?
Sanctification is the act or process of acquiring sanctity, of being made or becoming holy. ... To
sanctify is to literally "set apart for particular use in a special purpose or work and to make holy or sacred."
Sanctification - Wikipedia
Wikipedia › wiki › Sanctification
Both are verbs, and both have a causative effect.
You have a choice on what color clothes you put on ,if you put on blue pants and a black coat ,can you determine whether you should do This?
Or possibly once you look in the mirror you put on a blue coat as well.
Did God choose the miss match ,or did God correct the miss match.
If God wanted the miss match , how do you know?
If God predestined you, can you choose to move from his will in a act of flesh?
Can you commit adultery and feel right?
What about Pagan Idols can you sit with the company of Baal, and remain holy?
What about people who take the mark of the Beast in end times?
Will they still be cleansed by the Blood ?
Since a Child inherits Blood from his Father , wouldn't Christ's Blood Be God's Blood?
Would God suffer so much to save those who were already Elect?
Would He go so far as to pour His Blood over those who worshiped the Beast?
1 Timothy 2: 1. I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2. For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4. Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6. Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Ah but the Mark of the Beast, how does God's Word tell us God's will for those who take it.
Revelation 14: 9. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
It seems that there is a conflict among Calvinist.
John MacArthur's teaching is that people will have to take the mark or none will be saved at the tribulation.
We see God's will in the scriptures....
But we see a prominent Calvinest who seems to put his own take into a apparition of the Bible.
Theologically, MacArthur is considered a
Calvinist, and a strong proponent of
expository preaching.
[2] He has been acknowledged by
Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time,
[3] and was a frequent guest on
Larry King Live as a representative of an
evangelical Christian perspective.
[4]
Wikipedia