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You obviously didn't read the entire comic. I'd strongly suggest you do so without skipping a single word.
Do you notice a similarity in the game of words? Two people in these type threads doing the same thing, playing the same game?You obviously didn't read the entire comic. I'd strongly suggest you do so without skipping a single word.
Do you notice a similarity in the game of words? Two people in these type threads doing the same thing, playing the same game?
There is no intention of being corrected, no desire to learn, to concede, to respect scripture.
Did you know that identifying ones self as non-denom when one is an atheist allows an atheist trolling Christian forums to enter Christians only forums? Opportunity to educate is a lovely blessing. But not when hate and mockery shields those whom God has made into mocking men as a warning to The Elect. A warning received when we read one who insists they can see Leopards changing their spots by their own will.
Or that omnipresence isn't the same as eternally everyWHERE.
Get me?
That puts a knot in your comic right from the start.
Anyways, the major problem I have with Calvinism is that the more exterme version of it says that there is no such thing as "free will" in regards to a person accepting or rejecting Jesus Christ as one's Savior. That God ultimately decides who goes to Heaven and Hell. If such is the case, then such a belief is absolutely ridiculous. Why? Because we could not then be held accountable for any sin at a Judgment if God was the one who made us to be sinful so as to go to Hell. In other words, the Judgment would be a farce if God just forced people to go to Heaven and or Hell because it would be His decision and not our decision. But, see, the whole purpose of the Judgments has to do with what you do in this life, though.
"You will say to me then, 'Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?' But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, 'Why have you made me like this?' Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show His wrath and to make known His power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of His glory for vessels of mercy, which He has prepared beforehand for glory - even us whom He has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed He says in Hosea, 'Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’' 'And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’'" [Romans 9:19-26]
God cannot create evil, nor can God do evil and nor can God approve of evil.
In your post, a verse was cited, and then an insert by MacArthur. What was the point of that?Did I write that? That MacArthur is the last word on the text?
Please show me where I said that.
Oh, so he IS the last word, huh.Meanwhile, as I said it would do you a great service to read those chapters of Zechariah. MacArthur is simply there to teach Job8 how wrong he is about Israel and the 5 points of Calvinism that he referred to.
Your question cannot be answered since there are 2 distinct issues at hand. Believing in a verb, an action. Faith is a noun, what is believed.So does one choose to believe, or is faith given by God?
I'm so tired of this claim. Please provide Scripture that explicitly indicates that God chooses who will believe.God never gave you the choice.
Even their first point is in error, because they go too far and claim that because man is totally depraved, he is unable to believe. He must first be regenerated before he can believe. That is not taught anywhere in the Bible. The truth of total depravity is that man cannot save himself. He must trust in Christ who saves him.Wel, one point in Calvinism is true. For the Bible does in fact teach that all sin was passed down upon every man, woman, and child because of Adam's disobedience. We read this in Romans,
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" (Romans 5:12).
However, most of the other points are unbiblical, though.
Somehow your post errored in using quotes.You're tired of the truths and we're tired of repeating them to you.
Almost like they're of the same mind using different accounts to deliver the same agenda.And we don't respond well to taunting, baiting and goading, play "gotcha" games with twisted interpretations, and twisting what others say into thing they did not say. There are two in this forum who regularly engage in such foolishness.
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