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riverpastor said:Wait a minute...
You mean, I'm not an incarnation, a temple, a dwelling place, of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ???
You mean that I don't have divine union with the Lord, being a partaker of God's divine nature?!?!?!?
Golly-gee-willikers, Wally?!?!?!? Maybe that's why the "church" is in the state that it's in!!!
VW has the best responses that I know.Christina M said:WONDERFUL, BLESSED response, Victoryword (as always). You present the well-adjusted and informed knowledge.
Thank you for this!
riverpastor said:There is so much more to entering the Kingdom of God than just its entry point. The Cross makes a door available. But, the Resurrection gives us so much more!!!
TreeOfLife said:Simple and oh so very direct. Any human that claims the sovreignity of God is just a religious word, does not know God in any fashion. He must be an arrogant misfit that we can only pray God has in His Mercy and Sovriegnity saved.
How's that?
I am as totally steadfast and without repentence in any form against that man glorifying false doctrine as I can possibly be.
That is my right isn't it? You attack the sovreignity of God with your words, I should be able to attack you with mine. Seems only fair to me.
You continue to try to bring God down to your level and I will resist you with everything I have. Truth is not a matter of "choice". Truth is no matter what.
TreeOfLife said:Simple and oh so very direct. Any human that claims the sovreignity of God is just a religious word, does not know God in any fashion. He must be an arrogant misfit that we can only pray God has in His Mercy and Sovriegnity saved.
How's that?
I am as totally steadfast and without repentence in any form against that man glorifying false doctrine as I can possibly be.
That is my right isn't it? You attack the sovreignity of God with your words, I should be able to attack you with mine. Seems only fair to me.
You continue to try to bring God down to your level and I will resist you with everything I have. Truth is not a matter of "choice". Truth is no matter what.
TreeOfLife said:Convenient. Weak and fleshy, but convenient.
TreeOfLife said:Convenient. Weak and fleshy, but convenient.
victoryword said:I notice that your label say "Charismatic Calvinist." This tells me enough already and why you have written such a ridiculous post. For the Calvinist, everything centers around their FALSE doctrine of God's sovereignty.
Notice I didn't say that God is not sovereign. I am saying that the Calvinist teaches this attribute falsely. God is sovereign since He is the rightful ruler over all of His creation. Jesus is indeed King of kings and Lord of lords. Yet, the king over any nation is alos sovereign. I am also sovereign in any decisions that I make. Sovereignty simply means authority and rulership but the Calvinist has distorted the term to mean something more than that.
The Calvinist, due to his utterly false teaching of total depravity (total inability) believes that man does absolutely nothing apart from God and that every decision made by a man was decreed by God in some fashion. Yet, when we bring up the fact that this false teaching makes God the author of sin then the Calvinist shrinks from it and blast his opponent with a bunch of theological hogwash like supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism. The only Bible that the Calvinist of this kind is familiar with is those prooftexts taken from the context to prove his pretext. The Calvinist primarily relies upon his/her distorted theological terminology to argue his case.
Your post if proof of that. You don't argue from Scripture. You argue from ridiculous reasoning. It's so ridiculous that I am wondering right now why I am wasting time responding to it. It could be that you have done another classic maneuver prevalent among internet Calvinists - you created a STRAWMAN by claiming that I said the sovereignty of God is just a religious word and then calling me an arrogant misfit. Here is what I REALLY said:
People get so caught up in religious words like "sovereignty" and "incarnation." Say that man is a "sovereign" being and you will be accused of blasphemy. Yet, the word simply means "authority" and unless one is a hyper-calvinist, one must acknowledge that man certainly is sovereign within a certain realm.So shame on you for misrepresenting what was ACTUALLY said and twisting it so that you can have an excuse to whine and regurgitate the usual rhetoric of your camp.
didaskalos said:Once again you have correctly diagnosed the symptoms and underlieing error.
I call it supersovereignty.
The advocate of this needs proceed no further than just this one concept.
Just sit back and ride the sovereign waves. The word, the gospel, the work of Jesus... all of these are just bit players in the overwhelming (and unknown) sovereign will of God.
This is an offshoot of the doctrine of the unknown God and is (you guessed it) part of the religion of "mere theism".
I'll stick with Jesus.... thank you very much!
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