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Ugh. Ok. Please let me know which posts I failed to respond to. I will try to do so.Calvinism has been accurately presented including a number of posts you failed to respond to.
Ugh. Ok. Please let me know which posts I failed to respond to. I will try to do so.
Blessed are the Pure in Heart for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8The strongest rebuttal of Calvinism I can present
Blessed are the Pure in Heart for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8
The question is not Does God Love Me? The question is Do I Love God?
Do I know, love, and seek God for no other reason than to know love and serve him?
These are the questions any Christian should ask themselves.
I tend to Calvinism because Calvin and I live in Biblical times here in East of Eden. Calvin's view of God and the hierarchy of heaven and hell matches my own view, particularly his clear gaze into the source and meaning of evil
For myself, wondering whether I am predestined or elected is a peculiar form of spiritual navel gazing. Yes, all of us fear we are unworthy of God but blaming Calvin for suggesting I may not be, is admitting that I either can't blame myself and I dare not blame God.
I realize I may not be elected but in the here and now, I love God. He is a friend of mine.
In the hereafter I feel God is perfectly free to choose His friends. He has my permission.
(should people who like Calvin be in this thread? Is there a thread for "What is right with Calvin"
Tulip was first put into that form in 1905. The basic concepts have been around for several hundred years and if you count Augustine, several thousand.. Calvin had a massive influence on Christianity for 500 years so the claim that Calvin's work is not Biblically defensible is, at the least, weak. Surely at least a few Christians would have noticed that rather than incorporate Calvin's work into their cannons.
I would point to Rick Warren who is both a Baptist and a Calvinist.that only about half of those are 5-pointers
It’s origins are from Augustine who was Manichaean and gnostic and brought those false beliefs about free will and inability into the church . Until that time the early church supported mans free will and ability to choose and denied origin sin . Original sin is Gnosticism- Manichaeanism.The problem with Calvinism is that it's not Biblically defensible so I dunno how you would do such a thread. I invited Mark to create a beat-up on the Arminian thread but he didn't do it.
I would point to Rick Warren who is both a Baptist and a Calvinist.
If Calvinism is reduced to the TULIP, it reduces the entire works of Calvin to a few, very arguable and not very representative cliff notes not even written by Calvin but by a man in 1905.
Augustine, Luther and Calvin taught original sin.Original sin is Gnosticism- Manichaeanism.
I would have written the man's name except I wasn't going to look it up. If I had capitalized Man, would that have been "equity?"Did you notice that you implied that Calvin was more than a man?
I would have written the man's name except I wasn't going to look it up. If I had capitalized Man, would that have been "equity?"
The only Word of God is the Bible. I also listen to sermons. I see all the theological writings outside the Bible as sermons.
Nope.But, do you deny what it says?
You wanted to say "because they cannot believe"?And, by the way, they do not go to perdition because they cannot change their ways, but because they will not believe.
Balance is not "presented", balance is an emergent quality from putting all important parts into their place and seeing the complete picture, instead of just some parts (Arminians vs Calvinists).Where is this "balance" presented in Scripture that we must achieve?
And who/what is the measure of this balance?
He might have gotten the brand of Calvinism his church taught, but he didn't get the Doctrines of Grace, because he would not have abandoned them. He has not presented them accurately, which has me wondering where he learned them. He keeps saying he knows them, but he keeps misrepresenting them.
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