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Your view ( Calvinism ) sure isOh, wow!
So Romans 9:20 is false doctrine and outright heresy?
Okay. . .so how about the issue of Romans 9:20 of questioning God in a demanding manner?It would be redundant to discuss the Pharoah issue with you yet again.
What did they use? Sign language? Please show me some recorded evidence where any Christian missionaries from Israel etc. went to far away countries and explained the figures of speech etc. to the non-Jewish converts.I'm not sure what you want me to answer. If I start a church in China I bring with me my "Christian traditions" how to understand the Bible.
What did they use? Sign language? Please show me some recorded evidence where any Christian missionaries from Israel etc. went to far away countries and explained the figures of speech etc. to the non-Jewish converts.
Do you seriously think that referred to a Scriptural statement?
That may be the answer to Rick's observation.
Okay. . .so how about the issue of Romans 9:20 of questioning God in a demanding manner?
More often what we fail to question when we withhold questions out of fear is not God, but an idol built by men. Just think of two of the most praiseworthy men in the Bible, Job and Jacob(Israel) both of which struggled with God in one way or another(and God chose to name His people 'contends with God.') God said "taste and see," men demand you not challenge "God" when you question their doctrine.I`ve always been fearful of questioning God and to this very moment just want to conform my will in line with His but this issue was always in the back of my mind as an unspoken concern.
You sound familiar to a poster there and I’m there , you might know me as civicwhy you asking that?
Sorry, I must be getting dyslexia, it is post#2754I see no Scriptures there. . .what am I missing?
No. Why? They choose not to believe.You wanted to say "because they cannot believe"?
But you still have to explain how the dead in sin is able to repent.Hm, but many do get those doctrines yet aren't Calvinists... I don't think it's only about getting, but agreeing.
To me this is just crazy. It feels like putting doctrines over salvation. What use do we have of "the doctrines of grace" if we are still not saved? I hope you agree that we are not saved by doctrines but through receiving of the Holy Spirit.
To me the true "doctrine of grace" is: You repent and then you are saved by grace.
Life/awareness is uncaused. Only God has life, breathing it into us. How do I know what life/awareness is? It is what it means to have life.
Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
— Genesis 2:7
No, not saying everything God gives us is the same as the Holy Spirit. Why?
Having life within, being alive is a gift to us, but what is life, what is being alive? Only God has life. God breathed that life into man. Living beings are created, but life is, it's not created, it's uncaused, but the giving of it to man is caused by God. And that life has free will.
God can, sure! But I don't think that is explaining how God does it. And the souls going into judgement, aren't they created eternal as well?
Btw, why can't a caused, eternal being have free will from your view? I don't get that. Maybe you already told why, would you then mind repeating?
More often what we fail to question when we withhold questions out of fear is not God, but an idol built by men. Just think of two of the most praiseworthy men in the Bible, Job and Jacob(Israel) both of which struggled with God in one way or another(and God chose to name His people 'contends with God.') God said "taste and see," men demand you not challenge "God" when you question their doctrine.
Sorry, I must be getting dyslexia, it is post#2754
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Please explain what the scriptures I presented mean to you instead of repeating over and over ad infinitum what you think certain scriptures mean to you. Can't you see how that seems to others?
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