The false teaching of mans freewill in the matter of salvation especially is actually a denial of the Gospel of Gods Grace.
Translation: If you're not a Calvinist, you're not saved.
A few reasons why I say that. It denies that God is God.
No, it doesn't do any such stupid thing.
It promotes the false concept that God cant do what He wants with man in salvation unless man allows Him to
It doesn't do that either!
On the contrary. Those who discard Calvinism as the blasphemous heresy that it is know that God dispenses His grace to those who respond to Him in faith because He WANTS to do so. That's the way God WANTS it set up and that's the reason why He set it up that way!
, Yet the God of scripture is described here Ps 115:3
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. The word pleased here means:
will, desire
Ps 135:6
6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
That's right, God does precisely what He wants when He wants to do it. He answers to no authority but His own righteous character.
He wanted to create mankind with a free will so that He could have a real loving relationship with that creation and so He did so.
When His creation rebelled, God wanted to provide a remedy so that loving relationship might be salvaged for those who will, so He did so, at great personal expense and difficulty, I might add.
When He decides that the time of the Gentiles has been fulfilled, then He will return to Israel and not only complete Daniel's 70th week but do so in a manner that exalts and brings honor to the Law. Not because He has to but because God is well pleased, not with His arbitrary nature, not with His power, not with His knowledge but He is well pleased for His righteousness!
Salvation is by the Sovereign will and Grace of God Eph 1:4-5,11
Watch out for the Calvinist's vernacular. The words they use don't mean in their heads what they mean in a normal person's head.
For "Sovereign" read "absolute total control freak" and for "Grace" read "utterly causeless arbitrary selection".
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Biblical predestination has to do with groups, not specific individuals. Those who enter into Christ (a.k.a. the Body of Christ) are predestined to glory because He is predestined to glory. His righteousness has been imputed to us and thus so also has been His destiny. No one forced God to set it up this way. This has been God's own plan from the very beginning.
Whatever God pleases to do He does, because God is God, yet the false doctrine of mans freewill denies this !
Just as saying it doesn't make it so, repeating it doesn't either. If any thing, repetition of stupidity just multiplies the stupidity.
Dan 4:34-35
34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
Are you trying to tell me that Nebuchadnezzar deserves credit for getting his understanding back by virtue of having lifted his eyes up to heaven?
Was that really the verse you wanted to quote?
35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Amen! There isn't a syllable of my doctrine that contradicts the sovereignty of God in anyway unless you've redefined the word 'sovereign" to mean something other than "highest authority" which is actually what the word means. God answers to no one and is moved to action by nothing other than His own righteous character and judgment.
He is not the arbitrary control freak you and your Calvinist teachers would have us believe. If He were, He would be unjust, by definition.
Clete
