Yes I do.You have no control over what you believe.
Yes I do.You have no control over what you believe.
Good points.You just said scripture is a lie. Scripture says that faith comes by hearing God's word.
Scripture also says that God stretched out his hand to a stiff necked people that would not listen to Him. God made an effort and they chose to NOT listen to God.
You have control over what you believe and accept as truth or what you reject as lies and that is why scripture says to beware of false teachers , otherwise what difference would false teachers make ?
Calvinists are outside the faith. My proof is what comes out of their mouth. Or in their posts on TOL.
Calvinists tell people God created them to send them to hell and they deserve it. Wickedness and a cold heart doesn't begin to describe a jerk who would say and believe such things.
Well, I believe God Almighty is running the universe, down to every detail, according to His predetermined will and good pleasure.
Do you disagree?
God never rejected the reprobate according to His foreknowledge of their actions. God rejects reprobates according to His will.God formed all men, either for dishonor or honor, according to His willful purposes and good pleasure.
To reject this truth is disbelief and a rejection of Sovereign God Himself.
It is those not written in the Lamb's Book of Life that are reprobate and who will deservedly suffer hellfire
Yes I do.
No it isn't.The reason you are a Christian, and not an atheist, Muslim, or Hindu, is due to variables outside of your control.
No it isn't.
The reason you are a Christian, and not an atheist, Muslim, or Hindu, is due to variables outside of your control. You believe in God because God's providence.
The intellectual dishonesty is strong with you all- deluding yourself with things you know aren't true is what you all apparently excel at
Very true. Calvinism is more of an attack on the character of God himself than the gospel. The picture of a loving father who sends his only begotten son to die for the sins of the world is changed into an unfeeling tyrant who creates lost souls to live lives of futility and be damned eternally.
No it isn't.
You have no control over what you believe. It is one of the great intellectual sins of many Christians today in thinking they chose faith in God.
It was God's providence that brought you to faith.
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The believers are the predestined elect
You know what, this conversation is pointless. Bye :wave2:
You crack me up. :rotfl: You're throwing everthing against the wall hoping something will stick? Please, don't stop amusing me. :crackup:
Faith is a primary indication of being of the elect. You act like it's a randomly generated machine that's prone to saving Hitler and condemning St. Nicholas o something.
The only irony there is to be had is the gigantic intellectual folly of you all's entire philosophy at large.
You didn't choose to be a Christian. You were reaped according to God's Providence. In fact, 'choosing' and 'believing' are two very unfriendly words, as you cannot actually choose to believe anything.
That's not 'man made', that's reality. Job reminds us of who the clay is, and who is the Potter. Your free will sucks, and can't even animate on it's own that which isn't carnal. That's what all the biblical authors tell you and you all don't even realize it.