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Let it sink in, Brofessor :wave:
Calvinism is a false doctrine.
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Let it sink in, Brofessor :wave:
Water baptism, attending church every Sunday, and doing good works/deeds isn't what makes you a member of the Body of Christ and a Child of God.
No, but public confession of being cleansed of guilt and thereby raised to new life, and showing a desire to openly worship the God of such forgiving Grace, one day out of seven, along with performing holy acts of love and charity in His name, certainly does no harm and is an obvious way to share the Gospel . . Is it not?
Peter preached repentance, baptism and the infilling of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost.
The same message was preached to the Samaritans, the Gentiles, and by Paul to disciples who didn't have fullness of truth (Acts 19, disciples of John the Baptist).
James taught that faith without works is dead, and Paul's writings are full of instructions on pleasing God, with Paul stating that He would be a castaway if he didn't keep his human nature in submission to God's truth.
Some MAD adherents explain away baptism, James's teaching on works, John's teaching on the absolute authority of the Apostles, etc by making the excuse that the original 12 didn't have the revelation to be giving commandments to the Gentiles, and contend their their revelation was different in nature and content than Paul's.
It ends up making some scriptures contradictory rather than complementary, which is dangerous.
Are you saying that the only way you can know that you have "ALL your faith in Christ" is that you purposely avoid anything that looks like obedience to biblical teaching? Start with Paul's instruction to "avenge not yourselves". That takes trying - working if you will - to overcome flesh. If I deny my nature and do that to please God I'm wrong? I don't think you're saying that, but I can't tell the difference.
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The problem is, you're a Calvinist and Calvinists believe that God already chose who He wanted to save before the foundation of the world. Furthermore, He chose who would spend eternity in eternal damnation. (The Lake of Fire.) Calvinists don't believe that humanity has a free will of their own.
That's what I've been saying.Jesus told them to not go to the Gentiles before Calvary, and afterward He told them to go.
That's what I've been saying.
Just because it was an instruction from Jesus to them at that time does not mean that His instruction could not change later.
And sure enough, it did change from "Go not unto the Gentiles" to "Go to all nations".
MAD recognizes that those instructions are not the same because MAD recognizes that things that differ are not the same.
Salvation does not depend upon the will of man, but is performed through and through, from beginning to end, by the perfect and holy will of Sovereign God.
Only an unrepentant soul would or will deny this Truth.
Salvation does not depend upon the will of man, but is performed through and through, from beginning to end, by the perfect and holy will of Sovereign God.
Only an unrepentant soul would or will deny this Truth.
The problem is, you're a Calvinist and Calvinists believe that God already chose who He wanted to save before the foundation of the world. Furthermore, He chose who would spend eternity in eternal damnation. (The Lake of Fire.) Calvinists don't believe that humanity has a free will of their own.
Contending theological giants for your elementary cherry picking is why yall look stupid
You have the nerve to use the word "Yall" and you say I look stupid? :rotfl:
Everyone south of Maryland says 'yall', and yall don't have the theological aptitude of a rock :wave: