TULIP imploding upon itself...............
TULIP imploding upon itself...............
Why then are you a Calvinist ?
1 Peter 2:13, 1 Tim2:4, Rom 5:18 prove that made made dogma - calvinism - is wrong. Why do you not read what the Bible actually says?
Ears to hear, eyes to see. Perhaps you are predestined not to have these. The seed thrown on rocky ground - grows and flourishes for a season, but then dies back - Ie a believer believing he is saved but then falls away (supposedly predestined by God though this notion is not found in the Bible). This is Calvinism, the destroyer of Assurance.
We may note to the bold above, that while Calvinism assures itself by a concept of the U, L, I and P of its formula...it implodes upon itself rendering 'insecurity' really, since one can never really KNOW if one is saved or lost, except for some consistency in the life or actions of the believer himself, which may swing from one end of the pendulum to the other, since a soul may backslide, choose another life-path or even religious tradition, so that one can go outside of the ruling context of TULIP at any moment
- so all you have is a religious formula, a propositional assumption, which has 'conditional' elements in it, even while it assumes assurance of the saved. IT STILL DEPENDS ON MANS ACTIONS, his conditional state as to whether God's grace is working in that persons life,....its still about 'synergestic' cooperation, argue that til blue in the face if you like. All 'covenants' are the cooperative effort and trust of 2 persons or parties, NOT the total doing of just one of the parties, to which there would not even be a 'covenant' existing, neither operative.