I could deal with the OP over and over, and you would still sit there saying what you're saying.
Do you know why?
Because I have already dealt with the OP- over and over :doh:
Taking you seriously has been something of a joke, now that I look at it in retrospect. You have no theology for someone so smugly anti Calvinist- you just have a handful of verses that you assume matches your desired result of Scripture.
You all make the fatal mistake of not putting yourselves in the apostles shoes and really deducing what they are saying- instead, you just mix and match mere statements to your liking. And quite frankly, it's gotten old you all sitting there acting as if that suffices for a rebuttal to, well,
anything.
You are contending with trained 16th Century Reformists who waged a militant schism with the governing church of the Western world- not teenagers in Bible camp.
You're going to have to do better than what you are doing