I was fortunate enough to catch all of the programming on the Aramaic Broadcast Network last fall. I purchased a Qu'ran and marked the passages with the apologists as they were debated. I have also read widely the current literature on Islam from the likes of Norm Geisler, Michael Youssef and others and have come to the conclusion that if we have breath there is hope for grace and mercy. Even for you.
Your posts do NOT reflect "grace, as though seasoned with salt." Do you not realize that you will be judged for every idle word you speak?
Really, you may as well have posted reunion pictures from a leper colony.
May the Sovereign of the universe have mercy upon you and may His name be praised for it.
That's my prayer for you.
Your ideological and theological blinders are painfully obvious.
God is NOT Sovereign over human will, because
He CHOOSES to grant most people free will to choose to respond to the Gospel without coercion.
This is plain as day from the fact that a large part of humanity is in open rebellion against God.
God's sovereignty as falsely imagined by Calvinists is a joke.
God's sovereignty only comes into play on Judgement Day.
Until then, God is NOT sovereign over the will of humankind,
because just as Jesus demonstrated and explained,
God is by nature a loving father and comes as a servant, not a dictator-overlord.
Sidebar:
You can't judge the so-called 'sovereignty' of God by examples like that of Saul/Paul.
He was a special case:
(1) He was a zealous persecutor and murderer of Christians, and forfeited his free will by becoming a criminal.
(2) God decided not to execute him for murder, and instead knocked him off his horse, blinded him,
and gave him a very limited choice: suffer for the gospel or remain a blind man for the rest of his short life.
Thats how God sometimes has to deal with murderers and other violent criminals.
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Thats NOT how God deals with children, ordinary citizens, teens, weak and vulnerable innocents.
Most people are indeed given
'grace' of a certain kind
, namely free will to learn,
listen and obey God's good commandments and guidelines.
The Gospel itself would be worthless if God was 'sovereign' over human will
and human choice was just an illusion. And thats what Calvinism does:
It makes a mockery of the gospel.
Your pacifist 'gospel of grace' and other nonsense comes from
Luther's exaggeration of some parts of the New Testament and wilful ignorance
and denial of other parts of the N.T.
The fact remains that the gospel is a simple one-time offer of Amnesty,
on the conditional basis of REPENTANCE.
There is no amnesty guaranteed or even offered for those who refuse to repent of sin.
The New Covenant offer by Jesus is an Amnesty, and those who refuse it or violate it
will be cast into the Lake of Fire on Judgement Day.
The 'grace' is limited to those who receive Jesus and remain in the vine
by obedience to Jesus' teaching and commandments.
Notwithstanding the REAL Gospel (amnesty) offered to all people everywhere,
It will always remain logical and lawful for men to defend themselves,
whether individually in a home-invasion or nationally by repelling invaders
at the borders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dTSK3SnfcA