Again, you reject scripture
As everyone knows, you have yet to give any Scripture that says what you do. Not one Calvinist since the invention of this horrible dogma has been able to find any in nearly 500 years. I have a hunch that if any such verse existed, some radical Calvinist would have found it in nearly five centuries, but maybe you'll be the first.
We have listed SCRIPTURE AFTER SCRIPTURE, many Scriptures, over and over and over again, that verbatim, literally, state the exact opposite of this horrible invention of a few later-day radical Calvinists almost 500 years ago. MANY of them. Verbatim. The exact OPPOSITE of your new unique dogma. All you can do is try to spin them 180 degrees from what they undeniably STATE to claim they all mean the exact opposite of what they verbatim state, so that dogma is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the Bible states. It's a pretty dangerous rubic that means every error, every heresy, absurdity is dogma if it contradicts the verbatim words of so many Scriptures.
That's the reality.... as all can easily see. There's a reason even Calvinists typically reject this horrible domga so clearly contradicted in Scripture (I personally don't know a single Calvinist who agrees with it; not one). There's a reason not even the Calvinists here are supporting it. You insist on going by Scripture.... but you have not one Scripture that says what you do, and you have to radically twist SO MANY verses upside down and inside out and spin them to argue the
mean THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what so very many literally, verbatim, flat-out state.... because, as everyone knows, your view is the opposite of what the Bible says.
MennoSota said:
Apparently you reject what Jesus declares. John 10:11,14-15
As I've posted many times, I fully and completely and passionately AGREE with this text and every other in the Bible. It's YOU that have taken SO MANY Scriptures, a great many of them, and insisted the "mean" the exact OPPOSITE of what they state; you are the one who reject the words of Scripture.
What you need to do with this verse too is CHANGE it; you add the word "ONLY" to the verse, so that you correct Jesus to say that He died for ONLY his sheep. You must change what He said because what He said isn't what you say. If I posted "Donald Trump is an American citizen" does that dogmatically prove that no one else is, that ONLY He is? See how silly, how absurd this point is? It's just your need to CHANGE the verse so as to put your dogma where it doesn't exist. All while you must spin so many Scriptures, so very many, that state the EXACT OPPOSITE of your dogma, that flat-out, verbatim, literally contradict it, you have to spin them 180 degrees so that you claim the mean the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they literally, verbatim, clearly state. What a profound disrespect for Scripture. What a strange way to do theology (truth being the exact opposite of what the Bible over and over and over and over again verbatim states)
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