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… evidence to the contrary, notwithstanding. :cool:

Benevolent: One who is benevolent genuinely wishes other people well, a meaning reflected clearly in the word's Latin roots: benevolent comes from bene, meaning "good," and velle, meaning "to wish." Other descendants of velle in English include volition, which refers to the power to make one's...

TULIP, as an acronym, was invented in the 20th Century. It first appeared in an obscure sermon and was widely popularized in a book on Evangelism (I think it was in the 1930s). The 5 truths expressed by the acronym go back to the Synod of Dort and the official response to the 5 articles of...

Now you have THREE witness from Reformed sources attempting to explain the difference. Make of their testimony whatever you will.

What is Hyper Calvinism (Protestant Reformed Churches in America) We would emphasize, first, that there is such a thing as hyper-Calvinism, though some would deny this. Historically, the name has been applied to those who deny that the command of the gospel to repent and believe must be...

Reformed Theology vs. Hyper-Calvinism (Ligonier Ministries) Before the average believer today learns what Reformed theology (i.e., Calvinism) actually is, he first usually has to learn what it’s not. Often, detractors define Reformed theology not according to what it actually teaches, but...

What is hyper-Calvinism? (got questions) A simple definition is this: hyper-Calvinism is the belief that God saves the elect through His sovereign will with little or no use of the methods of bringing about salvation (such as evangelism, preaching, and prayer for the lost). To an unbiblical...

Just to set the record straight … The position that you list as “Calvinism” is a heretical position called “HyerCalvinism” and is held by very few. The Westminster Confession of Faith describes the official Calvinist position as follows (critical portions for this discussion are underlined)...

I’ll take your word for it. The internet has too many videos by “experts” wanting to explain what the Bible REALLY means for me to waste time watching every posted video. I tend to almost never watch posted videos unless I recognize the people in the video (like excerpts from some famous...

John 6:44 No one can come to Me [Total Inability of man to choose Christ] unless the Father who sent Me [Unconditional Election of God to 'show mercy on whom He will show mercy'] draws him; [Irresistible Grace of God effectually draws man to salvation in the Son] and I will raise him up at the...

Let us, therefore, embrace the INEFFECTUAL ATONEMENT of Christ … where God the Son dies and, thereby, effectually saves NO ONE, but merely purchases for ALL MEN WITHOUT EXCEPTION a “ticket to heaven” that must be redeemed with HUMAN ACTION. omnis gloria homini

Would you be willing to insert the opposite of TULIP into those verses and accept the anti-Calvinist Bible? Instead of “depraved”, insert “good” (Men don’t actually NEED a savior because they have the power to save themselves - Pelagianism) Instead of “unconditional”, insert “conditional”...

… and here I though you asked a question beginning with “I wonder how …” and I was just quoting your question and answering it with what historical facts I knew. Sorry to have interrupted your diatribe of irrational hate against Paul and the Bible.

I know it is extra-Biblical history by that point in time, but wasn’t John a physically broken man, blind and weak living on Patmos when he had the vision in Revelation. I remember reading something (a brief reference) to John in a letter from an ECF that implied that he could barely talk...

Not in my opinion. Nor do I think @Lucian Hodoboc out of line for asking to have his thorn removed (or even being angry, to be blunt about it … I would likely be angry in similar circumstances). I am only pointing out that … from the limited view from the outside looking on … that “anger” has...

Paul asked to have the thorn that TORMENTED him removed, the answer from God was no. Paul was to go on being TORMENTED (so said God). [shrug]. How about that? I have to wonder if it has any applicability to our lives? … naw, probably not. God just wants to bless us and make US prosper...

[shrug] I got no dog in your fight, but you might want to reread your posts objectively (not your posts to me, your posts about God) and ask yourself if you are really “questioning Him”? From the sidelines, it appears that you have moved beyond “questioning”. Psalm 1:1 [NIV] Blessed is the...

Of those He Foreknew: Predestining, Calling, Justifying and Glorifying (Romans 8:28-30) Of those not yet born: not slow, but Patiently Waiting for all His beloved to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:8-9) For the sons of perdition: Storing up wrath for the day of wrath (Romans 2:4-11; Romans 9:22)

Shaking your fist at Him for at least the last 2 or 3 years. Openly ridiculing Him and His Word for at least the last year. (That’s just the time I have been cognizant if you.)

When God destroyed all of totally evil humanity to provide Noah and his family a chance to start over, was that an act of love or hate? When God ordered the evil Canaanites driven from the land promised to Israel so the nation would have a chance to avoid being led into idolatry and suffer the...