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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    Strange, but YOU are the only one who seems to be talking about “irrelevant faith”. ... it must be a Radical Lutheran thing since Calvinists don’t believe faith is irrelevant. (Just a gift from God).
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    God says: [Act 3:16 NASB] 16 "And on the basis of faith in His name, [it is] the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which [comes] through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all. ... “faith” comes through Jesus [Act 15:9...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    Since the question in #41 proved too hard for you (who knew that you could not explain your beliefs), perhaps you would want to give the questions in post #42 a try.
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    Lamb of God

    Jesus was also the Passover lamb of the Tenth Plague of Egypt. When the blood of the lamb was applied to the doorpost it marked those within as the people of God and the angel of death passed over them with the judgement of God against the Firstborn of Egypt. So too with Jesus Christ, the Lamb...
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    Hatred Hidden Consumes a Person, Hatred Spread Consumes a Nation

    Fruit. [Matthew 12:33-37 NASB] 33 "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 "You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. 35 "The good...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    You claim to want to talk about Limited Atonement, but all of your comments in response attack Calvinism on the issue of FAITH and not on the subject of Limited Atonement. OK, let’s talk about FAITH. What is the source of FAITH, God or man? In other words, where does FAITH come from?
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    This statement is utter nonsense. Please explain to me how God can elect/predestine some to salvation, but not elect/predestine the others to not be saved. How can someone NOT ELECTED/PREDESTINED by God still be saved? I look forward to your explanation of this “non God initiated” salvation.
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    Why did Esau loose his birthright to the blessing as the firstborn? Was it Esau’s choice or God’s choice to bless Jacob and pass over Esau? You are speaking of FAITH as if fallen man were capable of faith without that Faith being the unmerited gift to them from God. You speak of God as an...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    How can Jesus forgive all sins except they are not really forgiven because they don’t believe? Joshua is NOT defining Limited Atonement as Reformed Theology has defined it for centuries. Sproul went through great care to address that very point. You are free to reject Limited Atonement, I have...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    Sadly, you refuse to accept that Calvinism teaches what it actually teaches and you insist on claiming that what Reformed theology has always taught is “my spin”. The alternative to Limited Atonement (that the blood of Jesus does not effect the forgiveness of all sin of all people) is...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    MennoSota is correct about those verses. Since I am more familiar with 2 Peter 3, you must recognize that the entire context is about why God has not yet returned and the “not willing that any should perish” is a response pointing out that God delays his return so that all of the elect can be...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    NOW it is a misnomer (hence the preference among modern Reformed Theologians for ‘Total Inability’.) However, what was the meaning of ‘depravity’ in the 16th Century when the the foundations were being laid and many terms being first defined. It is not unlike the call in the KJV for the head of...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    Where does scripture say that God wills all to be saved? Where did I ever claim that faith was unnecessary? You should reread the posts from RC Sproul, he does a thorough job of explaining the difference between your flawed Double Predestination and the Biblical Reformed Double Predestination...
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    Salt.

    Just as a Saint that has fallen from the hand of the God is worthless ... and also something that cannot happen.(John 10:29) :)
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    What I think is that few non-Calvinists (non-Reformed) accurately represent what TULIP and Reformed Theology actually believe and teach. I did watch the Lutheran video and found it to be no exception. I agree with his rejection of what a Calvinist would call Positive-Positive Schema Double...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    So now, let’s tiptoe through the TULIPs with some who actually holds a Reformed (aka. Calvinist) perspective. T is for TOTAL DEPRAVITY which can also be described as TOTAL INABILITY. The basic idea behind Total Depravity/Inability is not that people are sociopaths and as evil as they...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    Foreordination to Reprobation In spite of the distinction of positive-negative with respect to the mode of God’s activity toward the elect and the reprobate, we are left with the thorny question of God predestinating the reprobate. If God in any sense predestines or foreordains reprobation...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    The Reformed Confessions By a brief reconnaissance of Reformed confessions and by a brief roll-call of the theologians of the Reformed faith, we can readily see that double predestination has been consistently maintained along the lines of a positive-negative schema. The Reformed Confession...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    The Double-Predestination Distortion The distortion of double predestination looks like this: There is a symmetry that exists between election and reprobation. God works in the same way and same manner with respect to the elect and to the reprobate. That is to say, from all eternity God decreed...
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    TULIP is Not Just a Pretty Flower: Radical Calvinism

    Since we have discussed this before, let’s just cut to the bottom line ... “Double” Predestination by R.C. Sproul “A horrible decree… .” “Most ruthless statement… .” “A terrible theological theory… .” “An illegitimate inference of logic… .” These and other similar epithets have been used...
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