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    Why are Some Saved and Not Others?

    So rather than tear down, what is your answer to: Why are so few saved if God is so Soverign? (A question I would not touch with a 10 foot pole.)
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    Why are Some Saved and Not Others?

    You can watch the video for yourself, but that isn't the sense that I got from it. Lutherans simply refuse to guess at why some are not saved, but embrace the ELECTION half of 'Calvinism' while rejecting "double predestination". While it contradicts the Westminnster Confession of Faith, it is...
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    Why are Some Saved and Not Others?

    Fact #1: God wants all men saved. Fact #2: All unsaved men are spiritually dead. CALVINISM: Strength: God does 100% of the saving. Weakness: Denies Fact #1. ARMINIANISM: Strength: Places fault for damnation with man, not God. Weakness: Even if God does 99.999% of the work of salvation, it...
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    Why should I let you into my heaven, asks God. How do you reply?

    Because You gave me your word.
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    Okay, let's talk about predestination

    ... and is, therefore, predestined to wander down many Calvinist/OSAS and Anti-Calvinist/OSAS bunny trails. :)
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    Okay, let's talk about predestination

    Some guy named Arminius came along and wrote that people could save themselves. Some guy named Calvin came along and disagreed. Some Anglican Church guy named Wesley eventually came along and fixed the most unbiblical parts of what Arminius wrote and formed Methodism (like the modern Methodist...
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    Define "works"

    I have no idea. Fortunately, that is not the question I was asked or I would not have attempted to answer. I was asked "what do I mean when I say ..." which is the question that I answered. Did the apostle lie in John 3:16-18? Is it possible to "believe in Him" and perish? Is it possible to...
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    Define "works"

    Ephesians 2:1-9 NASB 1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived in...
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    Okay, let's talk about predestination

    You are either grossly ignorant of the facts, or deeply prejudiced in selectively viewing them if you can see no fruit of the spirit in the events which unfolded surrounding the death for which Calvin is so unjustly accused. Paul had to publicly confront Peter for his hypocracy as a result of...
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    The washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit

    I am pretty sure that Ephesians 4:5 is building on the same theme as Ephesians 2:11-22 NASB 11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands— 12 remember that you...
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    Okay, let's talk about predestination

    Who did John Calvin kill? As far as I know, he shed the blood of no one. The state executed heretics, which was far too common among all political groups at that time. Martin Luther made far more embarrassing statements by modern standards ... however, neither Luther nor Calvin should be judged...
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    Okay, let's talk about predestination

    Let me posit a WHAT IF: What if salvation worked exactly as free will Synergists claim it does. GIVEN ASSUMPTIONS: 1. God has granted everyone the free will to accept or reject the gospel and God takes no active role in influencing your free will. 2. Some facts about God are self-evident...
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    Okay, let's talk about predestination

    Romans 3:10-12 NASB 10 as it is written, “THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; 11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; 12 ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE. GOD says ALL make the same choice...
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    Okay, let's talk about predestination

    Since he didn't want to explore the bunny trail (if it was a bunny trial) and I love these types of questions ... Romans 8:28-30 only explicitly claim the affirmative case. Romans 3:10-12 makes clear that ALL men earn damnation on their own with no need for an active role from God. So the only...
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    The Arminian Creed (a bit of joyful sarcasm)

    I don't think that is a 'Calvinist' sham parody as much as a sham 'Calvinist parody'. Calvinists, as a group, tend to be sticklers for the details and would have parodied the actual 5 points of Jacobus. Of course, after the impact of the Wesley brothers, I am not sure Jacobious would recognize...
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    The Arminian Creed (a bit of joyful sarcasm)

    Except that 'Reformed' believers tend to be cessationists and Pentecostals tend to be Arminian, it was a fair paradoy of the modern church.
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    What message do you take away from Job?

    "Dear God, What do you think You are doing?" is a bad question to ask the Great I Am.
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    Proof texting

    If we (all Christians living today) have received our own promise of the same blessing written in 1 John 2:12, how does that prove that Jesus was not speaking to his disciples in John 16:4-15? So much of what he says to them is nonsense to us. Most of it applies to a brief period of time after...
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    Proof texting

    Jesus gave a specific command at one point that his discipiles should tarry in Jerusalem until the promised anointing of Acts 2 arrived. Should all modern followers also apply that command of Jesus to us today and hurry to Jerusalem to wait until each of us receives the baptism with tongues of...
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    Who IS and IS NOT a Christian?

    DID THEY LIE? Romans 10:8-11 NASB 8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be...
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