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    Here's why the "free will" argument cannot be justified if God is all good

    According to Paul in Romans 1:18-20, the creation experiences his creative power and divine majesty as their Creator every day but has chosen to ignore or actively or passively rebel against him so that all humans have no excuse before him. It all started with Adam's rebellion and spiraled...
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    Here's why the "free will" argument cannot be justified if God is all good

    I suggest, Lucian, that you confine your reasoning within the Bible's limits instead of going beyond it. John Calvin said wisely, "Go as far as the Bible does and then stop." He was right. Your definition of "omnibenevolence" (I've never heard the word) is not the biblical definition that God...
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    You say that your faith doesn't produce the results that the Bible says it should. What do you mean? Do you expect to become perfect when you have faith? We don't. What are you referring to in the Bible?
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    Predestination

    I'm glad that I could clear up that important distinction.
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    Well, the Bible doesn't say anything about purgatory, Mary's birth, that we should pray to her, what the role is for the saints, or other doctrines that Popes have added to the Bible. That's the extra tradition I refer to.
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    I have similar experiences every day when I write. I ask God where he wants the next chapter to go, and he pops the directions into my head as I write on my computer! I can't explain the process further than that.
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    I will be interested if you would post summaries, because I don't spend a lot of time here. The reason is that God has called me and made me a published author of many books in my retirement from being a pastor, for which he keeps giving me ideas to fulfill in writing books for his honor.
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    Christ died for them not appointed to Wrath.

    No, fuddy, the point is that you don't know for sure who is elect and who isn't, because they may be false Christians or people who will become Christians who will become Christians much latter and actually an elect person like my father, who accepted Jesus at the age of 77. We can share the...
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    Redheads in the bible?

    It's Esau or Edom, meaning "red," according to my dim, unreliable memory.
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    Crazy Christian Theology

    Please tell me where your write-up about that prophecy is, and I'll examine it. What do you mean that you depend on your visions more than you do theology. The best theology is when it lets Scripture interpret Scripture instead of importing external ideas. That's the kind of theology I have used...
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    Please answer my question instead of putting on me the burden of proof. What about the added tradition added to the Bible by the Popes? Did they do that or not? If they did, why?
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    Mark 13:10

    I agree with you about the need to have eyewitness testimony to prove Jesus' resurrection. In fact, that's exactly the way God saved me by demonstrating that his rising again was a historical event. The four gospel writers, including Matthew and John as two of the twelve, along with what we know...
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    Christ died for them not appointed to Wrath.

    No, they aren't. God teaches us truths through his creation. Do you deny that truth, brightfame52? If you deny that truth, read the first part of Psalm 19. The Word of God is our glasses or contacts to see creation clearly, but God does reveal himself there. The Holy Spirit is very pastoral as...
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    Moses wrote Genesis?

    Remember that the ancient culture was a listening one, not a modern, visual culture. As a result, the tribes would have one person with a very good memory who would carry on the stories of the past accurately. Besides, the Holy Spirit worked in Moses to enable him to distinguish his narrative...
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    Mark 13:10

    "Chain of custody"? Now, you sound like a policeman seeking evidence. Just remember that in those days, it was a listening culture, not a visual one. As a result, many people carried on the heard tradition about the gospels like Matthew writing the gospel. The "proof," then, is that the early...
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    No, I don't accept the Popes' pronouncements if they vary from the Bible, which is the standard for interpretation of the truth.
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    Isn't it time for you all to repent of schism?

    I go by what the Bible itself says is inspired in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and 2 Peter 1:16-21 as well as Jesus' preaching to the two disciples on their way to Emmaus: 2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in...
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    The Holy Trinity and the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ

    How much do you admit that the Popes have added a tradition that is beyond the teachings of the Bible like the doctrines about Mary's immaculate conception, the need to pray to her, and purgatory, that aren't taught in Scripture? Such doctrines will keep Protestants away and perhaps their...
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    Predestination

    I have understood the word "imputation" as a declaration of a person's status; whereas the new birth is God's action, not his imputation, in a person's life that brings about his gift of faith and repentance by his grace alone (Ephesians 2:8-10), which enable us to do good works that honor him.
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    What do we tell unsaved about biblical election?

    It's not boasting if they say and mean it that God gave them the new birth and faith by his grace. They would be giving God the credit that is due him. The true teaching of biblical election can come later when they are maturing believers instead of even before they become believers, which is...
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