Of course God influences us through His Holy Spirit ... But we still in the end make the choice..We still have the choice to resist the leading of the Holy Spirit..
Read it::
Acts 7: KJV
51"¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye."
If calvinist dogma is correct this verse in the Book of Acts is uninspired because it clearly shows that people resist the Holy Spirit...
Read it::
Acts 7: KJV
51"¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye."
If calvinist dogma is correct this verse in the Book of Acts is uninspired because it clearly shows that people resist the Holy Spirit...
Of course some resist the Holy Spirit. They are the lost.
Who is Choosing Good now ????
The calvinist dogma states we have no free will.. So your statement makes no seance. If God is making the choice for us because He is the only one with free will then we are not the ones making any choice. No one can choose Good according to calvinism.
The calvinist dogma states we have no free will.. So your statement makes no seance. If God is making the choice for us because He is the only one with free will then we are not the ones making any choice. No one can choose Good according to calvinism.
John 6:44 [FONT="]No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.[/FONT]
It is Gods will that all come to repentance and none are lost.. Gods will is that no one is damned.. Here another verse that calvinism declares uninspired..
2 Peter 3: KJV
9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
Ohhh Noooo Peter!!!!! according to the gospel according to calvin you are a blasphemer... get ye behind me Peter you are an offense to calvinism..
2 Peter 3: KJV
9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
Ohhh Noooo Peter!!!!! according to the gospel according to calvin you are a blasphemer... get ye behind me Peter you are an offense to calvinism..
John 6:39 [FONT="]And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.[/FONT]
Good fruit is not really about free will.. If i cannot afford to give a big donation to a charity and God causes me to get an unexpected bonus or inheritance windfall so that i can now give a big donation.. yeah it is primarily Gods will that i was able to do that good work.. Also Gods teachings and the moving of His Holy Spirit in my conscience has me desiring to give charity to help others.. But i was not forced against my free will.. I still had to desire or agree to doing the good deed..
Again according to calvinism we have no free will ability to choose anything .. So why ask us if we are choosing to do one thing to do one thing or another??? Of calvinism is correct we don't have the free will to choose...
You have the 'free will' to choose just about any sin you want.
Romans 7:14-25
[FONT="]14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.[/FONT]
[FONT="]15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.[/FONT]
[FONT="]16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.[/FONT]
[FONT="]17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.[/FONT]
[FONT="]18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.[/FONT]
[FONT="]19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.[/FONT]
[FONT="]20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.[/FONT]
[FONT="]21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.[/FONT]
[FONT="]22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:[/FONT]
[FONT="]23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.[/FONT]
[FONT="]24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?[/FONT]
[FONT="]25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.[/FONT]