Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR
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I suppose if it was actually taught in the Bible there might be some relevance to it.
However, what is taught is that the natural man is a slave to sin and dead in his sins and trespasses.
People argue against it all the time, but I do not see being able to make choices as having free will.
God must do a work in me before I am able to choose Him. Some speak as if they did it all themselves.
How deceived they are.
However, what is taught is that the natural man is a slave to sin and dead in his sins and trespasses.
People argue against it all the time, but I do not see being able to make choices as having free will.
God must do a work in me before I am able to choose Him. Some speak as if they did it all themselves.
How deceived they are.
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If Pink were here today, I'm not sure how he would classify himself! I just know that he was a very good writer. He had a talent for expressing his belief on a piece of paper that few can match. My copy of "The Life of David" needs a new cover because I keep going back to it over and over.
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That was the entire point to my Free Will Analogy earlier, which apparently eluded you: There should be no difference whatsoever between religion (biblical theology) and practice -- orthodoxy and orthopraxy -- Natural Revelation and Special Revelation. The entire point to my analogy was that I seriously doubt very many NRs would do what the person did to the man on the side of the road. Most would be a Good Samaritan type, in spite of their wonky Free Will theology. Yet, at the same time they would be totally oblivious to the inconsistency between their gracious actions and their heretical [religious] beliefs about the place of man's will in salvation. And here's why they would be blinded to the inconsistency:
They recognized that the poor man on the road was in a helpless, hopeless, dire situation requiring help from outside of himself; while simultaneously failing to see that this is precisely how God sees all fallen humnity -- helpless, hapless, powerless. They cannot see themselves in the fallen man on the side of the road.
They recognized that the poor man on the road was in a helpless, hopeless, dire situation requiring help from outside of himself; while simultaneously failing to see that this is precisely how God sees all fallen humnity -- helpless, hapless, powerless. They cannot see themselves in the fallen man on the side of the road.
Everyone has needs. It is incumbent upon Christians to meet those needs. This is what opens doors for ministry, providing an avenue into people's lives.
Real ministry is messy and time consuming and costly. It directs without demanding, it reconciles without repulsing, and it gives without gaining. No one needs to be told they have been the recipient of love. It is self evident.
It's been my experience that people are suspicious of genuine love, but not because it warrants suspicion but is so infrequently experienced. So you have a fine definition of religion, but I do wonder if a poll was taken of their experience of you on this site, how many would feel you had eased their burdens or loosed their bonds.
Lest you think I'm singling you out, it's a question I've been asking myself.
Real ministry is messy and time consuming and costly. It directs without demanding, it reconciles without repulsing, and it gives without gaining. No one needs to be told they have been the recipient of love. It is self evident.
It's been my experience that people are suspicious of genuine love, but not because it warrants suspicion but is so infrequently experienced. So you have a fine definition of religion, but I do wonder if a poll was taken of their experience of you on this site, how many would feel you had eased their burdens or loosed their bonds.
Lest you think I'm singling you out, it's a question I've been asking myself.
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In other words, you would not drive off and abandon this poor soul in the mighty name of "free will" and proceed by implementing the all-important task of preserving its integrity and autonomy at all costs, as the person did in the story? You would actually recognize and acknowledge that this fallen man on the road was in no condition to help himself? Yet, you could never see yourself spiritually in this this man, could you?
Too many isms and ists for me LOL. I am with @selahsays on that. wiki page ends by saying this:
Theologically Pink was rejected during his lifetime because of his opposition to Arminianism;
but after his death, there was a major shift of evangelical opinion towards Calvinistic theology.
By 1982, Baker Book House had published 22 of Pink's books and sold 350,000 total copies.
Nevertheless, it was Pink's Sovereignty of God that did "more than any other in redirecting the
thinking of a younger generation." After Banner of Truth Trust republished it in 1961—modifying
it to remove Pink's alleged hyper-Calvinism—the book sold 177,000 copies by 2004.
Theologically Pink was rejected during his lifetime because of his opposition to Arminianism;
but after his death, there was a major shift of evangelical opinion towards Calvinistic theology.
By 1982, Baker Book House had published 22 of Pink's books and sold 350,000 total copies.
Nevertheless, it was Pink's Sovereignty of God that did "more than any other in redirecting the
thinking of a younger generation." After Banner of Truth Trust republished it in 1961—modifying
it to remove Pink's alleged hyper-Calvinism—the book sold 177,000 copies by 2004.
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I no longer have Free Will now that I am bought and paid for by God. The only way I would drive by if God told me to. But I can't imagine God would do that so I would stop when I felt/sensed the guiding of God to do as such. But I am praying as I pull over and getting out of my vehicle to hurry over to this person that they are alive. And then praying for healing.
What I have learned by having done this before, people tend to ask "what made you stop and help?" Good will of humanity, etc? That always leads for me to introduce God into the equation.
What I have learned by having done this before, people tend to ask "what made you stop and help?" Good will of humanity, etc? That always leads for me to introduce God into the equation.