Right. What makes you wrong is your doctrines. What your belligerence does do is make you unpleasant to correspond with.
Jesus is neither milquetoast, effeminate, nor traditional, but he is most certainly a proponent of free will.
I have about 45 years under my belt, and I am convinced from my study of the scriptures that Calvinism is utterly false.
Gen 3:22) And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Man knows both good and evil, and can distinguish between them, and can choose to do good. It is good to believe the Gospel and become saved.
Deut 30:19) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
People can choose between life and death.
Josh 24:15) And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
We CHOOSE whom we will serve. The offer of salvation is extended to everyone. It's why we are to preach the Gospel, so people can hear it and have the chance to believe it.
There are many other scripture that prove people have free will. Acts 2:37-38; 16:30-31; Rom 10:9; Eph 1:13-14; 1 Tim 2:4; 1 Pet 3:9; and more.
That's too bad.
Isn't that exactly what you do, insist that it's your way or the highway? It would help considerably if you didn't erect so many strawman arguments just so you can knock them down and think you're right.
Good luck with your faith. I hope it gets you where you want to be.
By the way, anyone who has studied the Bible knows that mankind is not presented as knowing good from evil perfectly.
It is true that man was created in the image of God, but this image has been marred or distorted. Additionally, his intellect has been damaged through the Fall.
He deceives himself, as well as being deceived by Satan. Scripture calls him an offspring of Satan until he is regenerated (1 John 3).
Here's a description of man and the effects of the Fall, which are being denied:
The results of original sin include the following:
- The unsaved live in spiritual darkness (Acts 26:18, Ephesians 4:17-18, Colossians 1:13)
- The unsaved are spiritually dead and alienated from the life of God(Ephesians 2:1-2, 4:17-18, 5:8, Colossians 2:13)
- The unsaved hate God, are hostile toward him and his law and are under his wrath (Romans 1:30, 5:9, 8:7, Ephesians 2:1-3, 5:6, Colossians 1:21)
- The unsaved are slaves to sin (John 8:34, Romans 6:20)
- The unsaved reflect the character of Satan, and as such reject God’s authority over their lives (John 8:43-44, I John 3:8-10)
- The unsaved are spiritually deaf and blind and cannot understand the gospel message without God’s direct intervention (Isaiah 6:10, Jeremiah 6:10, Ezekiel 12:2, Mark 4:9-12, Luke 8:10, John 8:47, Deuteronomy 29:4, Matthew 13:13-15, John 12:37-40, Acts 28:26-27, 1 Corinthians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4)
One of the revelations which God used to show me this at the moment of salvation is Jeremiah 17:9-10.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind. (ESV)
Other Scriptures indicate that man's nature is deceitful, which means that the man himself is fooled as to the depths of his sinfulness and the way his mind justifies his sin and hardens his conscience.
To be honest, I believe a lot of professing Christians, including more than its share of free-willers, are still unregenerated, because they don't seem to understand what radical corruption the Fall caused. If God hasn't shown them that, which he showed me at the moment of faith and repentance, I don't really have much confidence these professors really possess salvation.
I'm not saying they need perfect theological vocabulary but they should have been aware that God radically changed their mind, which led to their faith and repentance, if they really experienced it.
However, if their salvation consists in writing their name under some bogus sinners' prayer in a cheap bible, or walking to the front of the church a dozen times in tears, without being aware of their deceitful, sinful nature, I would doubt that the Holy Spirit has done a work of regeneration in them.