as much as semipelagianism is pure heresy
It is very easy to throw names around isn't it?
Poster assumes the people are good, and do not deserve hell
See how this response twisted my words. Calvinists always do this. They cannot directly address legitimate criticism, they have to create strawmen to undermine such criticism. They are intellectually and spiritually bankrupt.
I never said that "people are good and do not deserve hell." I implied that BABIES are not born evil and thus already condemned. Those whom are condemned sinned by choice and are thus fully responsible for the misuse of their free agency in yielding to the lusts of the flesh and sinning.
God does not condemn people because they were born. God condemns people because they willfully rejected the light.
Joh 3:19 And
this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Joh 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Joh 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Cain was condemned because he rejected the light and chose to do evil.
Gen 4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Gen 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Notice in the above passage how God tells Cain that "sin was lying at the door" but that he "should rule over sin." Cain rejected that counsel and let his jealousy consume him unto an act of murder.
Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Sin is a result of yielding to temptation, it is not necessitated by a birth state.
Instead of addressing these issue the Calvinist will often resort to Ad Hominem because their position collapses when its foundation is exposed.
Eve sinned due to being drawn away by her own lust and enticed, then her lust was conceived and it brought forth sin, and sin when it was finished brought forth death.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
That is why Christians crucify the lusts of the flesh (Gal 5:24) and live the crucified life (Gal 2:20). We are not to love the world nor the things in the world. Instead of walking after the lusts of the flesh we walk according to the leading of the Spirit.
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Temptation is common to man but God does not suffer us to be tempted above that which we are able and thus we are always able to take the way of escape.
1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Calvinists teach the opposite. They teach that the "corruption remains" in those whom are regenerated and thus the regenerated "sin they will and sin they must" and therefore salvation is nothing but a provisional abstract cloak. Which brings us right back to the Calvinists denial of heart purity in salvation. Heart purity is the one topic they avoid like the plague.
Mat 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
1Pe 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1Pe 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1Pe 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1Pe 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1Pe 1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1Pe 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
1Pe 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.