Apostasy 101
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I have not read anything on these forums to be concerned about. The wacky stuff is so wacky no one is paying any attention to it. Those who are well versed in scripture and believe in a Calvanist theology are rarely suggesting that one can sin with impunity and still go to heaven, they are accused of it but rarely are they saying that, and those that do usually get banned for heresy.
The real problem is not in these forums it is in the people that you you meet who are yielding to their lusts and telling you that they are saved because they believe in Jesus and they were told that they can't be lost, they believe they will clean up their act later but they are just having a hard time with the flesh at the moment. But the truth is they are not having a hard time struggling they are not even trying to resist. They have heard a message that Calvin nor anyone else ever preached that they can have all sorts of sins in their life and still go to heaven and they will just lose some rewards but they will still get there. Now this type of teaching is not taught in any bible schools not Baptist, not Methodist, not any evangelical seminaries, so where are they getting it? It is being passed on from one compromiser to the next as a conscience soothing concept that is not based on scripture but gives them a temporary numbing of a smitten conscience.
The real problem is not in these forums it is in the people that you you meet who are yielding to their lusts and telling you that they are saved because they believe in Jesus and they were told that they can't be lost, they believe they will clean up their act later but they are just having a hard time with the flesh at the moment. But the truth is they are not having a hard time struggling they are not even trying to resist. They have heard a message that Calvin nor anyone else ever preached that they can have all sorts of sins in their life and still go to heaven and they will just lose some rewards but they will still get there. Now this type of teaching is not taught in any bible schools not Baptist, not Methodist, not any evangelical seminaries, so where are they getting it? It is being passed on from one compromiser to the next as a conscience soothing concept that is not based on scripture but gives them a temporary numbing of a smitten conscience.
It would be "Calvinist."
No Calvinist teaches a believer can sin with impunity and still go to heaven, rarely or otherwise, as such would be a denial of the perseverance of the saints, which would make the person a non-Calvinist.
Banned for heresy for teaching this though? I don't know about that. Free Grace Theology teaches this, not Calvinism, and there are adherents to this theology and ideology on this site. I don't know, but I would guess it isn't an offense that would earn a ban, at least formally.
No Calvinist teaches a believer can sin with impunity and still go to heaven, rarely or otherwise, as such would be a denial of the perseverance of the saints, which would make the person a non-Calvinist.
Banned for heresy for teaching this though? I don't know about that. Free Grace Theology teaches this, not Calvinism, and there are adherents to this theology and ideology on this site. I don't know, but I would guess it isn't an offense that would earn a ban, at least formally.
"Lordship Salvation" doesn't teach salvation is maintained by good works, nor does Scripture.
However Scripture does teach evidence of conversion via good works.
However Scripture does teach evidence of conversion via good works.
saved by faith-belief in Christ.
not of ourselves, a gift of God.
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When they start preaching that hyper grace heresy they eventually get banned. I have not read Calvin's works yet. I have a goal to read Institutes' one day but haven't got around to it. I know that many great writers and scholars were in agreement with Calvin so I know he can't be as bad as what I have heard. I think it is like every other man, there is always something I don't agree with but no reason to discount all the other things I do agree with.
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I think they're pretty careful not to preach it too hard, but I can see FGT in alignment with that heresy.
I haven't read much of Calvin at all. That's good balance being able to read a person and not discount everything due to bias. I've read extensively on both sides of the aisle and see Reformed Theology as the most exegetical and consistent. The anti side tends to take scripture out of context to establish its ideology.
I haven't read much of Calvin at all. That's good balance being able to read a person and not discount everything due to bias. I've read extensively on both sides of the aisle and see Reformed Theology as the most exegetical and consistent. The anti side tends to take scripture out of context to establish its ideology.
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