She is one of them, slandering others and also blaspheming God when you call her out on her heretical views.
Calvinism is Gospel !
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I enjoy it more each time I hear it. You really did a great job with it.
Well, Augustine did not know Greek very well so I think the scholarship which challenges his view on original sin and total depravity is well worth investigating and reviewing because you will find he was wrong.
Now no doubt he was a intelligent man but he was very much a product of his experiences and his bias and suppositions and he brought that into Christianity and much of it is not good.
As well, Augustine if you have ever read his work is well known for his self-loathing that works well with total depravity, "I did all these horrible things therefore everyone is like me."
Now Pelaguis's actual concerning heretical teaching was the idea man could become perfect by his own good works, and that would be more in line with Wesleyan thinking and the holiness movement than anything I believe is supported by scripture.
One thing is for certain, the Gospel message is a personal message of redemption AND the Inability /Limited Atonement Crew can never tell someone Jesus died for them if they are truly believing what they post.
Of course we can see that Pelaguis serves as a deflection from the real false teaching.
What must I do to be saved?
Calvinism 16:31.......Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.....Oh, to bad you are not the spontaneous saved.
Eat , drink and be merry. Just as well live it up since you are hell bound.
Thank you! I enjoy listening to it as well, as it seems so do others
since it has gotten 132 views since it was published May 19.
I also really enjoy hearing A Soldier for Him...
So thanks again for allowing me to put your poetry to music!
This is quite interesting, especially regarding how the unicorn was perceived by the occultists, I will admit to reading Tolkien and C.S Lewis who have been accused of being connected to the occult/esoterica but sources are really unclear on it, but generally speaking I am not much into the fantasy genre.
I am going to look into this further.
Calvinism is the negation of the gospel.
Calvinists who invented Limited Atonement say that Jesus died only for the elect. They also think God is disrespectful of man’s free will. They believe that God forces Himself upon a person because He has elected them.
But without voluntary choice, final judgment makes no sense. The unsaved man can simply claim that he never trusted in Christ to get saved because God did not violate his autonomy to force him to repent and believe.
Judgment necessarily is based on each person’s willful choice. Otherwise, humans are just robots programmed by God to either accept the gospel or reject it.
Jesus died for the sins of everyone, but atonement is potential and not applied to a specific individual unless they accept it.
Not one single verse in scripture says God only wants the elect to repent or that Jesus died only for the elect.
II Peter 3:9
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.
I John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Calvinists who invented Limited Atonement say that Jesus died only for the elect. They also think God is disrespectful of man’s free will. They believe that God forces Himself upon a person because He has elected them.
But without voluntary choice, final judgment makes no sense. The unsaved man can simply claim that he never trusted in Christ to get saved because God did not violate his autonomy to force him to repent and believe.
Judgment necessarily is based on each person’s willful choice. Otherwise, humans are just robots programmed by God to either accept the gospel or reject it.
Jesus died for the sins of everyone, but atonement is potential and not applied to a specific individual unless they accept it.
Not one single verse in scripture says God only wants the elect to repent or that Jesus died only for the elect.
II Peter 3:9
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.
I John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Christ is the Savior, not man. You didn't know that? Interesting to see that you're still under the law and works - good luck with that.
You NEVER preach Christ. You preach spontaneous salvation......Christ has nothing to do with it according to you.
And TRUSTING/BELIEVING in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation is NEVER considered a work.
You believe.........You worker!
Free will as people speak of it is simply not found in the Bible. What is taught of the natural man
is rejected by so many here who wish to cling to their belief that man is not the creature he became
in Adam, who spread sin to the entire human race and death to all humanity. A multitude of verses
have been repeatedly given and properly exposited to show the truth of the natural man, and ignored
regularly by those whose man-made traditions mean more to them than the actual Word of God.
Total depravity does not mean that all humankind is as evil as it possibly could be; rather, it means
that sin affects the whole person and is an accurate description of the spiritual state of fallen man
before a just and holy God. The human will is corrupted and in bondage to sin, with some inexplicably
calling slavery to sin freedom, whereas Scripture teaches that it is in Christ that we are set free. There
are none righteous aside from Christ, but some will tell you they did not need His help at all. Some will
say that for God to move unilaterally in order to enable a person to respond positively to God, that He has
kidnapped you against your will, making Him an unjust tyrannical monster and His offer of repentance
fraudulent. Or if they do not say it, they agree with those who say such things! These assertions have been
explicitly put forth among others too disgusting to repeat. They often bring force into the equation which
I believe speaks to their extremely abusive methods and total lack of understanding. It also seems some
believe they can circumcise their own hearts and ears and unblind themselves, since they claim divine
intervention/God is not needed in the process of coming to believe at all, and that God does not command
things people cannot do. Again, such assertions from these heretics only prove their lack of understanding.
The Law was given to reveal what we cannot do, not what we can. Meanwhile the heretics scream about how
there is no such things as human inability spoken of in the Bible when those very words very much indeed are.
Of the natural man:
the Bible teaches that we sin because we are sinners
all our righteous acts are like filthy rags
there are NONE righteous
a bad tree cannot produce good fruit
all not of God are under the control of the evil one
we need to be rescued
man’s heart is deceitful and desperately wicked
man is born dead in transgression and sin
he is held captive by a love for sin
will not seek God
he loves the darkness
does not understand the things of God
suppress the truth of God in unrighteousness
continues to willfully live in sin
sinful lifestyle seems right to men
rejects the gospel of Christ as foolishness
hostile toward God in their mind
does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is unable to do so
The heretics reject much of this, resorting to slander, blasphemy, and rewriting the very words of Jesus Christ
Himself to justify their despicable acts. I thank God for circumcising my heart, and opening my ears and eyes.
is rejected by so many here who wish to cling to their belief that man is not the creature he became
in Adam, who spread sin to the entire human race and death to all humanity. A multitude of verses
have been repeatedly given and properly exposited to show the truth of the natural man, and ignored
regularly by those whose man-made traditions mean more to them than the actual Word of God.
Total depravity does not mean that all humankind is as evil as it possibly could be; rather, it means
that sin affects the whole person and is an accurate description of the spiritual state of fallen man
before a just and holy God. The human will is corrupted and in bondage to sin, with some inexplicably
calling slavery to sin freedom, whereas Scripture teaches that it is in Christ that we are set free. There
are none righteous aside from Christ, but some will tell you they did not need His help at all. Some will
say that for God to move unilaterally in order to enable a person to respond positively to God, that He has
kidnapped you against your will, making Him an unjust tyrannical monster and His offer of repentance
fraudulent. Or if they do not say it, they agree with those who say such things! These assertions have been
explicitly put forth among others too disgusting to repeat. They often bring force into the equation which
I believe speaks to their extremely abusive methods and total lack of understanding. It also seems some
believe they can circumcise their own hearts and ears and unblind themselves, since they claim divine
intervention/God is not needed in the process of coming to believe at all, and that God does not command
things people cannot do. Again, such assertions from these heretics only prove their lack of understanding.
The Law was given to reveal what we cannot do, not what we can. Meanwhile the heretics scream about how
there is no such things as human inability spoken of in the Bible when those very words very much indeed are.
Of the natural man:
the Bible teaches that we sin because we are sinners
all our righteous acts are like filthy rags
there are NONE righteous
a bad tree cannot produce good fruit
all not of God are under the control of the evil one
we need to be rescued
man’s heart is deceitful and desperately wicked
man is born dead in transgression and sin
he is held captive by a love for sin
will not seek God
he loves the darkness
does not understand the things of God
suppress the truth of God in unrighteousness
continues to willfully live in sin
sinful lifestyle seems right to men
rejects the gospel of Christ as foolishness
hostile toward God in their mind
does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is unable to do so
The heretics reject much of this, resorting to slander, blasphemy, and rewriting the very words of Jesus Christ
Himself to justify their despicable acts. I thank God for circumcising my heart, and opening my ears and eyes.
Amen!
The New Hampshire Confession of Faith in 1833 declared that ....
“Nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth except his own voluntary refusal to submit to the Lord Jesus Christ, which refusal will subject him to an aggravated condemnation.”
Rather than describing people as unable to respond to God, the said confession claims that “nothing prevents” a sinner’s salvation except the sinner’s “voluntary refusal” to come and take the free gift of salvation.
“Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who
wishes take the free gift of the water of life. (Revelation 22:17,
NIV)
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will
give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28, NIV)
“Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is
thirsty come to me and drink.” (John 7:37, NIV)
“...yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” (John 5:40, NIV)
John 14 v 17a, Romans 8 v 6-9 ~ “Inability” in Bible. The world cannot receive the Spirit of truth. The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. Praise be to God for calling me out of the world.
He is one of those who loves to misrepresent. In fact he entered these conversations claiming nobody's
views were being misrepresented, and as far as I can tell, he has not stopped misrepresenting since then.
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I thank God that He is not willing that any perish. And He didn't die just for me. And that He is willing to circumcise all hearts and open all ears and eyes..........Not just the double super special @Magenta.
Poor baby. Never met a double super special elect person that is so insecure.
what you're missing in all this is the fact that any other theology and it's adherent could write this exact same thing by substituting their theology name in exchange "Calvinism" youre no different than anybody else.
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