You must of been to Bible college to use a word like soteriology lol
Calvinism is Gospel !
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No cannot say I have, I learned a long while back because of this false doctrine of TULIP.
It is a pain to type out though!!
To be truthful I think Bible college is a bad thing - especially ones run by Tiny Tim
God does favour or choose some, like Israel to be his people in the OT, choosing his disciples, choosing Jacob over Esau etc. But when it comes to Salvation - Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Don't you see it in context? What does the idea of "heaven" communicate to you? Jesus taught his disciples to store up their treasures in heaven, and he explains why.
Matthew 6:19-21 states: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”
Given that what is stored in heaven is permanent and eternal, this idea informs Paul's message. Ephesians 2:6 speaks of believers being “raised with Christ” and “seated with Him in heavenly places.” This speaks of our current status as those who have an eternal Savior who will raise us up. Ephesians 2:7 . . . so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Bottom line: to be alive in Christ is to have the promise of eternal life. To be dead in transgressions is to not have that promise.
MFWers have the Easter Lily, which indicates God loves everyone all of the time.
God chose Jacob/Israel for the purpose of blessing all people with the possibility of salvation via Messiah's atonement.
Is God impartial and just?
Romans 2:11-12
For there is no partiality with God. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law.
Acts 10:34-35
Then Peter opened his mouth and said: 'In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.
James 2:1
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Matthew 5
44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Yes, God wills to favor those who are cheerful givers, who freely repent and reflect His love
over others who resist His will, ignore His salvation and hate His Messiah.
When the Bible says Christ tasted death for every man, apparently it meant just those on the list.
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Hebrews 2:9
*"You are confusing ethnic equality with universal entitlement. Galatians 3:28 proves that God does not restrict His salvation to the Jewish nation—He draws His elect from every tribe, tongue, and social status.
When it comes to salvation, God absolutely favors some over others (Romans 9:15). Yet, He is not a respecter of persons, because the criteria for His choice is found solely in His own sovereign will, not in the creature. If God chose people because they possessed a 'better free-will choice' than their neighbor, that would make God a partial respecter of human merit. But because we are all equally dead rebels (Romans 3:9–19), election is a matter of pure, discriminating grace. God favors the elect simply because it pleased Him to do so (Ephesians 1:5)." AI assisted
I tried to show you that in my view, "spiritually dead" doesn't refer to inability; it refers to unwillingness. Unbelief is not a matter of the intellect; it's a matter of the will. People don't believe because they don't want to believe.
A bird with a broken wing cannot fly, even if it desperately wanted to—that’s inability. But a healthy bird that simply refuses to fly is not unable; it’s unwilling. Scripture describes sinners in the second way. The Bible never portrays unbelief as a physical or metaphysical incapacity but as a hardness of heart—a stubborn resistance that must be softened, not an inability that must be overridden. When Paul speaks of people as “dead,” he is describing the seriousness of their condition, not the removal of their responsibility. The call to believe the gospel is meaningful precisely because the problem is unwillingness, not an inability that would make faith impossible.
Nowhere in Scripture is that statement or definition either made or implied. Paul uses the Greek word nekros —a literal corpse—to describe a person's current, real-time spiritual state on this earth. To turn a dead body into a simple lack of a future promise is a complete invention that is entirely foreign to the text.
Lets look at the first one Ephesians 1:5
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians 1:5
It is supposed that adoption is a reference to a person "getting saved", "Ive accepted Christ, Im adopted" , however, lets pop over to Romans 8 verse 23, this is the same writer, Paul, and it defines "adoption" as "the redemption of the body". In other words, a saved person has the promise of adoption, it is a future thing. Something which the believer groans and waits.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Romans 8:23
This is further explained in 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,", "for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,", "this mortal must put on immortality"
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
We only have the spirit of adoption for now,
"ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." Romans 8:15,
also Galatians 4:5-6 "To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
That's a future event, "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Romans 8:1
Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
So predestination is something that happens to you after you are saved, not a master list drawn up before creation.
Yes. His Saving Favors
You are substituting the biblical definition of 'impartiality' with a humanistic definition of 'universal entitlement.'
- Romans 2:11–12 is about the impartiality of God’s condemnation, not salvation. Paul is warning that God will judge sin ruthlessly regardless of whether you are a Jew or a Gentile. Under this strict judicial impartiality, everyone perishes.
- Acts 10:34–35 does not teach that natural man can produce his own righteousness. Scripture is clear: 'There is none that seeketh after God' (Romans 3:11). Peter’s breakthrough is that God’s elect are no longer restricted to the Jewish nation—He is sovereignly regenerating and accepting His sheep out of every nation.
- Matthew 5:45 describes Common Grace (providential sun and rain for physical life), not Saving Grace. God gives physical bread to the reprobate, but He reserves the Bread of Life strictly for His covenant people. If saving grace were distributed exactly like the sunshine, then Universalism would be true and hell would be empty.
You are substituting the biblical definition of 'impartiality' with a humanistic definition of 'universal entitlement.'
- Romans 2:11–12 is about the impartiality of God’s condemnation, not salvation. Paul is warning that God will judge sin ruthlessly regardless of whether you are a Jew or a Gentile. Under this strict judicial impartiality, everyone perishes.
- Acts 10:34–35 does not teach that natural man can produce his own righteousness. Scripture is clear: 'There is none that seeketh after God' (Romans 3:11). Peter’s breakthrough is that God’s elect are no longer restricted to the Jewish nation—He is sovereignly regenerating and accepting His sheep out of every nation.
- Matthew 5:45 describes Common kindness (providential sun and rain for physical life), not Saving Grace. God gives physical bread to the reprobate, but He reserves the Bread of Life strictly for His covenant people. If saving grace were distributed exactly like the sunshine, then Universalism would be true and hell would be empty.
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