Mike Winger's "Why I think Calvinism is Unbiblical"

You fail to realise that absolutely no one knows who the reprobate are except God and the only person that I would dear to think who may be a reprobate are those whose last words in life are cursing God.

The doctrine of God's election is everywhere throughout Scripture so that men would fear God and not think they could save themselves. You would do well to peruse some of those verses below.

I thank God that He chose me for I would have never chosen Him unless He first chose me!

41 Bible Verses about election, to salvation

You should consider studying Soteriology and loose the wisecracks related to Scripture.

Get back to me when you can tell me who man is according to Scripture.

Jesus confirmed that only those who are born again can see the kingdom of God. Faith is the fruit of them that re born again lest you make faith in which someone can boast and therefore destroy the truth of grace.

All men are without excuse for all are given general revelation and natural law to make them accountable before God but it is only the Holy Spirit who brings special revelation to His people by being born again from above and made willing by His power (Psalm 110:3) and not theirs.

Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

Joh 1:13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Jas 1:18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

God is Sovereign
Exo 15:18; 1Chr 29:11-12; 2Chr 20:6; Psa 22:28

He exercises that sovereignty in actively ordaining everything
Deu 32:39; 1Sam 2:6-8; Job 9:12; Job 12:6-10; Psa 33:11; Psa 115:3; Psa 135:6; Isa 14:24; Isa 45:7; Act 15:18; Eph 1:11

Including matters of “chance”
Pro 16:33; 1Ki 22:20, 34, 37

The wicked actions of men
Gen 45:5; Gen 50:20; Exo 4:21; Jdg 14:1-4; Psa 76:10; Pro 16:4; Isa 44:28; Amos 3:6; Act 2:22-23; Act 4:27-28

The actions of evil spirits
1Sam 16:14-16; 1Ki 22:19-23; 1Chr 21:1/2Sam 24:1

The good actions of men
John 15:16; Eph 2:10; Phi 2:12-13

The actions of good angels
Psa 103:20; Psa 104:4

The actions of animals
Num 22:28; 1Ki 17:4; Psa 29:9; Jer 8:7; Eze 32:4; Dan 6:22

The operations of all creation
Gen 8:22; Psa 104:5-10; Psa 104:13-14; Psa 104:19-20; Mark 4:39

Man is not permitted to question his sovereign acts
Job 33:12-13; Isa 29:16; Isa 45:9-10; Mat 20:1-16; Rom 9:19-24

God elects [i.e. chooses, predestines, foreordains] His angels
1Tim 5:21

His peculiar people, Israel
Exo 6:7; Deu 7:6-8; Deu 10:14-15; Psa 33:12; Isa 43:20-21

Individuals to salvation
Psa 65:4; Mat 24:24; John 6:37; John 15:16; Act 13:48; Rom 8:28-30; Rom 9:10-24; Rom 11:5-7; Eph 1:3-6; Eph 1:11-12; 1The 1:4; 1The 5:9; 2The 2:13-14

Individuals to condemnation
Exo 4:21; Rom 9:13; Rom 9:17-18; Rom 9:21-22; 1Pet 2:8

His motivation in election is His own good pleasure
Eph 1:5; 2Tim 1:9

The display of his glory
Isa 43:6-7; Rom 9:22-24; 1Cor 1:27-31; Eph 2:4-7; Pro 16:4

His special love
Deu 7:6-8; 2The 2:13

His foreknowledge
Rom 8:29; 1Pet 1:2

Which means his special love
Jer 1:5; Amos 3:2; Mat 7:22-23; 1Cor 8:3; 2Tim 2:19; 1Pet 1:20

But not: Any good [nobility, wisdom, power, choice, seeking] he foresees in anyone
Deu 7:7; Rom 9:11-13; Rom 9:16; Rom 10:20; 1Cor 1:27-29; 1Cor 4:7; 2Tim 1:9

if you choose not to submit to Scripture then this conversation is over for this is the reason it is given.

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

No one is justified by faith in and of itself but by grace through faith in the blood of Christ (Romans 3-5). Those who belong to your man-centred theology think that faith is something that man does within himself and that God therefore saves men upon that condition when Paul clearly boasted not in himself or his abilities but in the grace of God given to him to believe on Christ.

Please look at the chart below. You are currently on the left side which was cast out as heresy by the Protestant church at the Synod of Dordt.

God's house will be packed indeed with those who are redeemed and by grace brought forth the fruits of the Spirit which only those that are planted in the good soil do.

Men only find the way to life because they are led to it and not because they found it themselves for Scripture confirms there are none who seek it.

I have no time for Wesley the heretic who confessed to his brother in a letter that he never loved God.

John Wesley, False Apostle of Free Will

you do not yet understand that God's goodness is also found in His perfectly holy love for justice which is the foundation of the cross of Christ wherein righteous mercy is only given because justice was satisfied and wrath was propitiated in Him.

HIs name is the LORD (Sovereign Ruler) JESUS (God Who Saves) CHRIST (Anointed Prophet, Priest and King of His People).

God is glorified in the goodness of the just damnation of those who die in their sin but those who think God is only love can not see this.

dead means not alive and because man is spiritually dead to God he needs life and that life is only found in Christ.

my point was that many say they believe and have assurance in Christ but look either in part or in full to themselves rather than cling only to the person and work of Christ for their salvation.

did you build a strawman because you have absolutely no response to the points that were made?

why have you not replied to what I said below? Please show me what I said was false rather than go off on tangents.

you utterly ignore the abundant Scriptures that show that no man seeks after or chooses God without God first choosing them. Man can not and does not want to choose God because he is spiritually dead and to obey God is foolishness to him unless he has been born again by grace who are given new wills to obey God out of gratitude and not merit. Do I need to quote these Scriptures to you?

A supposed free will that is enslaved to its cursed nature is not a free will at all.

The parody below typifies those who have your mindset.

Psalm 119:175 plus 146:2

I sincerely wish you’d please reconsider your panels that detract from the Word of God. …why women? …with tons of makeup?

Bah

I do not believe in man's choosings or his ability to "choose" or to "accept Christ" or "deciding for Christ"

We are born again not by the will of man or by the will of the flesh but by the will of God. I am in the Sovereign Grace stream of theology.

The difference I have with you is you believe God's purpose in this is to EXCLUDE people, I believe God's purpose in predestination and election is to INCLUDE people.

We are chosen to be a city set upon a hill, not to exclude people but to be a hope and a refuge for the lost and weary of this world where they may find shelter and succour.

The election of the church can be traced to Abraham, he is the father of the election. The purpose was that "in you shall the families of the earth bless themselves" Only Abe and his seed were elect or chosen. But all who rode with him were saved, Lot was saved.

Your comments about Wesley are reprehensible.

Literal application vs spiritual application

I don't think the entire New Testament had been written at the time that Paul,
penned this letter to Timothy.

So was Paul referring to the Old Testament in your quotation (2 Timothy 3:16)?

Did Paul see his own letters as scripture or as inspired letters?

"Dead" like all words has a range of meaning connected to the context of the passage and the original language, I know you like this meaning best which supports your five point dogma but it is on the reductionist side of interpretation.