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Does God get glory from what He causes you to do for Him…or from what you free willingly do for Him?

If nobody can repent, unless God “works repentance in you”, why didn’t Jesus say, “Let God work repentance in you and make you believe the gospel”? Calvinists must add words to scripture to make it comply with their mistaken theology. Humans reject Christ or receive Christ by free will...

But do not limit Jesus in your life. Your life can get better when you are transformed into being more like Jesus. You become more ethical, smarter, and more loving. Your attitude becomes more positive and that can unlock many good things to come into your life. I told God I needed a wife, and...

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...

No, the founders of various denominations are not elevated to the level of the murderous John Calvin, who had his theological opponents executed. Nobody says Wesleyism is the gospel, or Lutheranism is the gospel, or Finneyism is the gospel, or Moodyism is the gospel. Only Calvinists claim that...

You are elevating the murderous John Calvin to the level of the Bible’s authors. The Bible explains how salvation works.

Notice the extreme arrogance of the Calvinism advocates. You never hear anyone say Finneyism is the Gospel, or Billy Grahamism is the Gospel, or Lutheranism is the Gospel, or DL Moodyism is the Gospel, or Erwin Lutzerism is the Gospel, or any other theologian-ism is the Gospel. It’s only...

Wrong. Calvinism does say that God forces salvation on individuals, without anybody seeking God or responding to Bible preaching. Calvinists proclaims that God arbitrarily puts repentance and faith in people. Jesus did not teach Reformed (actually deformed) doctrine. Jesus preached, “Repent...

Wrong. Calvinism proclaims salvation is by God regenerating a person first, then the person exercises faith. Calvinism has salvation backwards. It claims that even though Jesus preached “Repent and believe the gospel”, no one can obey that command. It teaches that God forces repentance upon a...

You make perfect sense. Unfortunately, people can be too focused on their own happiness and needs. To me, it’s creepy to think that the members of a church would be personally insulted or upset that you left their church. My wife and I met at a church. I was appointed as Sunday school...

What was the sin of Sodom? We know homosexuality was part of it, but there was more. Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

I do not see why a church congregation would be insulted or hurt by a family switching to another church. The members are not being personally rejected, it is just that another church is being tried out. We should not attend a church to schmooze around with particular individuals. We should be...

Does God want us to be afraid of Him or to be in great awe of Him? Go ahead and live in fear, even when you know perfect love casts out fear, and the fearful will be cast into the lake of fire.

Your dilemma is a tough one. You have not described the churches aside from surface issues, feeling comfortable, being liked, fitting in. Those are important, but the beliefs of the church are vital. I am assuming both churches are in the same unnamed denomination. Your family could start...

Is disobeying God sinful? If God commands us to not fear, is fear disobedience to God? If God did not give us a spirit of fear, where does it come from? If the fearful will be cast into the lake of fire, is fearfulness righteous or sinful?

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Isaiah 41:10 So do not fear, for I...

The miserable Calvinist must get some kind of a thrill from thinking God randomly selected them, while almost everyone else is going to hell, and they do not have to exert effort to lead anyone to salvation, because it’s all predetermined.

Fear is not an emotion, it is a negative thought that produces bad emotions. Jesus commanded His disciples to not fear. Fear is the opposite of trusting God. Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters...

God allowing Satan to afflict Job does not mean God was responsible for the injury that Satan caused. The Bible never says that God was responsible for Job’s afflictions. Job set himself up, made himself vulnerable to, the attacks of Satan, by fearing bad things might happen. Fear is sinful...

If they had already chosen to serve God, Joshua would not have told them to choose who they would serve.