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The fact that you blame Arminias shows that you have not gone far enough back in history to understand the true roots of is now called Calvinism. The Catholic Bishop Augustine of Hippo is the primary figure responsible for importing ideas about theistic determinism, original sin and total human...

The term EFFECTUAL call is not actually used in the text of scripture. You have had to COIN this special theological term and then to ADD the idea INTO the text. This was how the ancient Gnostics perverted the scripture - by assuming their presuppositions and then insinuating them into the...

No, the Bible does not say we have to be born again BEFORE we can DESIRE to enter the Kingdom God. Often it is a people's spiritual hunger and thirst [their sense of lack] draws them to come. The very misery of living in sin often motivates them to seek the living water. This is how the...

A. It is true that a person who is still living in bondage to their carnal mind will resist the gospel, the testimony of Christ's life, and even the influence of the Holy Spirit. However, that does not mean this situation cannot be changed. B. In fact, Paul's goal as an Apostolic evangelist was...

You have assumed a particular definition of what is meant by "(spiritual) death" that does not comport with scripture. The scriptures do not define death as a paralysis of the will. In the scriptures, death signifies separation. Physical death is the separation of the soul from the body...

You assume that those who oppose the theology of Augustinian-Calvinism do so because they DO NOT UNDERSTAND the concepts of that theological system. I, for one, do not take depravity the way such people define it as being "incapable of doing anything" which is itself a straw man. You said...

A. If you believe Paul was setting up a "stark textual contrast"between TWO SEPARATE KINDS OF CALLS, one which is outward and human and the other which is inward and divine. Please cite the verses where Paul does makes this point? Chapter 7 is about the inadequacy of the law to produce life in...

I don't know anyone who has truly been born again who thinks they were chosen because of some innate goodness in them. Once the Holy Spirit searches the heart all that kind of thinking goes away

A. If you believe Paul was setting up a "stark textual contrast"between TWO SEPARATE KINDS OF CALLS , one which is outward and human and the other which is inward and divine in hich verses does Paul does make this point? Chapter 7 is about the inadequacy of the law to produce life in Him. After...

Jonathan Edwards was an intellectual Calvinist tried to explain man's total depravity in a way that exactly follows what I learned when I studied modern (Materialistic-Naturalistic) Behaviorism. On this point, Jonathan Edwards and John B. Watson were in perfect agreement. Both believed that man...

A. I know what Luther wrote in his book The Bondage of the Will. He believed that, due to Adam's Original Sin in paradise God IMPUTED Adam's GUILT to every one of his descendents (except Jesus). As I have tried to explain before, this idea came from the speculative musings of Augustine of Hippo...

The text speaks about God calling people according to His purpose. It does not posit TWO different KINDS of calls - one outward and human and the other inward and divine. All these underlined descriptors are NOT IN THE TEXT. Instead they are eisegeted INTO the text from your belief system. Look...

a. I do not read where David insisted that he sinned because he had been compelled to do so because of some polluted essence he inherited from Adam. This idea was simply not part of Jewish thought. In fact, no one held such ideas until Augustine began teaching it in the Fifth Century. If David...

So your position is that God holds unborn fetuses, newborns, infants and young children to be personally guilty for the sin a distant ancestor of theirs named ADAM committed? Does this make any moral sense to you? God long ago refuted the idea that He judges people for the sin of their...

Paul said nothing in this passage about two KINDS of CALLS - one of which is merely EXTERNAL (and cannot bring about inward spiritual change) and a second kind which is INTERNAL and CAN bring about spiritual change). These ideas are not mentioned in the text. Instead, you have imported these...

An accusation is not proof.

Coming to Christ is a struggle in which the old mind in bondage to its desires [in alliance with demonic captors] tries to maintain its centrality against the influence of the Holy Spirit whose work is to CONVICT us of our sin of unbelief and establish the rule of God in our hearts. The two...

22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you from birth shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than...

IF God judged people for not believing and GOD HIMSELF was the One responsible for their unbelief THAT would make God UNJUST. A God who is not just is not the God the scriptures speak of.