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A. First you make the outlandish claim that Hebrews 6:4 is NOT a warning. To be absolutely clear a warning is defined as a statement or event that indicates a possible or impending danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation B. Hebrews 6:4 states that: It is impossible for those who have...

A. It seems to me that those who hold the doctrines based on a presumption of Theistic Determinism see the ability of man to make moral/spiritual choices as a kind of threat to God's omnipotence (which they miscall His sovereignty). However, that mankind CAN resist God's will is imminently...

When someone disagrees with you they usually have some reason to. You cannot avoid the task of exploring their points by pathologizing their disagreement as an expression of some kind of mental disorder for which they need professional help. This condescending approach is a technique of...

So, your position is that the author of Hebrews was NOT warning the Hebrews he was writing to. A WARNING, by definition, is: a notice, statement, or sign that tells people about a possible danger, risk, or problem so they can avoid it. Instead, of taking his words seriously you abandon the...

It is not directed at real people? So the author was just speaking about theoretical people. Try reading this: …33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated. 34 You sympathized with those in prison and...

I am sure that is the way it seems to you having been steeped in the teachings of Augustine, Luther and Calvin. men who had adopted many of the predeterministic beliefs that were popular at the time. However, to see what is true we must keep focused not on them but on the written word. Notice...

You seem think I got everything I believe from my pastor. No, as a matter of fact, I rejected Calvinism back when I was a teen because it seemed contradictory. You seem to have the mentality that people know nothing unless a Pastor teaches them. Perhaps this is the way you wish it were. I do not...

A. They did NOT FALL AWAY, genius. The author was only warning them about the DANGERS of falling away. He never said they had done so already or that they would. In fact, he was careful to add that, although he had warned them in this way he expected better things of them - things concerning...

One thing we can do is admit our weaknesses, surrender and yield ourselves to Him. The Bible says we can yield ourselves to Christ: …12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. 13 Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness...

Thank you, brother, for this very honest post.

a. I notice how, in order to make the written words of the text agree with your false theological system you have to do some work on the text. One involves importing ideas and words and placing them with your own ideas and presuppositions. In this verse, rather than offer exegetical analysis you...

Like someone who is not predestined to salvation in Calvins system

Very deeply stained within Seeking to rise no more Then the Master of the Sea Heard my despairing cry From the waters lifted me Now safe am I

I agree. Faith and Grace are both feminine words so neither could be the GIFT Paul was referring to when he said IT is the GIFT of God. The pronoun IT is a neuter word which refers to the whole process of being saved by grace through faith [apart from meritorious works] This is the essence of...

If the Reformers Martin Luther, John Calvin and Zwingli were to join your Church after one of their campaigns to exterminate the Anabaptists for their grave sin of Baptizing only believing adults rather than infants and for their unauthorized meetings and unsupervised Bible studies just as the...

How do you define "divine nature"

A. Theistic Determinists, seem to have no problem accepting the proposition that God does not love mankind but, in fact, hates the majority of us because we are genetically descended from Adam. However, it is very well understood that in Hebrew idiomatic language, “love” and “hate” can sometimes...

I am not a believer in writing essays as a punishment. That sort of thing encourages the person doing the writing to be deceptive rather than to engage in an honest dialogue. The fact that you ENJOYED her panic reveals that something is deeply wrong in you. You, along with other members of your...

a. This is just your caricature of what you think people who do not believe in OSAS must experience. However, no one before Augustine in the Fifth Century believed in OSAS as it is currently taught. Even Augustine believed that, in addition to having an encounter with God, a person had to be...

A. Simply calling another person's view nonsense does nothing to either prove your premise or to disprove theirs. Nevertheless, rather than offering any textual evidence you seize upon the fact that the author does not specifically CALL them believers. However, given the numerous context clues...