John Chapter 3 REFUTES Five Point Calvinism

[eternally-gratefull]

That's true, but us Calvinists would argue that God already knew they would sin before He even created them. God had already planned to send His son to save many, He planned the whole Crucifixion and redemption before man was created.

Yes, He knew they would sin, Just like he knew who would receive him and who would reject him, and based on that foreknowledge, elected and predestined those he KNEW were going to believe to eternal life.

God knows alot more than we think! He is not fooled one minute.

my point was if God gave everyone light they would respond by love, He gave adam and eve light and they responded by sinning.

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

The big question is why are some so sinful that they won't come to the light. I mean how did they come to be that way, were they created that way or did they choose to be that way. I know you will say they choose it, but I would say they chose it because they couldn't see any other way so they just did what comes naturally to them.

Some of it is their upbringing; some of it is possibly hereditary (GOD says he visits the iniquities of the fathers on their children up to the 4th generation; Exodus 34:7); some of it is the compounding consequences of bad choices.

 

[calibob]

Yes, He knew they would sin, Just like he knew who would receive him and who would reject him, and based on that foreknowledge, elected and predestined those he KNEW were going to believe to eternal life.

God knows alot more than we think! He is not fooled one minute.

my point was if God gave everyone light they would respond by love, He gave adam and eve light and they responded by sinning.

The first song we learned in the rescue mission was amazing grace, of course god knew all of the sins we would ever commit. He knew them before creation. He sent his son any way who forgave us any way, knowing that we would commit more. He forgave them all even the ones we'll commit tomorrow back around 33ad. He didn't choose for us to sin we did it ourselves and keep doing it. He paid for them all.

At the end of the Bible is a warning not to add take away from or distort the Word of the Lord and the last word is AMEN. Calvin, Wesley, Luther or the Popes words are not in it. They are just opinions. All of Gods truths lay in between: "In the beginning" and
"the grace of the Lord Jesus be with Gods people. AMEN"

Amen?

 

[eternally-gratefull]

The first song we learned in the rescue mission was amazing grace, of course god knew all of the sins we would ever commit. He knew them before creation. He sent his son any way who forgave us any way, knowing that we would commit more. He forgave them all even the ones we'll commit tomorrow back around 33ad. He didn't choose for us to sin we did it ourselves and keep doing it. He paid for them all.

At the end of the Bible is a warning not to add take away from or distort the Word of the Lord and the last word is AMEN. Calvin, Wesley, Luther or the Popes words are not in it. They are just opinions. All of Gods truths lay in between: "In the beginning" and
"the grace of the Lord Jesus be with Gods people. AMEN"

Amen?

Amen

 

[Danny1988]

Some of it is their upbringing; some of it is possibly hereditary (GOD says he visits the iniquities of the fathers on their children up to the 4th generation; Exodus 34:7); some of it is the compounding consequences of bad choices.

You have explained the symptoms quite well, I would like to get to the root cause of why one is given over to sin without restraint and the believer is locked in a battle against temptation.
I was raised in a Roman Catholic family, where sin was a normal way of life. I would still be there if God didn't draw me to Himself, why did He draw me and leave the rest of the family in their sins. I don't know why He saved me as I was the biggest sinner in the family, it's a mystery and I don't think men know the answer. Only God knows why He does what he does.

 

[Danny1988]

Yes, He knew they would sin, Just like he knew who would receive him and who would reject him, and based on that foreknowledge, elected and predestined those he KNEW were going to believe to eternal life.

God knows alot more than we think! He is not fooled one minute.

my point was if God gave everyone light they would respond by love, He gave adam and eve light and they responded by sinning.

I believe Adam and Eve were predestined to sin, the whole thing was a set up. God had already prepared His redemption plan before He even created them

 

[eternally-gratefull]

I believe Adam and Eve were predestined to sin, the whole thing was a set up. God had already prepared His redemption plan before He even created them

for what reason?

I think He predestined a plan to redeem them, because he knew they were going to sin.

You just pronounced you had God create evil. Shame Shame.

 

[Danny1988]

for what reason?

I think He predestined a plan to redeem them, because he knew they were going to sin.

You just pronounced you had God create evil. Shame Shame.

There's no shame on me, I believe God created all things. that's what the Bible says right? all things includes the free will to sin

 

[Danny1988]

for what reason?

I think He predestined a plan to redeem them, because he knew they were going to sin.

You just pronounced you had God create evil. Shame Shame.

May I please ask you who planted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Did God put it there by accident and did they eat of it by accident, or was it all a part of a plan

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

You have explained the symptoms quite well, I would like to get to the root cause of why one is given over to sin without restraint and the believer is locked in a battle against temptation.
I was raised in a Roman Catholic family, where sin was a normal way of life. I would still be there if God didn't draw me to Himself, why did He draw me and leave the rest of the family in their sins. I don't know why He saved me as I was the biggest sinner in the family, it's a mystery and I don't think men know the answer. Only God knows why He does what he does.

Possibly, and most likely, because you have a heart tuned to GOD's frequency, so to speak. When he spoke, you listened. Why that is, who knows. Have you ever held a vibrating tuning fork next to one of the same frequency that is not vibrating. The stationary one will start vibrating. That's one way I look at it.

 

[Danny1988]

Possibly, and most likely, because you have a heart tuned to GOD's frequency, so to speak. When he spoke, you listened. Why that is, who knows. Have you ever held a vibrating tuning fork next to one of the same frequency that is not vibrating. The stationary one will start vibrating. That's one way I look at it.

I've been praying for my family to convert for years, I've pleaded with them to trust in the Lord only but they still believe that it's the Lord plus what the Catholic Church teaches.
They just don't get it, no matter how much evidence you show them. Yet others embrace it and believe, they seem to be pre programmed to accept the Gospel without resisting it. It's still mysterious to me why some gladly receive the Gospel and other go to their graves resisting it to the end, it leads me to believe in predestination.

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

I've been praying for my family to convert for years, I've pleaded with them to trust in the Lord only but they still believe that it's the Lord plus what the Catholic Church teaches.
They just don't get it, no matter how much evidence you show them. Yet others embrace it and believe, they seem to be pre programmed to accept the Gospel without resisting it. It's still mysterious to me why some gladly receive the Gospel and other go to their graves resisting it to the end, it leads me to believe in predestination.

I think predestination is that GOD knows beforehand whose hearts will respond. And then he works with those hearts to hear and respond to his voice. Others he knows will not respond, and they don't, so he lets them go their way.

 

[eternally-gratefull]

May I please ask you who planted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Did God put it there by accident and did they eat of it by accident, or was it all a part of a plan

He put it there as a means to give his creation a choice, you can not have free will unless you have a choice. And your can not chose to receive love and cherish love unless you have a choice.

He did not put it there to force mankind to sin. Think about what your saying man.

 

[reneweddaybyday]

I think predestination is that GOD knows beforehand whose hearts will respond. And then he works with those hearts to hear and respond to his voice. Others he knows will not respond, and they don't, so he lets them go their way.

I believe God calls all.

He knows beforehand whose hearts will respond.

He calls all anyway and allows those who do not respond to reject His calling.

After they reject, God lets them go their way.

 

[reneweddaybyday]

I believe Adam and Eve were predestined to sin, the whole thing was a set up. God had already prepared His redemption plan before He even created them

God knowing beforehand that Adam would sin does not mean God "predestined" Adam to sin.

Here is God's Will:

Genesis 2:

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.


According to Gen 2:17, the Will of God for Adam and Eve was do not eat.

Knowing beforehand that Adam and Eve would eat, and having the forethought in His manifold wisdom to provide for the redemption of all mankind because of Adam's and Eve's disobedience, is not the same as God creating Adam for the purpose of sinning.

 

[Musicus]

When they say place or put your faith into Christs atoning work, it was directed at the elect of God. Because the reprobate will never place their faith in Christ.

Yer nuts. I see it happen all the time.

 

[Deuteronomy]

An unregenerate man is fully able to hear the voice of GOD. He just cannot know or understand the door into life.

Hi HeRoseFromTheDead, so the unregenerate can hear, but they cannot know or understand what they are hearing? Is that not the same thing that the Apostle said in 1 Corinthians 2:14, or do you mean something else by it? Also, what is the "door into life" that you speak of, and where can the reference to it be found in the Bible? John 10:9?

As it is written, all who hear and learn of the father come to Christ.

And again (if you don't mind), where can this statement (or the idea behind it) be found in the Bible?

Thanks! (I'll probably have some additional questions/comments, but I wanted to make sure I was understanding you correctly first)

~Deut

 

[Deuteronomy]

I believe Adam and Eve were predestined to sin, the whole thing was a set up. God had already prepared His redemption plan before He even created them

Hi Danny, if it was all a "setup" by God, and our progenitors were made/forced to disobey God by God Himself, 1. how can He hold our first parents culpable for their disobedience in the Garden, and 2. how can He not be considered the true Author of sin/moral evil?

Thanks!

~Deut

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

Hi HeRoseFromTheDead, so the unregenerate can hear, but they cannot know or understand what they are hearing? Is that not the same thing that the Apostle said in 1 Corinthians 2:14, or do you mean something else by it? Also, what is the "door into life" that you speak of, and where can the reference to it be found in the Bible? John 10:9?

And again (if you don't mind), where can this statement (or the idea behind it) be found in the Bible?

Yes, John 10:9. The other is John 6:44-45

 

[Deuteronomy]

And as you think that John 3 refutes calvinism, somebody can think that John 6 refutes arminianism.

So its neverending tug of war. Obviously, some third way must be put in place.

Hi Trofimus, that could be true, unless one of the two choices is actually correct that is (and we simply do not understand that it is ). Perhaps if a "third" choice is necessary, it's time to yell "uncle" and admit that it may not be possible to know (or could it be that God doesn't want us to know?) the answer on this side of Glory .. Deuteronomy 29:29?

~Deut