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6/2/08 8:15 PM |
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Michael - it is you who does not understand "Calvinism" or the "Five Points." Those 5 points were drawn up against the 5 points of Arminianism. And Arminianism is a rank heresy, for it dethrones God and places salvation in the hands of men. It portrays God as one who is unable to save unless it is granted to him by the man who desires to be saved.This shows that you do not understand grace, for you see God responding to man rather than man responding to God. The Bible clearly teaches man's total inability and our total dependence on God. Unless He converts us, we will not be converted. Unless He regenerates us we will not hear His call. You cannot escape the clear Biblical teaching of man's condition because of sin. There is none who seeks after God, NO NOT ONE! But you would have man still seeking, still calling out to God, still able to respond to His call. The Word disagrees with you. We are truly dead in sin, spiritually dead, blind and deaf to the things of God and our hearts are made of stone; hard, unfeeling and not at all worried about our eternal state. FIRST God takes out your heart of stone, makes you alive and gives you ears and eyes. THEN you respond in the faith which He gives you. Only then do you hear His call and have eyes to see Christ. |
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5/28/08 9:13 PM |
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Casob wrote: The disciples that traveled with him for 3 years and who listened in to his sermons and preached the same message themselves were quite surprised when Jesus was arrested and crucified and they thought all hope was lost because of it. Two disciple were travelling down to Emmaus, for crying out loud. Casob, Peter distinctly said that Christ's crucifixion was according to God's eternal plan and purpose (Acts 2). On the way to Emmaus Jesus said to those disciples, who held the same ridiculous theology that you do, "O foolish ones!" Then He said, "Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?" And then, beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. These Scriptures foretold His work as a Saviour, in total opposition to your position. Read Mt16:21-23; 17:22; 20:17; Mrk10:32; Lk 9:51 where Jesus predicted His crucifixion. Ps 22 is a prophecy of this as well. Is 53, which is more expounded in the New Testament than any other Old Testament passage tells us plainly why Jesus came. You like to accuse others of misunderstanding the Bible. Read those verses then look at yourself. |
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5/27/08 6:53 PM |
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Jesus Christ is king of heaven and earth and ruler of this universe, yet Casob would have Him leave His majestic throne to sit on an earthly throne in a sandpit called Israel. Some promotion!"For He MUST reign till He has put all enemies under His feet." I Cor 15:25. It is essential to the survival of Dispensational Premillenialism that Christ be seen as one who primarily came to reign in Israel as the descendant of David on a literal throne. But read His response to Pilate regarding His kingship and you hear it from Jesus' own mouth. Dispensationalism, is dying the death it deserved. It was founded not 200 years ago by guys who hardly knew the Bible to begin with and then set themselves up as experts - much the same as Jospeh Smith and Charles Taze Russell. Sorry Casob, but all your bluff and bluster can't make the ridiculous sound plausible, and Dispensational Theology is nothing short of ridiculous. |
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5/22/08 7:09 PM |
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Michael Hranek wrote: "A Story to Consider Regeneration BEFORE Faith" Mary, I heard you got married. That’s right. Who is he how did it happen? Well I just woke up one morning and my husband was sleeping there in bed besides me and I was married. What! Didn’t he propose to you or anything? Oh No! My husband explained it to me this way, that I so dead to him that I would have never even noticed him let alone desire to be his wife if he hadn’t reprogrammed me and that is what he did before I even knew he existed he picked me and reprogrammed me so that I would want to be his wife and nobody else’s. But he didn’t propose. Oh No! It had to be reprogramming that way I wouldn’t have any choice whatsoever to turn him down, and he so wanted me to be belong to him that he couldn’t trust me to have the least say in the matter. But didn't you have a wedding ceremony and have witnesses of your marriage and all? Silly, don’t you understand, this way my husband gets all the credit of why we are married and everybody can know he is such a good husband for reprogramming me to love him before I even knew he existed and if we had a wedding and all somebody might think I deserve credit for marrying him. What does this have to do with the Bible |
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5/22/08 2:45 AM |
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The Bible clearly teaches election. To deny this is to deny the validity and authority of Holy Scripture. The question is, did God elect according to the good purpose of His will, or because He foresaw something worth electing?Many see "foreknow" as if God is a foretuneteller, someone who can see into the future, predict outcomes and thus makes plans accordingly. The God of the Bible does not predict the future, He creates the future. He decrees and declares and does as He pleases. Nothing is outside of the scope of His sovereign will. This has impact not only on election, but also on what is termed "natural disasters". Did God foresee the horrors in Burma and China but was powerless to stop them, did He foresee them but allowed them to happen or did they happen because He ordained it so? Either God is Sovereign over all things at all times or He is not. Take one iota away from His sovereignty and He ceases to be Almighty God; He becomes half-mighty or mostly mighty. The reason why people struggle with election is that they refuse to relinquish the idea of "free will". But if God has all the power and all His will is going to be done, what happens when man's will clashes with His? The victor in that conflict is the one who can claim to be almighty. God - or man? |
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5/21/08 7:59 PM |
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I see you guys are again discussing Church History as if this is where we finalise our theology. It matters not if Calvin was 100% correct on his theology. Just because people used his name to attach to the findings of the Synod of Dort, doesn't mean you have to attack their findings by attacking Calvin and co. What does the Bible say about these things, that is our final authority. And the Word is exceedingly crystal clear on God's Sovereignty, man's total inability, God's election and predestination etc. These are the issues, not whether John Calvin was a nice man, or whether people persecuted each other 500 years ago. The debate centers around one issue, and one issue only - is sinful man in his natural state able to choose to do good, and to perform that good, ie, to recognise his sinfulness and choose Christ as Saviour. That is the question, man's ability. And the answer from the Bible, very clearly, is NO! Man is not able to do anything but sin and until his sinful stony heart is removed by God and replaced with a living heart of flesh, he will not respond in faith to the gospel. That is the clear teaching of Scripture, to which one can only acquiesce or rebel against. |
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5/21/08 7:51 PM |
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Casob wrote: You greatly err in your misuse of this great Psalm of David! Be ashamed! The Psalms are primarily prayers Casob! David was a prophet, but to change his "I" to meaning "God", that what David says is actually God talking about Himself, is the grossest misuse of Scripture yet. I know who ought to hang his head in shame and it is not DJC49, but you. |
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5/16/08 7:09 PM |
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Mike - So what is regeneration if not a resurrection from spiritual death? Please show me in the Bible where it says that natural man (unregenerate, dead-in-sin man) loves God, desires to seek and to serve God, hates sin, wants to flee from sin, is able to discern spiritual things or shows any sign of spiritual life at all? Please - show me this from the Bible.You will not find it, for the Bible is full of man's total inability, his total enmity against God, his total sinfulness. You want to cling to your precious doctrine of free will so badly, that you will deny the very Scriptures. If dead in sin means anything other than dead in sin, then Jesus' death could be something else. Then Jesus' words, "Unless you are born again you cannot even see..." become meaningless. For you would have natural man, before the Spirit's raising him from the dead in regeneration, seeing and wanting to enter the kingdom of God. This is why you can not have a reasoned and systematic debate on the topic, for you have no Scriptural support for your position. This is why you and others like you resort to ridicule, sarcasm and personal abuse because you have no other way of making an impact. You disagree? Show me where the Bible teaches what you believe. |
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5/16/08 12:48 AM |
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Many confuse true Calvinism with Hyper or extreme Calvinism. This is not true Calvinism and is, in my opinion, a greater and deadlier heresy than Arminianism.The true Calvinist is truly evangelical. He believes in the universal offer of the gospel, in the universal call that God is commanding all men to repent. He knows that God has His elect, but does not know who they are. Therefore the gospel is indiscriminate; in the same way that the sower sows indiscriminately, not knowing the condition of the soil. What one cannot escape is the Bible's clear teaching on man's condition prior to conversion. Just because God commands men to repent and believe does not mean they are able to. There is none who does good, none who seeks after God, we are dead, deaf and blind to spiritual things etc. To distort this is to distort what salvation really is. Because many hate this teaching they pour scorn and contempt on those who teach it. You never hear people running Luther into the ground, yet he was more a Calvinist than Calvin himself. But the Synod of Dort applied the name of Calvin to their refutation of the Arminian remonstrance. Calvin would have been horrified. |
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