More attacks devoid of content
It's not just Calvinism, Van. You have been reproached by several on here for your oddball (if not outright wrong) interpretations of the Scriptures, of the translation of Greek and Hebrew words, and the like and every time (or at least every time that I have seen) you are reproached, you respond by calling the posts "devoid of content", "attacks", etc.
You just cannot accept the fact that you might, indeed, be wrong and someone else might be right. THAT'S what everyone here sees that you do not.
We're trying to be helpful, not hurtful.
1) No interpretations of scripture are contained in the post, yet the false charge is leveled that I refer to posts containing content as devoid of content. Twaddle
2) Next, I am charged with not being able to accept I am wrong. However, several times I have been wrong and posted that I was wrong and mistaken. So yet another over the top false charge.
Folks, all these posters do is make false charges, but they do not address the topic. If they wanted to discuss the topic, they could post something on topic.
I have been attacked as closed minded because I defend scripture against all liberal interpretations that make scripture to no effect. I have been called arrogant, ignorant, and now I do not know I stink.
Notice how these gentlemen simply attack the person rather than discuss the views being expressed. It is a tactic used by those wishing to hide the truth by changing the subject.
One of the many false and liberal claims of Calvinism is that individuals were given to Christ before times eternal, i.e. before time began.
2 Timothy 1:9 reads: who [God] has saved us [Paul and other believers] and called us with a holy calling [the ministry of reconciliation as ambassadors of Christ] not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity.
1) What was granted? God's gracious purpose.
2) When did God grant His purpose and grace? Before time began, before the foundation of the world was laid. When God formulated His redemption plan and chose His Redeemer, His Son, He granted to everyone subsequently saved His purpose and grace.
3) When did we as individuals receive what was granted? When God spiritually placed us "in Christ."
Thus this verse does not say individuals were given to Christ before time began, it says those in Christ have received the purpose and grace granted before time began when they were placed in Christ and not before.
The Calvinist interpretation of this verse is loose, and mistaken, thus a liberal interpretation.
All they do is make one false charge after another, but at the end of the day, they have nothing of content to say.