Featured Did a Calvinist say this?

Really? This one does?
"Neither is His atonement "limited".

What about this one?
"God chose to freely give us the choice to accept Him or reject him"

I will try to explain my view on it more clearly.......
1Total Depravity....... I reject the belief that a person is totally "inable" to respond to the Gospel unless God somehow "enables" him or "regenerates" him BEFORE he can believe. On the contrary "Regeneration" happens WHEN a person is saved and the Holy Spirit indwells him.
2. Unconditional Election........ I reject the belief that God only chooses certain ones to be saved from the beginning of time.
3. I reject the belief that God's/ Christ's atonement is "limited" in any way such as that it is "limited" to "the elect".
4. I reject the belief that God's Grace is "irresistible". Men can and do resist. The Bible says that Felix did.
5. And I reject the teaching that all the saints will "persevere", because some do not. However, I DO believe that once a person is saved, they are saved forever.

 

If that is the case I have no idea what your purpose was in quoting part of Romans 1.

 

You do not understand what Total depravity is stating.
Total depravity means that humans are not capable of having righteousness apart from Christ Jesus. We are altogether filthy in our sins.

Do you deny that there is no means of being right with God except through God's pardon?

Do you reject the scriptures that tell us God elects and predestines? (Romans 8 and Ephesians 1)

Then you accept universalism, that all will be saved including demons?

Of course humans fight against God's call, but Jesus tells us that all whom the Father gives him will be saved.
Those destined to damnation will resist to their damnation. Those destined to be redeemed will resist until God makes them alive in Christ Jesus.

You contradict yourself. On the one hand you state that the saints who are saved are saved forever. Then you say that the saints that are saved will not persevere and thus will no longer be saved.

SheepWhisperer, (edited misspelling) you are confused in your own mind. May I suggest prayerfully studying God's word and putting down your ignorant prejudices?

 

No one can resist what is termed "the effectual call" of God. Let me explain...

We know from scripture that man is spiritually dead (1 Cor. 2:14; Eph. 2:1). In fact, the Greek word for dead in Eph. 2:1 (nekros) is the same word used for a corpse. A person that is dead is incapable of anything. Since Paul uses the term to describe the spiritual condition of an unbeliever, we can posit that the unbeliever is incapable of anything resembling spiritual life. It takes a unilateral act of God to change that condition. We see that unilateral work of God in Eph. 1:5. While we were still dead in our trespasses and sin "but God". God made us alive while we were spiritually unresponsive. Everything up to this point is the work of God, not the work of man. By the time we get to Romans 10:9-10, the unbeliever has been regenerated. Now we see the believer confessing...freely confessing.

Man does have a choice, but it is a choice with a will that has been newly freed from the bondage of sin. Martin Luther touched on this in his book Bondage of the Will. This analogy will not do the discussion justice, but imagine you were marooned on a deserted island with hardly enough food to keep you alive. You are eventually rescued, but you are emaciated physically. Your cheeks are sunken in, and you ribs easily show through your body. To celebrate your rescue you are served a bountiful meal. Every delicacy you can imagine is put before you. Could you resist partaking of that feast? I seriously doubt it. Multiply that by tens of thousands and we may have a slight understanding of what it would be like for a person to be illumined to the truth (by the Holy Spirit), who understands their pitiful condition, and still rejects the Gospel. To quote the Princess Bride, "Inconceivable!" Once the will of the individual has been set free, there is no greater desire of the will than to accept the free gift of eternal life.

So, does man choose after being illuminated? Yes. Does he choose freely? Yes. Can he choose to reject Christ? No. He cannot reject because the true need of his liberated will has been filled.

 

No mis-spelling. There are sheep and there are goats.

 

Those who are lost do respond to the gospel...generally it's no thanks.

 

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Acts 24
24And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. 25And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. 26He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him. 27But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

Let me expound on that for those who may not understand. Felix heard Paul "concerning faith in Christ" and in the process, the "Comforter" AKA the Holy Spirit, dealt with his heart about "sin*, righteousness and judgement".(*sin here referred to by "temperance") In other words Paul gave Felix the Gospel which went something like this: "Felix, you're a wicked sinner, Jesus is your only hope, and you are on your way to Hell". Opon hearing Paul's words, Felix' reaction was to "tremble". He was under conviction but said "go thy way........" He put it off. God's grace is not "irresistible".

 

Sheepy, you are entirely twisted up on your own contradiction. I suggest you look at the scripture and see how it fits with the structure around which Calvin shared his belief. If you do so, you will see that you are in much more agreement than you are in disagreement.
You seem to be bitter from perhaps a bad experience you had with a person who labeled as a Calvinist. Let such prejudice go and simply look at how Calvin observed the word of God. You are in agreement on many, many things.

 

I'm neither confused about this nor have I contradicted myself.

 

What is the will of God?

"And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those He has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day."
~ John 6:39--40

Did Felix look to Jesus for salvation or did he just shudder because he knew he was condemned?

Jesus does not lose even one that the Father has chosen. Not one.

What then does this say about Felix?

All it says is that Felix feared the condemnation to come. It does not say that he resisted God's call to salvation. You are adding to the text that which is not there.