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I do not know what he says. I answered your post not his.

You asked how does anyone know why someone believes or not. I provided scripture that describes why people believe or do not believe. I have no idea how you concluded that was a non sequitur.

 

No. He is loving because He sent His son to die for all who will accept. I believe God had some reason to create man to be different. Some reason to give that man a special ability to choose to love or not love his Maker. God creating man to merely answer an irresistible call makes no sense to me. Especially when you throw in the fact that relatively few will actually receive that "irresistible" call.

 

Their other technique is ask silly hypothetical questions...

 

Uh-huh. And who caused Adam to sin?

 

Also factor in the Calvinist conundrum of why God would command all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30) yet gives them no absolutely no ability to do so.

 

Childish one liners seem to get you riled up pretty quick. I wonder why that is?

 

What is very confusing to me is why Adam sinned. What is most confusing is why God told him not to sin yet "willed" him to sin.Adam had no sin nature. He was righteous. He had no corrupt nature "driving him to make the only choices a fallen human can make." He still sinned.

 

There is no scripture that says God willed him to sin. In fact it does say that God would never will someone to sin:

James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Why did Adam sin?

James 1:14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

 

I agree, but to remain consistent with logic in the Calvinist position, it had to be the will of God for Adam to sin.

 

Adam caused Adam to sin. You seem not to understand that creation of free will is divine permission for contrary choice with all of its responsibilities and consequences. Adam had free will, whereas, fallen sons of Adam have "free agency" and there is a difference.

 

The only "conudrum" is between your two ears (and I say that respectfully). There is no conundrum as God is not responsible for man's lose of his own ability to respond and God is perfectly righteous in demanding repentance since it is a righteous thing thing to hold men "accountable" for their sin, and the lose of their ability is their sin.

I think the primary problem is failure to understand what role you and I played in Adam's free choice to become subserviant to Satan's will. The whole of human nature existed and acted in one man - Adam. Again, notice Paul never says "by MANY MEN'S ACTS OF DISOBEDIENCE many be dead.....many be condemned......many be made sinners. That is precisely upon which your rationalizations originate. Instead, he repeatedly states "by THE OFFENCE OF ONE MAN" many be condemned,....be dead.....be made sinners. Here is the root of your conundrum issue.

 

That is simply not true. When God created free will He created the potential for contrary choice, but he also created it in connection with full disclosure of the consequences and man being fully accountable for contrary choice. So indirectly, God is the author of sin, in the sense that God created the mechanism necessary for sin to exist (free will) but God did so without accountability for contrary choice as he made those with free choice accountable for their actions.

Sin originated from "good." No, you did not misread what I said. Sin originated from "good." When God finished creating he pronounced all things not just "good" but "very good." He could never have said that if evil had existed prior to the seventh day of creation. Hence, nothing but "good" and "very good" existed in creation.

A rationalization for how sin is derived from good may go like this; God created man to love Eve and to be sexually attracted and bonded to Eve so that he would forfeit his own life to preserve hers. Eve came directly from the hand of God and so had to be the most beautiful woman that has ever existed. In turn, Adam came directly from God and had to be the most attractive man that has ever existed. the natural magnatism between the two must have been enormous. God made them that way and that is "good." However, when Eve sinned Adam was forced to make a choice between love for God and love for Eve. He chose willfully to rather die with Eve than live without her. The sin was not love for Eve but loving Eve more than God.

Satan was made to glorfiy God as that is what angels are made to do. It was not sin to be like God. Indeed, we are commanded to be imitators of God (Eph. 5:1). To excel to be "like" God is "good." However, it became evil when he chose to excel not only to be "like" God but to the point of replacing God and thus becoming the object of glorification instead of God. The bible says that sin was "found" in Lucifer, rather than originating with God. Sin was derived from what is essentially "good" but distorted to an extreme that is not good. Now, I merely provided a rationalization.