God controls quite a lot or God controls all?

You present circular logic from your mind. Scripture is not circular at all. Your argument is pretty much as follows: man is totally depraved and can not seek God without Gods call. Gods call is irresistible because man is not a sovereign over God. All who God calls will accept. No one who is called will not accept. Man can not come without a particular call. If he receives that call, he has to come. And on and on and on.

 

When questioned on a point you will consistently circle to another point in defense. You eventually circle back to the original point to defend a subpoint you used to defend the original point.

 

No one is doing that.

No, because I'm quoting 2 Tim. 3:15 which says we get faith from knowledge of the scriptures.

 

Your post itself is perfect proof you are wrong.

See you believe God is an idiot who needs your cooperation for us to understand scripture. IE. you believe God is so dumb he can't be understood without your help.

John 3:16
16“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.


No one reads that line and figures........Oh the world means SOME FOLKS.

How could everyone get that wrong? How can't God clearly state what he means?

What would he have to say if he really loved the whole world?


Don't answer....OR ANSWER since God needs your help to answer! Because you have made the word of God the work of an idiot who could not communicate what he means without his "synergetic" help from you!

 

World, ALL, Marvelled.

Leave it to Calvinist to make sure you believe God is dependent on them for communication.

No one is going to read the bible and come up with Calvinism on their own.

 

If you do not agree with him in totality, he states the view you hold as an extreme exaggeration of your view. Failure to completely agree makes you an extreme Arminian.
I do not believe God tells every limb where to fall and as a result, I do not believe God is sovereign. I believe He is "weak and impotent."

 

John 4

39From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41Many more believed because of His word;42and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”

Samaritans said Savior of the world and we are suppose to believe they were calvinist! LOL believing elect only! What a joke.

 

Doing fine. Much better than you are doing in explaining Adam in the garden.

 

http://www.chapellibrary.org/files/3913/7643/2884/aogo.pdf

God did not merely decree to make man, place him upon the earth, and then leave him to his own uncontrolled guidance;

instead, He fixed all the circumstances in the lot of individuals, and all the particulars which will comprise the history of the human race from its commencement to its close.


He did not merely decree that general laws should be established for the government of the world, but He settled the application of those laws to all particular cases.


Our days are numbered, and so are the hairs of our heads. We may learn what is the extent of the divine decrees from the 5 dispensations of providence, in which they are executed. The care of Providence reaches to the most insignificant creatures, and the most minute events—the death of a sparrow, and the fall of a hair.


Those who resist the truth here do not trust in God's wisdom as it is expressed here;
Secondly, the decrees of God are wise. Wisdom is shown in the selection of the best possible ends and of the fittest means of accomplishing them. That this character belongs to the decrees of God is evident from what we know of them. They are disclosed to us by their execution, and every proof of wisdom in the works of God is a proof of the wisdom of the plan, in conformity to which they are performed. As the Psalmist declared, “O LORD, how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom hast Thou made them all” (104:24)

 

Fourthly, they are absolute and unconditional. The execution of them is not suspended upon any condition which may, or may not be, performed. In every instance where God has decreed an end, He has also decreed every means to that end. The One who decreed the salvation of His elect also decreed to work faith in them (II Thess 2:13). “My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure” (Isa 46:10): but that could not be, if His counsel depended upon a condition which might not be performed. But God “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph 1:11)

 

Your reading comprehension is abysmal.

Yes, but enough of your interpretation of Ephesians 2:8-9

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