Featured The only consistent Calvinist is the one who does not believe in evangelism

What’s your point?

 

So do I

 

I agree that we are commanded to preach The Gospel. Without calling me stupid, please tell me why irresistible grace needs us to preach the Gospel.

 

I would honestly love to know what Calvinists believe. You are a Particular Baptist who does not use the name Calvinist but for all practical purposes, is a Calvinist. Macarthur is a Calvinist, Sproul, Kennedy, etc. None of you believe the same thing when you get down to the details.

 

Not falsehoods on my part. Honest lack of understanding.

 

Reynolds,
God ordains all the means necessary to effect salvation. Salvation takes place as God has decreed the means of each elect persons salvation.

RM shows he has no idea what Calvinism is at all, he cannot grasp it at this point in time.The caricatures he makes are borderline incoherent.

Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling
1._____ Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, he is pleased in his appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;

enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God;

taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them a heart of flesh;

renewing their wills,

and by his almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ;

yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace.


( Romans 8:30; Romans 11:7; Ephesians 1:10, 11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 14; Ephesians 2:1-6; Acts 26:18; Ephesians 1:17, 18; Ezekiel 36:26; Deuteronomy 30:6; Ezekiel 36:27; Ephesians 1:19; Psalm 110:3;Song of Solomon 1:4 )
2._____ This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, nor from any power or agency in the creature, being wholly passive therein, being dead in sins and trespasses,
until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit; he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it, and that by no less power than that which raised up Christ from the dead.
( 2 Timothy 1:9; Ephesians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 2:5; John 5:25; Ephesians 1:19, 20 )

3._____ Elect infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit; who worketh when, and where, and how he pleases; so also are all elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.
( John 3:3, 5, 6; John 3:8 )

4._____ Others not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet not being effectually drawn by the Father, they neither will nor can truly come to Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: much less can men that receive not the Christian religion be saved; be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature and the law of that religion they do profess.
( Matthew 22:14; Matthew 13:20, 21; Hebrews 6:4, 5; John 6:44, 45, 65; 1 John 2:24, 25; Acts 4:12; John 4:22; John 17:3 )

 

Acts 17:22-31 evangelism or just, the gospel, preached?