Why I am not a Calvinist.. the ACTUAL topic of this thread

What do you mean...brain damaged;
Angels need a gold card to get in and out of heaven: There is perfect order and harmony in the Holy City. All the angels that are commissioned to visit the earth hold a golden card, which they present to the angels at the gates of the city as they pass in and out. —Early Writings (1882), page 39. (Do angels really need a gold ID card to get in and out of heaven? Can evil angels deceive the loyal angels to get into heaven? Why did God withhold this important piece of information from Christians for over 2000 years?)

At least she was NOT A CALVINIST....
Piano tuners deal with insanity: In many cases I have advised out-of-door work for piano tuners, telling them that unless they changed their business, they would have to deal with insanity. —Letter 104, 1901. I wonder how many piano tuners tried to tune pianos out-of-doors in the winter so they would not go insane? Really! Perhaps wearing gloves would help keep them from going insane! How many piano tuners have gone insane?

 

"BobRyan

Not all are going to get Mercy....
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

All of those elected by God...sinned in Adam....most sinned by their own experience also....all of the elect receive Mercy IN CHRIST...
This is why many are Calvinists.

 

"BobRyan,

God has to allow someone to see it...

Oh...but it surely does.....
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

30 I and my Father are one.



2tim1
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,


eph1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

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37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.

44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

 

[QUOTE="BobRyan,

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ask God to have mercy on you...and you can see it all over scripture...watch

Every single person Peter spoke of here is going to be saved...not one will be lost.....two words are used for the word will.....boulemai means God has decreeed destined and purposed to save them...His long suffering leads to the salvation of all elected persons....
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

People pervert the doctrines of grace as offered by Paul...

 

This should be interesting since I’ve seen Arminians unable to refute the proof texts of Calvinists.

 

I’m not saying I disagree (or agree), but most theologians and even some bible translations have understood “his own” in John 1:11 as his own people. Are taking his own to mean the elect (as Calvinists like to call it)? If not how would this even be a verse that need to be refuted by Calvinists?

Also in John 3:16, if it is to mean God intended to save the world, did Jesus fail? Or if you’re taking John 3:16 to mean God want to make salvation available for the world, why would God’s love stop short of guaranteeing that for the whole world?

 

What amazes me is that people suppose that those who believe in Free Grace have never read these texts and suppose that we think, "Oh golly! Is that in the Bible? I'd better change my view!" Believe it or not, it was reading the Bible that persuaded us of the truth of the Five Points.

However, let's have a look at the first text quoted (I make no promise that I'm going to trawl through them all. I have a life outside this forum).

As usual, the context will help.
John 1:11-13. 'He came to His own [neuter plural: His own things or domain], and His own [masculine plural: His own people, His Jewish countrymen] did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believed in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.'

First of all, we note that 'His own did not receive Him' cannot be taken absolutely, since some did receive Him (c.f. Romans 11:1-6). Next, there are three things that we are told about those who received Him:
1. They received the right to become children of God.
2. They believed in the name (the reality, the power, the authority) of the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. They had been born
'Not of blood.' Having a Christian as a parent does not make one a Christian.
'Nor of the will of the flesh.' One's own fallen will cannot make one a Christian.
'Nor of the will of man'. It is not in the exhortation of the preacher, nor the ministrations of the social worker, nor the power of the evangelist that makes one a Christian.
'But of God.' The New Birth comes from God the Holy Spirit and from Him alone (John 3:6).

Thank you for drawing our attention to that wonderful proof of Calvinism.

 

"His own" meaning the Jews.

Nothing in John 3:16 suggests that God intended that absolutely everyone would get saved.

 

I believe God loves you and your children.


Some might call me a fool for presuming God loves your children, Some might even mock me.

I pity those same folks for ever doubting God does.

 

1 John 5

10The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.11And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.


The man who makes God a Liar is who? The one who doesn't believe the testimony-> that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

A Calvinist would have to declare that man as being 100% HONEST, that indeed the son never died for him.

Its like the NON-BELIEVER wants to be a Calvinist.


The Christian instead says you are making God a LIAR, because his son did die for you.