Featured THE LORD IS…NOT WILLING THAT ANY OF YOU SHOULD PERISH

the point is that the Holy Spirit can and is resisted by both saved and unsaved people. The speech of Stephen is in the context of salvation, and the Jews present did resist the working of the Holy Spirit in them. Showing that they had "free wills", and there is no such thing as "irresistible grace"! Both Reformed errors.

 

Noah did!

 

maybe you should read what Calvin wrote on John 3:16

That whosoever believeth on him may not perish. It is a remarkable commendation of faith, that it frees us from everlasting destruction. For he intended expressly to state that, though we appear to have been born to death, undoubted deliverance is offered to us by the faith of Christ; and, therefore, that we ought not to fear death, which otherwise hangs over us. And he has employed the universal term whosoever, both to invite all indiscriminately to partake of life, and to cut off every excuse from unbelievers. Such is also the import of the term World, which he formerly used; for though nothing will be found inthe world that is worthy of the favor of God, yet he shows himself to be reconciled to the whole world, when he invites all men without exception to the faith of Christ, which is nothing else than an entrance into life.

This language does not in any way restrict anything to only "the elect". "all indiscriminately" and "all men without exception", are UNIVERSAL terms meaning the entire human race, every single person! Otherwise Calvin would have said, "everyone without distinction".

 

John Gill On Luke 22:21

with me on the table; and is an aggravation of his sin, that one that sat with him at his table, ate bread with him, and dipped his morsel in the same dish, should be the betrayer of him, according to the prophecy in Psalm 41:9 as well as describes and points at the person that should do this action, even one of his disciples; for which disciples, he had just now said, his body is given, and his blood is shed. The phrase, "with me", is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions. From Luke's account it appears most clearly, that Judas was not only at the passover, but at the Lord's supper, since this was said when both were over.

Matthew Henry On Luke 22:21

By placing this after the institution of the Lord's supper, though in Matthew and Mark it is placed before it, it seems plain that Judas did receive the Lord's supper, did eat of that bread and drink of that cup for, after the solemnity was over, Christ said, Behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. There have been those that have eaten bread with Christ and yet have betrayed him.

Jesus Christ is Almighty God, and would have known that Judas was to leave the room shortly after the Lord's Supper was given by Him. If He did not intend for Judas to eat the bread, and drink the wine, representing His body and blood, then surely to be very clear, He would have instituted the Supper after Judas had left the room. The fact that Judas not only took this very important Supper with Jesus and the 11, and was told by Jesus, "And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you...Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.", no doubt meant that Jesus' death also included Judas along with the other 11. It is only because of ones "theology", that objection would be made to the plain reading of Scripture.

 

Oh no, time the US wakes and people start to respond, it will be too late!

 

then you could say that God "failed" when the devil and his wicked angels rebelled against Him in heaven, and ever since then has been trying to destroy what God has created, and blinded millions to the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Your reasoning is theological and MOOT!

 

you guys do say a load of codswhallop!

 

Ordained, means "to establish or order by appointment, decree", which makes God the author of sin, as He IS the cause of their rebellion against Him! This is blasphemy!

 

regardless of your useless reasoning, the fact remains in the Bible, that Jesus Christ thought it right that Judas was present for the taking of the bread and wine, which represents Jesus' body and blood. And was also told by Jesus, that His death on the cross was for him! Accept what the Bible says without your personal theology!

 

I don't follow, John Calvin, or John Owen, or any other John, but the Lord Jesus Christ and the teachings in the Holy Bible! I do NOT hate anyone in this world, which is really what the "reformed" do, when they try to argue that passages like John 3:16, is not releted to every single human being! I am not surprised that many "reformed" are declining in numbers and even closing down, as the Lord is not pleased with their teaching on salvation, for example, which is as Pauls says, "another gospel"