Featured A Fresh Blossom on the TULIP

The TULIP should be a beautiful flower of God, spreading the points of its pedals above the bedrock of scripture from which it arose.

“T” should stand for Totally in Adam; totally separated from God by our corrupted and unholy spiritual nature.

“U” should stand for Unlimited Reconciliation; God is reconciling fallen humanity to Himself one believer at a time because the sacrifice of Jesus provided the means of salvation for the sin of humanity.

“L” should stand for Limited Redemption; All mankind has been purchased for God, the ransom for all has been paid in full, but not all men have received (or will receive) the reconciliation provided by Christ. When we are individually chosen (elected) we are then made “at one with God” when we are spiritually baptized into Christ based on God accepting our faith in Christ as sufficient for His purpose, thus crediting our faith as righteousness.

“I” should stand for In Christ; when we are spiritually baptized into Christ by the Holy Spirit, we are converted, given a new heart with our faith hard wired into our soul, and with a clear conscience such that we arise from the baptism into Christ’s death a new spiritual creature in Christ, created for good works and then after our spiritual purification, indwelt with the Holy Spirit as a helper and as God's pledge to our inheritance of Eternal life.

“P” should stand for Protected Faith; those set apart and converted have their faith protected by God such that will always love Jesus, and anyone who says they were saved but no longer loves Jesus was never saved. But once a person is saved, therefore “In Christ” nothing can snatch him or her out of God’s hand, and because their faith is protected, they would never want to leave the faith. Once saved, always saved.

It is time to proclaim the TULIP of Scripture.

 

Once again Romans 4:4-5 is openly denied.

 

This is the sum of Calvinism, never admit God credits our faith as righteousness. Deny, deny, deny. Then post not at all. LOL

 

Good advice, you should take it.

 

Totally in Adam;
Unlimited Reconciliation;
Limited Redemption;
In Christ;
Protected Faith;

These are the on topic issues. See if anyone cites verses that support these teachings.

 

You are right, your "gift of instilled faith" is a fiction, without a shred of scriptural support. God would not credit His own faith, instilled in individuals, as righteousness, it would already be righteous.

Note the question still hangs in the air, why is it hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom, if "saving faith" is irresistibly instilled in rich people? No answer can be invented to avoid the obvious, our faith is not a prepackaged item beamed into us.

But the denials, non-stop will continue...

 

Just a clarification, is the faith God credits as righteousness obedience (works) or is it trust in the One who justifies the ungodly? Romans 4:5

Galatians 2:16 (NET)
yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

 

LOL, so here we have a characteristic of the individual impacting entry!!! What happened to unconditional election followed by irresistible grace.

 

If Calvinism was not an invention of men, it would be not hard for a proud rich man to enter, they would enter irresistibly. But your doctrine is a fiction, that is why God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Hence a conditional bestowal of grace.