Featured The Sinners Ability to CHOOSE

It is interesting, that when you guys who accept "reformed theology", cannot answer what the Bible actually says, you make it up as you go along! There is NO evidence from the Bible, that the Book referred to in Exodus, is not what John mentions in Revelation. If there is, then show this here! Those mentioned in Exodus, had their names in the Book of God already, otherwise they could not have been blotted out! In Revelation 3:5, Jesus says, "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels". This is a promise to those who OVERCOME. The language used by Jesus here, seems to suggest, that those who do not overcome, will be blotted out, otherwise this warning by Jesus is pointless.

 

You mention TULIP and Calvinism, and yet John Calvin, who is meant to be the "father" of Calvinism, which is from his name, never accepted the L of TUILP! Is this then not a false name to adopt?

Your error of "regeneration comes before faith", cannot mean that you are not a brother in the Lord, as this theology does not save a sinner! You say that "best suits our human condition and scripture", because you are a Calvinist! As I have said before, John 3:16-18 itself destroys the TULI of TULIP!

 

What I find funny is the misuse of John chapter 3 by the Calvinists. All it is saying is that the new birth is not outward but inward and spiritual and not visible to the eye.

 

Jesus tells Nicodemus that he "must be born again". Nicodemus, replies, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?" (verse 4), obviously understanding Jesus to refer to being born again naturally. Jesus then goes on to explain, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit...The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit" (verses 6, 8). Just as no one can see the wind that blows, likewise no one can visibly see the conversion brought about by the Holy Spirit. It is a spiritual birth, not human, as Nicodemus supposed.

 

Read Titus 3:5-7

"he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life"

Speaking of salvation, which is being converted from a sinner into a believer/Christian. Paul says that this is REGENERATION, which in the Greek is the compound word, "παλιγγενεσίας", which is literally, "again-rebirth". At this same time, this BORN AGAIN sinner, is RENEWED by the Holy Spirit and WASHED in the blood of Jesus Christ. This is called here JUSTIFICATION. Note, all of this is TOGETHER, and not as some moderns say, that REGENERATION comes before FAITH, which means, according to this passage in Titus, that the sinner is BORN AGAIN, before they are saved! We call this here in England, CODSWALLOP!

 

who says that any sinner does? it is NOT as the reformed mislead and teach from this passage, about regeneration prior to salvation!

 

at least you are honest to admit you are ignorant!

 

really? then show what else it says in this passage?