The thoughts of our flesh without God or His Word are not God's thoughts.
The thought of God is that JESUS IS THE SAVIOR.
The thought that mankind has something to do with delivering themselves from their status before God as being a wretched, putrefying worm, at best, is called THE FLESH.
The Flesh is the business of Arminianism.
The Glory of God is God's business and the business of the proponents of the Eternal Truths and Spiritual Reality of the Bible Doctrines of Grace, commonly referred to by the derisive slang term. "Calvinism".
Calvin didn't invent the Eternal Truths of the Manifold Wisdom and Whole Counsel of God that Exalt and Worship the One and Only, True and Trice Holy Godhead.
Unconditional Election means that there was no condition whatsoever by which it pleased God to select His Chosen children, from the Counsel of Salvation in Eternity Past. No Elect child of God had ever done any good or evil and were neutral when God selected some or many, for His Son Jesus to die for the sins (specifically) of His people (specifically) Matthew 1:21 (Limited Atonement).
Irresistible Grace means that when that whom God Elects and Predestinated, them He also orchestrates as the Sovereign God of the Universe to have His Holy Spirit ensure that His children are born and grow up, as the Total Depraved naturally born sinners that they are, are brought under the preaching of God's Word.
The Holy Spirit will then Irresistibly CALL that chosen sheep and God is Glorified in the entire process of using the preachers and the instrumentality of His Word to save sinners, through the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.
Whom He Irresistibly Calls, them He also pardons of their sin and Justifies and whom He Justifies the He also Grants Preservation and a continual Providential protection to his saints that He has Sealed with the Holy Spirit until they are also one day, Glorified.
Jesus is the Savior and those who are Ordained to Eternal Life, believe, BY THE GOOD PLEASURE of GOD'S WILL.
That is how God saves a soul, Biblically speaking. If someone denies "Calvinism"/ The Doctrines of Grace, or for example, Total Depravity, why don't they know how God saves souls? Where is their "teachable Spirit"? Do they have the Holy Spirit of God in their soul by the New Birth, or do they not?
No matter how many false preachers there are, God will see to it that the souls of His chosen children will be brought under the true teaching of His Message that sinners are lost and Jesus is the Saviour, AT THEIR APPOINTED TIME, to the saving of their soul by the New Birth.
9 Things You Should Know About Prosperity Gospel Preacher Paula White
"White teaches that “salvation includes healing” and that physical healing and financial abundance in this life are provided for in the atonement of Christ. Linne also noted that White frequently makes false claims while saying she is speaking for God:
"As sincere as Paula White may be, she is extremely reckless in the many false things that she says God told her to tell her listeners. The videos I provided are enough. Just go back and listen to how often she says God is saying something that he could not possibly be saying to everyone listening to her at the time. “You are not going to die of sickness” is just one of many examples I could give."
As far off as a money-whore like Paula White is on the Atonement, she is not as far off as those who deny the Penal Substitutionary Atonement, and whether God's Word goes forth out of contention or strife, if she reads the word of God about Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, the Holy Spirit can and will use God's word to save the Elect. God's Word does not return void, by the Sovereign Providence of God and will accomplish that which the Lord sends it to do. God knows where His Elect are and He will seek and save that which is lost, by sending His messengers, from one end of the earth to the other.
Then, as Dave G says, "My sheep hear My voice and they follow Me" and not that of a stranger.
Also, "Joel Osteen has been very clear many times that he doesn't talk about hell, sin, or damnation, or anything that is hard to hear."
I believe that's called "tickling the ears" of the lost. Not good.
The topic of Calvinism vs Arminianism is exclusively and entirely Spiritual that is resolved when God empresses upon the heart an understanding of the lost soul's utter and Total Depravity.
Total Depravity being the natural Spiritually dead State of all human beings born from Adam, with the Constitution of their soul being Godless, God-hating, an enemy of God, with only the capability of sinning and Offending God more every second, leaves a lost sinner at the absolute dependence upon God to Initiate and Accomplish their salvation.
Jesus is the Author of our faith and Jesus is the Finisher of our faith.
With their contention that a lost soul is the Author and finisher of their faith, they are not only lying to themselves and lying to everyone else if they say that is not what they truly believe, since they will throw a little 'Jesus' lingo in there somewhere, their position, Spiritually, is the recipe for being lost, blind, hopeless, helpless, and Hell- bound.
The seriousness of the C vs A debate is the difference between an Eternity with God in Heaven and an Eternal Hell in the Lake of Fire.
If an Arminian actually, genuinely, in their heart and soul are dependent on what they say they believe and teach, they have never been lost.
If they believe what they teach, they are lost.
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As they stand in their religion, they are well and will sing, "It is Well with My Soul", but the entire infinitely important point is that Jesus said the well need not a physician, but the sick.
