Featured Are Gods Elect ever the workers of iniquity ?

LOL, that's amazing! Why would you defend the Calvinist theology?

 

It's true that Paul said our salvation is not complete until the resurrection. We have been given a down-payment on salvation by receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit.

But John ensured us that we can have confidence that we are saved now in this life.

Now that I know your not a Calvinist, I'm wondering why I'm having this conversation.

 

Absolutely. All of God's elect should have such confidence.

 

Folks such as yourself keep calling what I post "Calvinism". As far I am concerned, I am defending what the Bible teaches, not Calvinism.

 

I am relatively new here and yet to learn what everyone believes.

But if I have offended you by calling your theology Calvinist theology, them I certainly apologize!

I can usually spot the Calvinists in just a few posts. But I'm human and I make mistakes.

 

But you must bear in mind, on any of the websites if you teach any of the 5pts. other than "T" you will be labeled a Calvinist. You may not be one, but others will definitely believe you are.

 

No problem. We humans like to lump folks, or even ourselves, into some moniker that we more easily use in conversation.

In the entry in Wikipedia on Reformed Baptists, part of it says,

' Sovereign Grace Baptists in the broadest sense are any "Calvinistic" Baptists that accept God's sovereign grace in salvation and predestination. In the narrower sense, certain churches and groups have preferred "Sovereign Grace" in their name, rather than using the terms "Calvinism", "Calvinist", or "Reformed Baptist". '

It also says,

"Groups calling themselves "Sovereign Grace Baptists" have been particularly influenced by the writings of John Gill in the 18th century."

The article also mentions Henry T. Mahan, the preacher from whom my pastor heard the gospel.

 

Yes, that's the undesirable part, being shoved in our boxes.

But the good news is that we are justified in Christ by faith. We can all be wrong in doctrine but if we understand Christ's sacrifice and the faith needed in that sacrifice, we're going to be just fine.

 

One day we'll all agree, when the Lord sets it all straight.

Until then I guess we're just going to be human.

 

“A rose by any other name smells as sweet.” William Shakespeare.

Or did he say, “smells the same”?

Jehovah Witnesses dislike being called Russellites, but they teach his beliefs.

Church of Christ dislike being called Campbellites, but they teach his beliefs.

Likewise, some Calvinists really dislike being called Calvinists. They prefer sovereign grace, doctrines of grace, monergists, or more often call their belief system covenant theology, or Reformed Theology. Nonetheless, they teach the beliefs of Augustine, more often known as Calvinism. It’s all the same belief. He is a Calvinist; just doesn’t like the name, maybe because he’s not Presbyterian. Whatever. It’s all summed up in TULIP, for the most part.

 

Very well said, MrW!!!

 

Actually, I am a vile sinner saved by the blood of Christ, according to the gospel of Christ, the LORD my Righteousness, which is the gospel I proclaim on this board and elsewhere.

 

Sinners don’t go to Heaven; saints do.

In myself, I am a horrid sinner.

But I am not alone.

I am in Christ and Christ is in me, by His grace, goodness, and mercy, and the new birth. Thus, I am a saint, undeserving on my own, but God has named me a saint in Christ, glory be unto Him.

 

All of us are in one of two groups:

1) Sinners who are lost.
2) Sinners who are saved by God's grace.

 

Amen.
God never calls His elect "workers of iniquity".

He has made us, through the blood of His Son and the power of His Spirit, "those that do righteousness".