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I told you, Hank is the person that taught me about “Calvinism” … before that it was just what I believed based on scripture and my salvation experience. You stated “your own Calvinist teacher says they are the same” and Hank is MY Calvinist teacher, so I commented that I was unaware you knew...

Hank was ancient … I think he might have studied under old Dwight himself. ;) He is an interesting individual. M.Div from Moody (and an MBA and PhD in Economics from somewhere else) then he helped found Campus Crusade before becoming a VP of sales at Coca Cola. When I met him he was retired...

I didn’t even know you knew Hank DeWeerd (the teacher that taught me that what I believed was called ‘Calvinism’). However, I am pretty sure that Hank considers “Compatibalism” and “Hard Determinism” as two different things. (Moody Graduates are usually pretty good at understanding definitions...

That plus "foreknew" before "predestined" before "justified" (and Justified happened before I was born when Christ died and rose).

That sounds like a "YOU" problem. We can explain it TO YOU, but we cannot understand it FOR YOU. How about Genesis 50:20? Compatibalism or Hard Determinism? The story of Job? Compatibalism or Hard Determinism? The fall of Adam? Compatibalism or Hard Determinism?

#6. All true Calvinists believe all 5 points of TULIP! [a variation on "No true Scotsman" ... since Scotsmen are Reformed!] :Cool

Technically, that was not the question. Irrespective of C or A, do you believe Salvation can be lost? That places you on YES or NO to "(P)reservation of the Saints"

What if someone was saved and still damned? What if a man got married and remained a bachelor? What if an omnipotent God created something more powerful than himself? The list of impossible self-contradictions goes on and on ... To be saved is to become a new being ... to have a new nature ...

It says what it says. The problem is that ... as is too often the case ... what it SAYS cannot be what it means. The verse is clear enough that: 1. it is a GIFT. 2. it is given to ALL MEN. 3. the gift provides JUSTIFICATION OF LIFE. ... and we know from many other verses that "all men" do not...

[Rom 3:21-26 KJV] 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and...

That is one of the most disturbing thoughts that I have ever read. Your answer to the philosophical question “Can God create a rock that God cannot lift?” is “Yes, not only can He, but God has!” “God created a Law that is more powerful than even himself … a Law that even God CANNOT violate.”...

Compare that to the current 2022 Russo-Ukraine War: 350,000 killed

… and it changed the world.

As an irony, God accomplished with the defeat of Germany in WW2 what Napoleon and Hitler failed to accomplish with two attempts using force … a third European Empire (for better or worse or prophetic reasons or not). It also resulted in a Jewish state and ended a cycle of European wars going...

It is according to the Athanasian Creed. ;) Personally, I think the issue is more one of … “If God is not triune, then who do you say that Jesus is?” If you accept the Trinity, then you have answered that question. Romans 10:8-13 [ESV] 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your...