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It's how God intended for man to exercise his free will. No one is in Hell because God chose not to draw them, they are in Hell because they rejected His Son. And there are several ways that can be done!

That is one of the many extremes the Calvinists must take in order to hold on to a dead theory!

BF, have you ever been in a Church service under the anointed preaching and notice someone looking uncomfortable? Maybe they seem unable to get situated in their seat, wiping their face continually, maybe breaking out in a cold sweat? That is the drawing of the Holy Spirit under the conviction...

Calvinists and non-Calvinist do not get to PSA through the same view. There are many differences in the framework. That is probably for another thread.

I think he had the right idea, and why he is so widely accepted by the non-Calvinists.

Christ said, "if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me." If the draw is a definite salvation as you suggest, then you must be a Universalist.

It's been my experience in conversation that Covenant Theology and Dispensational Theology both agree on PSA, but with a different look on how they get there. The RCC denies it.

The Reformers didn't agree among themselves. But they all did agree they had to get out of the RCC. If they didn't get anything else right, thank God they did point us back to salvation by Grace and not works.

The distinctives are the same with all 5 pt. Calvinists. TULIP and Covenant Theology.

Every one of us chooses his own way. Responsibility comes with that choice.

"See that you be not troubled for these things must come to pass..."

The truth is, Cathode, the Blood is applied as Paul describes it in Col. 2, our spiritual rebirth that water baptism symbolizes.

Show me the verse where the Blood is applied in water baptism.

Cathode, let's reason together on water baptism. Just hear me out. Rom. 4:14 "For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:" The Law was a system of works. Paul plainly tells us that faith is made void by works. Rom. 11:5-6 "Even so...

"Nothing but the Blood of Jesus"