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Ephesians 1:9-10 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth--in Him. I...

Dave I found this if you're interested. I haven't read any of it so I'm not promoting it, just providing you with a provisionist who attempted to answer those passages that you said were avoided. https://soteriology101.com/2016/03/16/answering-calvinistic-proof-texts/

Hey Z Jesus is the One who is elect. That election of Him was given to us before the world began by God's design, That idea is always obvious because we are elect "in Him". 'not according to works' is contrasting what happens 'in Christ' by grace with works. The purpose of grace, God's design...

Interesting thought. In 1 Peter 2:9-10 Peter applies OT language meant for physical Israel to spiritual Israel which now includes Jews and Gentiles. Gentiles "who were once not a people", are now part of this "people of God". I think this is a message to the Gentiles as a whole.

Hey Dave. Actually flowers does deal with most if not all those passages, but in other videos. I'm not a Flowers fan, but I do like to hear opposing thoughts on Scripture. I expected it to be old in bits and pcs. Mabey he just invented the term. Kind of like the acronym TULIP came later down...

Hey at I disagree that predestined, called and justified implies that we were known intimately by God before we were born. It's a different context for you and me. God knew them Romans 8:29 before they were predestined, called and justified. Cornelius in Acts 10 was a man known by God before...

Haven't seen you around lately, Dave. I hope things are well with you. Are you hiding in the Baptist only threads for peace from the crazies? :oops: :Whistling Thought of the day...“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”- Amy Carmichael

Hey Van Calvinist claim is that "whom He foreknew" is speaking of a specific people because of the "whom". I agree with that. The claim by them is that the Arminian view changes that to 'whom He foreknew would come to faith'. In other words, they claim that Arminians changed the "whom He...

This part of your quote, I've highlighted with *****. "before they (we) existed. Before we were, God loved us and predestined us to be conformed to the image of his Son". This is an assumption that Calvinism adds to the text. It doesn't say foreknew from the foundations of the world. Just as...

I'm guessing that you mean, is the possibility of a saving faith inherent in lost persons? Your question is loaded on many levels. One: Because it only allows two possibilities, the same two possibilities that Calvinism allows. It's the two options model, which is not Biblical. It's the...

Hey Ken We always assume that predestination must be from spiritual death to spiritual life, as in unbeliever to believer. It can easily also be used in the smaller context. God predestines lots of things. True OT believers were still in Adam and not yet alive in Christ. They had the Promises...

https://tacf.org/american-chestnut-range-map/

This is the range of the American Chestnut tree before the disaster.

"The Meaning of Foreknew in Romans 8:29" I copied this out of a book that I once owned called "The Five Points of Calvinism, Defined, Defended and documented" about twenty years ago. You'll still find it floating around the internet on some forums. I wanted to confront that interpretation that...

It could be both, because God foreknows everything, even the choices that we make, regardless of the cause. God can grant us the means of making the right choice through prevenient grace. I'm guessing that's not what you meant, though. For the record, we are justified by grace through faith. I'm...