Recent content by Silverhair

Are you now saying you do not hold to the DoG/TULIP or agree with the WCF/LBCF. You may not call God a puppet master but your theology makes Him one. Even your stated view of compatibilism comes to that logical conclusion although you will deny it.

God's plan and man's free will can be compatible but that is not what your compatibalism requires. That seems to be something that you have not grasped as of yet. Compatibilism (aka soft determinism), is the belief that God's predetermination and meticulous providence is "compatible" with...

God does not need too determine all things, which would have to include evil to fit your view, in order to have His plan work out. He is sovereign after all. The difference is that you need God to control all things via divine determinism and I just trust what the bible says and shows, that He...

See, no matter what I show you you still insist that your man-made philosophy is correct ans the bible is wrong.

Again what you have shown is not your Compatibalism. If God determines what the person should do that is not free will in any sense of the word. Compatibilism, despite what the name suggests, doesn’t reconcile free will and determinism. Compatibilism, at most, would explain why we feel like...

God's plan was worked out through the free will actions of men. But that is not your Compatibalism. Your Compatibalism requires that all they actions were actually determined before hand and thus eliminates free will.

So in reality you as a C/R do not actually have the ability to make freely evaluated comments. Your own philosophy negates that possibility. You are just regurgitating what it has been determined that you say. So you cannot logically argue any point. That is the position your C/R determinism...

But I see you avoid the last comment I posted. The only reason that for someone to believe that man does not have a free will with which to evaluate the evidence for God is because they in fact do have a free will. The only other option is that their view was determined for them so they have no...

Calvinist; Dr. James N. Anderson, of the Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte NC, in his published work; Calvinism and the first sin, states the underlying proposition: “It should be conceded at the outset, and without embarrassment, that Calvinism is indeed committed to divine determinism...

But is not campatiblism just, as William James said, “kinder-gentler” picture of determinism “a bag of verbal tricks which they deploy as a way to avoid the real intellectual problems of free will”. If you hold to the DoG/TULIP then how can you say you do not hold to determinism?

Now there is a good piece of C/R logic. Compare OT law to NT grace. You have God tell people that they have to trust in His son if they are to be saved all the while knowing that it is impossible for them to do so. Now if that does not make God disingenuous I am not sure what would. By the way...

Do you not know what desires means. It is what God wants to happen but He does not force people to come to Him as your understanding would indicate. He has provided the information but what people do with it is up to them. So are we to conclude that Paul is advocating for universalism here 1Ti...

I do understand the lesson but you have, as usual, run it through the C/R grid first. The wheat are true believers the tares are those that are in the world. That says nothing about whether a person hearing the gospel can freely trust in the message and turn to Christ or even if those that have...

Just another example of you not understanding what the bible says. You really should get your head out of that C/R view and just trust what the bible says. You have trusted in the DoG/TULIP and because of that you have missed the truth of scripture. God draws all people through the various...

Again you seem to have missed what the context tells us. As you said the seed is cast widely so all kinds of soil had the chance to produce a harvest. What we see is that some heard and believed for a time but when persecution arose or the cares of the world or because of the deceitfulness of...