Calvinism Misrepresents the Meaning of Death

Thank you Wesley for desiring proof. We are dealing with the subject of death here and Calvinists have told me that death makes a sinner unable to believe in God. They call the doctrine total depravity and liken spiritual death to physical death and use Lazarus in John 11 as a proof text. Calvinists on this very board have used that nonsensical logic and have told me that sinners are like Lazarus and so dead that God must wake them up from this condition before they can respond to the preaching of the cross by believing it and being reborn. They teach a doctrine called "determinism." That doctrine teaches that God pre determines all events of history. That is false doctrine and heresy.

The scriptures say that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Calvinists say Jesus Christ came into the world to save the prechosen for salvation. I am charging Calvinists with preaching a false gospel unless you can produce evidence that you or someone you know were prechosen and God said so. I can’t believe anything about God that is not written down. If you are testifying that God did something and he says nothing about it I simply do not have any way to verify this act of God. I have given Calvinists many things God has said plainly and they have not believed them.

Everything Calvinists teaches documents their heresy. The comments by Calvinists on this board documents their false doctrines .I am not telling you this to anger you but because it is true. If you hold to these false doctrines then you need to reassess your own relationship with God according to the scriptures admonition here;

2 Cor 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Silly advice for a prechosen predetermined saint without a choice if you ask me.

 

Physical death refers to not being in a relationship with the the body.

 

Whether they were created or not created is not the point. The point is that both these men were said to be in the image of God in the OT and they were said to be the son of God. No other person in the OT could claim this. All men in the NT who trust in Jesus Christ are said to be sons of God. What is the difference in these two men in the OT and all other men in the OT? Two things are different. They have the indwelling Spirit of God in their bodies. This makes them like God in that they are a trinity. Trinity means three in one and one in three. As a trinity, all these 3 parts of a man can be separated and yet they are still the same man. These three parts are the soul, the body, and the Spirit for these two men. Sin was the agency that separated them both from God. When they are separated the result is called death. Since the Spirit is the breath of God and also a person, a member of the Godhead, he gives the man his divine nature and a relationship with God. The second thing that makes them different from all other is that they are totally in tune with God and are at one with him. The body of Adam was more than likely a glorified body like the body of our Lord when he rose from the dead. There is no sin to block the fellowship with God. Then Adam sinned and died spiritually. This means the Spirit of God, who is a person, departed from him. The image of God is now marred in Adam and he is a two part man. Here is what God says about his children;

Gen 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

In other words, Seth was not like God, he was like his father, Adam. This did not mean he was a sinner when he was born but it did mean he was a two part man. He was a body and a soul. Now, instead of being led by the Spirit of God he was guided by his conscience, which made him aware of good and evil but was not infallible and did not give him the power to overcome his lusts that leads to sin. Sin leads to death. The scriptures tell us that to him that knows to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin. Paul says in Rom 7 that he has a desire to do right but how to perform it he finds not. Because of this all men sin. Sin then is the cause of he separation of God and man. Take sin away and God and man can be reconciled and be as one. John the Baptist said of Jesus Christ, behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Speaking of Jesus Christ, Hebrews 9:26 says in part, “but now once in the end of the would hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Because of this Paul was able to say in 2 Cor 5 these wonderful words.

2 Corinthians 5:18-21
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. ,
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

This means that Adam’s race can be at one again with God because sin has been dealt with through death and resurrection. To be reconciled to God means to have his life in you. Reconciliation is a two way proposition.

This post is getting too long and there is more to know. My op is about death and how Calvinism misrepresents it.