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Perhaps you could quote an example of a Calvinist saying anything like, "I think I am so special because God had to pick me before the foundation of the earth to be saved." I know it was for nothing special in me that I am saved. As John wrote of those who are saved: “But as many as received...

As Scripture soes not mention any translation of the bible anywhere, where do you think that Scripture says that the last revision of the King James Bible was made by men of God in 1612?

Thanks, Salty. I don't doubt it. I just meant that my own knowledge of the man isn't sufficient to say whether or not he is a saint, i.e. a Christian.

I don't call myself a Calvinist. It tends to be those who do not believe in the son-called "Doctrines of Grace" who refer to those who do as "Calvinists." Speaking personally, I came to believe the Doctrines of Grace before I had even heard of John Calvin or Calvinism.

That is an example of what I said in my post: " I have been involved in several threads where non-Calvinists claim (for example) that "Limited Atonement" must mean that Calvinists believe only a few people are saved." Calvinists do believe the bible, and that includes the verse in Revelation...

I don't know him. If he knows the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour, then he is a saint. If he doesn't, he isn't. The bible uses the word "saint(s) for all Christians. It is never used in the bible as a title for a special "class" of Christian.

I ticked all 5, but it's important to make sure the 5 Points are understood. I have been involved in several threads where non-Calvinists claim (for example) that "Limited Atonement" must mean that Calvinists believe only a few people are saved, or that "Irresistible Grace" makes us into robots.

Thanks for explaining.

I have already quoted Ephesians 2:8-10, where Paul wrote to the Christians in Ephesus reminding them how they had been saved - by God's grace, through faith, not of works. Then verse 10 tells them that they were saved, not to carry on living as they had before they were saved, but "for good...

Yes, and except for well-known ones like "OT" and "KJV", it might be an idea to avoid acronyms. I didn't know what GES was until another poster explained it, and I don't know what dbr (an acronym used, not in the thread title, but in a post on this thread) means.

Sorry, I understand from another poster that GES is Grace Evangelical Society, but what is dbr?

He didn't say it was a condition. It is a result of having been saved. Paul wrote to the Ephesian Christians:4 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in...

Yes, I did say in my posts that in the present time, most Baptists here in the UK are non-Calvinists. I have never heard the notion that historical Calvinism included Arminianism. The very 5 Points came about in order to answer the 5 Points of Arminianism. Same in the UK.

Well, I had to look up the Chalcedonian Creed. It says: "Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting also of a...

I don't see any of those as being Baptist distinctives. Indeed they are all matters on which Baptists/Baptist churches differ. Some Baptists believe in open communion, some closed. Some have a single elder, others have a plurality of elders, some use the KJV, some use NKJV, some use ESV, and...

In that case, it is strange that the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith is firmly Calvinistic. "General Baptists" (non-Calvinistic) slipped into Unitarianism, and died out for a time. (Now, I would say the majority of Baptists here in the UK are non-Calvinistic).

No, believing that one particular translation of the bible into one particular language is perfect. That is what some of us say is not right. The bible, the word of God as He originally gave it in Hebrew and Greek, is perfect and totally without error.

Did what? Make a translation of a translation? Why didn't they do as the 1611 translators did and translate from the original languages?

Well, I would agree that the people mentioned in the chapter as doing evil would be under the temptation of Satan, so I suppose in that sense he is implied.

OK thanks!