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Yes, I have to say that I have more in common with Van than not. Though he and I have different perspectives most often.

You're interrupting a promise I made to my God concerning my continuous anger management program with Him. I tend to fall off the wagon from time to time, but I made a promise and intend to keep it to best of my ability by way of the Holy Spirit. I'm sure you can understand why I have said...

I don't know what Bible you're reading, it's surly not the one I read. God does not always get His way with man, there is no excuse whatsoever to misunderstand this. God has clearly, according to Scripture, commanded all men everywhere to repent, and we can plainly see that has not happened...

We must all make a very important decision in this life. Is the God we serve a God that has chosen an elect group to be saved and left the rest to suffer in Hell. Or is God One who desires all man to be saved and come to the knowledge of truth, giving man a choice to accept Him or suffer the...

Look guys, you can reject it, as I'm sure you will, but you can plainly see in Scripture that God has created man a free moral agent to choose his own way. You can plainly see that through this gift from God, He doesn't always get His way with man. I agree God is Sovereign over all things and...

Did not Paul say that, "AFTER you believed you received the Holy Spirit of promise? Eph. 1:12-13 "That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye...

You will get different answers from different perspectives. It's difficult to explain, I think the reason for so much confusion. Let's take a look at Eph. 1:4-5 from a different perspective. "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and...

Here's an example of the convicting power of the Holy Spirit through the hearing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Acts 2:36-38 Peter is preaching at Pentecost to the crowd. "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both...

It's the hearing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that opens the eyes and heart to all who will believe Him. The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, and gives the hearer the opportunity to call on God with repentance. Rom. 10:13 "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Man could not choose Christ if God had not provided that choice. God does all the saving, man is left with the choice of who he will serve, God or Satan. It's one or the other, no exceptions.

The God I serve wants all men everywhere to be saved. But all men everywhere will not repent. God gives man the choice to serve Him or not, and just as Adam was beforehand given the consequences, so He gives it to all. Acts 17:30-31 "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now...

...how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! I don't know the God you serve, @Zaatar71, he is foreign to me.

Yes, and there are so many that don't know the difference. So many that think God has never reached out to them, that He doesn't love them, that they cannot know Him. Psalms 126:5-6 "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall...

I was thinking there will be a lot of denouncing Calvinism after we leave this earth.

Here's the way I see it, Dave. There are two "elects" in Scripture, Israel being the first and second are all who born-again in Christ Jesus. Isaiah 45:4 "For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known...

Man can pervert the light into darkness on this earth. I most definitely see a dark side of God's predestination by man.

Of course there is a condition to the plan that TULIP denies. We must choose to believe and accept Christ to benefit from the plan.

It's the dark side of predestination. I believe man was predestined to be conformed into the image of Christ according to His plan of redemption before the foundation of the world. I see the plan being predestined for man before the foundation of the world, the plan of how man would be...

Well said! The bottom line for me is what must God think of this? Do they even care what God thinks of it?

I don't care who doesn't like it, TULIP is an evil force that pulls in its prey and won't let go.