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This is also what Calvin ignored, though it was there for him to see. God predestined man to a plan to be conformed into the image of Christ. His redemptive plan. God did not predestine the individual of His choosing for salvation, that is pagan!

If you notice, Christ was sent forth "as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in Christ." What was the plan? The plan is all that believed in Him would be delivered to the Father spotless, body, soul, and spirit. That is God's plan of redemption at work, and all that He...

Christ is hidden in the OT Scripture but is very much present in types and shadows. He was there at the bitter waters in Mara when God told Moses to cut down the Tree and cast in the water. That Tree represented the Cross of Christ and what He there did. And the waters became sweet. He was...

Naaman did exactly what Rahab did, both being pagans in a pagan land, and both were gloriously saved by faith.

It's ok if you don't believe God seen faith in Naaman and arranged everything for him believe in the one and only God to his salvation. It all began with God showing favor to Naaman, to make his salvation possible, knowing he would believe. 2 Kings 5:1 "Now Naaman, captain of the host of...

I guess you would say the same of Rahab after she acknowledged God.

That summary is what I've heard over the past 30-40 years from many who have a problem with Calvinism. That summary being almost always the point made. Of course there are others who have a much better understanding of the problems represented in Calvinism. They tend to get into the...

I guess you don't agree with my summary.

Those that lived thousands of years ago before the Law of Moses had no Law and sin was not imputed where there is no Law, as Paul said. But that did not set them free from the fact they were sinners and lost in this world. Their sins were not imputed in the sense that judgement will not be...

If you read post #26 you will see what I meant. There is much to be explained in order to understand that the Gospel has always existed but there were many in the world who had no access to it. There was no Gospel for them to understand unless God sent someone to them. If you can understand...

The way I see it and understand it is that the Gospel actually goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden. But no where close to the understanding we have today with the completed canon of Scripture. When Adam a Eve sinned, God provided for them coats of animal skins. This is a picture of the...

This is how God calls us in this dispensation, through the Gospel message, worldwide. During the Law they were called by the Law being a school teacher pointing to Christ through the Sacrificial System, the animal sacrifice that represented the coming Christ as the Lamb of God. But only those...

Solomon in his later years did take wives with strange gods and it appears he acknowledged those gods to pleas his wives, and or various reasons. I can't say if he ever turned from that apostasy. So I can't say where he's at.

There was no Gospel before the Law, that's why Paul said, "sin is not imputed where there is no Law." we have so much knowledge of God now that we can't imagine what it was like 4-5000 years ago when there was only God's creation for the Gentiles to recognize.

That is with the available knowledge we have now. But what about 4000 years ago, the Gentiles who had nothing but God's creation to recognize Him? Did God say, you didn't accept Christ as your Savior and off the Hell you go? No, He didn't. God is the sending business, we see Him in Scripture...

Come on! Naaman did the same exact thing Abraham did, no works, he believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. Just as Abraham, Naaman was saved by the available knowledge of God at the time he lived.

Oh man, we in this present dispensation of Grace with the knowledge given to us through the NT Scripture have tons of knowledge Naaman didn't have in the dispensation in which he lived. Simply believing in God in not enough, we have instructions from God what we must do to be saved that they...

Let's take the Syrian general, Naaman for example. I think it was a form of leprosy he had, if I remember correctly. In his household was a young Jewish servant that told him she knew of a prophet in Israel that could heal him. Finally Naaman went to Israel to find this prophet. Cutting the...

How does God draw man, Z? How does God draw man since Christ, how did He draw man before Christ under the Law, and how did He draw man before the Law?

It's the finished work of Christ alone that saves the soul of man, and that alone. Anything added to that cancels out the Grace of God, but we've been through that haven't we, Cathode?