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I reply to my own posts on a regular basis. Not usually in correction as you have done, but in a sense of continuing thought, adding to the previous post. I guess some may think I'm talking to myself, actually that may be true.

That's where the phrase "hyper-Calvinism" can be correctly used.

Salvation before believing. Wonder what's wrong with that?

But I think you like that, kinda like that old TV show, "Rebel Without A Cause."

As long as you deny these many clear verses of Scripture to uphold a theory, you will continue to be rejected by mainstream Christianity.

Paul, the same man who wrote your beloved predestination also said that God desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Is Paul contradicting himself, or are you totally misunderstanding what predestination really is?

It's the conviction of sin that man rejects. Man loves his sin, doesn't want to hear his sins nailed Christ to the Cross. He doesn't see a need for a Savior. Some precious few do see they need a Savior, the conviction of sin by the Holy Spirit brings them to their spiritual knees. Some come...

No sir! One has to realize they are a sinner in need of a Savior to be saved. That's the purpose of spreading the Gospel so they can hear and let the Holy Spirit reach in the heart of man with truth. But man is a free moral agent, he can reject that calling of the Holy Spirit.

I'm very surprised that you believe that, Van. I would have never guessed that from your past posts!

If you don't hold on to your faith to the end, there will be no glorified body!

Sure they were.

Saved is the result of hearing and believing. In John 8:47 they could not hear because they were not of God, they were not who they claimed to be! If you go back to vs. 13, you will see it was the Pharisees that Christ was speaking to. They claimed to be of God but they were not, they could...

Van, you use the Greek quite often, much more than I do, and you understand the in's and out's of it. The Greek word for "destroy" in Matt. 10:28 is "apollymi" and can mean to cease to exist but most often, as in Matt. 10:28, it means to be ruined not ceasing to exist. We know it's not...

Yes, that's right! When you disagree with Van there is nothing you can say or do to prove otherwise. Call it poor behavior on my part or whatever you want to call it, fine with me.

Folks, note that falling from Grace is the loss of salvation. Here's an example. 2 Peter 2:20-22 "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with...

The Scripture says "pride goes before destruction" and it's pride that man will not humble himself. Humbleness is not imputed to man by God, it's the hardening of the heart against God (pride) that man chooses rather than humbling himself before God.

How long will you allow false teachers to influence you, BF?

Oh boy, the Scripture says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God, BF. Not all will have the faith from hearing the Word, so we know that faith is a choice given to man.

Jon, that will take some of that serious Jethro Bodine syphering. I'm not sure I can figure it out.

The Lord demands that you recognize who you really are, and who He is, and what He's done for you. Matt. 23:12 "And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted."