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There are Calvinists right here on BB that will tell you the Atonement made salvation possible! They will say it was sufficient for all of mankind, but only the Elect are chosen for it by predestination. Of course that's where I would disagree. The traditional Calvinists disagree with you, BF.

The Spirit confirms the truth of Scripture when it's heard. If your heart is open to His truth and not your own. Even Calvin would tell you there could be no salvation without the Atonement, seeing we all were separated from God by sin. If you can't see that through the Atonement Christ...

Rom. 5:10 "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." Man was the enemy of God before the Atonement of Christ. Through the Atonement Christ has taken the place of man in his sin, we are now...

BF, God gives the faith to believe, but He can't unless man when he hears the Gospel admits he is a sinner in his heart and needs a Savior. The Calvinists believe we are saving ourselves and we have something to boast about, when in reality we are responding to the conviction of the Holy...

I'm concerned with post #107.

I don't know where you stand with Calvin, BF, but he believed a person came to faith at some point in their life by hearing and believing the Gospel. The same way I came to faith. That is not what you are expressing. You are expressing a God-given faith before even hearing the Gospel. That's...

I'm worried for you, BF. It seems you are depending, your faith being in God automatically giving you salvation by the election of salvation, whereas I came to faith by believing the Gospel to salvation. Do you see the difference? Your misunderstanding is that the Atonement automatically saved...

It's Hyper-Calvinism, taking Calvin's theory to the extremes.

It's only by faith in what Christ has done for us, believing in His death, burial and resurrection to save us from our sins, that we are made free from the condemnation of the Law of Sin and death. Believing you are one of the elect is not going to cut it with God, your faith must be in His...

Rom. 8:2 "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."

Whereby one mans sin entered the world, all have sinned. The Law of Sin and Death condemned all of us to eternal separation from God. Only through the Atonement was it possible for man to be saved. I hope your faith is in that Atonement for mankind and not in your election.

BF, everyone of us has a choice to believe Christ and leave behind the ways of this world (losing his life for Christ), or put off Christ and continue in this world as we see fit (losing out on eternal life). We all will make that choice, there is no way to avoid it.

Do you know what that verse means, BF?

Replace that with "whosoever will." Matt. 16:25 "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it."

The Atonement made it possible for all men to be saved. Even those who lived before the Atonement took place, by the promise of God that He would bring it to pass. Gen. 3:15. I am saved by grace though faith in the finished work of Christ, but as the Scripture tells us in many places, I must...

We see it the exact same way, Brother!

Yes, I remember as a kid in my IFB Church Pilgrim's Progress along with many other books were on the table in lobby for all to take. We may disagree on what Calvinism actually is, but that's ok, we are trusting in the finished work of Christ alone for ours salvation.

I can't comment on those things, I don't read any books on Calvinism or anything else for that matter. I read only the Scripture and pray for knowledge in the way that He wants me to go. I believe the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord.

"By Grace through faith you are saved..." Faith in what? Rom. 16:25-26 "Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest...

The nations of the world that God brings down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat against Israel are the Goat nations, the UN.