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It's complicated, but in a nutshell, Calvin probably taught universal atonement. So points 4 & 5 complement this. Dort taught Limited Atonement which I believe is true. So if you modify points 4 & 5 into the New Birth being the means of salvation instead of faith, they match up with Limited...

The 3 points make more sense if you modify points 4 & 5. Where they make faith the means of salvation, the New Birth IS salvation and faith the evidence of it.

I don't trust Calvin or Arminius. I can easily believe neither was saved. But Calvin and all the Reformers were Augustinians. And being a lawyer, Calvin accurately set Augustinianism into readable form. So I believe the first 3 of the 5 points at the synod of Dort are perfectly in line with...

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Everyone is one of the three. God alone saves. You and God save you. You save yourself.

Like it or not, each person can be categorized in one of three positions. There are only three possibilities in how people are saved. 1. God alone saves people. 2. People help God to save themselves. 3. People alone save themselves. So you are one of the three but only one can be true.

My wife and I just finished watching Bean, the movie. It's great to laugh without malice.

If God controls all, you can trust God in people's actions. Even the bad choices.

The nations are the gentiles who God saves as promised to Abraham. Satan is bound by the gospel in this respect. It never says he is out of commission. God uses him every day to inflict his wrath on sinners. Even in your Pharisee version of the kingdom, Satan is actively killing sinners.

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I think an Old Testament-based Christian World View helps alleviate mistrust knowing God causes all that happens. And everyone is merely playing the score God wrote for each to follow. Coupled with knowing all things work together for good for those who love God.

“But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a...

Many preach their private interpretation of the Word and it loses its strength. An example is where Jesus says whoever believes the gospel has eternal life. And then they interpret the gospel trying to make it believable to the unregenerate mind. If we just state the facts, not adding to...

The two resurrections happen on the last day at the same time according to Jesus. “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done...

The biggest mistake people have ever made when interpreting Revelation 20 is to assume just because John uses the symbolic number 1000, which means "a large quantity" in the Old Testament, he is referring to the Pharisees Premillennial doctrine also using the number 1000 for its duration...

You assume John's 1000 years are the same as the Pharisee's Premillennialism. They are not. You are in fact dragging a false doctrine scripture NEVER mentions into Revelation despite God's warning against doing so. 1000 in the OT = a large number of anything in common usage. Besides, how can it...

I call myself a Calvinist so people will know where I'm coming from. But I only believe the first three points of Dort are spot on. Like it or not, I can label you an Arminian, A Pelagian, a semi-Pelagian, or a Calvinist depending on your view of salvation, even if you cannot discern your own...

Today's preachers of popular religion. They are out for money and their false gospel attracts suckers from all walks.

They prefer numbers over the truth that would drive them away. Who needs this?

It is not my calling. Things are just as God would have them.