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God saved me apart from any church, sending His Spirit into my heart. I believed in Christ based on that experience. But I live behind the "Arminian curtain", so to speak. So that was all I ever heard. When they launched an attack on Calvinism I heard the doctrine of limited atonement for the...

I was a fully indoctrinated Arminian even though saved. Later after being introduced to Limited Atonement I toiled with Calvinism to where I now believe the first 3 points of the 5 points of Calvinism are true to scripture. In both experiences, I had the witness of the Spirit. But Limited...

Stick close to Paul in Romans 5. We are all born as a corrupt species fully deserving of God's wrath. When the Jews and Canaanites burnt their children to death, was it God's wrath on them as Adam's posterity? Or when Israel killed men women and children per God's orders? We just don't know how...

Babies in the womb? How do the elect who die go to heaven if not born again? How did John the Baptist become filled with the Spirit in his mother's womb?

If faith is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, you have only depraved human faith to trust in. The kind of faith that chooses to believe in Santa Claus. It cannot discern the true Christ but constructs a "Christ" idol from scripture to its liking.

If a person is a consistently pro-life, anti-war, anti-capital punishment type of person, it seems a matter of conscience might apply if abortion is involved.

To many "I am not a robot" means you are not a Calvinist. Welcome, BTW, I'm a Calvinist and would rather have God direct my steps than me direct them.

No, they were born again and redeemed from eternity at calvary. How can God justly lift his wrath from unbelievers without first paying for their sins?

I think the WCF is off in some areas, this being one of them. “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” Romans 5:9 (KJV 1900) Faith is the evidence that God justified us. The new birth (salvation) precedes faith.

I think this also applies to women "Sunday school" teachers.

As I said before, the will takes part in repentance. But never in salvation. Were you there to help when your parents conceived you? You were there after you became aware and tried to obey them.

Peter preached the kingdom of God, as did Jesus and Paul. Nobody does this today unless it's the Pharisee's idea of the kingdom. But Peter included Christ's death, burial, and resurrection in the gospel of the kingdom as it stood at that time. So I try to keep step with him when writing or...

I identify with Ecclesiastes. I wouldn't go back to my youth for anything. Even with the pandemic, these are the best years of my life.

The will applies only to repentance, not to having faith in Christ. The will of the flesh is putrid and sinful.

This is true, but shouldn't we mention His death for sin? His burial, and resurrection on the third day? Proving his sinlessness? And the everywhere missing "Gospel of the Kingdom"? They preach the Pharisee's Kingdom today if they even mention a kingdom.

The human will is not involved in salvation. When God sends the Holy Spirit into a person's heart, they EXPERIENCE Christ. No choosing is necessary.

You miss the point that Jesus uses faith found in people to identify the elect. What's an "elect" to the casual listener?

If you must choose to believe it is because you don't believe. Have you ever chosen to believe you were walking down the street? Of course not. Why? Because the experience convinces you of the reality. So it is with Christ. He is an experience you cannot doubt.

God protected me many times as an unbeliever now that I look back on my life. Even my worst sins became bulwarks against repeating them. So I can see His hand over me from my earliest memories. When He sent His Spirit into my heart when religion was the least concern, I knew who it was and...

I think we should tell everyone that Christ paid for all the sins of all who believe in Him. And He tells us all who believe have eternal life they can never lose. If you believe, turn from your sins and be baptized.