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I agree with your comments to that other poster. I got thinking about judgement and justice. God ultimately makes sure justice if carried out. Why would he? Because justice is right and justice is good. So sinners doing unjust thing they cannot be ordained to do them for it would have God not...

My family will do this in our prayer time. Sorry to hear about your loss.

Good grief Dave the man was very well known within your Calvinist circles and wrote books. Are you suggesting he didn't actually read the scriptures supporting a cause he once held to? You're statement appears as a desperate attempt to say he wasn't really a Calvinist. He was a Calvinist and...

There's something here I find sadly strange. This dear man (the subject of this OP) has lost his way. He was or claimed to be a Calvinist. He claimed at one time to be a Christian. And no offense but it seems the Non-Calvinists on here are in a better position to restore the dear soul than are...

I'm not sure that it's all that simple. For example if it was a punishment for slavery why then did about half of those 700K who were Northerners die? If as you say they were fighting against slavery why were they punished for trying to stop it?

One question not being considered here. Is there a difference between one making a racist inappropriate statement as compared to being defined as an actual racist? How could there be any difference? Simple. Some kids challenge their parents at times and ask, "Are you calling me a liar?" I think...

But you need to consider that I'm not demonstrating against the governor...(God) But against you or your false Calvinistic paradigm. And I'm doing this out of LOVE to the governor for I appreciate his kind, loving gracious character which I think Calvinists basically set aside.

But I do have a right to protest a false paradigm which I believe Calvinists have about your understanding of how God saves and why.

The question of the day was there something nefarious going on that led to his death? It seems from just about everything I've read on the net everyone most certainly suspects there was. If so one wonders if it is even possible to bring the guilty in this to justice? Justice however one day...

Not that I totally disagree with you here but I think we need to keep one thing clear. The state of the human spirit is the issue. You can have people on the left who have pleasure in unrighteousness but also people on the right. Unrighteousness can play out in a myriad of ways. Sometimes...

How about he makes his rain to fall on the unjust too to show his goodness which should lead men to think well of God and repent. And how about your exhorted to LOVE so that the world may KNOW? That doesn't demonstrate God wants to bring all the world along into the truth? Why would he care what...

Well true I'm sure it would but it would demonstrate to them just how spiritually mature their pastor actually was. Seeing people confronted with various situations reveals that.

And those first lines of your piece take you off course the rest of the way. You're going on the premise that natural birth is an absolute template of what spiritual birth is like. Sorry but it's not! Think of spiritual death. Calvinists likewise make the same mistake. Physically speaking...

Sorry Dave but you employ it seems such double talk. Above you say the will is FREE to chose for God but prior you stated it was a good thing for the will to be violated to make man choose God! How you get any freedom out of that simply boggles the mind.

OK so you're putting forth it was a good thing for God to yank people into salvation regardless of their wills. Why good? Because it's great to go to heaven. Well if it's a good thing that is change their wills, why doesn't God do this good thing for every member of humanity? As I've said you've...

What? I don't get your reasoning. I'm the one advocating that God at times uses hyperbole at times and there's nothing deceptive about it when it's a given that those who hear KNOW it's just meant as an expression. So you're swinging this direction that's it's actually true....even Israel...

Your holding that the Institutional concept of what you call "church" is the exclusive way God works through his people. First of all none of us lived in all those 1600 years. I think we'd be pretty presumptuous to assume we know of everything that when on in the hearts of men through all that...

Doesn't matter if some of it is figurative. It still uses a hyperbolic statement that their numbers are innumerable. I can't understand why you would deny this.

Nice try Dave. Fact is though when those of a different belief than you put down their arguments and you seek to give rebuttals on such points as you've done many, many times you're debating. Potentially among the immature it can be this. But was Paul full of pride and seeking to take away...

And this raises the question should this not also be investigated.....if he didn't do the interviews AND he didn't even do the report than one who wasn't legally entrusted to be the captain of the ship did everything. Why couldn't all who were charged demand that their charges be considered null...