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Not a Calvinist in this world would ever boast that he understands and knows God, proving that Calvinism and God's Word do not mix.

You are responding to a quote from God and the most common understanding of the word HE used. You disagreed but have yet to provide another definition or interpretation. This is tantamount to a non-Calvinist saying, "I don't believe in predestination." Boasting is God's word, not mine...

But you still haven't told us WHY you didn't resist the temptation the last time you sinned. You are claiming its your fault, but not telling us WHY you didn't resist. The last time you sinned, do you believe that God gave you all that was necessary for you to resist? Yes or no?

No, I've never argued that. I'm ONLY talking about the CONSEQUENCES of disobedience. You seem to think that the condition of total inability just couldn't have been helped by God, as if He was a victim of it as much as we were. Surely we can agree that God had a say in whether or not...

You shift from talking about one particular choice to sin to a generalized 'living above sin,' and it is obvious why you make that shift. When specifically talking about the last time you sinned you cannot say why you didn't "confess your total impotence" or "consciously resist sin by...

So, the last time you sinned, why didn't you consciously resist sin in this manner? Were you responsible? Meaning were you able to respond either way? Or were you bound to sin because God, for whatever reason, chose not to grant the necessary measure of grace needed for you to resist at...

Rom. 11:32 ...I think this is the NIV...but I'm open to other translations. CONSEQUENCES. PUNISHMENT. A child might chose the act of disobedience, but the parent is the one who chooses and enforces the consequences. So wrath doesn't exist? Hell is just absence of something? Total...

I believe exactly what Paul said, "God bound all men over to disobedience..." Why don't you? And if God didn't "design the consequences" of sin, who did? Satan? Mother Nature? Where did God go while that was being decided? On vacation? I can't believe I'm even having this discussion with...

Incorrect. Go back to the beginning and you took issue with God's word and a basic common definition. You've yet to present an alternative definition, because there isn't one that is different from the one I presented. Thus your issue wasn't with the definition, it was with God's word. Even...

You are not understanding what 'merit' means. It doesn't mean 'get.' Do believers get salvation? Yes. Do believers merit salvation? No. Do the repentant get salvation? Yes. Do they merit it? No. Did the Prodigal son get reconciliation as an heir? Yes. Did he merit, earn, or deserve...

And I answered you. Who said faith is a merit?

Your responses to God's words prove otherwise. I'll prove it to you, even though you wouldn't admit it here... Next time someone says, "There is no room for boasting," you should reply with these words from God, without qualification, without explanation. I dare you. You won't do it. I...

That is NOT meriting. Do you know what 'merit' is? "By grace through faith," means that faith is necessary, but its by Grace that we are saved, not merit. Look at it through an analogy, maybe that will help you understand what I'm saying. Suppose I owed a million dollar debt and thus...

I didn't even give you an interpretation. I quoted God and defined one word. You opposed that, yet you have yet to offer another definition or alternate method of interpreting this verse. You just ignore the word of God and pretend like I'm saying these things, when in reality GOD SAID IT...

No, I get it. I just happen to believe God designed gravity and is sovereign over it's effects on us. But, I'm trying to see why you don't think God is sovereign over the effects of sin on mankind. I KNEW you wouldn't answer that question...I KNEW it. I even PMed another poster and told him...

I've answered you. How does, "Because some choose to trade the truths in for lies and refuse to accept the truth so as to be saved," fail to answer that for you? God said, "Humble yourselves and you will be exalted." Do you take that to mean that humility merits being exalted? Do you believe...

Actually Webster dictionary said that...I was asking P4T for an alternative definition of the word 'boasting' because that is the word God used, not me. All I did was quote God and then defined the terms using Websters, the rest was P4T disagreeing with God or Websters or both, I don't know...

So, you are refusing to affirm the very words of God, regardless of their definition? Interesting. This proves your beef is not with me, or even my interpretation, but with God himself. At least if I reject an interpretation of a verse you present I will present an alternative interpretation...

I want you to restate God's words and affirm them right now. Do you affirm that if we boast that we should boast in understanding and knowing Him? Yes or no? Define boasting however you wish, but these are GOD's words, not mine. Now affirm them or deny them. I'll wait.

Actually, I wrote, "Because some choose to trade the truths in for lies and refuse to accept the truth so as to be saved. If you are asking what DETERMINED the choice of each individual, you are question begging because it presumes a deterministic response is necessary. A chooser determines his...