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Really: [Personal attack edited]"Do you only accept the 'Reader's Digest Condensed Version' "? That's what you're going with? That's your response? O.K. folks: I've learned that sometimes, letting the other side debate their view...is the camel which drives others AWAY from it. I want...

They don't sin either. That analogy has always proved too much. It floors me that Calvinists use it.

No. Countless millions. So what?

And, what your view is doing is implying God only essentially loves his own children.....just like the EVIL do. But God is better than evil men. God is love. God sent his only begotten Son so that we who were not his children could be adopted as sons and daughters and BECOME co-heirs with Christ.

In essence, why not? Exactly....he only "hates" them inasmuch as they DO EVIL. What you are doing is denying the possibility of repentance. If an evil-doer repents, they are by definition no longer an evil-doer...they can only repent inasmuch as Christ died for his enemies. While we were...

You are referring to the noetic effects of sin.... That is the status of (among other things) willful ignorance. It is the atheist in self-delusion for instance. No one denies the reality of that. The problem is, the Calvinist often uses that non-phrase as a foil to simply dismiss and argument...

There is no conflict, as you've expressed it.... They aren't the same ideas. The "Simple Foreknowledge View" is not commonly held anyway. But whether it is or isn't it simply has nothing to do with the "worthiness" of whoever comes to Christ...that's my point.

Accept it as written is what we "do with it." God does not delight in "wickedness".... that's the context you already provided for us. Therefore he will "hate" the "evildoers"..... By "hate" he means he will fight against, judge, destroy, wipe-out....pick your action verb....as long as it...

He chose them to be his inheritance whilst he gave the other nations up to be ruled by other Elohim. Of course I am. That's a stock sequence of words you have been trained to put together, somewhat at random, with no relevance to the topic at hand. We are not speaking of his "will" here at all...

Yes. They're in hell because he is just. They're not in hell because he loves them less, or "differently" or anything else. That's blasphemous.....or close to it. He is just in the same way that he is love; both perfectly, both completely. That's the scandal of the gospel. It allowed a...

Yes, but God's agape love stands in complete contradistinction to that. Luke 11: 11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Luke 11:12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion...

Firstly, those two ideas aren't actually in contra-distinction. No one thinks that God is saving the "worthy". Those are two distinctly separate issues you raised and they don't intersect in any way. Thus, there's no "reconciliation" of those ideas needed as you've expressed it, because you...

For possibly the first, and maybe only time in my life, I agree with you. The gospel stands apart from either a "Monergist" or "Synergist" Soteriology.... Also, the exclamation point you used is unnecessary there, in case you were wondering. :)

Yes. There is only one way to love in this context. There is only one way to "love". The fact that "electing love" is a term which even makes sense in the mind of a Calvinists betrays a deeply flawed grasp of what love, (at least agape love) is. And God is, at his very core agape by nature, in...

Yes, or, rather, it should be. They don't. The Gospel is that which we have received; that Jesus dies for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. I seem to recall a rather famous theologian of ancient origins defining...

"Greed" is not a sin reserved for the wealthy or successful, often it is most pitiably a sin which the most destitute are consumed with. There is nothing more pathetic perhaps than a poor man consumed with material greed, and it manifests itself all the time.

Hopefully, they will take it over entirely.... That's my prayer. And then we who are alive and remain may associate ourselves for the furtherance of the gospel as we deem fit. I say let them have it ALL. If they leave us alone afterwards??? It's worth every dime, every penny. Then, we...

O.K............. So, do other non-"reformed" or "Calvinistic" Baptists who do not adhere to the "Doctrines of Grace" have your official permission to disassociate? I Pray to God Almighty, daily, that if you are indeed correct...that this is an exclusively Calvinist document, then, we filthy...

In the process of voting for a Commander in Chief whom the Scriptures teach are to bear the sword....I hope and pray he did. He's voting for the Chief executive of a nation, not President of PETA. He can put mercy over justice when voting for Mother Theresa's Sainthood.

This trend infuriates me. It's just not necessary. We have a multi-site, monster-mega SBC affiliated Church in my County, with one of those uninformative, misspelled, verbally vacuous names which actually donates in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to SBC and County and State affiliated...