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How you read anger in that post is beyond me. Sounds like a pot/kettle thing if you ask me. You've been pretty accusatory. The very nature of your questions demonstrate that you are missing the point. I'm not asking to define foreknowledge. This is a syntactical question. I want to know...

Prooftexting that misses the context is incorrect. Case and point the verse I am talking about. And you apparently missed the point of the thread. However you define foreknowledge, 1 Peter 1:1-2 does not likely at all say that it is the basis for God's election.

All men are so depraved that left to themselves will always deny and avoid God. Based on his pleasure and glory, God's efficacious grace chooses and intervenes in a group of individuals to change their heart. Jesus dies for those individuals guaranteeing their redemption. God's work to change...

Many opposed to Calvinism say that election is according to foreknowledge (prescience view) seeking to refute the unconditionality of God's election. God elected based on his pleasure. But the non-calvie will say that god elected based on his foreknowing future events. But if this verse says...

I've made this point many times, but I haven't received much of a response. I am only calling out Winman because he makes this a prooftext often and most recently to my awareness. Opposing Calvinism often points to 1 Peter 1:1-2 - "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect...

It is easier to express my views if I express how I arrived from a semi-pelagian/non-calvie view to the 5 pointer supralapsarian I am today. I was indoctrinated w/ non-calvie teachings. But I always fudged back and forth. At the same time, I had difficulty w/ certain truths of the...

And according to #2 it appears, we are off to a bad start.

That is simply wrong. I am able to determine my status before God by my fruits. That was Jesus' test. That was John's test. Paul told us to take the test. And not to toot my own horn, but by God's grace, I am a new creation, old things have passed away, all things are new. Thus I know I am...

I noticed that is was playing off the other thread. That doesn't make it any less non-sensical.

I'm not sure if anyone made this point yet, but did anyone else notice the non-sequitur of the OP title??? "Being chosen requires a response"??? Being chosen is a passive activity on the part of the one chosen. The word itself does not necessitate an active "acceptance". Being chosen by God...

It is not a total abstinence from wine. It is a qualification for not being controlled by wine. The KJV missed this one. It is another periphrasis for drunk. Similar to the periphrasis for "husband of one wife." It could mean a couple of things, but it is still a round-about way to mean...

24 hr fast once... similar to the above that God provides what I need. It was a good lesson to rely on him when it started to hurt or get tough. There were so many times that I almost talked myself into just stopping. The constant barrage of temptation to quit was nearly overwhelming. It...

My pastor in Honduras is a Cedarville grad.

That was my point earlier... he is a covenantal arminian.

Bwahahaha!!! Nice catch ;)

Seriously??? He is regarded as a top rate NT scholar.

While it is true that Covenant Theology & similar forms teach Amillism... it also teaches Postmill and Premillism. Not all covenanters are Amills. Not all covenanters are Calvinists either.

It sounds like your predetermined theology is determining your interpretation. There is a name for that.

I. Howard Marshall is a covenant theologian (hate that term) as well as an Arminian. Go figure.

Just a thought... I'm not opposed to online education, but does this mean that we are going to have a glut of seminary educated people and not much to do with them (similar to the many number of PhD programs and thus PhD's w/ no job)? That would be a good problem to have, but I wonder if the...