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Has anyone ever pondered why a perfect all knowing God, who said He wants His children to be of one mind, would not have Paul write his letters exactly as brother Protestant has laid it out? Controversy settled!! Right? Could we be guilty of going beyond what has been written?

And I would point out that God rejoices in the humble and simple minded. How does a child receive the Gospel? Does a child need to understand Calvinism in order to understand the Gospel? "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be...

I do not believe a child of God can not know they are a child of God because the Spirit dwells within and testifies inwardly constantly, one is joined together with Christ. It is the purpose of being born-again. Of course it is personal. I can know for sure myself, but I cannot know for 100%...

And with that post we come to an agreement that ultimately either one of us could be misunderstanding the Holy Spirit's illumination even though each of us strongly believe we are correct. :thumbsup: I will guarantee you that this is a rarity for the Calvinist posting on this board. Most every...

I like this, catchy :thumbsup: If you remember those old leave it to beaver episodes, beaver's humble and childlike insights always played out to be quite observant and true! I guess you would be Eddie then "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest...

You mean you believe my statement is erroneous. You cannot be 100% certain of course unless God spoke to you personally and told you it is, correct? And the possibility exist that the Monergist could be the one with a deficient understanding on God's sovereignty, correct? This has been my...

Brother McCree, welcome to the board! Catch up on many of these threads on this topic and you will see just who believes as I said and just who is preaching it here.

I like this post. But I have a question for you brother. Are you absolutely certain God showed you Calvinism is truth? If he did, then all of this you posted is really nice attempt at unity, but it really is not genuine.

What we see here is the thought process of those who have embraced Calvinism. Calvinism teaches that it is man's fault that he cannot repent and be saved. God must illuminate man of the truth to the end of causing man to believe what has been illuminated. There is no illumination given with a...

Calm down there brother Willis. I keep some pretty strange hours. Lot's of responsibilities. There have been some very good responses...and I think your going to see some very good contradictions "illuminated". :thumbsup:

Ok, so why did you ask me to give your testimony? In the end you prayed and asked God and DoG just leaped out from the pages! So it was God who finally showed you, correct? As I was looking for your testimony I found one from blessedwife318....

When I give it, if I give it, if I find your testimony, it will not be an opinion. Now, you can reiterate your testimony here, or give me time to see if I can find it. I'm looking through threads now...

Well, I will have to go through your post and look it up. I'm pretty sure you gave a testimony about coming to Calvinism. I will look around....

You want me to answer for you? Go ahead and give your answer...

This is a debate board, correct? Do you really believe Calvinist are here to learn if their belief in TULIP is correct? Or are they here with an agenda to preach TULIP without consideration that they could be wrong? Well let me ask you brother, do you believe you could be wrong about TULIP? How...

Sorry, I am not understanding what you want me to do with your question. Please elaborate...

Here's the situation; (1) We ALL agree the Holy Spirit teaches His sheep. (2) We ALL have access to the Scripture (3) We ALL have access to tons of commentary supporting both positions, and both positions put forth scripture which each believes supports their position. Here is the...

Yeah, that's the take I get from most of these debates. But then Calvinist take it into the level of no belief in TULIP = No Sheep. But to be fair, that is where the doctrines of Calvinism leads people. Once you step into it, the final conclusions are grim, even to viewing God as a God of hate...

Brother Icon, it is ok to say what you believe to be true. You don't have to try to mask it and pretty it up somehow. It's not your own reasoning that leads you to this final conclusion that no belief in TULIP = No sheep. It is Calvinism itself that leads you there. SBM has gone even further...

Really? So then it is TULIP you are referring to when you answered my question with No....and John 10. And thus, those who do not believe TULIP (Jesus' points) are not Jesus' sheep. Checkmate!