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If God grants to us that we come to Christ, and you cant do that unless you have faith, logically then it is our faith which comes through Him. 65 And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”

Does God desire the reprobate to repent? Does God Really Desire to Save the Reprobate? – CPRC Good reading C. Regeneration Let us move on from election and atonement to the very beginning of the application of salvation—regeneration. The sinner is totally depraved, “dead in trespasses and...

I have wondered about those at the White Throne judgement when they come out of Hell at the resurrection of the dead, if they ever know the final truth of these matters, as is said of them, the dead know nothing. They may still not be given to understand, and they just have weeping and gnashing...

Arminianism was rejected by the Synod of Dort even though holding to a more Infralapsarian position. When you read about the controversy between Arminianism and Calvinism there can be no coming together, not really. The Development of the Doctrine of Predestination among the Reformed |...

I am glad you like Bunyan, I do also. Did John Bunyan believe in predestination and irresistible grace? Bunyan can't settle any such issue, he is as any other writer about christian doctrine, and in the reformed camp there is a spectrum of views. I simply used what he wrote to support that...

By doing that very thing, God choosing to pass over the non elect and leave them in their sins, and since God has done this from before the foundation of the world, before their birth, this not just a pure single predestination. God creates people who He knows will sin, He could have decided to...

People can affirm double predestination but for different cause. Calvinists believe in God's electing love, according to the scriptures, God loved some before they had done anything good or evil and that is why He elects them according to the principle that His calling is according to His...

To prove Calvinism is error, why else? That is what he tries to do, that is what they all try to do, is convince Calvinist Christians they are in error, it is not really trying to understand Calvinism so as to understand truth according to the scriptures, but poke holes in it. Many Calvinists...

Psalm 11:4-6 New King James Version (NKJV) 4 The Lord is in His holy temple, The Lord’s throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. 5 The Lord tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. 6 Upon the wicked He will rain coals...

I continue to point this out to you, because without the help of God, by regenerating us, no one will come to Christ. It is plainly impossible due to the enmity of those who are carnally minded. So the whole point is muted, God does not sit on His throne worried and upset that the non elect...

Except the unbelievers just do not care for Christ and dont love Him. They feel no emotional pain like your saying.

Thinking about that, is a good proof to show God does not cause people to sin, which Calvinists seem to get tarred with a lot, everyone is a blank slate at birth regarding good or evil, but their natures as in the flesh rules over them, so everyone sins. When you read about Jacob and Esau...

Before Peter told Cornelius and family about Christ, God gave to Peter a vision, in the vision were these unclean animals That God told Peter he could eat, Peter kept saying no, but God was saying like this, Peter’s Vision 9 The next day, as they went on their journey and drew near the city...

This post has been bothering me about the ideas your suggesting. Do you see the conflict you have setup? If God declares the elect obtain the salvation, and God knows and determines the future, then of course it is frozen forever in the decrees God made before the beginning of time. So then how...

There is a big difference here in these 2 statements. John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” versus Acts 17 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has...

God does this to demonstrate His justice, God gives them many chances to change their ways, repent and believe. Destruction coming from God is not instantaneous upon the very first transgressions. So at the final judgement, God can tell them He sent to them the witness of His goodness, to turn...

The state of the unbelieving world is hopelessness and also is without God. Unless God reveals Christ in them, which is how Paul describes his own conversion. If you were without God in the world, then where was God, well He was not there working for your good...unless you are one of those God...

You always try to make this so complex.... It is always about context, see you pulled that one out of Ezekiel where God specifically tells Ezekiel to speak to Israel, so when you apply his words to the other nations you presume upon the intent of the message. And people do that all the time in...

An OT prophet speaking specifically to Israel under covenant with God, not speaking to the other nations at all who are under no covenant that offers them any forgiveness of their sins. As God says here Ezekiel 33 New King James Version (NKJV) The Watchman and His Message 33 Again the word of...

The word is preached to all the nations, but this does not imply God desires the non elect to believe, if he did, why is there the elect?, and only they get saved? What your describing is a double minded God somewhat schizophrenic seeing all the things he has said in scriptures. And if you try...