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Finally, something we agree about. :smilewinkgrin: Maybe I need to rethink my position? :tongue3:

Well, I'm 6'4, so maybe I'm biased in that area. Oh, is that why both the bathrooms my kids use have missing holders? Hmmm, could I have been wrong all these years? Dang it, first Calvinism and now this!!!!:smilewinkgrin:

So you have to move your fingers to scroll another couple of inches to find the next thread, or click a button to start your own? I'm not trying to be mean, I just honestly don't understand the issue. Just don't open the thread, or you even have the option to put contentious posters on ignore...

:BangHead: What!?! THE BOTTOM!!! You have to bend down and fish for it under there!!! :BangHead: When its on top its right there for easy access!!! I've lost all respect for you, Webdog!!! :laugh:

I seriously wonder if you have been employed by the webmaster to keep things active... :confused:

I was here back in the day when the separate Cal/Arm forum was here. It was very active but the other general theology board was dead. I believe that is why they merged them. Believe it or not, but when you visit a board and there are rarely any new posts you stop visiting and eventually...

How about we relegate all posts about censorship and banning certain topics to their own forum? How hard is it to scroll past one topic to click on one you are interested? Seriously, is it that big of deal? I scroll past eschatology posts all the time because that is not a real interest to...

In those days this was simple language. Our generation is grossly uneducated and deficient in comparison, IMO. (I'm speaking of those who did have an education, not the masses who didn't. Today with all the forms of entertainment, we don't spend near the same amount of time in study.)...

I used to think the same thing when I was a Calvinists first studying this view. I really do believe if you understand the historical context it all begins to make much more sense. In the OT God hardened or blinded Pharaoh from the clear truth in order to accomplish the first passover. In...

Actually, if you read John 12:39-41 and Acts 28:23-28 you will see that this truth was unable to be seen, heard or understood by Israel because they had grown calloused to it. In fact, God was blinding them from the truth by speaking in parables (Mk 4; Matt 13 etc). But the Gentiles will...

I agree. We can't come to Jesus unless we've been enabled. You aren't enabled until you are invited (how can they believe unless they hear?). It's not until Christ is lifted up that he draws all men to himself thus "enabling" them to come to him. Still today, someone can't come unless the...

That may be some people's "underlying premise," but it's not mine. As I've said before, "The wonder of God's mercy and grace is NOT that He doesn't save everyone; it is that He even saves ANYONE!" This is the very essence of what I believe, even as a non-Calvinist. God is not in any way...

Who said we should dismiss it? Heaven forbid!!! I'm only attempting to understand it within its historical context so as to know how it is to be properly understood and applied to us today. That is a basic rule of hermeneutics in which the intent is to properly understand and thus apply...

I was address "you" as the proverbial Calvinist, who would hold to the doctrine of "Irresistible Grace." If you don't hold to that doctrine, then it would not apply to you, which is fine. Yes, certain aspects of the gospel were made known at Pentacost (which too was following Christ being...

Exactly my point. That is why I believe you aren't understanding the points of the authors who were writing in the first century. You read, "No one can come to me unless they are enabled," and you think that means God must do some inward secret regenerative work of "irresistible grace" by...

Here is the problem as I see it. What you (JesusFan and P4T) see as a "given" wasn't seen as a "given" in the first century. You are so used to the gospel being readily available to us that you consider the grace of its provision a "given" reality and thus presume that some greater work of...

Here is the problem as I see it. What you (JesusFan and P4T) see as a "given" wasn't seen as a "given" in the first century. You are so used to the gospel being readily available to us that you consider the grace of its provision a "given" reality and thus presume that some greater work of...

"In this definition of Divine Providence, I by no means deprive it of any particle of those properties which agree with it or belong to it; but I declare that it preserves, regulates, governs and directs all things and that nothing in the world happens fortuitously or by chance. Beside this, I...

We will just have to agree to disagree knowing that Edwards is in agreement with me, not you, regarding the intent of his words in this quote. Personally, I think he would be a better judge of his intent and the intent of the 'Arminian divines' than you are, so I'm ok being at odds with you on...

The quote which lead us to this dialogue is this one provided by Luke months ago: “They who object, that this doctrine makes God the author of sin, ought distinctly to explain what they mean by that phrase, ‘the author of sin.’ I know the phrase, as it is commonly used, signifies something very...