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I could not care less whether Calvinism is 'historical Christian Doctrine.' I will let you and the Roman Catholics worry about that. I care that it is Biblical Christian Doctrine, which it most certainly is.

You are, of course, right. My post was an attempt at irony, but clearly it went astray. My point was that if you and @Ascetic X can be so wildly inaccurate about Calvinism and what it actually is, how can any of us have confidence in your understanding of the Bible? What I find ironic is that...

'Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such that sleep o'nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.' [Shakespeare: Julius Caesar]

It does seem that some people on this board are utterly determined not to let facts get in the way of their prejudices. Much of this I have posted before, but I have expanded it a little in the (probably vain) hope that folk on this board will overcome their prejudices through attention to the...

If you were persuaded by the scriptures rather than men, you would not even mention the word 'Calvinism' because it does not appear in the Bible.

Indeed so. To call everyone who is not a Calvinist a Pelagian would be a distortion of the truth, but not more so than calling everyone who is a Calvinist a 'Deterministic Fatalist. Might it not be better to stop calling one another silly names and recognize each other as Christians? By the...

You really need to stop writing that because it is not true.

The Book of Life is about a whole lot more than overcoming. I am a five-point Calvinist and I take exception to being called a 'Deterministic Fatalist.' You may of course continue to use the term so long as you don't mind being called a Pelagian. Also, if you want to discuss Calvinism vs...

I wasn't aware that the thread was about the 'Book of Life.' The subject of the thread is 'overcoming.' Why aren't you addressing that. If you want to talk about the Book of Life, go and start a thread with that title, but don't tell me that I've avoided the subject of the thread because that...

There had to be a death to establish the justice of God, for 'the wages of sin is death.' The devil is described as '...The accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night...' (Rev. 12:10). We see him entering right into God's presence to accuse in Job 1 & 2, and Zech...

Genesis 45:8. "So now it was not you who sent me here, but God." Genesis 50:20. "But as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive."

I really am not sure that it is. Titus 3:3-7. 'For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.....' So first: were Paul and Titus regenerate at the time they were doing all this...

Very simply, you are denying the very words of Scripture because they contradict your faulty theology. The Holy Spirit says that the natural man does not receive the things of the Sprit of God. Why not? Because they are foolishness to him. But Van says that the natural man does receive the...

Yeah! I accidentally swallowed a dictionary when I was younger.

There is much to agree with what you have written above. The only addition I would make is to add what I wrote before: that we should always look for Christ in the Scriptures (John 5:39; Luke 24:27). There has been some talk recently on this board about the five Levitical sacrifices, but if we...

I quite agree. What the Bible says is that we must be born anew; otherwise we will neither see nor enter the kingdom of God. It is God who must give us new birth to a living hope (1 Peter 1:3). We might think of Lydia, whose heart the Lord opened 'to heed the things spoken by Paul.' So...

The verse says that the natural person cannot understand the things of the Spirit of God. Why not stick with that? Why change it to mean that the natural perason can understand the things of the Spirit of God, or some of them, sometime, somehow - anything rather than taking the words at their...

I find these Cal vs Arm discussions totally unfruitful, often vituperative and usually unnecessary. Therefore I will make one post only on this thread. I agree with this. God's counsel will indeed stand and He will do all His pleasure. The next verse continues, 'Calling a bird of prey from...

Jesus Christ's rule for the interpretation of Scripture: 'These are they which testify of Me.' (John 5:39; c.f. v.46).

Because I am not a Modalist Monarchian. I am a Trinitarian. :) What are you, since you like to throw names around?