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More baseless accusations. You are making a fool of yourself, man.

Just so. It appears that he doesn't know the difference.

No! And that is not what mainstream Calvinists believe. Go away, stop bothering me, and find out what Calvinists believe. I would offer to explain what I believe, but I've already told you and you haven't listened.

You are still misunderstanding and misrepresenting my views, which are mainstream Calvinist views. There is really no point in continuing to discuss if you continue to ascribe to me beliefs that are the reverse of those I hold, despite being asked to stop. So I'm bringing this exchange to an...

Since you do not like what I wrote, you have to drop in your usual pathetic snidies. That is not a response I see commonly from Arminians, only from you. :rolleyes: You still have it back to front. He is a light to the Gentiles, and those who are predestined to eternal life believe. That is...

Well, I've read it through again, and it's even more convoluted than I had thought! It seems as if Baker NT Commentary is trying to please both Calvinists and Arminians, and as a result, whoever wrote this part is balancing on an exegetical tight rope That's not what exactly what the text...

May I suggest that you read that extract through again carefully? It's a bit convoluted, but I don't think it teaches what you think.

Well, that's why we trot the comments out; because they're not silly; they're true. You really believe that you are smarter than the average bear, and that's why God saved you. But God asks you, 'What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you...

Repentance without faith is mere remorse and does no one any good as Judas Iscariot could tell you. Faith without repentance likewise does no one any good as Simon Magus could tell you. Our faith is to be a repentant faith, and our repentance to be a believing repentance. Both are found to be...

I noticed that I haven't given an update on my church for around 18 months, so here goes. We have continued to grow, albeit more slowly. Our numbers can vary because we have a number of immigrants from Africa - Uganda, Zimbabwe and Ghana - who have been invited in to work in our care homes...

Bruce Milne. He wrote that all those ordained or appointed to eternal life believed. It means that God saved you as well as me, not because of anything we had done, but because of His grace and mercy (Titus 3:3-6). But you believe that God saved you because of your superior wisdom and...

I didn't ignore them, but pointed out why I don't agree with them. You have had Greek scholars quoted to you by BF and myself and never referred to them Thucidides wrote in Greek. He might be expected to know what tasso means. You really are a very unpleasant person. Can you never accept...

I think it is you and some of these Arminian commentators who do that. This is correct. We read in Thucidides and elsewhere of Greek generals setting their troops in battle array. This is a monergistic activity. The generals put the troops in array, and that's where they are. It's correct...

The key word is "sufficient." The Scriptures are sufficient for us to know the mind and the will of God and we don't need anything else. To call the Scriptures "inerrant" or "infallible" and "our supreme authority" is fine and true, but those terms still leave open the possibility of something...

From the 1689 Baptist Confession 1:1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience. 2 Tim. 3:15–17; Is. 8:20; Luke 16:29,31; Eph. 2:20.

'Thou art coming to a King; Large petitions with thee bring. For His grace and power are such, Thou canst never ask too much!'

Yep! 'For the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God' (Romans 8:7-8). I don't see how the Holy Spirit could make it any clearer, but those who want further Scriptural proof can go to...

If God demanded that in order to be saved a man had to walk on the ceiling, it would be reasonable to accuse God of keeping people from salvation. But man's inability is not of that nature. The Scriptures are widely available, and in countries where it isn't, the Bible is broadcast in by...

The early English Reformer, John Rogers, who deserves to be heard because he was martyred for his faith under Bloody Queen Mary, said that a man should go to the school of repentance and faith before he attends the university of predestination. I would not usually talk about predestination to an...

I think 'Definite' Atonement is more accurate than 'Limited,' though TUDIP doesn't quite have the same ring to it as TULIP. The command to repent and believe goes out to all people (eg. Mark 1:15), but the sad fact is that people will neither repent nor believe, not because God stops them from...