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Back to a point that @Scarlett O. made, labels don’t really have any meaning. Most “Calvinists” throughout history have had varying opinions on this topic. I don’t think Wiersbe has ever identified himself as a “Calvinist” and I don’t think any mainstream Calvinists would refer to him as one...

James White’s example of ‘tempting with evil’ is an illustration of God holding a big God-sized gun to Adam’s back and telling him to do bad stuff or else. He seems to be much more comfortable with the assertion that God created the world in such a way that the unfolding of events in time would...

Four-point Calvinist Warren Wiersbe affirms both divine election and human free will. Wiersbe also recognized the difficulty in reconciling the two concepts, stating that "The mystery of divine sovereignty and human responsibility will never be solved in this life". Therefore, the fall of Adam...

Of course I do, maybe not in the same way that you believe them.

He hasn’t quoted anyone. That’s why the question was asked.

Who taught it correctly? John Calvin? Give me a break.

There are some extreme Calvinist theologians out there who will use philosophical reasoning to explain away the reasons as to why God can't possibly be the author of sin while, at the same time, creating a world where man would have no choice but to sin. They use examples of what they call...

The election of God and the free will of man are divine mysteries, truths we cannot reconcile in our finite minds. Though God is sovereign and He has elected that we should be in Christ before the foundation of the earth, God has also ordained for us to exercise the free choice He has given us...

We can only make sense of scripture as far as our finite minds will allow us to. I can't fully wrap my mind around the Trinity. I can't fully wrap my mind around the hypostatic union. I can't fully wrap my mind around God's sovereignty and man's free will. But do I believe all of those things...

Omniscience is the quality of having unlimited knowledge. That doesn't mean that creatures can't act freely. To say otherwise means that we are all acting in accordance to some kind of script which is exactly what Augustine taught because he was influenced by Aristotle.

I think this one change will cause it to lose its nickname, the ‘Elect Standard Version’.

A lot of the supposed evidence does sound convincing but it’s not based on historical facts.

Sorry, but that is just silly. Have you read the preface to reader in the 1611 KJV? They explain the reason why marginal notes are included and it was not to show us that they are to be rejected.

1828 Websters dictionary - Prevent - To go before; to precede. 2025 definition - Prevent - to keep (something) from happening or arising. A modern reader is going to come to a different conclusion than what the passage is trying to communicate, whether you like it or not. In other words...

The NKJV does update some of the archaic language to our more modern vernacular. It also makes some improvements on the translation. You may not know this, but the word ‘prevent’ had different meaning in 1611 than it does today. A modern person reading the KJV would most likely miss that...

Don’t forget about the Panama Canal.

I don’t mind a little bit of crazy every once in a while. Welcome back, Shawn!

Trump says Gaza will be given to US by Israel

Why is God not capable of speaking in a direct way to His own creatures? He could have simply said He already knew if that’s what He wanted to communicate. You say that He already knew. The scripture says that He only knew after the fact. Either you are wrong or the scripture is wrong and I’m...