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Calvinists Please Explain Something for Me...

Iconoclast

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ACH,

They closed the other thread as I was writing this: so i will put this here..as time permits i will respond to the other post.....

Ach.

The saga continues....it is time for an episode of BB-CSI....cyber-crimes unit.

You contention is to blame me and other Cals....it is our fault,we did not understand, and we have framed you???
Well if I did that I would apologize...Maybe I missed something, lets look-

Here it is the scene of the alleged cyber-crime: let's see what you said as according to you after you were caught...this was your "bait"...you wanted the evil cals to "attack" the teaching of scripture.........


Originally Posted by DrJamesAch View Post
OK I will give you your chances to pick me apart.

1]
I will write out what I believe TULIP to mean
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If you wanted to do that...go for it, but no....you cut and paste,which would be okay, if you said that is what you were doing.....however-

2]
and you all can tell me how straw man I am.

okay...you are trying to provoke an attack....whatever....

3]
If I am wrong, then I will concede that I do not understand Calvinism and go on my merry way
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We know you are wrong,because to lie in this way shows a sad desperation.
You keep saying ....I,I,I....but as brother Willis has pointed out...it was never you at all..
...:wavey:

4]
I will explain this from a Calvinist position, and then if you can not pick apart my description of Calvinism, then you agree that there has been no misrepresentation of Calvinism on my part, but that you simply don't like my conclusions.

Clearly guilty of the lie.....no doubt about it my friend...but now you contend that we want to frame you,and we do not understand....

Now did I attack you? Did I frame you? let's look to see if I as you requested "pick on you"....here is my reply.....again...

ACH,

Now no one is going to pick at this as it is more in line with what is believed by cals'.

Even though you mislead everyone by lying....you notice the response

Now no one is going to pick at this
no one is here just to pick on someone...we just ask that you accurately represent what you yourself want to attack....

at this as it is more in line with what is believed by cals
There was no objection to the doctrine you posted ,and I offered an explanation explaining it just that way...

Where you get "picked on" is your posts that give no indications of any of these truths you presented here..

the cut and paste material was from scripture when the person you stole it from wrote it....there was no objection to God's truth..in fact I was trying to encourage you that if you want to object to do so...go ahead ,just explain it correctly and then say why you do not see it the same way....

In other words....what you have stated cal's believe in other posts....could be answered by your own post here as source material..
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you posted enough truth here that i said it could be used to answer your own wrong posts....

No matter what any Non Calvinist says to you or any of your cronies, it will always be considered a lie for no other reason than that it is not compatible with your point of view.

We have had many back and forth interactions....but no one has intentionally lied as you have.

You have demonstrated that you do not know the difference between a lie, a misrepresentation, a fallacy, a misunderstanding, an untruth and a contradiction.

I beg to differ counselor.....I think this:
27 Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.


The failure to understand this is why many Non Cals become frustrated and refuse to engage with you because accusing some one of a lie is much more personal then simply accepting that another person's point of view is incongruent with your own
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The frustration could be that sometimes I can be annoying and maybe not likely in a debate setting as one said...to "play nice". If an "attack" comes hopefully scripturally based....there will be a scriptural response that will address the issue.
However....most of the frustration comes from an inability to give scriptural responses back to those offered...as you have shown in every other thread....


What I did in catching you and others was not a deliberate lie to cause malfeasance and detriment to another person
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Other than Dude, and HOS....everyone else has seen it differently,for what it is....cals/non cals ...all agreed...

I used a similar tactic that Paul used in 2 Corinthians 12:16 because with so many of you accusing others of purposely lying about what you believe and deliberately misrepresenting your position, it was necessary to show that you were merely using such an accusation in a pejorative matter to gain an advantage in a debate at all costs. What you and the others are really angry about is the fact that you got caught, not that what I said was a lie or untrue.

The only thing you caught was your foot in your mouth.You are not operating in the same way as the Apostle Paul....not even close.

If you want to continue on in here...i would recommend that you listen to the other posters who have asked you to repent and then move forward if you want to have any credibility....:thumbsup:
 

Iconoclast

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If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

The difficulty of the noncalvinist is his carnal notion of liberty. Freedom, properly understood, is slavery to Christ.

Yes...in Romans 6....the nature is spoken of under the language of a servant...or a WILLING BONDSLAVE...

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.


Being made free to obey....never...FREE..to sin...so a regenerated will is not so much FREE..like a FREE SPIRIT...to do anything at all at any time
[THE CARNAL NOTION OF A FREE WILL}

but rather we are free to worship and serve according to God;s law in our heart...:thumbs:


18 And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).

18 and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
 
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DrJamesAch

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Ach.

The saga continues....it is time for an episode of BB-CSI....cyber-crimes unit.

You contention is to blame me and other Cals....it is our fault,we did not understand, and we have framed you???
Well if I did that I would apologize...Maybe I missed something, lets look-

Here it is the scene of the alleged cyber-crime: let's see what you said as according to you after you were caught...this was your "bait"...you wanted the evil cals to "attack" the teaching of scripture.........

The thing that concerns one about credibility is their target audience. You, nor those I named and gave my side of the story on in this thread are my target audience and thus I could care less whether I have credibility with YOU or THEM. If you were willing to make a mountain out of a mole mill because I used craftiness to expose your hypocrisy, then you would do so again in the future when the topic isn't going your way. I have zero desire to seek or accept respect or credibility from such ilk.

And I noticed that out of all the threads you picked to do this on, you chose one where someone is making a logical argument against Calvinism. You could have started your own thread, but instead, as the trend goes, probably trying to do the same thing to this guy's thread as you've done to mine. That's despicable, and I want no part of your brand of respect.

In the Light, my apologies that this issue got brought to your thread.
 

DrJamesAch

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And here we have an example of the arrogance of Calvinists and why it is so difficult to talk with them.

"And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free" Matthew 17:24-26

Jesus is making a comparative analogy here to the children of Israel. The children of the Kings house were considered FREE. According to Calvinist thought, the only free person, by Calvinism's self-made definition of freedom, is that a person is a slave to Christ. This only describes positional freedom AFTER one has been saved. It is not descriptive of freedom as it relates to desire, choice and consequences. Calvinist freedom is a paradoxical Hobson's Choice.

The children of Israel were free, yet in their freedom they rejected Christ. The Calvinist will argue "they were not REALLY free". Well it's their word against God's:

".........Then are the children free"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" Matthew 23:39

"Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." Acts 7:51

You can not resist against what you do not have the freedom to oppose.
 

Herald

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As I understand the Calvinist concept of free will, no one truly has libertarian free will because our sin nature influences our choices such that we could never select the path of righteousness. You might say that our sin nature determines that we don't have (true) free will.

So how can the Westminster Confession of Faith say that God determines people to be predestined, "so they may come most freely."? [Article X]

I mean, if God determines you will come to Him, how is that "coming freely"?

It helps to understand the order of salvation. Regeneration precedes faith which precedes justification, although the time span in which each individual component occurs is imperceptible to us. Once God regenerates the individual the individual is then able to believe freely (faith and belief are the same Greek root word). The will becomes liberated; no longer bound to sin.
 

DrJamesAch

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"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise"

The order. They heard the word, they trusted, they believed, they were sealed by the Holy Spirit. A person is not regenerated until they are sealed by the Holy Spirit. Eph 1:13 is clear that belief precedes regeneration, not the other way around.
 

InTheLight

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It helps to understand the order of salvation. Regeneration precedes faith which precedes justification, although the time span in which each individual component occurs is imperceptible to us. Once God regenerates the individual the individual is then able to believe freely (faith and belief are the same Greek root word). The will becomes liberated; no longer bound to sin.

So if a person has been regenerated, could they then freely choose to reject Christ? If they wanted to?
 

Iconoclast

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They closed the other threads for a REASON....no reason IMO to dredge up some of the earlier trash from closed threads. That's not particularly fair to ITL.

Well yes...i was already typing the response. When they closed the thread....I wanted to address his additional lie...in a clear fashion.. I did post on this thread so not to derail it.... I do not think he deserved the time to devote athread to profesed christians who lie with abandon
 

HeirofSalvation

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InTheLight,
Do you find libertarian free will (or contra-causal freedom) to be a Biblical concept? Particularly, do you see it as something implicitly shown in Scripture that is necessary?
And there's a fair set of questions. One way or the other, Both the Calvinist and the Arm/non-Cal needs to make a case that their definition is most implied by the Scriptures. Much as I am Arm....I would not argue that a Libertarian definition is necessarily inferred by the Scriptures. I would argue that it is most fitting with Scripture. But it would be non-provable. Decidedly, the compatibilist view is not explicitly necessary in Scripture either.
I'm not trying to play "gotcha" or anything like that. I'm genuinely interested. When we begin speaking of freedom, we go into the realm of philosophy. I think that is good and right.
It is.
My question comes from the regular statements that "free will" (almost always meaning libertarian freedom) is necessary. I just want to know why? Is it biblical? Philosophical? A blend?
This was all addressed to ITL so forgive me for answering also......but, I think both views are essentially a blend.
If I have time, I'll make my case for compatibilistic freedom through the Scripture. Sadly, I've had some external compulsion to go to youth camp (leave tonight at 11pm), so I may have to wait until next week to really interact.
Not SADLY!!!! Go make good Calvinists out of 'em Jon! Just make Disciples:saint: out of 'em first!! :saint:
 

kyredneck

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So if a person has been regenerated, could they then freely choose to reject Christ? If they wanted to?

4 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Heb 6

I believe the answer is clear, yes, the regenerate can reject Christ.
 

pinoybaptist

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4 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Heb 6

I believe the answer is clear, yes, the regenerate can reject Christ.

"they" gon' say they wuz never saved, bro.
 

InTheLight

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4 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Heb 6

I believe the answer is clear, yes, the regenerate can reject Christ.

So here is an impossible thing for God to do--If the regenerate reject Christ then there is no way that God can bring them to repentance?

Anyway, I'm wondering if this idea of a regenerate person can reject Christ is a mainstream Calvinist belief?
 

kyredneck

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So here is an impossible thing for God to do--If the regenerate reject Christ then there is no way that God can bring them to repentance?

IMO, audience relevance (that generation of Jews that crucified Christ) has everything to do with the correct understanding of the passage; and it's NOT that God can't, He WON'T grant repentance to these.

Anyway, I'm wondering if this idea of a regenerate person can reject Christ is a mainstream Calvinist belief?

Don't think so. At least not with the 'gospel means' 'faith alone' folks.
 
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