Originally posted by johnp.:
[QB] Hello Me4Him.
Being "dead set" (dogmatic) in your beliefs is the best way I know of to prevent the spirit from teaching.
You do not know that.
Will God attempt to teach a "know it all"??
No body knows all the scriptures, ideas/opinions change as you learn, that called "Education", but the "Professor" can't teach a "Student" who "thinks" he knows as much/more than the Professor.
Calvin blames God for not issuing as much an "irresistable call" to the unsaved as to the saved,
As to the call it is made to many not for the reprobate or to give him a chance but to crush them more fiercly in His righteous wrath.
Is that what the scripture say, not in my Bible??
Do I have to repeat that God loved/didn't condem the world, Jesus died for all sins so the world "MIGHT BE" saved, because God wasn't willing for any to perish??
Calvin's doctrine has got you "blinded" to what the scripture actually teach, the "reading comprehension" problem.
Better never to have been born than face a lavish God in your sins.
God knows that, that's why he offers salvation to "Everyone", hell was only create for angels, but evidently Calvin didn't.
predestine them to hell, but the above parable says the "SEED" is not at fault for not growing, but the person,
Why should He offer salvation to those predestined to Hell?
Do you not understand this, 'But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.'? Dt 29:4.
Go back to my post and take me line by line please.
"WHY" didn't God open their eyes, because God didn't close them, THEY DID.
Mt 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart,
and should be converted, and I should heal them.
"FAITH" comes before "SEEING", if you don't "Believe", you'll never "SEE".
When you think Satan can't fool you, he's already got you fooled.
Any fooling comes from the wicked heart of man that wants anything but God as I showed you in my last post. I have the Lord God Almighty living in me you needn't call an alarm for me thanks. I trust my Christ.
I'm not questions your salvation, only your "works", once you're saved, satan can't touch the soul, but he can sure hinder your "works", and your "witness",
the spirit won't bear witness to the statement that God didn't love the whole world and predestine some to hell, and without the spirit, your words are worth no more than "sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."
And it's the reason why there are "faults doctrine", the spirit would correct them "IF" they had ears/heart to hear.
You hold tenaciously to a doctrine supported by ambiguity. The 'World' can mean many different things but What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses,
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
RO 9:16 It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy. RO 9:14-16.
The 'World' can mean many different things but Romans chapter nine 14-16 can mean only one.
john.
Being made in "God's Image", you're under no more obligation to "love God" than God is obligated to "love you".
It's called "FREE WILL".
God doesn't "FORCE" anyone to be saved, but if man was as "Bad" as calvin claims, then only "FORCE" could cause him to become saved, but scripture doesn't say that, does it,
"WHOSOEVER...WILL".
Joh 3:16 For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
Which part of the "WORLD" was it that Jesus came to "condemn" and "didn't" die for their sins so that they "MIGHT BE" saved because God was "willing" for some to Perish?????
Can you get the spirit bear witness to the above statement???
