Featured Faith # 2

I get it, I was a Calvinist for about 3 years. There is an internal logic (that was historically developed) to the system that's undeniable. I'm just saying that that's not what the scriptures are saying when they are left to define themselves. Are there verses in the Bible whose tenor of words correlates with the deterministic system commonly known as Calvinism and which can be used as proof texts? Sure. But that doesn't prove the system, only that the terminology of some verse lends itself to being used to uphold the system.

Giving repentance, as used in the Bible, is simply God giving yet another chance, now in the NT, for the national salvation of Israel after they had crucified their Messiah.
He gives (the offer of) repentance to Israel just as he had opened (the door of) faith to the Gentiles.
It's "Bible speak". And we must respect its own connotations; the terminological overtones in relation to the Calvinist system notwithstanding.

Note that even though Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins yet not all Israel repented. Why? Because the repentance given was only the opportunity of repentance given, and many rejected that opportunity.
Now, I know what you can do here. You can say - "well only the true Israel, which was elected unto salvation from eternity past, repents, so it is all Israel after all". I won't debate that here but please take a moment to see how such an objection is the system appealing to itself to maintain structural integrity in the face of the plain scriptural reasoning. The Calvinist system's counters are an auto-immune response to preserve itself.

 

No. In order to for anyone to know Christ died for anyone. But for those He saves the redemption sure, John 10:27-28, 1 John 5:9-13.

 

Now THAT sounds like an honest question and nothing like "Do you still beat your wife?"

 

Paul says "one faith".
“One Lord, one faith, one baptism,” Ephesians 4:5 (KJV 1900)

 

Jude 1:3.

Now there is also the teaching of baptisms, Hebrews 6:2, Luke 3:16-17.

 

So you think.

Either Christ died for all or He only died for some. If only for some. Then how, and by what determines He died for you? How would one know? Belief does not cause a thing to be true. Mere belief is subjective. If Christ died for all then it would be objective.

 

For the church age concerning saving faith.
It's also Paul that says that in the New Testament is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith. That's 2. Old Testament faith VS New Testament faith.
He also says one baptism but then speaks of baptisms in the plural in Hebrews 6:2.

2Timothy 2:15.

 

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Ok.

 

Are you denying Pauls's claim of one faith? You confuse depraved human mental consent with faith and they are totally different. Do you actually think any part of the depraved flesh can save you?

 

I am sorry if you are confused. The "one faith" of Ephesians 4:5 is "the faith" of Jude 1:3.

 

The Bible answers this for you. It's been shared with you. Yet, you reject the passages shared and keep running back to the Law as your means of salvation.

If Christ died for all, then all would be saved. Indeed it would be universally, objectively true to say that all humans are saved.

If Christ died for his elect, it would still be objectively true that the elect are saved. It would not be subjective, as you imagine it to be.

 

One faith is only confusing for those who try to make it include trusting in the arm of the flesh. That is, trusting in the totally depraved human will as the means of salvation.

 

There is the one faith, Ephesians 4:5, Jude 1:3. And there is faith in general Romans 10:17-18. There is the gift of faith, 1 Coriinthians 12:9 and the faith which is part of the fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22.

Now without God's intervention, Romans 3:11, the faith God requires in Him, Hebrews 11:6, is not going to happen in spite of God's revelation given by His creation, Psalms 19:1-4.

 

If only the particular redemption is true, how do you or anyone know they are redeemed?