Featured Following up on "If you are not a Calvinist..." thread

This looks fine to me as a moderate Calvinist. I think there are workings by God involving both His sovereignty and the Holy Spirit that are not explained here but there is nothing that is wrong or needs to be corrected. Calvinists remind me of an engineer friend I have. If someone says "man, that's a beautiful sunrise" he would say "no, actually what happens is that the earth turns until you observe the sun. It actually doesn't rise". I would say that from my point of view, the sun indeed rises.

 

He was regenerated by the Holy Spirit and thus enabled and quickened to receive Jesus as Lord thru faith!

 

Must first though be regenerated /quickened/enabled by the Holy Spirit to hear and receive the good news!

 

Stick close to Paul in Romans 5. We are all born as a corrupt species fully deserving of God's wrath. When the Jews and Canaanites burnt their children to death, was it God's wrath on them as Adam's posterity? Or when Israel killed men women and children per God's orders? We just don't know how depraved we are since God restrains all for His purposes.

But look on the bright side, if there is one. To die young means less suffering in Hell since God's wrath is commensurate with our sins.

 

I heard a cringeworthy southern gospel song on the radio this morning. The chorus said this: "I changed my mind and let Christ in." How man-centered is that. It conveys the idea that man is completely in control of his destiny and can get to heaven based on the mindset he decides to have. God, in that theology, becomes secondary to man.

 

This is bad... I heard the song "He was there all the time"..." standing patiently in line"... Yikes, how can this not be blasphemy???