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For the Calvi's -- Do you hold to double predestination?

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Winman

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I believe God has an age of accountability for children that only He knows. Infants are not held spiritually accountable for sins since they have no knowledge of "their right hand from their left". All die physically in Adam, including infants.

But there is a difference between spiritual death and physical death.

Exactly, this is why Paul could say he was alive without the law once. If a man is born spiritually dead Paul could not have said this. Paul said when the commandment came, sin revived and he died. The law was given around 1500 years before Paul was born, so the only reasonable explanation is that he was speaking of being a child, unaware of the law and consequences before God. When he matured and understood the law, he was convicted by it and spiritually died.
 

Iconoclast

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All die physically in Adam, including infants.

But there is a difference between spiritual death and physical death.


Wrong.....In Adam All sinned, In Adam All died,,,,,spiritually and physically..
this idea is a false teaching.....all sinned and died in Adam.....To be wrong here is to go wrong in several other teachings.
 

Iconoclast

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Was it his choice to do so? YES

Or did God ordain his rebellion and unbelief? NO

Did God ordain his hatred of the Jews? NO

Did God ordain his annihilation of them? NO

Easy Peasey! :smilewinkgrin:

Not so easy EWF....God has ordained whatsoever comes to pass...if it happens God ordained it.
1._____ God hath decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably, all things, whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby is God neither the author of sin nor hath fellowship with any therein; nor is violence offered to the will of the creature, nor yet is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established; in which appears his wisdom in disposing all things, and power and faithfulness in accomplishing his decree.
( Isaiah 46:10; Ephesians 1:11; Hebrews 6:17; Romans 9:15, 18; James 1:13; 1 John 1:5; Acts 4:27, 28; John 19:11; Numbers 23:19; Ephesians 1:3-5 )
2._____ Although God knoweth whatsoever may or can come to pass, upon all supposed conditions, yet hath he not decreed anything, because he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions.( Acts 15:18; Romans 9:11, 13, 16, 18 )
 

Iconoclast

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Jesus is the ultimate Judge, will send them there because of their own sins, NOT due to Him Directly reprobating them!

You said in your previous post that Jesus does not actively send men to hell...that he made a place that they can go to.....read your own post! The question of reprobation is seperate from your comment.
 

JesusFan

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You said in your previous post that Jesus does not actively send men to hell...that he made a place that they can go to.....read your own post! The question of reprobation is seperate from your comment.

I was trying to state that God does NOT actively reprobate men, their own sins will get them to hell, and Jesus will be their judge and will execute judgement on them but that will be result of their own "fault" not " God made them reject Jesus!"
 

JesusFan

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Not so easy EWF....God has ordained whatsoever comes to pass...if it happens God ordained it.


God cannot do Evil, cannot tempt one to Sin, cannot violate His Nature!

God will either directly determine things, permit/allow things, but in both cases, He will work all things together so thatHis purposes and Will will get done !
 

Don

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Don.....no Calvinist is going to dispute those statements.
Not looking for a calvinist to dispute them; looking for explanation, education, and understanding. Help me understand those seemingly contradictory statements (one calvinist who says that God will choose whomever He chooses, and pass the other by; while the other basically says God draws others, but they choose to reject and thereby resist Him). And how the synod of Dort says one thing, but a following poster says something different?

I think the easy answer is going to be: Not all calvinists agree 100% with each other. But if there's something further, please provide and let me evaluate.
 

webdog

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the ONLY requirement God places on having the grace of the Cross effectually applied to ones behalf is to receive Jesus by faith!

God , knowing adult sinners are spiritually dead/blind, grants enabling Grace to His elect to become saved...
In a similiar fashion, He can decide to decree that those like children/challenged also will have atonement of the Cross applied to their behalf!

You have just shown how it is another dispensation simply by the fact you agree faith is required. A fetus cannot have faith, hence another dispensation of salvation.
 

webdog

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Wrong.....In Adam All sinned, In Adam All died,,,,,spiritually and physically..
this idea is a false teaching.....all sinned and died in Adam.....To be wrong here is to go wrong in several other teachings.

I guess we know why you are wrong in several other teachings :)
 

JesusFan

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You have just shown how it is another dispensation simply by the fact you agree faith is required. A fetus cannot have faith, hence another dispensation of salvation.


Do you hold that God cannot do that?
That He will not save any kids/challenged people due to them not placing faith in jesus?
 

Greektim

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OK people... this was not meant to turn into an infant salvation issue.

I've mentioned Rom. 9:21-22 about double predestination, but no one has really addressed it directly. Only one came close to mentioning it in passing. Any thoughts on this subject???
 

Amy.G

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Wrong.....In Adam All sinned, In Adam All died,,,,,spiritually and physically..
this idea is a false teaching.....all sinned and died in Adam.....To be wrong here is to go wrong in several other teachings.
Wrong :)

All die physically.

Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Wycliffe Commentary:
vv. 4,13,18 are used in both a literal and an eschatological sense. "To live" is to enter into the perfect kingdom of the Lord which is about to come (chs. 37; 38) and "to die" is to have no share in it.

Each person is responsible for his own sins and is not punished eternally for another's.
 

Earth Wind and Fire

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Not looking for a calvinist to dispute them; looking for explanation, education, and understanding. Help me understand those seemingly contradictory statements (one calvinist who says that God will choose whomever He chooses, and pass the other by; while the other basically says God draws others, but they choose to reject and thereby resist Him). And how the synod of Dort says one thing, but a following poster says something different?

I think the easy answer is going to be: Not all calvinists agree 100% with each other. But if there's something further, please provide and let me evaluate.

See my last attachment in the body of my last post.
 

Amy.G

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OK people... this was not meant to turn into an infant salvation issue.

I've mentioned Rom. 9:21-22 about double predestination, but no one has really addressed it directly. Only one came close to mentioning it in passing. Any thoughts on this subject???
From Albert Barnes Commentary
Fitted, (kathrtismena). This word properly means to restore; to place in order; to render complete; to supply a defect; to fit to, or adapt to, or prepare for. See Mt 4:21, "Were mending theft nets." Ga 6:1, "Restore such an one," etc. In this place it is a participle, and means those who are fitted for or adapted to destruction--those whose characters are such as to deserve destruction, or as to make destruction proper
The wicked that are being described in these verses have made their own bed so to speak. In the same way that Pharaoh hardening his own heart resulted in God's judicial hardening of Pharaoh's heart, damning him forever, these people in the passage have been "fitted for for destruction" because of their own rebellion and not because God "chose" to damn them.
God determined from eternity past that vessels who would not honor Him would be destroyed. And God alone has the authority to bless one vessel or destroy another because He made them both.
 

Iconoclast

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I guess we know why you are wrong in several other teachings :)

Well Webdog,
Another thread dealing with Romans 5 .....and you object once again....what a surprise....[not]:laugh:

As long as you misunderstand the passage...you will always object to my posts:thumbsup:

One of us is completely wrong....and I think i know who it is;)

Cheer up...you might have developed a disciple of like mind....

AMY G.


Wrong

All die physically.

Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

Wycliffe Commentary:
vv. 4,13,18 are used in both a literal and an eschatological sense. "To live" is to enter into the perfect kingdom of the Lord which is about to come (chs. 37; 38) and "to die" is to have no share in it.

Each person is responsible for his own sins and is not punished eternally for another's.
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The fact that we each sin by experience,and are responsible for our own sin, does not negate the biblical truth that Romans 3...and romans 5 teach that in Adam all died spiritually......

Think it out...God said in the day you eat of the tree...dying thou shalt surely die........He died that instant [and us in him as our representative].
Yes he "died that day"...yet lived physically for a long time afterward.

The answer is as God declared....He died that day......spiritually.....physical death was the follow up......

Until you...webdog ,and anyone else gets this right...your view is going to be distorted.......just saying
 

Rippon

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Scripture Cited Taken From 2011 NIV

Infants are not held spiritually accountable for sins since they have no knowledge of "their right hand from their left".

Your logic fails. Many adults also don't know their right hand from their left --yet are still accountable for their sins.

"And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh,in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left --and also many animals?"
 
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