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Now you are taking nonsense
I said that the word regeneration in the Greek means literally BORN AGAIN. are you saying that I am wrong
Calvinistic teaching on salvation is mainly heretical
No, I'm saying being born again is not something we can do. So if saved means born again, your argument is nullified because we do not regenerate nor save ourselves. (And, I argue regeneration and saved are not synonymous).
The Archangel
Sounds like you don't know what you are saying
Not rubbish. The way you mishandle Romans 11:32 causes you to be a universalist. Only if you understand Paul's argument regarding Israel can you understand that "everyone" in verse 32 is not universal to all mankind. But, you don't grasp this and thus you argue for universalism while also denying it. You are inconsistent and sloppy in recognizing Paul's argument, which actually starts in chapter 1 of Romans and concludes at the end of chapter 11. It is an amazing argument and explanation of the gospel. were not consigned to disobedience.
God knows all things due to him being Foreordaining them!
Again. Foreknowledge is knowing something will happen in the future. For you and me, it is actually impossible but to the extent it is - it's based on probability. Foreknowledge that God would have is 100% sure because he makes it so or allows it to happen. If he makes it so then he caused it, if he allows it to happen then he at least ordains it - because he could have stopped it if he wanted. It may be flawed, but it is logical and it is what the reformers meant when they said ordained.
We just agree with Romans and Galatians regarding it!
There are many places where Paul argues that we are "slaves to sin." He states that anything that doesn't come from faith is a sin in Romans. It's all over scripture. I guess you bias toward Pelagianism doesn't let you see it.
The Archangel
Does anything ever happen outside of God control then, are things done that He did not know of, or could not stop?Does that include all sin and evil, as that is the way your theology requires it to be. Not biblical just the error of your theology.
Where did Jesus or Paul preach "free will" gospel?You agree with what some man has told you that the bible says about salvation. Now you need to understand what the bible says.
We are free to choose, but not all choices available to us!And it seems you miss all the times we are told to make choices. But perhaps those texts are not in your special bible version.
Funny, you are an island of one and you make this silly assertion. The greatest revivals God has brought to the church have been through Reformed teaching of salvation where God receives all glory and praise. Would you therefore call these movements of God heretical? sbg, you need to have a turn of heart. Do you know what the Bible calls such a turning? If so, that is what I am calling you to do.
We are free to choose, but not all choices available to us!
Where did Jesus or Paul preach "free will" gospel?
That sounds like a nice escape hatch there, but if God ordains all things that happen even if He just lets those things happen then that makes Him the one responsible.
I know this may shock you but people get saved by non-Calvinist also. It is not the preacher it is God that saves.
Right. That's what they mean by "ordain". That there is a sense in which God is responsible for all things. And in the case you mentioned - if a person chooses not to repent during their time of life, and God knew it even before they were born, and let them be born anyway and grow up and make such a bad choice, then in the reformed sense, God ordained that they would be lost. That does not mean that it's God's fault - they really were free and God did not intervene to save them. They indeed made their own free choices. But it is still true that God in his own wisdom chose not to intervene and thus in that sense is responsible. Now this is the most important point: The only proper response to this is to be thankful to God if you are a believer that he did intervene in your case. Anyone Calvinist or not who thinks that their good sense or intelligence or wisdom had something to do with their being saved is guilty of a great sin.