What Calvinist documents do you imagine he reads?Read the bible. Stop depending on your Calvinist documents.
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What Calvinist documents do you imagine he reads?Read the bible. Stop depending on your Calvinist documents.
So how does your view fit with what you said?My view. God made mankind to be self willed beings. Some call that having a free will.
Here's my document Acts 5:31Read the bible. Stop depending on your Calvinist documents.
Truth is not a contradiction here.So how does your view fit with what you said?
"Iet's be clear here, the lost do not in any way assist God in their salvation. If anything the lost hinder their salvation."
How can a self willed being, not assist God, but still be self willing themselves to be saved?
I'm trying to figure out how you resolve your seeming contradiction.
It is God who does the saving. Not our believing.
It honestly doesn't matter to me about Calvin. I haven't read his material.Truth is not a contradiction here.
Romans 6:16, explains why what people think to be their free will is not really free as they suppose, ". . . Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? . . ." And salvation cannot be merited in any way. Romans 6:23. And you know this. And I am not a Calvinist. It is God who does the saving. Not our believing.
Here's my document Acts 5:31
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So why do you believe people Christ died for remain lost in their sins and die in their sins ?
So how does your view fit with what you said?
"Iet's be clear here, the lost do not in any way assist God in their salvation. If anything the lost hinder their salvation."
How can a self willed being, not assist God, but still be self willing themselves to be saved?
I'm trying to figure out how you resolve your seeming contradiction.
Its crystal clear, Jesus as a Prince and Saviour gives repentance and forgiveness of sins Acts 5:31There are only two possible interpretations that can be made from Peter’s statement.
Either God was by His sovereign authority gave each and every totally-depraved, unable-to-repent Israelite the ability and the will to repent by His irresistible grace.
(note that Peter said that Jesus granted repentance to Israel, not some Israelites),
or God was granting all Israel, individually and corporately, the opportunity to repent, as well as His gracious help in their repentance.
I would ask which one you would choose, but as a Calvinist you don't have that ability as every thing has been determined for you.
That question wasn't for you !1Ti_2:6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.
Its crystal clear, Jesus as a Prince and Saviour gives repentance and forgiveness of sins Acts 5:31
31 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.
Thats what a Saviour does, He changes sinners, gives them a new heart, new life, new mind. Blots out our sins !
That question wasn't for you !
So does He save all {universalism} or does He give man free will to man so only those that trust in Him will be saved.
Again the question wasnt for you, so let it go !So you don't like the answer?
I am not understanding your difficulty. God provides a gift. A gift cannot bought or deserved.How can a self willed being, not assist God, but still be self willing themselves to be saved?
Is it a gift for all people or for only particular people? What act of the human will is required for the gift to be received or is God the giver of the gift with nothing required from man?I am not understanding your difficulty. God provides a gift. A gift cannot bought or deserved.
Since I hold that the general redemption is true, the gift is available to all.Is it a gift for all people or for only particular people?
The gift being accepted as a the gift. Understood to be not merited or to be bought.What act of the human will is required for the gift to be received or is God the giver of the gift with nothing required from man?
Since I hold that the general redemption is true, the gift is available to all.
If it is a gift, available (received and retrieved) by all, and God doesn't choose whom He will give it to, then who needs to do the work to recognize that a gift is lying around, and the gift needs to be opened up, and the gift needs to be used?Since I hold that the general redemption is true, the gift is available to all.
The gift being accepted as a the gift. Understood to be not merited or to be bought.