Was Paul Crucified for you? (1Cor 1:13)

It's obvious you don't have a clue as to why you were asked to apologize.

 

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This is not how you apologize. You need to remove pride and ask forgiveness. God will forgive and others will also, if you mean it.

 

You are about as puffed up as anyone I have ever seen on this board. You do not show a spirit of learning in any of your posts, but seem to think you have all the answers and we should all learn from you.

One can believe the doctrines of grace without ever having read a word of Calvin or even know who he is.

You should get the log out of your own eye before trying to remove the speck in someone elses.

I find this latest post of yours to be very offensive and lacking in Christian love.

I hope you will pray and reconsider your judgemental attitude.

 

If anyone here was claiming to be "of Calvin," and was divisive over it in their local church, then you might have a point. But I don't know why you'd think that, and how you'd know, anyway.

And you'll notice that Paul admonishes those who claim to be "of Christ", too. So anyone who says, "Well, you're a Calvinist, but I'm just a follower of Jesus" in a way that is divisive in the local church would come under Paul's admonition as well.

 

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It is beyond belief that both sides cannot respect the other view and go on in the fellowship of Christian love.

What is the going hobby now days? Double the number of denominations from what we have managed since Acts 2?

Skypair, only you could get both Calvinists and free will people angry at you in 7 posts of one thread.

 

Calvinists and Arminians and everyone else in between here have been debating the merits and demerits of both theologies sometimes heatedly sometimes jestingly but never with an attitude of simmering hate until you came along with your "humble" observations and "lowly" admonitions to learn from you, skypair.

You keep insulting brethren here with your statements that Calvinists follow Calvin and not Christ.

We can learn better from each other without you around, you know.

All you need to do is forget Baptist Board exists, we'll miss you, but eventually we'll get used to your absence.

 

I have been reading your posts for over a year now and your disdain for Calvinists is quite apparent and IMHO you should show some Christian charity.
I mean no disrespect, but quite frankly I don't understand most of your posts and that's why I don't usually respond to them. Your theology and mine seem to be quite different. And that's ok, let's just show mutual respect in spite of our differences.

 

I find that I think I understand skypair's posts better after an accidental overdose of NyQuil. I suspect pyschadelic drugs would work even better.

 

It's easy enough to throw out general charges like that, but very irresponsible unless you can back up your claims with specific examples.

1. Find me one post here at the Baptist Board where someone who is calvinistic claims that salvation is of Calvinism.

2. Find me one posts here at the Baptist Board where someone who is calvinistic says that salvation is not grounded in Christ's work alone. I myself have repeated over and over to you that salvation and election are not the same thing, and that anyone who is saved is saved only through the application of Christ's work.

3. Find one post here at the Baptist Board where someone who is calvinistic says that the answer to the question "What must I do to be saved?" is "Ye must be elect!"

If you can't do it, I call on you to retract your irresponsible claims.

 

Skypair is the Grand Poohpah of all things theologically correct , in his estimation . Who puts all that starch in his shirts ?

I have to keep a more accurate record , but I think he refers to John Calvin much more than Calvinism . Of course he doesn't represent either fairly . He can be told facts about both scores of times , but he keeps asserting the same ole' charges . And by facts , I mean facts . One is certainly free to disagree with the views of John Calvin and Calvinists in general ( not identical BTW ) , but to deliberately persist in misrepresentation is a sorry affair . I'm usually without the energy to refute his consistent nonsense .

 

No, I didn't ask you to apologize - I asked that you repent. And I still do.

You have yet to make a case against anyone here that they are being divisive for simply holding to a certain doctrine or theology which some nickname calvinism, or what I like to call sovereign grace and election. I could just as easily call you divisive for holding to non-calvinism or free will. No I won't do that, but I will call you divisive because you are divisive in how you approach and conduct yourself in this debate. I think that is evident for all to see. There are many, many non-calvinists here that are not divisive, but you are not one of them.