What is Calvinism?

[utilyan]

The verse was not talking about salvation, only you were. Here are passages about salvation:

Romans 10:9-10 [NIV]
9 If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

Acts of the Apostles 2:37-39 [NKJV]
37 Now when they heard [this], they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men [and] brethren, what shall we do?" 38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."

Ephesians 2:4-10 [NKJV]
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

We are talking about faith devoid of love is evil, PLAIN FOR YOU TO READ:

2 And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

 

[utilyan]

John 13

34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

So that homeless fellah outside, do you flip a coin like Jesus and maybe you will love them or maybe you don't?

 

[AustinC]

Quote the teaching. Show us more of that Calvinist honesty.


"However, if it makes you feel better, all free will doctrines are law-based salvation by merit teachings. Syncretism is a doctrine from Satan."

In Calvinism SATAN sounds like the good guy, so I'm not offended. Heaven is a room pack with "humble" Calvinists? wow dodged that bullet.


I would be an idiot to argue with my robot for claiming to have free will.

Yet, you argue...

 

[Reformed1689]

"God truly wanted"

So when God commands all not to sin he is he deceptive?

So when you sin, well.....God "TRULY" didn't mind?

Does God "TRULY" want you to stop sinning?


I read this in scripture too:
Genesis 3

1Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Is it against God's law to sin? Yes. Therefore he demands we not sin. Does he allow us to sin? Yes.

Is there a reason for allowing sin to occur? Of course.

I don't see your point.

 

[AustinC]

Prevenient Grace is an attempt to support free will by saying that God gives every single person the option to choose CHRIST and He has done so for every person throughout time. Every ancient Mayan, Polynesian, Indian, Asian and any gentile has to be given the choice or free will isn't being honored so it can't be true if even one person throughout time hasn't heard the good news!


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This is works salvation, not grace.
If the human must make a choice, which therefore secures God's extension of grace, then the work is man's doing. It is salvation by the law of free will.

 

[utilyan]

Yet, you argue...

You mean God is arguing with you through me, since I had no choice in the matter. I'm just a puppet.

 

[utilyan]

Is it against God's law to sin? Yes. Therefore he demands we not sin. Does he allow us to sin? Yes.

Is there a reason for allowing sin to occur? Of course.

I don't see your point.

Does God "TRULY" want you to sin? This is just a yes or no question.

 

[AustinC]

You mean God is arguing with you through me, since I had no choice in the matter. I'm just a puppet.

A puppet of the pope...

 

[atpollard]

We are talking about faith devoid of love is evil, PLAIN FOR YOU TO READ:

2 And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Is “nothing” the same as “evil”?

 

[utilyan]

A puppet of the pope...

Does Pope have free will?

 

[atpollard]

So that homeless fellah outside, do you flip a coin like Jesus and maybe you will love them or maybe you don't?

Where did Jesus give money to the homeless?

 

[utilyan]

Where did Jesus give money to the homeless?

Quote where I said Jesus gave money.

All I'm asking is if like Jesus do you love or hate the homeless guy outside randomly like Jesus.

 

[utilyan]

Is “nothing” the same as “evil”?

Yes, Absence of Love which is Good is evil.

Its the equivalent of absence of God.

 

[AustinC]

Quote where I said Jesus gave money.

All I'm asking is if like Jesus do you love or hate the homeless guy outside randomly like Jesus.

utilyan wrote:
"do you flip a coin like Jesus"

There ya go.

 

[Reformed1689]

Does God "TRULY" want you to sin? This is just a yes or no question.

God allows sin to occur for His purposes.

 

[utilyan]

God allows sin to occur for His purposes.

Does God "TRULY" want you to sin? This is just a yes or no question.

Calvinist don't know proves my point.

 

[utilyan]

There ya go.

Flipping a coin has nothing to do with Jesus giving money.

 

[Reformed1689]

Does God "TRULY" want you to sin? This is just a yes or no question.

Calvinist don't know proves my point.

God allows sin to occur.

 

[AustinC]

God allows sin to occur.

Correct. God truly ordains that we can sin against him. If he did not ordain this, we would not sin.

utilyan wants to be the ruler of his life and have God as his genie who grants him wishes according to utilyan's free will.

 

[atpollard]

All I'm asking is if like Jesus do you love or hate the homeless guy outside randomly like Jesus.

Jesus did not love or hate randomly. Jesus loved and hated with purpose:

LOVE: [John 13:34 NASB95] 34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. [1 John 4:19 NASB95] 19 We love, because He first loved us.

HATE: [Matthew 23:29-33 NASB95] 29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, 30 and say, 'If we had been [living] in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in [shedding] the blood of the prophets.' 31 "So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 "Fill up, then, the measure [of the guilt] of your fathers. 33 "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell? [Matthew 12:30-34 NASB95] 30 "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters. 31 "Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. 32 "Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the [age] to come. 33 "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 "You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.