Bro. Bennett may be a Calvinist but listen carefully and you hear in his testimony and other messages a love for Christ, for the Scripture, for the lost, not just lost Catholics, but the lost,

that is quite seemingly missing in thosw who "...who describe themselves as "calvinists" but deny there is an offer of mercy to sinners in the gospel, who see themselves justified from eternity (rather than elected in eternity past and brought to repentance and faith and justified in time)and who make the ground of their hope their belief that they are elect (else there is no mercy promised in the gospel) rather than Christ. ..."

Speaking of Catholics by experience openly or subtily they are taught to hate, despise, view as of the devil, ingratefull traitors, have lost their mind been deceived by wicked protestants those who have rejected and left Catholicism. Such people used to be put to death and soon may be again.

They have also been taught (falsely) by experts in twisting straight forward reading of Scripture into meaning something quite different to the flow of context - And don't forget falsely taught to think their clergy knows so much more than they do so they must be right even when it goes against their conscience and if they disagree with them they must be in frightful sin.

As a former Roman Catholic I've observed one of the schemes they use to draw the naive back to Rome is "Church History" when if we would look at O.T. history in Scripture we would see men departing from the Word of God and suffering the consequences and God bring them back again and men being blessed. Catholic history is really the record of increasing apostasy.

So it seems similar with us today we don't merely need reformation to a "historically good time" but to Scripture itself. For instance no matter how good or bad we might like to view Whitefield and the Wesleys they both exibited a passion for Scripture and it was the Word of God by the Spirit of God that did such an outstanding work in the heats and lives of men.

Canons of Dordt???
Sorry but I have simply never found in Scripture where I was obligated in the least to such things nor the Canons of Orange for that matter.

But doesn't Jesus say,
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

How ridiculous and can I say distorting of what those who believe you can loose their salvation by living in sin teach.

They might be quite wrong (I in no way think Scripture teaches one whom Christ has saved looses their salvation, gets severely disciplined YES! but not loose their salvation) but I do not believe it is right to missrepersent them either.

Precious sister who have blessed my heart with your comment.

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....who describe themselves as "calvinists" but deny there is an offer of mercy to sinners in the gospel, who see themselves justified from eternity (rather than elected in eternity past and brought to repentance and faith and justified in time)and who make the ground of their hope their belief that they are elect (else there is no mercy promised in the gospel) rather than Christ. such doctrine negates the need to strive to enter in, in obeying the gospel. ....
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They will of course make it sound so good, so sincere, so spiritual, so tolerant and don't forget to have world peace. Why! Anyone who will disagree with them must be so against world peace that they will deserve to be put to death.

Here in the U.S. we have a frightful error among the evanglicals of substituting a proffession of faith as evidence for salvation rather than a changed life.

If your "Calvinism" has not brought you to the new birth in the Holy Spirit, God Himself changing you into a child of God than it is a quite worthless religious counterfeit for you.

By the way not Calvinism, not Roman Catholicism, nor Arminianism (whatever that is) makes anyone a child of God, being made a child of God comes only in recieving Jesus Christ and being born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man BUT OF GOD.

Kind of like since in your belief you had no choice in the matter you just go along with it and therefore what you really appreciate is that you are “elect / predestined” almost like you were never a that bad a sinner because you were “elect & predestined” not that you ever desperately needed to be saved from your sins and there came that day when under the conviction of your sins against Him, God flooded your life with godly sorrow and brought you to repentance and abandoning all hope of saving yourself but only that Christ had died for sinners such as you and that in hope against hope you cried out to Him and He heard you and saved you giving you new birth.

HE deserves to be our first and foremost love.

In the Spirit of a brother you've missrepresented me.

...total inability TO RESPOND TO God, total inability TO RESPOND TO the conviction of the Holy Spirit...

So I do not define being totally unable to save oneself from your sin is being totally unable to respond to God, they are not the same thing.

Further "arguing" this way can distract us both from the cross and the debt of love we owe Christ and sabotage our witness of Him who willingly gave His life for us. After all it is He who is central to being saved, to being born of God, of having the gift of God eternal life.

Also when you disagree with me that is one thing but I believe God Himself bears witness to the worth of Christ and that we deserves to be our first and foremost love.

Therefore I look at salvation as being entirely from the first to the last as being of the GRACE of God, as being the GIFT of God and purchased at great cost to Himself, a gift which utterly changes the worst of sinners into a new creation, with a new nature, a child of God forever, who Christ Himself keeps by His own almighty power and faithfullness. And yes I believe Scripturally if we are a child of God we are to grow up into Him in every aspect of life, ultimately conformed to the image of His Son Jesus Christ and this growth will show more and more in obedient love for Him.

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Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

And again:
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.