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12/4/06 11:21 AM |
Michael | | Endicott, NY | | | |
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Faulkner, did you write to JD?quote Since quote, "NO man can come" to Jesus Except God draws that person. Then NO human volition is, nor can be, indicated in Verse 37.!!! end of quote Ah? Did you notice the word 'come' by any chance? Jesus didn't say they would sit there like a bump on a log doing nothing did He? So what do you want to say about the reality they actually ....Come to Jesus? like it doesn't really happen in 5 Point Calvinism? Or do they just wander around and end up at Jesus feet with no idea how they got there or what they are there for? And you would call something like that "irresistable grace"? Takes a lot of 'faith' to believe something like that, Oh! But you claim you have nothing to do with having faith or something like that. |
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12/4/06 11:13 AM |
Michael | | Endicott, NY | | | |
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Arthur Scotland, BecauseIF 5 Point Calvinism is true then ........ God hates the lost, the eternally damned by His predestinating them to be, and He is a hypocrit to command those who believe in Him to do something He Himself has choosen not to do. By the way you are the expert doesn't Scripture say a false balance is an abomination to the LORD? So are you doing to answer your own question(s)? |
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12/4/06 10:40 AM |
Michael | | Endicott, NY | | | |
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Arthur Scotland, You are the expert answer your own question, did they love God? did they love Jesus?"He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me." "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him." "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." |
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12/4/06 10:33 AM |
Michael | | Endicott, NY | | | |
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Potters_Freedom Arkansas,Let's see here. Do you beieve that in John 3:16 "For God so loved the WORLD that he gave His Only Begotten Son that WHOSOVER believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." that the word world means every single man, woman, girl and boy who has ever lived or ever will or just those whom 5 Point Calvinists call the "elect"? The reason I ask is that if so called 5 Point Calvinism is right then the unregenerate (ones I am saying are non-elect) would have great reason to hate God with everything within them. For is this "teaching" is correct then God has only created them and giving them life and planned it all out such that He God Himself would personally ensure they will be damned in hell for all eternity before they were ever born. Therefore if 5 Point Calvinism is correct it is impossible for Jesus to be beautiful to them. That said I believe we must never let go of the reality God has so love the WORLD, each and every single man, woman, girl and boy in it so much that He sent Jesus Christ who willingly died for their sins that they might be forgiven and saved from their sins and that there is no other way, no other persona who can make them right with God. A belief we must never let go of. |
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12/3/06 5:35 PM |
Michael | | Endicott, NY | | | |
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Remo & Susan Graziotin Adelaide, S. Australia Joe Calgary, Alberta Christian (unsure where you are from) FYI Arthur CustanceHi! You all! I apologize for not having the time at the moment to engage in the length of response that I believe your comments merit. However to give you an idea of where I am coming from by observation the terms God Himself gives in the Gospel are to repent and believe. They are so closely related and entertwined with each other that they seem to be truly inseparable. When a sinner comes to God on His terms He saves them for He will not violate His Word. Therefore as the Lord and time permits I will do my best to describe election and predestination Biblically in harmony with the revealed character of God and the terms God Himself gives for the gospel. Therefore remember no matter how well or how poorly you or I might define election and predestination the truth of these terms will never violate. "For God so loved the WORLD that He gave His Only Begotten Son that WHOSOEVER believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life." Along with this thought if your definition of election and predestination violate the terms God Himself has given yours is a false gospel |
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12/3/06 3:01 PM |
Michael | | Endicott, NY | | | |
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Mustafa Post,"And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village." Wow! Good thing for the Samaritans them folks from old Geneva were not in charge of how things should be handled. |
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12/3/06 7:23 AM |
Michael | | Endicott, NY | | | |
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Mustafa Post, Anthony & Lurker, Anthony writes, “By what authority then do these reprobates assert that John 3:16 teaches God loves everyone?”This quite sums up the disagreement doesn’t it. So why do you all want to hear the answer again? Reminds me of the man born blind in John 9, Jesus had opened his blind eyes and the Pharisees interrogated him repeatedly. Why? So they could impose their false belief on him that Jesus just had to be a sinner because he didn’t treat the Sabbath and the Scriptures the way they demanded. He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples? Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples. It is quite obvious that you all are “Calvin’s” disciples So know this the authority by which we “reprobates” as you call us assert John 3:16 teaches God loves everyone is God. Technically His Holy Written Word taken in context. But like a 5th grader I believe God when He says, “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” Isaiah 45:22 You have to be very “educated” to imagine God doesn’t mean what He says and His words have secret hidden means only “the enlightened” know. |
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12/2/06 10:00 PM |
Michael | | Endicott, NY | | | |
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Rob from Scotland wrote, "The test of any mans faith is the word of the Lord Jesus whe He asked.......What think ye of Christ? This is the ultimate question all men must answer, and by which all men will be judged." Actually it goes deeper than just acknowledging Him for who He is for Jesus Himself told us, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Professing you believe in Jesus, and even being religious and doing miraculous things will prove quite an insufficient faith for those who continue unrepentant in their sins proving they were never born again of the Holy Spirit who would have utterly changed their lives if He had come to live in them. 2 recommended sermons When Peace Costs Too Much Shocking Youth Message |
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