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I appreciate the kind words but I can't take credit for having changed. I have all the insufferably stupid people on ignore. I've always been as patient as can be with anyone who posts actual arguments. Nice analogy! I understand precisely what you mean. Most theological disagreements of any...

That flat out is NOT what the passage says! Sin is not the curse, sin is the cause of the curse! A curse, by the way, which has been undone! Romans 5:15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of...

Well, I have no idea whether you'll see this post or not but the single thing that I would leave you with is this... First of all, you've taken an important first step in your rejection of Calvinism. It is flagrantly irrational, not to mention unbiblical. I would however caution you against...

In Calvinist theology, the doctrine of election asserts that, before the creation of the world, God sovereignly and unconditionally chose certain individuals for salvation. This selection is not based on any foreseen merit, faith, or action on the part of the chosen, but solely on God's mercy...

The word is not there but the concept certainly is. Genesis 2:17 - God warns Adam, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." This death refers to a spiritual separation from God, as Adam and Eve did not...

Saying it doesn't make it so. First of all I have NEVER said that one doesn't have to have faith in Christ to be saved. Quite the opposite, in fact. You, however, don't get to define what the word faith means. I, on the other hand, have presented what is at the very least biblical evidence if...

Physically, yes but not spiritually. We are not born spiritually dead. It seems to be just a way of referring to what Paul calls "the flesh". That inherited part of us that effectively guarantees that if we stick around long enough, we will choose to sin and which we remain at war with so long...

I agree.

I remember a teaching that I heard Bob Enyart talk about many years ago, a couple of decades ago, in fact, that I think I still agree with. He and Doug McBurney were talking on the radio show, if I'm remembering correctly, about some crazy woman who had murdered her children because she...

This passage says that death passed upon all men, not sin, and it says that death so passes because all have sinned (i.e. because of their own sin, not because of Adam's sin). No one is held guilty because of Adam's sin other than Adam.

Even more Calvinist doctrine with which you disagree - and rightly so! Keep it up and you'll be agreeing with me all over the place! ;) The doctrine of Original Sin is an Augustinian doctrine which both Calvinists and Catholics teach and that is flatly false to the point of being blasphemous...

There would be no use if the expectation was to defeat me. What you see or don't see is entirely irrelevant except in regard to the extent to which you are or are not a Calvinist. If you disagree that the "Election doctrines" as you call them, do not include what I have presented then you...

Quite so! I hadn't seen your post before posting what I said above! It's sort of fun when that happens! Indeed, God Himself, the Calvinists say, determined what they will or will not do. I completely love it when this happens. It shows that you instinctively think in terms of justice and know...

This is not Calvinism, Lon. Calvinists do not believe that the elect are chosen by God based on His foreknowledge. Quite the reverse. They believe God's foreknowledge is based on his predestination. “… predestination to glory is the cause of predestination to grace, rather than the converse.”...

It's almost comical to watch a Catholic attempt to use the bible to defend their doctrine. I mean, all you did was quote the very next verse after his proof-text and his whole doctrine get's poofed right out of existence as if you had used the Infinity Gauntlet! (I used Chat GPT to create the...

I am as patient as Moses with those who respond with substance. You, however, have turned yourself into a clown that wastes everyone's time with stupidity.

Do you understand the concept of making a distinction without a difference? It's the exact same person, Doug! He's got a new physical body and a new name but that doesn't make it a different person. It's the same person! That's only one of the most central doctrines of the Christian faith!

Okay, I ran out of time the other day and so have been spending the last few hours catching up and so wanted to spend some time responding to the use of John 6 as a proof text for predestination, which it definitely DOES NOT teach! So, first of all, verses 37-40 is Jesus claiming to be God...

Didn't and won't read another syllable. Every time I give you another change, this is the sort of stupidity that you waste my time with. Good bye glorydaz!

Your sentiments here is common and understandable and wrong. Not entirely though. I get the feeling that much of the disagreement here is as much semantic as it is substantive. In other words, we may well be saying close to the same thing just in different ways. Try as you might, the degree to...