A BIBLICAL EXAMINATION OF CALVINISM

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My point is, if God chose you before the foundation of the world,
You're casting doubt on God's Word, an old tactic of the devil, to put an "if" where a "since" should be. It is since God chose.

then there would never had been a time where you were an object of His wrath, knowing that He already had chosen you to be saved.
Here's where you cast more doubt on God's word and make up your own version of his Gospel. Just because you don't believe it, or find it logical, doesn't make it less true, nor give you a right to be at enmity with him and his Gospel.
 

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You deny He knows the future decisions of men? Is this correct my friend?
Jeremiah 16
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

If you do this, then I will do this. Your decision will set in course what I will do unto you.
 

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You're casting doubt on God's Word, an old tactic of the devil, to put an "if" where a "since" should be. It is since God chose.



Here's where you cast more doubt on God's word and make up your own version of his Gospel. Just because you don't believe it, or find it logical, doesn't make it less true, nor give you a right to be at enmity with him and his Gospel.
You allow a RCC priest to set your doctrine instead of the Holy Bible and I'm wrong? Again, if all you had to go by is God's word, you would never come away with the TULIP.
 
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Jeremiah 16
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

If you do this, then I will do this. Your decision will set in course what I will do unto you.
I think it is best to leave this right here, my friend. I see nothing fruitful coming from this. Good day my friend.
 
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You allow a RCC priest to set your doctrine instead of the Holy Bible and I'm wrong? Again, if all you had to go by is God's word, you would never come away with the TULIP.
It says God chose us from BEFORE the foundation of the world, not in the middle of it.
 

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I think it is best to leave this right here, my friend. I see nothing fruitful coming from this. Good day my friend.
So no answer for Nineveh? I didn't think so. This may give you some time to look up got questions or some other commentary to explain away what Scripture plainly speaks.
 

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It says God chose us from BEFORE the foundation of the world, not in the middle of it.
Again, the context is the spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ. Calvinists make the context them. The "according to" at the beginning of verse 3 states the context is back in verse 2.
 
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So no answer for Nineveh? I didn't think so. This may give you some time to look up got questions or some other commentary to explain away what Scripture plainly speaks.
You would not believe it if I answered it my friend. That is why I said it’s best to leave it here.
 

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You would not believe it if I answered it my friend. That is why I said it’s best to leave it here.
If you have to go outside of Scripture to answer it, you'd be correct. I wouldn't believe you.
 
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So no answer for Nineveh? I didn't think so. This may give you some time to look up got questions or some other commentary to explain away what Scripture plainly speaks.
One last question for you my friend. You state God does not know the future decisions of men. Why pray for lost if He does not their future decisions?
 
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You allow a RCC priest to set your doctrine instead of the Holy Bible and I'm wrong?
One name: Desiderious Erasmus, a trained priest.

Yes, you're wrong, which I've shown you, and of which you have no answer and go on a rabbit trail. You won't face these facts, and you won't repent of your false teaching here.

Again, if all you had to go by is God's word, you would never come away with the TULIP.
You've cast doubt on and have denied God's word. You're at enmity with God and his Gospel.
 
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One name: Desiderious Erasmus, a trained priest.

Yes, you're wrong, which I've shown you, and of which you have no answer and go on a rabbit trail. You won't face these facts, and you won't repent of your false teaching here.



You've cast doubt on and have denied God's word. You're at enmity with God and his Gospel.
Their trained RCC priest can lick our trained RCC priest?
 
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john146 is a known heretic; an Open Theist, KJVO cultist, casts doubt on God's word, God's Gospel, God's character and attributes.

He is, in fact, at enmity with God and his Gospel. It's best to leave him alone and not engage him in his unrepentant and arrogant warfare against God. Perhaps God will bring him out of the snare unto repentance.
 
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john146 is a known heretic; an Open Theist, KJVO cultist, casts doubt on God's word, God's Gospel, God's character and attributes.

He is, in fact, at enmity with God and his gospel. It's best to leave him alone and not engage him in his unrepentant and arrogant warfare against God.
I agree with you my friend. I do not want to go that route, but it may be best for my (in)sanity.
 
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john146 is a known heretic; an Open Theist, KJVO cultist, casts doubt on God's word, God's Gospel, God's character and attributes.

He is, in fact, at enmity with God and his Gospel. It's best to leave him alone and not engage him in his unrepentant and arrogant warfare against God. Perhaps God will bring him out of the snare unto repentance.
He needs our prayers and sympathies, too.
 
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My point is, if God chose you before the foundation of the world, then there would never had been a time where you were an object of His wrath, knowing that He already had chosen you to be saved.
We are all objects of His wrath being revealed daily from heaven .We live in a corrupted body of death and all will experience the first death of these bodies of death .Corrupted flesh and blood will not enter the new heavens and earth Its the final death, the second death of our body and soul that we are saved from not like those who will never to rise to new spirit life on the last day .

We open up both books The book of life as everyone God planned to create from day one. And the lambs book of eternal life as the lamb that was slain from the foundation, the first six days, resting on the 7th as our Sabbath rest we enter as new creatures.

When the two books are compared those whose names are not found in the lambs book of eternal life... they will be cast into the lake of fire, the second death.