Hey, just a thought while you're dealing with the recent troll who joined.
People mock the Gospel call to the elect, and then come up with the free will gospel. Their argument is that since it is left up to us and our free will concerning salvation, then that is true love on the part of God and on the part of the one coming to God by their own free will. They did it because they love God so much. That's pure Pelagianism by the way.
But that is how dangerous the free will gospel is. They come to God out of their own love for God that is inherent within them and shows forth their true love. Just the thought of that makes me want to puke. Yet this is all contrary to Scripture - the lost hate God and are hostile toward Him. So rather than this truth, their false gospel paints a lovely picture of themselves, where they can pat themselves on the back because all along they really loved God and then came to him out of their true love in spite of Scripture showing this to be a deceptive lie.
This false free will gospel is what could derogatorily be described as the belief system of an elitist, self-righteous, entitled group. It is smug arrogance, it is in the face of God and it is against true revelation in Scripture.
People mock the Gospel call to the elect, and then come up with the free will gospel. Their argument is that since it is left up to us and our free will concerning salvation, then that is true love on the part of God and on the part of the one coming to God by their own free will. They did it because they love God so much. That's pure Pelagianism by the way.
But that is how dangerous the free will gospel is. They come to God out of their own love for God that is inherent within them and shows forth their true love. Just the thought of that makes me want to puke. Yet this is all contrary to Scripture - the lost hate God and are hostile toward Him. So rather than this truth, their false gospel paints a lovely picture of themselves, where they can pat themselves on the back because all along they really loved God and then came to him out of their true love in spite of Scripture showing this to be a deceptive lie.
This false free will gospel is what could derogatorily be described as the belief system of an elitist, self-righteous, entitled group. It is smug arrogance, it is in the face of God and it is against true revelation in Scripture.