Calvinism vs. Arminianism?
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This is the point of contention which has been hotly debated for the past 500 years and Calvinists are flying our flag very high. Nobody has been able to successfully challenge Calvin to this day and they never will.
Arminius failed to address the very core issue concerning the means by which a person is saved. He left the choice in the hands of those who are dead in their trespasses, so dead people can't choose spiritual things as they are carnal so the whole ideology is fundamentally flawed.
Arminius failed to address the very core issue concerning the means by which a person is saved. He left the choice in the hands of those who are dead in their trespasses, so dead people can't choose spiritual things as they are carnal so the whole ideology is fundamentally flawed.
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This is very ironic considering you yourself have promoted Calvinistic ideas.
If ever there was a doctrine that sought to make everything "air tight" so to speak with explanation upon explanation that would be it.
Scripture definitely has a role to play in the successful walk of the believer.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:16
If ever there was a doctrine that sought to make everything "air tight" so to speak with explanation upon explanation that would be it.
Scripture definitely has a role to play in the successful walk of the believer.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:16
Well, just let me say that I couldn't care less what Calvin believes, nor Arminius. But of course, I am just a "dumb" Christian who happened to hear the gospel and read the Bible searching out for myself the truths dwelling there - I came to understand that when God said I needed to believe in the only begotten Son . . . that I needed to confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead - I didn't think it was foolishness but the truth and so I trusted God and believed in Jesus Christ. I once was "dead in sin" but that "dead" does not mean "in the grave dead" - I still could reason out the scripture.
One is saved by Romans 10:17 and Romans 10:9,10 and the process is Ephesians 1:13.
One is saved by Romans 10:17 and Romans 10:9,10 and the process is Ephesians 1:13.
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We are sheep in the sense that we need a shepherd to tend to us, to watch over us, to protect us, to lead us but we are NOT sheep that follow blindly and never question anything . . . . I don't believe in "blind faith" and never questioning anything - we are to search out the scriptures and see if things are true. . . . We are to study to show ourselves approved . . . many times God tells us not to be ignorant.
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (used in a sarcastic sense) . . . NAY, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (used in a sarcastic sense) . . . NAY, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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