Doctrines like Limited Atonement - why?

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Lightskin said:
I like how you cunningly snuck in the words, could not believe, rather than, refused to believe. You actually make the claim they were pre-destined by God to not have the ability to believe. Sigh 😔.
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“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV 1900)

= cannot believe it.
 
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Dave-L said:
Calvin believed as you do. So it does not refute Calvinism.

But you are trying to read scripture as you would a cookbook. In scripture, you must consider all of it on a matter and not just an isolated phrase. The whole world to a Jew = all nations, not just Israel. Why? This was the promise God made to Abraham. All nations, = the whole world, = not each and every person.
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How can you possibly in your right mind think that the Creator of the cosmos would crush His Son so brutally only for the interest of a select few people rather than giving His entire creation an opportunity to be saved?
 
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Dave-L said:
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV 1900)

= cannot believe it.
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It actually = refuses to believe.
 
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Lightskin said:
How can you possibly in your right mind think that the Creator of the cosmos would crush His Son so brutally only for the interest of a select few people rather than giving His entire creation an opportunity to be saved?
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How would you know God if he didn't save some in his mercy and send the rest to hell in his wrath? You create an idol when you overlook this.
 
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Dave-L said:
How would you know God if he didn't save some in his mercy and send the rest to hell in his wrath? You create an idol when you overlook this.
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Once again you failed to answer my question.
 
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Dave-L said:
How would you know God if he didn't save some in his mercy and send the rest to hell in his wrath? You create an idol when you overlook this.
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I do know God and I do know that whoever believes in Him is saved and whoever does not believe in Him is not saved. Where you come up with this idle nonsense is another head scratcher.
 
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Dave-L said:
It says they cannot discern spiritual things. Like blind persons cannot discern color.
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Blind people actually can discern color, in ways you fail to understand.
 
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Lightskin said:
I do know God and I do know that whoever believes in Him is saved and whoever does not believe in Him is not saved. Where you come up with this idle nonsense is another head scratcher.
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What you do not understand yet, is that he must save you before you can believe. Faith tells you he saved you.
 
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UnitedWithChrist said:
What causes belief? Or, rather, who causes belief?

If you think it is something a fallen man, with a heart of stone, can produce from his own resources, without a heart of flesh being given to him, then you belong in the free willer camp, and you have reason to boast.

If you think it is God who gives the person a heart of flesh, which produces, as a fruit, faith and repentance, then you belong in the Reformed camp, and know that you have zero reason to boast.

That's really the determining factor.

Ephesians 2:1-10 is plain in this regard, I think, and no man has any reason for boasting, even his .1% that free willers think he has contributed to his salvation, as the determining factor.

I'm definitely in the latter camp :D

Praise be to God!

By the way, you may have been addressing someone else. That would be my response, though.

Additionally, the gospel is part of the means that God has decreed. He has decreed both the end and the means. That way, the regenerate man knows that the gospel is the means by which God had decreed to save him.
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The gospel gives the elect the knowledge of how he was saved (delivered) by God's grace, but the gospel is not the cause of his eternal deliverance, however, being taught the knowledge of the gospel does save (deliver) him here, as we sojourn here in this world. The misunderstanding of the deliverances is what causes many of God's children to believe in eternal salvation (deliverance) my their good works.
 
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Dave-L said:
There is no millennium. It is a false doctrine of phariseeism. The kingdom is here now but only the born again can see it.
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Christ is now ruling with a rod of iron? He’s not ruling very well. He’s allowing sin and Satan to have their way in His kingdom.🙄. If you think Jesus is ruling this earth right now, you have a poor perception of His power to rule.
 
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Lightskin said:
Now you’re comparing blind people to rocks.
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Let's stay on topic. Did Jesus die for the Canaanites whom God told Israel to kill? How about those in the flood? how about those predestined to hell spoken of in the Epistles? All outside of Israel who had no temple or atonement in the OT?
 
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John146 said:
Christ is now ruling with a rod of iron? He’s not ruling very well. He’s allowing sin and Satan to have their way in His kingdom.🙄. If you think Jesus is ruling this earth right now, you have a poor perception of His power to rule.
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Personally, I would be afraid to say this. If Jesus is God he always rules the nations with a rod of iron. And you pick at the job he's doing?.
 
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Dave-L said:
Let's stay on topic. Did Jesus die for the Canaanites whom God told Israel to kill? How about those in the flood? how about those predestined to hell spoken of in the Epistles? All outside of Israel who had no temple or atonement in the OT?
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I don’t understand what you don’t understand regarding 1 John 2. Jesus is the sacrifice that atones for the sins of all the world. It’s simply astonishing that you’re twisting the words of the Apostle John.
 
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Dave-L said:
Personally, I would be afraid to say this. If Jesus is God he always rules the nations with a rod of iron. And you pick at the job he's doing?.
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Satan is controlling the kingdoms of the earth right now until the second coming of Christ. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father waiting to return as judge and King.
 
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