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OIC1965

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Someone said I believed I was in Christ before the foundation of the world What Calvinist would say that?
 

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Just to be clear. I am not a Calvinist. A true Calvinist would not agree with most of my posts. I have gotten into many disagreements with Calvinists.
What is the disagreement you have? or that they have with you?
 

OIC1965

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If your referring to Eph 2 . Salvation is the free gift . Even Calvin conceded on that point.
more is known about Greek language than they knew in Calvins day. For example, the Granville sharpe rule and other things.
 

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more is known about Greek language than they knew in Calvins day. For example, the Granville sharpe rule and other things.
How about just as it reads as translated ? 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Its clear the ' it ' is the whole .
 

OIC1965

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How about just as it reads as translated ? 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Its clear the ' it ' is the whole .
It is referring to the whole thing and so is the word “that”. That not of yourselves.

So the whole thing is not of ourselves, the whole thing is a gift of God.