Can We Really Exercise Free Will?

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Why do you keep putting the letter “m” repeatedly in your sentences?
Why no capitalization or proper spelling?
You know, you can easily fix that using ChatGPT.
I just don’t understand why you want others to suffer so needlessly when reading your posts.
I say this again not to wound you, but to help you become a better communicator.
Do you want people to respect you more and actually hear what you have to say?
Unfortunately, people tend to take others more seriously when they know how to type correctly. It’s just the way the world works.

Again, what is your education level?
Is English your primary language?
How old are you?



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It's just a shame you don't see see all my good spelling and all the clever imaginative words, along with my vocabulary of creative words m, all my own work m.

Where as you like to have other people do it for you m. 🤐
 
Uh, Jesus is not a white European with hippy hair.
Jesus was Jewish and he would have looked like he was more from the Middle East.
We actually do not know what He looked like.
Even the apostles said they no longer regard Him after the flesh.
Such images of Jesus are false idols.
You contradict yourself as most do when in error and acting in arrogance.

Plus, your unBiblical beliefs are false idols.

You ought to give them up and start believing what the Bible says.

That would mean accepting that the natural man cannot do the things you claim he does, which Scripture says he cannot.

Telling me the spiritual man can do the things he does because it is Jesus working through him is something else entirely.

That has not been contested by me, and you acing like it has is just more of your dishonesty.

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It is God Who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose. Apart from Me you can do nothing. No word from God will ever fail. “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
 
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I'm pretty certain that a lot of people unknowingly hold gnostic ideas because they're baked into Calvinist-influenced reformed thinking. Probably Catholicism too via Augustine
I'm not talking about Calvinist. Ask who believes in the preservation of the saints. You will find that most people here do. Are they also gnostics?
 
The thing is @Bible_Highlighter If you do any work yourself.

You can then be susceptable to admitting your own error m

Where as if you let other people control your thoughts you can never admit your errors,. you'll only be admitting somebody else's m

But on the good news side you may crucify yourself before you do, which is really a joke 😭 because you will crucify yourself in a bad way m.
 
Has anything I stated in our conversation been gnostic?
By this reasoning, nearly everyone here is gnostic.
He was obsessed with gnostics/gnosticism before his six year absence and return, also.

Here is a thread his former user name created on the topic

https://christianchat.com/bible-dis...stic-spirit-of-new-modern-hyper-grace.129502/

Searching using keywords only goes back so far any more, otherwise you could probably find more.

Although I found posts from 2017, searches I did of keywords I know I used from
the time I joined in 2015 no longer provide results that go back further than 2018.
 
Too bad Boris Karloff is not around to play the part of the evil Calvinist.
Did you end up picking up a lexicon or concordance little buddy?
You might as well grab those tomes on Electrokinetics and Electrogravitics I suggested earlier while you are at it.....:);)
 
I've never ever come a a self confessed Calvinist in England, which I believe is really no different to the USA when it comes to denominations

Not in one single church does anyone call themselves calvinists in England

Where as your precious AI has the leading protestant churches as predominantly Calvinist,

Not true these Churches just preach enabling grace

The only people that do refer to themselves as calvinists or messed or former Calvinists are the messed up people on YouTube.

That's because the doctrine of grace and enabling grace is recognised as being accounted to God not John Calvin.

Well, King James did push out Puritans (Calvinists) out of England when they demanded to reform the Church of England (Anglicanism). Some Puritans wanted to reform the Church of England from within. Eventually, Calvinists fled the Netherlands, and America in the early 1600s. In the late 1600s is when there was some reform in religious freedom for Calvinists in England.

This is probably one of the key points out of several reasons why most of your Reformed churches in the UK do not self identify as Calvinist because of this history. Here in the United States, the Calvinists had more religious freedom to openly be Calvinists without any persecution from the Church of England. Hence, why a lot of Americans here do not have a problem in self identifying as Calvinist.

What is silly about your statements is that you ignore the reality of tons of churches and websites that do self identify as Calvinist. All it takes is to Google or search the internet using the keywords, “I am Calvinist” or “Why I believe in Calvinism” and you can spend hours of fun reading and educating yourself to your own anti-knowledge rhetoric.

As I have stated before, I have ran into Calvinists self identifying as Calvinists since 2010 on different Christian forums. So please stop the gaslighting as if England is the only nation on the planet when you look at a globe. If you don’t want to use Ai, that is fine. You can just do a general internet search. Have you ever done that before? So please stop being anti-knowledge when it comes to this topic. It just makes you look really bad even to other Calvinists in the rest of world who do self identify as Calvinists.

If your next reply is doubling down on your Flat Earth anti-knowledge approach, it is time for me to move on and just ignore your posts. I have very little patience for anti-knowledge rhetoric where people refuse to research the internet to confirm the truth of things after I have gave sources for them to check.




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I'm not talking about Calvinist. Ask who believes in the preservation of the saints. You will find that most people here do. Are they also gnostics?
They may not call it preservation of the saints but even heis will say that a person can apostatize and they will still be saved (OSAS).
 
Well, King James did push out Puritans (Calvinists) out of England when they demanded to reform the Church of England (Anglicanism). Some Puritans wanted to reform the Church of England from within. Eventually, Calvinists fled the Netherlands, and America in the early 1600s. In the late 1600s is when there was some reform in religious freedom for Calvinists in England.

This is probably one of the key points out of several reasons why most of your Reformed churches in the UK do not self identify as Calvinist because of this history. Here in the United States, the Calvinists had more religious freedom openly be Calvinists without any persecution from the Church of England. Hence, why a lot of Americans here do not have a problem in self identifying as Calvinist.

What is silly about your statements is that you ignore the reality of tons of churches and websites that do self identify as Calvinist. All it takes is to Google or search the internet using the keywords, “I am Calvinist” or “Why I believe in Calvinism” and you can spend hours of fun reading and educating yourself to your own anti-knowledge rhetoric.

As I have stated before, I have ran into Calvinists self identifying as Calvinists since 2010 on different Christian forums. So please stop the gaslighting as if England is the only nation on the planet when you look at a globe. If you don’t want to use Ai, that is fine. You can just do a general internet search. Have you ever done that before? So please stop being anti-knowledge when it comes to this topic. It just makes you look really bad even to other Calvinists in the rest of world who do self identify as Calvinists.

If your next reply is doubling down on your Flat Earth anti-knowledge approach, it is time for me to move on and just ignore your posts. I have very little patience for anti-knowledge rhetoric where people refuse to research the internet to confirm the truth of things after I have gave sources for them to check.




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Lol those are stories of the Brits being legends in there own minds 🤐
 
I'm not talking about Calvinist. Ask who believes in the preservation of the saints. You will find that most people here do. Are they also gnostics?

If perseverance of the saints gets morphed into the belief that believers can never be lost no matter what behavior they practice because they are spiritual by nature, then that is gnostic in essence
 
They may not call it preservation of the saints but even heis will say that a person can apostatize and they will still be saved (OSAS).
Of course. They are hypocrites. They say they are here to correct error and promote truth, but you never see them answer questions that would reveal truth or correct anything their buddies say in error.
 
One itty bitty "IF" and there goes Calvinism right down the drain.
And you are just too far gone to "get it".

Enjoy the unfolding tragedy that is your belief system.....:)
Another common ploy...refuse to answer questions and denigrate.