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2 Timothy 3:16-17 scripture is the only thing we possess that is God breathed Only God is infallible Therefore, only scripture is infallible

I think if you look into it, you will see that the gnostic view of who is able to receive what is called Gnosis and the Calvinist view of election are diametrically opposed. The gnostic system is man based. Something in the person that makes them able to receive the secret gnosis. In...

If you don’t know the answer to that, then you cannot equate the Calvinistic view of election with Gnosticism. So what about the second question. How or why does one receive gnosis in Gnosticism

What is God’s basis of election in Calvinism? How did people attain secret knowledge in Gnosticism? The two answers will show that you are giving similarities that do not exist.

Does anyone other than the elect believe the gospel?

You said any knowledge particular to only the elect ( post 473) is a gnostic belief. Paul begs to differ with you

God doesn’t elect people who will never believe the Gospel, so the answer is no.

That’s not what you said in 473. You’re moving goalposts again.

You said that the concept of having knowledge that others cannot have in their natural state is gnostic. Yet Paul said the spiritual man holds knowledge that the natural man cannot know or discern So either you are wrong or Paul is a gnostic.

But it is knowledge held only by the regenerate. And in post 473, you insinuated that was a gnostic concept. So you’re definitely painting with a very broad brush, and are going way outside the lines.

So the regenerate do have knowledge that the unregenerate cannot know ( until they be regenerated? ). There is knowledge that a spiritual man possesses that a natural man cannot possess? Because you called this concept gnostic earlier.

Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but the Father has revealed it. Unto you is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom, but to them it is not given. I thank you Father that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes

Still only known and DISCERNED by some.

Define the word “know” as it is used in 1 Cor. 2:14. If you dare...

Did Paul say the things of the Spirit cannot be known by the natural man? I thought I saw that there in that verse.

Faith’s mama is Grace.

Nothing you bring up indicates that he was a gnostic. Influenced by philosophers? Like many ECF, yes. Gnostic? No.

What effects did Adam’s fall have on his descendants?

Are there things that can only be known and understood by the elect? 1 Corinthians 2:14 I guess Paul was a gnostic in your book?

Election is not based on the elect having secret knowledge in Calvinism. You can drop that imagined correlation now.