I learned that many here would rather erroneously assume to know what I believe, and then falsely accuse me of holding to things I do not believe at all, than find out what it is I actually do believe through discussions in good faith. And I found that more than a few revel in misrepresenting what I believe, and applaud others who do likewise, and then along come those too who say this does not happen at all, and others who refuse to acknowledge the truth of this matter in preference to making jokes about it. There are those filled with all kinds of wickedness and depravity, full of envy, murder, strife, and deceit, who despite being guilty of those and other faults such as being heartless and malicious liars, put themselves forward as teachers while claiming God is unfair and uttering other blasphemies. They are merciless slanderers, arrogant, and boastful. The truly weird thing about all this is they do all this at least in part because they hold so tenaciously to their false doctrine of free will, which is nowhere taught in the Bible, preferring to cling to man made traditions than accept what Scripture plainly teaches, which is that the natural man is a slave to sin, a lover of darkness, hostile in his mind toward God, in need of the saving grace of God. You might think that these and a plethora of other verses that have multiple times been served up would help them loosen their grasp on their false doctrine, but alas, no, instead they claim such verses are taken out of context and do not apply to their idea of the natural man, who in their view, is good despite Jesus plainly stating otherwise. They also deceive themselves into thinking that not having a will that is free means people are robots, and/or not responsible for the choices they do make, when the reality is quite different from their vain imaginations, in that people make choices all the time, and this from their nature, which for the natural man, who is taken captive to the will of the devil while blinded by the god of this world, does not include coming to believe the gospel which is foolishness to him, for man in his natural state can neither receive nor understand the spiritual things of God, to which he is opposed. Again these Scriptural truths simply get swept aside or completely twisted and/or ignored and simply rejected in favour of their free will doctrine, as they ascribe to the natural man what can only be said to be true of the spiritual man. Perhaps I shall never understand why any who say they are Christian would complain so bitterly against the sovereignty of God Who acts unilaterally out of His great everlasting love for us to sever our sin nature, circumcising our hearts so we may choose rightly and love Him in return.
