Can We Really Exercise Free Will?
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What makes you think that?
Do you have any idea how wrong you are?
And, you freely choose to do it.
It reveals that you really do not know what you are doing.
You are not someone whose opinion is to be trusted.
So if someone believes that in salvation the Spirit changes and opens someone's heart, they would not be gnostic?
Oh, I'm sure that this "new heart" business is all bound up in volitional "believing" and "faith" little buddy.....
I would say that if someone's beliefs do not align with the items in these 2 lists that I compiled, then they would not be gnostic. However, if their beliefs do match in whole or part, then I would say that gnostic ideas have crept into their faith unawares.
- The belief that they are the enlightened elect and spiritually perfect, who because of their spiritual nature can never be lost no matter what behavior they practice. Against Heresies Book 1 Chapter 6 Paragraph 2
- The belief that grace can never be taken away from them because grace is their eternal possession joined to them in a mysterious union from above. Against Heresies Book 1 Chapter 6 Paragraph 4
- The belief that it is impossible for physical man to do anything good. ibid
- The belief that Christians who believe it is necessary to do good works are ignorant persons with a carnal nature and imperfect knowledge. ibid
- The belief that it is not righteous conduct that leads into eternal life (Pleroma), but it is the seed of grace within them that is brought to perfection through the perfect knowledge of their spiritual nature. ibid
- Total Depravity - Gnostics believed it was impossible for anything of the material world to do anything spiritual or good
- Unconditional Election - Gnostics believed they were the elect who had been predestined to salvation through gnosis
- Limited (Particular) Atonement - Gnostics believed only the elect were given gnosis
- Irresistible Grace - Gnostics believed they were given a special grace that was perfected by practicing gnosis, whereas a temporary grace was given to ignorant Christians so they could do good works
- Perseverance of the Saints - Gnostics believed they could never be lost no matter what they did because they were spiritual by nature
No, it’s called Ai. Perplexity.ai to be precise that gives sources.
Granted, Ai’s can be wrong sometimes because it just collects what is on the internet.
But Ai's can also can be impartial (as long as it is not politics or talking about Darwinism).
When I looked at these points I actually desired a better point in the WCF for Limited Atonement and it gave me a new one.
My encouragement is to check those sources and on certain things you have to look at both sides of the issue (like in politics).
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lol billy what about the Calvary at the cross sing
If you like that song you can be a Calvinist
So much of Augustine in this .. perhaps "Calvinist" is the wrong label, lol
I gave you a specific set of beliefs. If someone believes in salvation that the Spirit changes and opens the heart, is their belief gnostic or not?
You know your helping people to dishonor a valued saint of the great reformation and to speak ill of a dead valued saint in favour of AI
Are you bothered m
Maybe they figured out how to get blood from a turnip.well vampires have been known to be vegan m so anything is possible
Human volition of the pre-birth pre-existence kind?
Sorry doesn't make sense to me....
Actually, no. I normally do not think about Reformed Theology because it is one of the most illogical, unbiblical, immoral, and ridiculous beliefs out there. While I am a huge KJV advocate and believe it is the Word of God in 17th century English, I also realize that the KJV's archaic words has influenced other Modern Bibles in a few select places. So words like "ordain" does not always have the semantic range of meaning as we would understand that word today. If you did a study on archaic words in the KJV and look at the underlying Greek, this becomes obvious. Note: I am aware of the differences between the KJV and Modern Bibles. In fact, when you compare the KJV vs. Modern Bibles, the newer versions change the wording from the KJV to teach Reformed Theology in a few places (Note: If you are interested you can check out my PDF on this at my site: www.affectionsabove.com to learn more). So, there is an agenda at work. Reformed Theology even secretly infiltrate churches, too. This to me is not honorable.
Anyway, I just brought up those links on Reformed Theology today to satisfy the naysayers.
It was by no means a collection I gathered over the years.
Generally, Reformed Theology makes me want to puke.
No offense of course. That's just how I understand it, when we look to the Bible, and real-world examples (using basic morality).
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you'll only send him back to AI if you keep asking him question m.
And he will only pick the worst view
possibly m, but probably they got mixed up when they where eating king Edward potatoes