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6/6/08 6:56 PM |
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Michael Hranek wrote: Minnow Kindly do not put words in my mouth, thank you very much. I'm not going to argue the Sovereignity of God with you. I am well aware of what Jesus says and I believe Him. I believe in the Sovereignity of God, just not the abuse of it and the abuse of what my Savior has said by some Calvinists, or anyone else for that matter either. What I reject is salvation through Calvinism as if no one comes to the Father but through the 5 points of TULIP Calvinism and anyone who dares to believe in Jesus Christ isn't good enough for some of these "experts in Calvinism" who act like they have the right to lord it over others, ....why when they act like this they remind me of of the Roman Catholic false religion its Popes and their inquistions. I hate to break this to you Michael, but Roman Catholics are not Calvinists, far be it. On the other hand your Arminian doctrine fits quite well with their theology. Check it out. |
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6/5/08 5:29 PM |
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Mike wrote: Thus have the words been spoken. What do these words mean? On the one hand this so-called corpse-dead unable man can in no way discern any spiritual things, cannot see, hear, understand, and does not care about sin or salvation. On the other hand he must somehow be able to discern God, who is a Spirit, in order that he may care enough to hate Him. There is a big problem here. Yet some have no problem with it. Now there is some twisting! No twisting except from those who do not believe in grace. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of th world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;so that they are WITHOUT EXCUSE: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful;but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hear was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, . . .Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness. . ." Romans 1:18-24God has shown man what is required of him, and with the knowledge of God in the conscience, every man has turned to his own way to do that which seems right in his own eyes. Therefore, God is free without obligation to save except according to his pleasure. |
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6/5/08 5:19 PM |
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rogerant wrote: Sorry Dr. Phil: But I apparantely used poor choice of expressing myself. I believe that God's predestination and plan of particular atonement is just, Holy, gracious and worthy of our greatest praise. I meant to say, that in my natural sense "according to the flesh" of fairness and right and wrong it "seems" cruel. But He says, man's ways are not My ways. I accept the teaching, and I thank God's grace that I believe, and I always think, "why me". I, now as a christian and that I understand soverign grace, see the beauty, the wisdom and the Glory of God, and yes, I wonder, why would God save any of us. I do not think that God can be properly worshipped apart from the proclamation of predestination AND particular atonement. I do not believe that you can truly understand the bible properly untill you accept these two great truths. Once you do, the book opens all the mysteries of God's revelation to your spirit. Ro,Amen! |
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6/5/08 12:24 PM |
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just wondering wrote: Why argue and take sides with either party? Neither McCain nor Obama are born again Christians. Those who are born again really have much praying to do, we have NO candidate to choose from, nor have we had in past elections. The time has come for the body of Christ to pray much, stand firm in the faith, and preach the gospel, in season or out of season {we should have been doing this all along, but sadly, many have fallen into a 'lukewarm' state}. Amen, JW,and ADC |
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6/4/08 7:55 PM |
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rogerant wrote: I am in agreement with everything that you have said. I do not know what you have difficulty in what I had written. I appologize if it sounded like I was in disagreement with you. Likewise, I had no disagreement with you. I was just adding a comment to what you had said. Not to take anything away but to join with you in support of the doctrine of grace. I appreciate your bold attempts to stand for the truth. |
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6/4/08 6:33 PM |
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rogerant wrote: If it is hard to turn whosoever into a exclusive word like elect, then it would equally be hard to turn it into a universal word like everyliving creature born. The applicable word or meaning then would be, that God's expressed love is not exclusive to the "Jews" only, but now He is expressing his love to the Greeks, Romans, Gentiles or "all nations will be blessed through Him". for before His death, "Salvation is of the Jews" Jesus said, "He that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. . ." Any man born of the seed of Adam, if he would come to Christ, Jesus would not cast him out. The problem is not with God, the problem lies with man. All day long God streches forth his hand to men extending a sincere call for men to come for salvation, but they will not come apart from His Grace. Therefore, why should men be upset with God's election to give grace to some in order that they would come to Christ? Does it make those who continue to refuse any less guilty? If God did not elect at least some, then all of the seed of Adam would be lost. The mystery is not in man's refusal; the mystery is in why God has elected any at all. All Paul can say is "What if God willing to make his power known endured with longsuffering the ... |
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6/4/08 4:50 PM |
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Mike wrote: Doesn't matter. It is the structure of the sentence that restricts the sequence. It is the ones who have received him that have been given the power, however you view power, to become sons of God. I don't see how the meaning of power, whether permission, or right, changes that. The believing/receiving of "him" precedes the giving of that power. And I didn't say power meant ability anyway. "John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven." Jn. 3:27 |
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6/3/08 9:56 PM |
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Michael Hranek wrote: DJC49 And just how did Jesus treat these "evil men" who were/are in the world? And what is the one prayer request Jesus made of His disciples that the Father would send....? And what is the Great Commission and why did Jesus give it? Do you really expect lost fallen wretched sinners to believe in Jesus Christ if they get ahold of this systematic theology or if this systematic theology gets ahold of them, that tells them they are totally unable to ask God for mercy for their sins if they are not one of the elect, that He won't hear them but has created them and predestinated them to be damned and burn in hell forever.? "Thou wilt then say unto me, why doth he yet find fault, for who hath resisted his will. Nay, but O man who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?" |
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6/3/08 11:37 AM |
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Vigilante wrote: Jim, why do you insist on attempting to defend your religion with scripture? What do you suggest he defend it with? If man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God, there is no greater argument than the testimony of scripture. "To the law and to the testimony, if they speak according to this word, there is no light in them." |
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6/2/08 9:09 PM |
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MurrayA wrote: I think we need to understand that NASA justifies its funding allocation by the search for extra-terrestrial life. NASA is very much involved in the SETI programme, and its space probe equipment is geared toward that end. Integral to this object is the search for water: the evolutionary belief that al you need is a conglomeration of the right chemicals, and then - just add water! When one adds water, hey presto...life!!! You don't believe me? Then listen to the rhetoric! So it's not just the media which gets on to the life-on-other-planets bandwagon; it's NASA itself. Hence they will get excited when some lowly organic compound is found - and you will then hear "the building-blocks of life" mantra. The same goes for discovery of water. Hey Murray,Good point. And of course as you imply, the real question to ask is "When the Son of Man returns, will he find any with faith on the earth?" I am sure NASA could care less about that, but it would be interesting to know how many faithful are paying taxes to support their non-sense. I am for doing scientific research, but hey, less not justify doing it with such non-sense as searching for life beyond earth. What is wrong with just saying, "We just want to know what is out there"? |
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