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What the Bible says about infant baptism and free will:

 

What the Bible says about fatalistic determinism:

 

God reserves the right to do things as He deems fit though!

He had John filled with the Spirit in the Womb, as being a fulfillment odf the prophecy of Elijah the prophet to come befroe the Lord...

he called upo the spirit of Samual to Saul, as a "one time only"

God still sovereign, and can do as pleases, and those rare cases are NOT to be seen as the normal/standard ways things are done!

 

X2. Personally don't know anyone who believes that either.

 

Calvinism = fatalistic determinism.

If Calvin had only been a figment in someone's imagination, the world and Christianity would be a better place.

 

I have never quoted Calvin in one of my posts. I have and will continue to quote scripture in context. The Synod of Dort delineated the 5 points from Scripture and called them the five points of Calvinism in honor of John Calvin. My only disagreement with them is putting his name on the doctrine. Calvin's commentary on Genesis is the only book of his that I have read and used when teaching. All of your objections were answered by the Holy Spirit through Paul before you were a twinkle in your mother's eye.

But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called." That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed. For this is the word of promise: "At this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son." And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls), it was said to her, "The older shall serve the younger." As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated." What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion." So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth." Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?" But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory...

And here is what God says about you suppressing the truth.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

 

And what does God say about liars and those who bear false witness? You should be careful, accuser.

 

Who accused whom of ungodliness and unrighteousness? Huh?!

 

I know what he was referring to, and he was applying it to me -- therefore, he is a false accuser.

 

Well, I guess coming from you, that's a partial compliment! "You're leading people to hell, but you're likable, and I like you."

 

So, I don't see how you can like me if you think I'm leading people to hell.