As someone who is not a Calvinist currently, but open to becoming one, I have been presented with a straightfoward question that I have not been able to refute with confidence.

Most Christians will agree that God is all-knowing of future events. Therefore, if God knows every action that I will ever do, can I do anything but what God knows? If I say no, then am I falsifying God's infallible knowledge of the future?

Let me provide a practical example:
Let's say that I hold to a free will...

There is a small group of deceived individuals out there that believe God has tied His own hands and waits on pins and needles for human beings to “make the right choice” so He can save them.

Every time they make such claims they are denying scripture (God’s very Word) and elevating man to a position beyond his station and ability. Such thinking is secular and not biblical.

Let’s look at what scripture actually teaches..

God chose Abram (scripture does not say why) and Abram RESPONDED to...

"God is unvarying, reliable, constant, and perpetual. God never adds or subtracts from His character and emotions. They are constant and unmoving. We should be forever grateful that God is immutable, as this provides an assurance of His love and mercy toward us."

The above snippet copied from the internet provides an excellent hypothesis for defining the immutability of God.

However, to move from being an understanding formulated by man, we must verify these attributes are found in...

This thread is NOT about believers losing their salvation.

Instead it is about whether Christians will recieve their reward according to their own labor, those with a foundation other than Christ being saved but only as one escaping a fire.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

The passages in question are Jesus' words in Matthew, Peter's words in 1 Peter, and Paul's words in Roman and Corinthians which warn believers...

Christians disagree on myriad of secondary doctrines.
The question of free will. Arminianism and Calvinism to views which are neither.
The teachings on baptisms.
Versions of the doctrine of the Trinity. Over the gifts of the Spirit. Etc.

The odds are, one is most likely will be wrong something.

Does God desire all people (1 Timothy 2:4) to be saved unconditionally, or only according to His redemption plan?

Since all people are not saved, for example the person headed for swift destruction in 2 Peter 2:1, then God's desire is not unconditionally applied, but conditionally applied, to those whose faith in Christ He credits as righteous faith.

In order to make this possibility of salvation available to all humanity, Christ died as a ransom for all (1 Timothy 2:6.)

Another question...

In brief the NET Bible is liberal/modernist. Both in translation and notes.
Tell me what you think and why

Rob

". . . You present a theory that makes Christianity a myth existing outside of human history. That is wrong."

We professing Christians disagree on a historicity for the crucifixion. And that as if an actual historical date does not matter.

1 Corinthians 1:10, Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

I am...

Video is about 6 minutes.

Here is the heart-felt question of one believer -
...do 'slacking soul-winners' result in MORE people going to hell? ...

...do diligent soul-winners result in MORE people going to heaven?
The Exhaustive Determinist answer is no, God determined those going to heaven, and thus the rest not going to heaven before creation.

The Scriptural answer is yes, diligent evangelism "hastens the day" thus more people per time interval, so the end of the age occurs sooner, resulting in less people not...