Belief in the Five???

So, you believe the defense of, "Satan made me do it?" is valid? Wouldn't that make Satan sovereign according to your view of sovereignty?

I see you are unwilling to just come out a acknowledge that your view teaches God is the ultimate cause for the choices of man in each and every situation, but instead divert with long nuanced description in which to bury the difficulty of this unavoidable conclusion.

Oh quite the contrary, God DID provide the means for us to keep the law...through faith in the one who fulfilled the law once and for all.

Right. THUS He provided JESUS, the perfect one, making this benchmark attainable to whosoever believes. Cals just assume faith in Christ is as equally unattainable as fulfilling the Law, but scripture never teaches this.

Then it must be that God is the origin of evil intent for there is no independent will by which evil would originate except God's...

 

This is just another difference between what Calvinism professes and what I believe to be true. I know there are a lot of people these days who do not place value in the life of a child. I do place a high value on every precious child because our Lord loved them very much and this is evident from scripture. How could God love little children so much and turn around and sentence them to eternal punishment? For no reason. We are not born sinners. We are not sinners until we sin. We are born in sin. There is huge difference between this and born sinners.
MB

 

So, would you say that children are born in a state of innocence or something to that effect?

 

we are sinners by nature, inherited from our physical father Adam, and than prove that fact by chosing to commit sin!