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The following an extract from a booklet by A.W. Pink entitled Eternal Punishment :

The eternal damnation of the wicked will no more have an end than will the 'eternal salvation' of the redeemed. The 'everlasting destruction' of unbelievers will prove as interminable as the 'everlasting glory' of God. To deny the former is to betray the latter. To affirm the everlastingness of God is to prove the endlessness of the misery of his enemies.

 

He still won’t address these previous posts of his you’re exposing.

 

I do notice that you have no problem calling people heretics if they do not agree with your theology. Perhaps you should take a look in the mirror more often.

 

How about calling him a Hairy Tick instead. Just a little humor to lighten the mood.

Seriously, when someone tries to completely overturn well established biblical doctrines with their unique translational inabilities ---that's the time people need to draw lines of theological parameters that must not be crossed. This is not a Calvinist vs. Arminian debate. It's much broader than that. There are plenty of non-Cals who also denounce his brand of false teaching.

 

I agree bad theology is bad theology no matter how well you try to dress it up. Big problem I have seen on BB is when someone disagrees with what has been said they tend to go over the top with their response.
I cannot and do not want to be the judge of someone else's faith yet we see that from some on here. Please remember that judgement is not left in your hands.
While we will and should reject theology that we see as in error we should do so from a Christian perspective.

 

I agree that to say God can do something does not equate to God will or must do something. But I have also seen the other side of that problem when someone says that because God does one thing it means He can't do anything different. Which makes me ask the question, "is God sovereign or not"? Since He is sovereign then who are we to tell Him how to run His creation.

 

You have been schooled on your twisted opinions of these passages over and over again.
In 1 Cor. 2:14 unregenerate people are in view. People without the Spirit are not regenerate. They cannot understand spiritual things because they are only discerned through the Spirit of God.

In 1 Cor. 3:1, the people addressed are believers. Yes, they're babes in Christ, yet still believers. These people can't digest meat yet; only milk. If you would simply carry out that which you profess to do --you would understand. Read the full chapter addressed to these infants in Christ. In verse 16 it says that God's Spirit dwells within them. That cannot be said of the unregenerate.

 

Please repeat the words with me --no one. Again, no one. In verses 10 to 18 portions of Psalms and Isaiah are cited. Do you deny the veracity of Scripture?

You talk a lot about proper Bible study methods but go against your professed principles in order to overturn clear biblical doctrines.

 

Paul was using what is know in Rabbinic tradition as Midrash. This is taking OT passages of scripture out of their natural contexts so as to emphasize a point being made. And the point being made was that all, both Jews & Gentiles, are under sin. You on the other hand have taken it to mean that no one can seek God.

These verses are a poetic exaggeration, a common figure of speech and should not to be read with a slavish literalism as you appear to be doing.

When you hold that position you are supporting mans free will. Not seeking after God is an act of the will. You emphasize man will not seek after God. But it does not say that man can not seek after God! That is just you reading into scripture what you want to find.

And how do you make this agree with Jer_29:13? Why would God say: "You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart." if He knew they couldn’t do so? Or with Pro_8:17 "I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me."

 

Heresy would be theology and doctrines contrary to those held by historical Christianity!

 

Sort depends on what you call historic Christianity. You seem to think that it all started when Augustine decided he knew better what Christ Jesus and the apostles meant than they did. You follow uninspired men but I would rather follow the ones God inspired.
Look at your theology and doctrines, they are man made by uninspired men. So tell me who should be followed?

 

>>God either causes or allows whatsoever comes to pass. Thus God is not the author of sin.<<

I agree He is not but we have some that hold to a deterministic theology that would by necessity require God to be the author of sin and I have even had some of them say such "God is beneath the choices, even sin" and yet we are to be held responsible for for actions over which we have no real control. "we incur guilt or reward because it is the choice we wanted to make. But it is God who controls our choices."

All we can do is point out the errors in their thinking and perhaps the light will shine through the fog.

 

Paul spoken to carnal BELIEVERS using spiritual milk!

Do you not remember that the unbeliever has no insight into the light of Scriptures without the direct work of the Holy Spirit, for the Scriptures are Spiritually discerned?

The Scriptures state:

“But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them, because spiritually they are discerned.”
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In context, the writer states the contrast between the believer and unbeliever.

For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11For who among men knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man within him? So also, no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, that we may know the things having been granted to us by God, 13which also we speak, not in words taught of human wisdom, but in those taught of the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.

14But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them, because spiritually they are discerned. 15But he who is spiritual judges all things, but he himself is judged by no one. 16“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Who will instruct Him?”b But we have the mind of Christ.​