God is a God of Reason: Why Calvinism Fails

See my post immediately above, HD.

If a person rejects God's words, they are not of God.
It doesn't matter where they start out in life or what "denomination" they are part of...

What matters is whether or not the Lord got a hold of them through His words, and the power of His Spirit.
It matters if they were "called", and whether or not they were/are born again.

See the first half of Romans 8.

 

" Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
47 He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God." ( John 8:43-47 ).

If one is of God, they will hear His words.
It's that simple, my friend.

 

I fully agree. Man is spiritually dead that is why we need the grace of God before and after we believe if we are to be saved.

Eph_2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; {Prevenient Grace} grace before

Rom_5:2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. {Saving Grace}

 

But we're not able.
In fact, we are dead-set against Him and His ways, even from birth ( Psalms 58:3 ).

See Romans 1, Romans 2, Romans 3, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16, 1 John 2:20-27, and Romans 8.

It seems that instead of believing God's words, you're falling back on your own reasoning,
which the Lord tells His people not to do ( Proverbs 3:5-7 ).

Amen.

Those same Scriptures and that same Jesus Christ tells us how and why a person is saved...
That Gospel is what you call, "Calvinism", HD, and something His word calls "election", "predestination", "calling", "justification" and "glorification"..
No one can gain eternal life by their own efforts.

The Lord does it all, and we as the reciptients of His unmerited gifts were completely unaware of them until He told us through the preaching of His word.

That is what makes it all of grace and none of works.

 

The Bible teaches we are saved through faith, not by it ( Ephesians 2:8-9 ).
A person's faith does not save them, in the eternal sense.

That privilege belongs to the Lord, and He has mercy and compassion on whom He wills ( Romans 9:4-18).
He is the one who makes vessels of mercy and vessels of wrath.
It's all in Romans 9, HD.

Have you read it?

That is where I learned of why anyone is saved.
I didn't have to consult the writings of John Calvin or anyone else...
I simply picked up His Book and did what the Lord told me to in 1 Peter 2:2 and 2 Timothy 2:15.

That's where I found all the answers, not in "Calvin's Institutes".

There are no "essentials of salvation", and there is no "formula" that a person can follow to gain God's favor, HD.

One is either a child of God, or a child of the devil;
Saved or perishing;
Believer or unbeliever;
Written in the Book of Life or not written.
There is no in-between.

One either believes all of God's word, as it is written, or they only believe the parts they like and reject the rest.
One either has the Spirit who reveals His truth to us, or one does not.

Finally,
As rebellious sinners who are unworthy of His grace, we cannot and do not make our own destiny.
He decides who to save and who to cast into the Lake of Fire for our iniquities, and we do not have any say in the matter.


Good evening to you.

 

Since man is dead, he needs for the Grace of God to make him alive, thats what Grace does Eph 2:5
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)

The word quickened means made alive. Until then man is dead in sin to God.

 

Why would you say that unless you also mean that all the pro cal sites are useless also.
If you are going to learn anything about what you believe then you need to understand what people are saying against what you believe.
Besides you just may learn something.

 

Brightfame52 so I see that you do not like what God said in Isa_1:18. Was He being insincere when He said that they should reason together? No He was not He gave then choices obey or rebel Isa 1:19-20. Their future would be determined by their choices.

You used 2 Cor 3:14 as a proof text but once again you fail to look at context. The blindness was that they would not believe what was written in the OT regarding Christ Jesus. It does not say they could not it says the would not see the truth.

 

And what mantra are you back to "trust what calvin said even when it does not comport with scripture" or "you don't understand calvinism". How many others do you use to defend your calvinism?

 

That verse is fine Isa 1:18, but im saying a spiritually dead sinner cant reason spiritually.. His foolish mind and heart is blinded, darkened, hes spiritually ignorant.