So said a poster.
Is this good theology?
What is wrong with it for those that see it as wrong?
What is right about it for those that support it?
Please use Bible verses for your support.
I believe in predestination and free will.....??
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Jarthur001, Dec 10, 2008.
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Goodness this has been dealt with time and time again. Are we going to have another thread with multiple pages where your general reply is, "you don't get it" or "you just don't understand Calvinsim," or "you are misrepresenting Calvinsim," or this is "another unfounded attack on Calvinsim?" You are a staunch Calvinist who likes to beat dead horses. Great. I'm proud for you. But, enough is enough.
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It's pretty easy to believe in both. You can just define the T to be Total Unwillingness, and it fills all the same functions as Total Inability, while keeping man responsible.
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Since God offers salvation for man to receive the gift, it would make the Lord look stupid to have the Gospel preached to every creature so only some could be saved.
I think that calvinism tries to bring God's reason down to man's intellectual reasoning. This same aspect goes against Isaiah 55.
Man has to see a program to understand his questions as answered, while God still would have every man to be saved. Yet every man will not accept the Gospel. This does not reflect upon God's ability, it leaves all responsibility upon man.
The "elect"? Israel is elect, Jacob is not: explain this according to core calvinits's beliefs?
The Gentiles have a door opened unto them which no man can close, this is the same door opened to the Jew. If this weren't true then Eph 2:14 wouldn't be in the Bible. -
I believe in predestination, not because I am convinced of it, but because I was predestined to believe it. My greatest fear is that I have been predestined to be wrong. Oh, that I had a free will!
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Maybe you were predestined to have free will. :D
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Really?
Please show me a thread that covers the Jews are elect Gentiles are not.
Time and time again you would think there would be tons of them. Just one would do.
The best thing for you to do is to stay away from dead horses. That way you will not have to see the beating.
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I have heard some say that Jacob was not elect but Israel is.
Now Jacob is Israel but they place 'electness' on when one becomes saved.
I have heard others state that election is not individual but national .. or something to that effect. Thus the nation of Israel is elect (though not all in the Nation are saved) and the Gentiles are now elect in the same sense.
So in short, I have no real idea what he means but I am bored sitting here at work (for the moment anyway) and am just as currious to know what he meant. :laugh: -
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It was said.......
If you believe the Bible, you have to believe in both of these;
Because both are taught throughout the Word of God.
The problem that some people have, is that if they can’t explain it, then they can’t accept it. (I can’t explain the trinity, but I accept it.)
I can’t explain how God can be Sovereign, and yet at the same time, He allows us to exercise our free will. Just like I can’t explain Romans 8:28.....
The problem that I think John Calvin had, was he went to seed on “God’s Sovereignty”.
And started trying to squeeze the Bible’s teachings, into a box, that could fit into his understanding of God’s Sovereignty.
No matter what “we” do, we will never be able to make the Bible, fit into our understanding.
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If anything Calvin's teachings on God's sovereignty stayed within the biblical box.But that box is much more liberating than the narrow confines of much evangelical thought on the subject. -
Maybe This Should be In The Games Forum
You fossilized non-Cals who destroy non-living matter (strawmen) for a living.
You hard-nosed semi-Pelagians out there who have set up shop with your daily manufacture of non-sequitors. -
Hi Rippon
You asked.......
This is just my observation, of the TULIP.
These appear to be, 5 areas where John Calvin was trying to justify “his” idea of God’s Sovereignty. -
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