Featured Some flaws to Calvinism.. Reformed we need to get it together!

So your maniacal obsession with Calvinists/Reformed/DoGs is with their 'formula' for eternal life derived from scripture?

You believe it's a defective 'formula' and is sending folks to hell, right?

You believe you are carrying an effective 'formula' that conveys the correct head knowledge neccessary to impart life and immortality, right?

Abracadabra regeneration, follow the CORRECT formula repeat the CORRECT incantation exciting the Holy Ghost and presto chango! Eternal life acheived! Anybody can do it!

Your's is a very old error:

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; Jn 5:39

 

So then the Protestant Reformation where all those "protesting Catholics" were willing to be burned alive rather than worship Mary, pray to the dead, believe in Purgatory, hold the traditions of man as equal to the Bible... etc??

A bunch of "bunk"??

How do you draw the line between "doctrine that matters" and "doctrine that makes no difference at all"??

In Matt 16 Jesus asks Peter who the Son of Man really is and Peter gives the right answer - a correct answer above many of the non-believing Jews of his day. And Jesus blesses Peter for that answer. But then Jesus said to Peter "here is the NEXT truth" and tells the disciples plainly of the up coming crucifixion event (an event where they would be sorely disabused of a certain a prior assumption) -- and Peter said "may it never be!".

Christ then points out to Peter that this rejection of the "next truth" would cost him everything when He said "get thee behind me Satan".

in Christ,

Bob

 

The healthful teaching is immensely important for the welfare and well being of the sheep, but it is Christ who abolished death, and who is the life giving Spirit that imparts life and immortality to the sheep, the healthful teaching simply tells of it.

 

"Blessed [fortunate] art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven."

 

3 Blessed [fortunate] are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed [fortunate] are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed [fortunate] are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed [fortunate] are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed [fortunate] are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed [fortunate] are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed [fortunate] are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God.
10 Blessed [fortunate] are they that have been persecuted for righteousness` sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed [fortunate] are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Mt 5

Yea, fortunate they are because it's not flesh and blood that instills these qualities within them. Very fortunate they are indeed.