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Churchwork
11-15-2008, 11:23 PM
The God of calvinism is like a person who sets a forest fire so he can "discover" it, put it out, and be the hero. He seems like a fraud who pretends that Satan, though God's own intentional creation, was His enemy. Why would an infinitely holy God ruin his own creation by purposely creating sin? Why invent the elaborate story of "casting fallen angels out of heaven"? Why cause mankind to sin in order to "forgive" them? How would that glorify God? It seems like such acts glorify the Dragon, for such a scheme falls under that Old Serpent's methods to copy Christianity.

Churchwork
11-16-2008, 12:07 AM
Is our innate sense of making genuine choices of our own volition, sometimes rationally and at other times impulsively or even out of lust, a total delusion? Did God create us mere puppets or chess pieces, with Him pulling the strings or moving us around the board without free-choice? No one can be held accountable for failing to do what it is impossible for him to do. The 5 points of calvinism actually come from a false view of God's sovereignty. God is sovereign, but not absolutely; that is, God does not make you a robot. All through the Bible, man is called upon to choose between time and eternity, between Satan and God, between evil and good, between self and Christ-we make choices of all kind daily-without first being regenerated.