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Calvin had Michael Servetus killed and wanted him dead badly and many others with arguments that the state enacted. You're delusional, shutting your mind down like a zombie for Satan. You are so evil you have no idea. Calvin said, "If he [Servetus] comes [to Geneva], I shall never let him go out alive if my authority has weight." You're a like a rapist who convinces himself he never raped anyone.
I'll just ignore this because there is not an honest Calvin scholar on the planet who would agree with you. Where did you get that quote from? Cite the source and we'll deal with it.
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A person who is born a sinner is not his own fault (you avoided this point) so that is not the reason he deserves to go to Hell. Rather, he deserves to go to Hell because like you, he refuses to repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated once reaching the age accountability. Everyone deserves a right to be saved if they fulfill the condition. If it is unrighteous of us to behave otherwise to fellow human beings, then it is evil for your god and you. Two kids are playing in quicksand, having fun, not realizing they quicksand is about to overtake them and they will die, but your god extends rope out to one of them and not the other. Your god, Satan, is gloried in laughing at the one who dies and saves the other for no good reason. Now you are not going to Hell because you admit man is a sinner. You are going to Hell because you worship an evil god who sends people to Hell for the sole reason they were born into sin as not being their own fault and because you personally refuse to repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated. Just think how evil it is to think like Hitler the Jews should get no opportunity to escape. Hitler thought it was "nonsensical" to give the Jews an opportunity to escape. God provides sufficient grace to us all, so it is not true all men would wallow in sin and refuse salvation, for here I am as a witness I do not wallow in sin but have received what the Lord Jesus did for me as do many others, yet you still do not. You wallow in sin, the idol of Total depravity. What makes you think Christians choose God apart from God? Think. You're just being like the Devil accusing for that is not what Christians believe. We believe God gives us the grace to be able to respond even though we are fallen, and because we are fallen He does this for all mankind. This how great God's love is, a love you don't know. It is because God is big enough that He can give grace to all men so all men can respond freely. But your god can't do this because he is not God. Someone born into sin not of his own doing is not innocent of that nature? If God doesn't respond with grace and mercy then God is to blame. How can someone be guilty of that which is not their fault? Did you bring yourself into the world and given yourself a sin nature when you were in your mother's womb? You're sick. You are like someone who keeps accusing their friend of doing something they never did. What kind of friend are you? Calvinism is very man-centered because man in this world declares "I am" this or "I am" that just like Calvinism and without true repentance, exalting himself on high. Nothing could be more humanistic. God is guilty and would actually be Satan if God was your god because God never blames anyone for anything that is not their fault. Satan is the great accuser, the great false accuser. You are going to Hell.
Just as Christ is the head of the Church and is its Saviour, so also Adam is the head of fallen humanity and is its condemnation, as Romans 5 teaches. Therefore, since Adam represented all humanity, all humanity is justly condemned for the sin of Adam, get it? So a person who is born a sinner is to blame simply because he is under Adam, even though he had nothing to do with the circumstances of his birth, just as a person who's saved is saved because he's under Christ--this is headship theology. There's an age of accountability? That's news to me. Where did you get this from the Bible? Nobody deserves the right to be saved. Where did you get this from the Bible? In your analogy you assume that the person in quicksand is innocent. It actually looks more like this: Two sinners who hate God will all their heart, soul, mind, and strength, are drowning in quicksand. As the holy God walks by, the sinners spit at him and shake their fists because they cannot bear to look upon holiness. God looks at the two sinners who are equally condemned and decides to impart grace on the one and the leave the other to his own desires. So now that you really understand Calvinism from this biblical analogy, please show me how this is unjust, and why this God is Satan.
The only reason you have received the grace of God is because God opened your blind eyes and sin-captive heart. That's why you don't wallow in your sin. This is all Calvinism is, and when you call it "heresy" I have to laugh again. Give him the glory, not to your fallen human will. Your will was dead and you were a slave to sin, but Jesus set you free and gave you a new will by which you received his grace, through faith, and were justified by his grace alone. This is Calvinism. I think the Lord Jesus wants you to finally give him the credit for your salvation, rather than boasting in your decision, because your decision didn't come first; he first opened your dead heart, and then afterwards imparted a new will within you by which you chose for Jesus. In other words, your regeneration came before your choosing; John 3:16-20 teaches that the unregenerate heart doesn't even THINK about choosing God but loves evil, and first must be regenerated. This is biblical Calvinism, which you call heresy.
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A robot is one that moves this way or that not of his own accord just like the evil god of calvinism moves one to be irresistibly regenerated (you are not addressing this, please respond in kind instead of evading the point). This is what is meant by robots. You may not want to admit it but your god is the god of robots. Free will is not truly free will if people are not afforded the choice (you're avoiding this point). Free will is not free if a person is irresistibly made to do something or born into sin and preteritioned, passed over like a piece of meat. These are just the characteristics of Satan trying to simulate God's grace. Calvinists don't merely only say God's decree gives us free will, but look behind what they are saying. Their kind of free will doesn't really exist because no free will is exhibited in preterition and irresistible grace. You can't have it both ways. You can't impose irresistible regeneration and preterition and then at the same time say man has a free will. That's doubletalk. The Bible says be "not doubletongued" (1 Tim. 3.8). Don't shirk away from this. God is the one who saves alone, but your choice is required. You've got a doublestandard (which you don't address) when you say man merits his salvation by receiving Christ but you don't merit salvation by your assumption you were irresistibly selected. I would say faith as a choice is not works, for the Bible says faith is not works, but you are doing more than just making a choice, you're also assuming you were irresistibly selected, so you are doing something God never asked you to do, which is to assume. God said choose, not assume. Your salvation is Satanic grace + Assume like the great Assumption of Mary. Since the Bible only ever teaches repentance and faith before regeneration it should not be an issue if you came to God with an honest heart. When one looks back upon your alleged regeneration we know it is not of God because it is not in agreement with God's word, thus not in agreement with the Christian experience either. We testify to you that how you claim to be saved that is not how we were saved and how we experienced our salvation. Amen. Realize you worship a false Christ that irresistibly imposes a false regeneration on you which is born out in your testimony and its evil nature of thinking God uses preterition and irresistible grace. What love is that if it is evil for us to be that way? You have arose in Satan's arms. The sinner is dead in sin, but God's Spirit works to convict and convince a person he needs payment which he cannot pay. This grace travels throughout the whole world and not just some of the world. In fact, even if a person never heard of the law of Moses, they would still know better because God has given them a conscience and His Spirit works everywhere. And so you are not saved because the Bible says regeneration is after repentance and faith, not before. Since you admit freely by your creaturely will that you never had the choice, therefore, you admit you never received Christ. Jesus didn't pick someone unsaved to resurrect. He picked someone who was already a believer. Never does the Bible teach initial salvation is at resurrection (that's your dumb argument about Lazarus), but we whom are saved are resurrected already in spirit, have eternal life and saved by grace through faith alone. Resurrection of the saved is separated from the resurrected of the damned by a thousand years. God is not using preterition when He resurrects you a thousand years after the saved, for you long since already made your choice to be eternally separated from God. Can't you see Lazarus was not saved when he got resurrected? He already was saved in Christ. Only in this synergy and compatibilism do we find then does God save by "grace alone". He is relational in His 3 Persons so He is relational with us. No robots.
You have a skewed view of predestination and predetermination. Is God forcing me to write this message to you now? No. But he has decreed it, and this is why there's a purpose in it. Just because he decrees something does not mean he hasn't given me a genuine creaturely will that feels free in the human realm--the decree is still being lived out by human beings, so to us it feels as if we make our own destinies, but to God all is already written. This is Calvinism. Thus, all we Calvinists are saying is that this human will, although "free" from the human point of view, is NOT actually free in God's point of view because God decreed time. How is this heresy? No Calvinist believes we are just robots, except maybe hyper-Calvinists. Free will means the ability to choose, and humans do have that ability to choose, but, as John 3:18-20 teaches, in ultimate issues like salvation they ALWAYS choose evil rather than good, and that's because their will is corrupt. I'm the one saying they need a new will in order to choose, but you are the one saying they can choose the truest good (that is, the gospel) by their old, corrupted will that is only "wooed" rather than "replaced" by God's Spirit. Which view is actually heresy? I think yours, and history backs me up on this point. You only think I'm using double talk because you are interpreting the unfathomable decree of God in predestination through limited human reason, so of course the majesty of God's decree doesn't fully make sense to you; even though it makes sense to me, it doesn't fully make sense to me either, but I still believe it because it's biblical.
I'm not saying man merits salvation by receiving Christ. We receive the free gift of his grace by the MEANS of faith, not "because" of faith. Faith is only the instrument of that reception, not its cause. Thus, salvation is by grace alone. This is what "faith alone" means. It doesn't mean I'm saved because of the merits of my faith--faith has no merits here because it is not giving but receiving. The fact that you call fallen man a "sovereign being" says it all; it makes sense with your view to lift up man and put down God, which is why you lift up man's will but put down God's will (election, predestination), and this is what you call biblical???
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See how corrupted your morals are. You say if whatever you are worshiping "tyrannically" did "impose" on you, you would have no complaint. You sound like you were abused as a child who still wants to be abused. Again, it is evil for us to be this way towards one another, so it is evil for your god whether you like being under his influence or not. You are like your father the devil. The reason I stand up against your views is because you deceive people. Fine, you want to go to Hell, but stop misleading others, for nowhere do we find in the Bible we can't repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated. I don't believe in your kind of predestination of irresistible grace. I believe God predestinates by foreknowing our free choice since in the Bible God pleads with us, so therefore, we must have the right to respond. Would man be responsible if he had no choice in the matter? Would it be God's fault if He preteritioned and regenerated irresistibly? Of course it would be. This is what Calvin taught, what Augustine taught, and what other Calvinists taught. You guys use the words "preterition" and "irresistible grace". The calvinism god does force you to be a sinner because he supplies no grace to the preteritioned. But really you are doing this to yourself, not God, since God never asked you to assume you were irresistibly selected. He said come to the cross to be saved. You are not some mindless book being written to watch on replay, you are a sovereign free willed being God created in His image. Your insensitive novel writing is not how God sees us, but as interpersonal beings who were not destined to do this or that just because God could foresee our free choices. God has a plan to be with those who love Him, to fellowship for eternity not as a robots as you would have us be in your novel. That God can foresee all things in no way suggests He makes these things to happen as in some novel. He sees us a free willed beings to relate to out of His glory. This a reverence for God you don't have. To you we are just an assembly line. That will never do. God is way bigger than that. Fortunately those who are saved and pillars of the New City will finally be able to get rid of such mentality, because Calvinists will be in Hell by then. What Calvinism is is exalting man's self above God by man trying to think he has got into God's mind about how God really works. You're on the road to perdition, because God can see how you are exalting yourself to Him by doing that. Realize free will is within God's providence, it is not outside God's design, so when you reject God as you do by being a Calvinist as other cults reject God in their ways, you're just being afforded one of those options God allows to allow for free will to be truly free. Passivity like a zombie is the inescapable nature of a Calvinist who assumes he was irresistibly elected, since it was never his choice he claims, he can't help but live his life like that. As is the false generation so is the false life. Though you have seared your conscience to have empathy an compassion to understand this, just know that even though you can't understand what I am saying, Christians concur you are going to Hell, because you don't want to be saved God's way. We find you unhealthy to be around because we can sense this false regeneration in you. This is hard to understand I know, but you have made your decision already, now you want to understand why you want to go to Hell. You may not admit it of course, but this place you want to go to is none other than Hell.
God can kill anyone at any time he wants because life belongs to him. I can't kill because life doesn't belong to me. This is why murder is prohibited FOR MEN in the OT. God can do things I can't, so it is not true that "if it is evil for us, it is evil for God", sorry. Fallen man won't accept the opportunity for salvation unless his fallen will is REPLACED (not wooed) by the Spirit of God, so you labor in vain by trying to safeguard this worthless doctrine of yours that didn't save you or anyone else on the planet. If you are saved, it's because God replaced your will, even though you stubbornly refuse to see this. It's sad how you forfeit the biblical doctrines of predestination and irresistible grace for the foolish and impractical doctrine of autonomous, fallen free will.
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What the Calvinist denies is Biblical repentance and faith. "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Pet. 3.9). Think how evil God would be that He would want all to come to repentance but nonetheless passes over people so there is no opportunity for them. I can't impress upon you enough the fact that it is like sirens going off that you are not saved. It's like you got a big sign on your head that says you want to be saved this other way, not God's way, God's way is too boring. You would like to do some mental gymnastics to twist things around a bit for this cult of yours, you know, spice things up with some delusion. It's sort of a party spirit. True repentance and faith if it is true comes before regeneration. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out" (Acts 3.19). The Bible is so clear and so plain on this issue, so to shirk it is to admit you are going to Hell. What Calvinists consider repentance to us is not true repentance to Christians, because you did not come into the fold by repentance as we did, but you came by the prideful self-meriting assumption of irresistible Satanic grace. Sure a Calvinist can claim to be repentant after his alleged irresistible regeneration, but it's not true repentance for how you came in is how you will depart. A looking back upon one's salvation in no way confers irresistible regeneration. When I look back upon my new birth, I see that I was fallen in need of a Savior, accepting all things summed up in Christ, but my new birth was not imposed on me as yours was. Or should I saw, I was not saved your way in which you allowed to be irresistibly overtaken. The preceding conditions were that I was made in God's image, His Holy Spirit is always working, I have free will made in His image, His grace was sufficient for us all, and I have a choice like all men do to come to the cross as a helpless sinner with an honest heart. This is not to say my heart was sinless, only that the necessary requirements God sets out were met in coming to the cross to be saved by grace through faith. The union was real. And in so doing God is with us every step of the way. The condition was fulfilled, God is overjoyed. He has recovered another. Grace comes upon and my innerman is quickened with His uncreated life. You did not have this experience. You had Satan implant his facsimile in you which you accepted. It is sorta like Pentecostal gibberish babblers accepting any old spirit that comes along and claiming that to be the gift of tongues and many even call it the baptism of the Holy Spirit, when in fact the gift of tongues is always the gift of languages to spread the word of God to the nations and as a witness people can be saved in other languages. I told you this so you can see how they twist you twist and both are a false regeneration. Just like the gibberish babbler can't let go of this demon that holds them in gibberish babble, you can't let go of the pride of irresistible selection and thinking you were not one of those poor folks who were preteritioned. You guys want to be controlled and be passively manipulated into these false faiths. The same spirit they commune with for their gibberish babble is ultimately the same spirit you commune with for it comes from the Devil. Each of you have a relationship with something God wants no part of. Since you will never change your mind what can God do but send you to Hell for eternally to be eternally separated from Him? As you wish. The pride you exude when you say God chose you and and preteritioned others has nothing to do with mercy and the love of God. It has to do with a false salvation you entered into because irresistible grace is a Satanic lie and so is preterition. God's grace will never work the way you want it to work. At the end of the day, admittedly, what you still refuse to do is repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated. Since you admit you never repented and believed in Christ to be regenerated no matter what idols and excuses you put up that say you could not, the fact remains you did not and therefore, are going to Hell. And that's truly sad that this the kind of person you want to be. But you can't blame God. You have nobody to blame but yourself when you merit your own salvation by assuming you were irresistibly selected. My prayers go out to you for you know not what you do.
Ah, Gobbledygook! No Calvinist denies biblical repentance and faith. Read John Calvin's Institutes and read the truth of what he said. When the bible speaks of "repent and be converted" it doesn't mean "by your work of repentance, not God's grace, God will save you," as if it's a works alone salvation. Yet this is how you use this text. If it doesn't mean this, then it doesn't support your views. All we Calvinists are affirming is what Ezekiel affirmed about the old heart that is REPLACED (not wooed) by a NEW HEART (Ezekiel 36:26), yet if you want to keep that old heart and its corrupted will suit yourself. How is this Calvinist view heresy? Show me chapter and verse. You feel like you were doing the work of salvation because you are looking at your salvation through the limited eyes of man, and for reasons unknown to me, you deny to look at salvation through God's eyes. Do you even know what "irresistible grace" really means? It does NOT mean that I "cannot resist" God's grace because he forces it upon me. (To call God raising a sinner from the dead "forcing salvation" is a misnomer, but that's another matter). Rather, it means "I WILL not resist" because his work in my heart is effectual. In other words, "if he calls me from death to life, he wont fail to make himself so "irresistibly" beautiful to me, which will cause me to without fail accept him. His grace is "irresistible and effectual," not resistible and ineffectual, yet you falsely think "If I can't choose to reject God then I'm a robot!" What a boorish way to look at salvation! Your view takes away the glory of God, because you say that God can fail to save a sinner since salvation is conditional on human will. I say God cannot fail because he is irresistibly beautiful, and if he desires to save me--by replacing my old will with the new-- I will without fail choose his grace over my sin. This is irresistible grace--the fact that when grace is imparted it can never be taken away-- and boy is it so beautiful a doctrine that I can do nothing but worship my Sovereign God. Why is irresistible grace therefore a heresy?