Scriptur
11-29-2006, 06:11 PM
False Fruit of a False Salvation: Calvinism and Non-OSAS
The calvinist accuses the once-saved-always-saved arminian of our God not saving, but we believe God saved us. Just because God gives us a condition to fulfill (John 3.16) does not mean that we save ourselves; God still does the saving. And so the calvinist sins by the pride of thinking he is premade for salvation like a robot before he said he could believe; and his god also does not save others so as to never give them the choice to come to the cross. This is evil to disallow someone the choice or to force the choice on someone. Of course God does not save people before they have the choice, but saved us after we come to the cross as helpless sinners. God wants to walk with those who truly receive His Son, not those who try to save themselves like a calvinist does in his head, while remaining unregenerated in his spirit. This proves total depravity is false and it is pelagian, denying the original sin. The original sin does not mean you can't choose the cross; rather, you can't choose the cross by the flesh. When God made us in His image, He took into account the fact that we would choose to fall, so that we could come to the cross if we chose to do so by being drawn and called by God. You can yet come to the cross because you have a spirit of God-consciousness and are made in the image of God (Gen. 1.26,27), so that when you choose the cross you do so not from self that is fallen but from the image which was a gift first given by God. Therefore, God's way of salvation is to predestinate by foreknowing (Rom. 8.29) our free-choice: a conditional election, unlimited atonement, resistible grace, for preservation of the saints. Ergo, necessarily, all 5 points of calvinism are wrong.
The other way to sin is to say eternal life is not given at new birth or that salvation is not assured when one is born-again, that is, the spirit is regenerated-quickened with God's uncreated life. If you believe in this sin, you deny God's omniscience of whom to give His life to in His infinite foreknowledge. How vain God would be to give His life and save someone at new birth with the indwelling Holy Spirit only to take it away and say He made a mistake. God does not make mistakes. Praise the Lord!
God wants to walk with those who truly receive His Son, not those who try to save themselves like a non-OSASer who tries to save himself by works ultimately, rather than receiving the free-gift of God's grace and perfect salvation of eternal life.
The calvinist accuses the once-saved-always-saved arminian of our God not saving, but we believe God saved us. Just because God gives us a condition to fulfill (John 3.16) does not mean that we save ourselves; God still does the saving. And so the calvinist sins by the pride of thinking he is premade for salvation like a robot before he said he could believe; and his god also does not save others so as to never give them the choice to come to the cross. This is evil to disallow someone the choice or to force the choice on someone. Of course God does not save people before they have the choice, but saved us after we come to the cross as helpless sinners. God wants to walk with those who truly receive His Son, not those who try to save themselves like a calvinist does in his head, while remaining unregenerated in his spirit. This proves total depravity is false and it is pelagian, denying the original sin. The original sin does not mean you can't choose the cross; rather, you can't choose the cross by the flesh. When God made us in His image, He took into account the fact that we would choose to fall, so that we could come to the cross if we chose to do so by being drawn and called by God. You can yet come to the cross because you have a spirit of God-consciousness and are made in the image of God (Gen. 1.26,27), so that when you choose the cross you do so not from self that is fallen but from the image which was a gift first given by God. Therefore, God's way of salvation is to predestinate by foreknowing (Rom. 8.29) our free-choice: a conditional election, unlimited atonement, resistible grace, for preservation of the saints. Ergo, necessarily, all 5 points of calvinism are wrong.
The other way to sin is to say eternal life is not given at new birth or that salvation is not assured when one is born-again, that is, the spirit is regenerated-quickened with God's uncreated life. If you believe in this sin, you deny God's omniscience of whom to give His life to in His infinite foreknowledge. How vain God would be to give His life and save someone at new birth with the indwelling Holy Spirit only to take it away and say He made a mistake. God does not make mistakes. Praise the Lord!
God wants to walk with those who truly receive His Son, not those who try to save themselves like a non-OSASer who tries to save himself by works ultimately, rather than receiving the free-gift of God's grace and perfect salvation of eternal life.