Scriptur
11-10-2009, 01:41 AM
"As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH on him shall not be ashamed" (Rom. 9.33). This makes no sense if it is not offered to all. God has no (decretive) secret will to mention. His revealed (prescriptive & decretive) will is His will and it is no secret. There is no secret will. Even if there was you wouldn't know it, because it would be a secret so you have no right to declare a secret will of God, for that is some sort of gnostic special knowledge or secrets of mystery religions.
In Romans 9, Paul exclaims how the way God is doing things is righteous, holy and true. He shows His infinite foreknowledge of the nations of Jacob and Esau as well as the persons themselves. He shows His infinite foreknowledge even before they were conceived, before they had done anything, for God has infinite foreknowledge, able to foreknow our free-choices. Looking a little deeper, we can see why God chose Jacob in how Jacob responded to God compared to how Esau did. Esau did give up his birthright.
Calvinism is a lie from the pits of Hell. Why do you think it is not evil to send a person to Hell without any opportunity for salvation who was born that way into sin?
Why won't you give your life to Jesus Christ and God the Father who doesn't have to irresistibly impose salvation on you (God is greater than that), for He has given you more than enough grace to repent and believe in Him to be regenerated? God is relational and wants a response. He is not an evil tyrant. Why should His standards be less then ours then?
"Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?" (Rom. 9.19). A person blames God because he misperceives God's righteous way of doing things, His holy nature in all His dealings and by His infinite foreknowledge of how to respond perfectly in all situations, the God who exists outside of time and space.
Someone may not like a decision God has made on a particular matter, so they blame Him as t (v.20) hough they had no choice in the matter, but Paul never confirmed the person has no choice. Paul merely says "O man" to indicate he is wrong to blame God.
To read irresistibly imposed regeneration into this passage is a grave error. We should not assume more than what the text says.
In Romans 9, Paul exclaims how the way God is doing things is righteous, holy and true. He shows His infinite foreknowledge of the nations of Jacob and Esau as well as the persons themselves. He shows His infinite foreknowledge even before they were conceived, before they had done anything, for God has infinite foreknowledge, able to foreknow our free-choices. Looking a little deeper, we can see why God chose Jacob in how Jacob responded to God compared to how Esau did. Esau did give up his birthright.
Calvinism is a lie from the pits of Hell. Why do you think it is not evil to send a person to Hell without any opportunity for salvation who was born that way into sin?
Why won't you give your life to Jesus Christ and God the Father who doesn't have to irresistibly impose salvation on you (God is greater than that), for He has given you more than enough grace to repent and believe in Him to be regenerated? God is relational and wants a response. He is not an evil tyrant. Why should His standards be less then ours then?
"Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?" (Rom. 9.19). A person blames God because he misperceives God's righteous way of doing things, His holy nature in all His dealings and by His infinite foreknowledge of how to respond perfectly in all situations, the God who exists outside of time and space.
Someone may not like a decision God has made on a particular matter, so they blame Him as t (v.20) hough they had no choice in the matter, but Paul never confirmed the person has no choice. Paul merely says "O man" to indicate he is wrong to blame God.
To read irresistibly imposed regeneration into this passage is a grave error. We should not assume more than what the text says.