InTruth
12-05-2009, 11:32 PM
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality. He takes no pleasure in transforming us into automata; rather does He delight in having us cooperate with Him. God does not wish us to be a people void of thoughts, feelings, and decisions: He yearns for us to think what He thinks, feel what He feels, desire what He desires. The Holy Spirit never supplants us in thinking, feeling, and desiring; we ourselves must think, feel and desire, but all according to God’s will. If our mind, emotion and will plunge into a state of quiescence—in which we are no longer active but idly waiting for an outside force to activate us, then our spirit too cannot escape being passive at the same time. And thus Satan benefits immeasurably when we are unable to exercise our spirit but expect instead to be prodded by some external force.
The connection I want to draw here is that a Calvinist enters into their kind of regeneration like a robot, for they were allegedly irresistibly made to be regenerated from an outside force. They did not experience new birth from an active cooperation with God so God would bestow upon them His life. Their desire to have Satan turn them into an automon underlies their belief in what salvation is which develops them in their faith along those lines of being controlled and why they are at such odds with the body of Christ who rebuke such mentality.
The problem is most Calvinists are not born-again so they have a hard time, jealously at heart, relating to Christians. And a spiritual Christian, one who has entered the spiritual realm through the baptism of the spirit and experienced some dividing of his spirit and soul and body, would never submit himself to the TULIP. So while a spiritual Christian can misappropriate spiritual guidance in his spirit from the Holy Spirit, I don't think a deeper Christian can fall into the trap of Calvinism. Hence, when referring to Calvinists, we are referring either to a false Christian or a very carnal Christian who himself is still up in the air about Calvinism anyway.
The connection I want to draw here is that a Calvinist enters into their kind of regeneration like a robot, for they were allegedly irresistibly made to be regenerated from an outside force. They did not experience new birth from an active cooperation with God so God would bestow upon them His life. Their desire to have Satan turn them into an automon underlies their belief in what salvation is which develops them in their faith along those lines of being controlled and why they are at such odds with the body of Christ who rebuke such mentality.
The problem is most Calvinists are not born-again so they have a hard time, jealously at heart, relating to Christians. And a spiritual Christian, one who has entered the spiritual realm through the baptism of the spirit and experienced some dividing of his spirit and soul and body, would never submit himself to the TULIP. So while a spiritual Christian can misappropriate spiritual guidance in his spirit from the Holy Spirit, I don't think a deeper Christian can fall into the trap of Calvinism. Hence, when referring to Calvinists, we are referring either to a false Christian or a very carnal Christian who himself is still up in the air about Calvinism anyway.