Faithful
04-21-2012, 01:01 AM
In Calvinism all those verses that speak of man's depravity become total depravity. See how easily Satan twists things? That slight adjustment eternally separates Calvinists from God. Such a seemingly harmless alteration to the Scriptures locks in and maintains an eternal divide between Calvinists and God.
Even when you help an old lady across the street it is an evil act, unholy and unrighteous according to them. Of course that is false, for man still has a conscience to do the right thing sometimes. The permeation of sin through man's whole being does not render man totally depraved, but it does separate a person from God. If total depravity is false all other points of Calvinism fall with it.
A "dead" man spiritually is one separated from God, lost communication with God and in need of being restored. This reconciliation back with God occurs through God's only begotten Son. The person must decide to give his life to Christ or remain outside His "little flock" (Luke 12.32). It very much is a decision by his own volition. Paul on the road to Damascus could have refused the words Jesus spoke to him. Calvinism is a great big flock of hundreds of millions of so called Christians alive today and billions throughout the centuries. The verdict for them is the second death.
See how easily most verses can be twisted by Calvinists. In John 3 no one knows where the wind comes from like how the Holy Spirit moves. What mechanism God uses by the Spirit to save and how He moves is beyond our understanding. This is not saying God saves a person irresistibly without any choice from the person. A person still has to respond to the Gospel freely, positively, unforced, sincerely and genuinely.
God pleads with you and implores you to believe in Him. This is the gospel spread to all the earth. Thus, God is expecting you to choose, to receive His Son and the ransom He paid. How strange a gospel that God would implore and plead with you to believe in Him yet you were made unwilling to, prevented from or forced from doing so. What a strange and twisted game that would be. It would be a charade and sadistic! The evil building up in the hearts of Calvinists is going to explode into some heinous crimes against humanity. No doubt it will involve nuclear weapons. It is just a matter of time stemming from their perversion of the gospel. And it will be rationalized in some convoluted way.
Understand what Calvinism is. It feeds the pride muscle to think oneself irresistibly selected, nothing one could do about it. They exude this sickening pride that can eventually smother a nation like happened to Nazi Germany to make themselves think they were entitled to that which does not belong to them. All others were created for Hell, born for Hell with no loving, merciful grace to have any opportunity to be saved whatsoever. Calvinists are sick bastards! Make no mistake about it my friends. They are pompous, sick of heart and doubly obnoxious hiding behind a lie. If Calvinism were true, Calvinists would be the ones preterioned for Hell.
The lie is total depravity, but what is behind acceptance of that lie is a heart that refuses to genuinely repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated-to submit oneself to the cross of salvation to die on that eternal cross with Christ as OSAS Arminians have. A Calvinist empowers himself by his own will power to cling on to his own method by bearing the assumption pridefully he was irresistibly selected.
God doesn't want to be with such folks. He has created Hell for them.
As a last note, I thought it funny when John F. MacArthur (born 1939) in one of his YouTube videos said John Wesley (born 1703) was a confused and strange kind of Calvinist. Wesley apparently gets much respect so MacArthur automatically makes him a Calvinist. How ridiculous! Anyone who knows anything about Wesley knows Wesley was a Remonstrant (a non-OSAS Arminian) which is salvation by works because he believed he could potentially lose salvation as taught by the Roman Church. The Roman Church is not the body of Christ anymore than Calvinists are.
Understand and always remember the body of Christ is a "little flock" (Luke 12.32), that is, OSAS Arminian. Peruse all the various many denominations out there, and they are almost all exclusively Calvinist or Remonstrant, not Arminian.
I pray you for your understanding.
Even when you help an old lady across the street it is an evil act, unholy and unrighteous according to them. Of course that is false, for man still has a conscience to do the right thing sometimes. The permeation of sin through man's whole being does not render man totally depraved, but it does separate a person from God. If total depravity is false all other points of Calvinism fall with it.
A "dead" man spiritually is one separated from God, lost communication with God and in need of being restored. This reconciliation back with God occurs through God's only begotten Son. The person must decide to give his life to Christ or remain outside His "little flock" (Luke 12.32). It very much is a decision by his own volition. Paul on the road to Damascus could have refused the words Jesus spoke to him. Calvinism is a great big flock of hundreds of millions of so called Christians alive today and billions throughout the centuries. The verdict for them is the second death.
See how easily most verses can be twisted by Calvinists. In John 3 no one knows where the wind comes from like how the Holy Spirit moves. What mechanism God uses by the Spirit to save and how He moves is beyond our understanding. This is not saying God saves a person irresistibly without any choice from the person. A person still has to respond to the Gospel freely, positively, unforced, sincerely and genuinely.
God pleads with you and implores you to believe in Him. This is the gospel spread to all the earth. Thus, God is expecting you to choose, to receive His Son and the ransom He paid. How strange a gospel that God would implore and plead with you to believe in Him yet you were made unwilling to, prevented from or forced from doing so. What a strange and twisted game that would be. It would be a charade and sadistic! The evil building up in the hearts of Calvinists is going to explode into some heinous crimes against humanity. No doubt it will involve nuclear weapons. It is just a matter of time stemming from their perversion of the gospel. And it will be rationalized in some convoluted way.
Understand what Calvinism is. It feeds the pride muscle to think oneself irresistibly selected, nothing one could do about it. They exude this sickening pride that can eventually smother a nation like happened to Nazi Germany to make themselves think they were entitled to that which does not belong to them. All others were created for Hell, born for Hell with no loving, merciful grace to have any opportunity to be saved whatsoever. Calvinists are sick bastards! Make no mistake about it my friends. They are pompous, sick of heart and doubly obnoxious hiding behind a lie. If Calvinism were true, Calvinists would be the ones preterioned for Hell.
The lie is total depravity, but what is behind acceptance of that lie is a heart that refuses to genuinely repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated-to submit oneself to the cross of salvation to die on that eternal cross with Christ as OSAS Arminians have. A Calvinist empowers himself by his own will power to cling on to his own method by bearing the assumption pridefully he was irresistibly selected.
God doesn't want to be with such folks. He has created Hell for them.
As a last note, I thought it funny when John F. MacArthur (born 1939) in one of his YouTube videos said John Wesley (born 1703) was a confused and strange kind of Calvinist. Wesley apparently gets much respect so MacArthur automatically makes him a Calvinist. How ridiculous! Anyone who knows anything about Wesley knows Wesley was a Remonstrant (a non-OSAS Arminian) which is salvation by works because he believed he could potentially lose salvation as taught by the Roman Church. The Roman Church is not the body of Christ anymore than Calvinists are.
Understand and always remember the body of Christ is a "little flock" (Luke 12.32), that is, OSAS Arminian. Peruse all the various many denominations out there, and they are almost all exclusively Calvinist or Remonstrant, not Arminian.
I pray you for your understanding.