Mark
09-02-2016, 07:44 PM
Calvinists "brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil?" (Matt. 12.34) "By your words you will be condemned" (v.37). How can a bad tree of Calvinism produce good fruit? It's impossible. "Take care then, that the light in you is not darkness" (Luke 11.35). This statement wouldn't make much sense if you could not do so and fatalism were true.
The Queen of the South of her own free will came to Solomon and the men of Nineveh repented. So Jesus says to Calvinists "the men of Nineveh will rise up in judgment because they repented at Jonah's proclamation" (v.32).
Calvinists refuse to repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated. Nothing in Matt. 12, Luke 11 or Mark 13 suggest anything about irresistibly imposed salvation that they could not repent and fatalistic psychotic determinism. On the contrary Nineveh repented and the Queen of the South freely worshiped the God of Israel. You are so evil.
The authorities wanted an immediate sign attesting to Jesus' message, but they would not receive such a sign. Jesus did supply signs to give faith when there was openness or in order to bolster weak faith. There is no openness in Calvinism. It is all hard locked in legalistic determinism -- a dead letter. Jesus would never work signs on demand. So he gave the sign of Jonah not the sort of sign they wanted. In Calvinism there is no openness only judicial hardening. God will only harden your heart further in Calvinism only then might the Calvinist one day come to Christ.
The Queen of the South of her own free will came to Solomon and the men of Nineveh repented. So Jesus says to Calvinists "the men of Nineveh will rise up in judgment because they repented at Jonah's proclamation" (v.32).
Calvinists refuse to repent and believe in Christ to be regenerated. Nothing in Matt. 12, Luke 11 or Mark 13 suggest anything about irresistibly imposed salvation that they could not repent and fatalistic psychotic determinism. On the contrary Nineveh repented and the Queen of the South freely worshiped the God of Israel. You are so evil.
The authorities wanted an immediate sign attesting to Jesus' message, but they would not receive such a sign. Jesus did supply signs to give faith when there was openness or in order to bolster weak faith. There is no openness in Calvinism. It is all hard locked in legalistic determinism -- a dead letter. Jesus would never work signs on demand. So he gave the sign of Jonah not the sort of sign they wanted. In Calvinism there is no openness only judicial hardening. God will only harden your heart further in Calvinism only then might the Calvinist one day come to Christ.